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Calming Those Frayed Wedding Plan Nerves

The article discusses ways to keep calm while planning a wedding. Learn how to reduce stress!... Continue Reading

Creating a Butterfly Wedding

When the magical time comes, and you are walking down the aisle with your partner for life, will you have your guests throw rice? Maybe your guests will blow bubbles or perhaps throw rose petals? Maybe you have even thought of having doves released to increase the magical feeling of the moment.... Continue Reading

Don’t Be a Bridezilla!

Tips to a Tear Free Wedding Day... Continue Reading

Common Wedding Reception Mistakes

Find a list of common mistakes made by today's brides and grooms. If you are getting married, don't make the same errors. Make this a wedding to remember for you and your guests.... Continue Reading

The Name Blame: To Change or Not to Change

Is there nothing more romantic than taking the last name of your husband-to-be, or do you see it as a bureaucratic-form-filling-out-nightmare? Do you wish the world to know you’re married just by seeing your names side by side, or do you fear every achievement up to that point will be forgotten as your name vanishes into thin air? Was your single life one embarrassing event after another and you welcome this new “identity”, or is his name about 15 more letters than imagined possible? ... Continue Reading

How to Choose your Wedding Invitations

Planning a wedding is a great deal of fun, but it also requires a significant amount of planning. Once you have set your date, one of the first wedding details you should turn your attention toward is the selection of your wedding invitations. While at one time traditional wedding invitations appeared only as white or ivory with engraved black in, today there are numerous options available for the modern bride. Due to the wide variety of designs and styles in wedding invitations available, you'll want to get started early in choosing the perfect wedding invitation.... Continue Reading

Weddings In Gibraltar

Read about Gibraltar as a dedicated destination for wedding specialists and online wedding planners in London offering all-inclusive wedding packages in Gibraltar.... Continue Reading

Money Saving Tips for Weddings

One of the most stressful aspects of planning weddings is financing your perfect day. In the process of planning my own wedding, I discovered several money saving tips other couples may find beneficial.... Continue Reading

Marriage License

Everyone loves weddings, but they can prove to be a very hectic time for the couple-to-be. Obtaining a marriage license should be the least of your worries, midst the headaches that are caterers and seating arrangements. Before you pull all your hair out, follow these simple steps to obtaining your wedding license. Then, when you say, “I do,” you won’t feel “done in.”... Continue Reading

How to Select a Caterer for Your Wedding Reception

When you hire a caterer for your wedding, you will need to meet with that person well before your event is planned. You need to make sure that you meet a caterer with whom you are in sync and who will help to make your big day a success. Some caterers only work in certain venues, so you will need to have the venue down before you select a caterer.... Continue Reading

Ordering Wine for Wedding Banquets Made Easy

Wine has long been the emblem of life and spirit. It is a must at any celebration, and weddings are incomplete without wines and champagnes. Despite this, we often pay very little attention to the ordering of wine. It is considered the job of a connoisseur, and is left to the caterer, who often makes a hefty margin on this aspect.... Continue Reading

Fast Wedding Facts, Trends, and Tips

The wedding industry pulls in $25.3 billion per year. I’ll just give you a minute to absorb that. The wedding industry includes dresses and tuxedos, catering, banquet halls, rentals, flowers, photography, limousines, cake, invitations, favors and so on and when you consider that over the past two decades between 2.25 and 2.40 million weddings occurred in the US alone, and the average cost of a wedding is $20,000 to $25,000, well you can see how those numbers add up.... Continue Reading

Bring the Simple Pleasures of Life to Your Wedding - Wildflower Bouquets

With a bright and cheery, delicate appearance, wildflowers can truly bring a nice sentiment to an already gorgeous wedding ceremony. Giving the wedding ceremony and reception a unique and carefree ambiance, wildflowers add a nice touch of simplicity with a soft, beautiful floral glow. Grow wildflowers yourself, find a location where you can pick them without a problem, or speak with your florist to get additional ideas.... Continue Reading

Wedding Cards

Wedding cards aren’t restricted to just wedding invitations. A new trend to appear in the last few years is ‘proposal cards’. These are meant to accompany the ring, and the actual proposal, making for a memorable flair. After you have accepted his proposal, you can send ‘engagement’ cards to family and friends to let them know of the commitment you both have made to one another. You can follow these up with wedding cards that ‘announce’ that a date has been agreed upon for your wedding, if you choose. Then of course, there are ‘wedding shower’ cards to send. You can now send your wedding invitations to your guests. Remember to include, ‘response’ cards so that your guests can RSVP you.... Continue Reading

Wedding Planning: 9 Months Out

Nine months before your wedding, you should have the major details out of the way. You should know where your wedding will be, what your budget is, and who will provide the services. Now it’s time to get down to some of the more detailed planning so that you will hit the 6-month mark ready to get down in the trenches of planning your wedding.... Continue Reading

Beach Weddings

Are you planning to get married in a special never-to-forget kind of way? Then, a beach wedding is a definite choice. Nature shall add its own grandeur to the extraordinary ceremony. The cool breeze, the soft white sand under your feet, the vast gently moving expanse of the sea, and the sun or the moon light - all these, infuse a sense of sanctity to the occasion; and make the event truly memorable.... Continue Reading

8 Questions Brides Ask About Setting up a Wedding Registry

In theory, setting up a registry is simple. You decide on one or several stores, create a registry online or in person, select various items, and get the word out to your guests. In practice, things are a little more complicated -- but only a little!... Continue Reading

Countless Themes and Color Schemes for Creative Centerpieces

Though they won't be the center of attention, the decorations that adorn the center of the guests' tables at a wedding deserve quite a bit of careful contemplation.... Continue Reading

Planning a Tuscan Theme Wedding

Tuscany is a region in the middle of Italy. It is world renown for its food, wine and magnificent scenery. Vineyards, olive groves, farm houses and castles grace the land and green mountainsides. ... Continue Reading

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