Tips for Brides and Grooms: how to manage time during your wedding
It’s a well-known conundrum of weddings: you spend countless thousands of hours planning every tiny detail, only to have the day fly by. Before you know it, you’re in the send-off car or at the honeymoon suite, and you realize that you didn’t taste any of the menu you spent so much time choosing. You didn’t get a chance to [...]
Read More →Easy Ways to Add Texture to Your Wedding.
Dear readers* Are you starting to get invitations and save the dates to this summer’s crop of nuptial fetes? Those cardstock envelopes that can’t fit through your mail slot heralding fun evenings and … wait… Another blue and white wedding? Another pink and grey? For Pete’s sake… did everyone read the article about grey and yellow? We’ve already written about [...]
Read More →Table Magic: Five Ways to Make Your Reception Tables Look More Expensive
Brides of the last four years have to be the savviest shoppers since the Great Depression. We’ve all become bargain hunters since the economy crashed a few years ago, but the bride, who needs to put together a wonderful party on a really strict budget has the best shopping sense of all. We should put money-saving tips together in a [...]
Read More →How (and Why) to Create a Wedding Dessert Bar
I think one of the most fun parts of planning a wedding is picking your food. It’s officially “in” to be a foodie, and weddings are fantastic occasions to come up with interesting menus and really please the palate. While (thankfully) engaged couples are starting to move away from the standard chicken/steak/pilaf standards, dessert still seems to be rather boring. [...]
Read More →Wedding Ideas: Things We Need to Stop Doing
High wedding season is in its last month, which means I’m processing all the trends I’ve seen thus far this summer. Some things – like desert bars, less-formal portraiture, and non-strapless gowns – look like they have some real staying-power and could be new wedding staples. At the same time, there are some elements that are due for some updates [...]
Read More →Do Me A Solid: favors that don’t suck
Good morning glorious world! It’s wedding central over here! Getting in touch with brides, both former and future, watching the new season of Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (which is great for the gowns, hilarious for the Southern shenanigans, NASCAR-driving fiances and child brides), clicking through the wedding photos of people I haven’t seen since high school… it makes [...]
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