The Perfect Wedding Favors for Your Theme Finding the right wedding favors for your guests is always a challenge. Is it any easier when you have a themed wedding or is it that much harder? On the one hand, if you have a theme, you have a starting point in your search. On the other hand, you have to find …
11 Wedding Exit Toss Ideas for Your Special Day
11 Wedding Exit Toss Ideas for Your Special Day It’s the perfect way to end your happy day: hand-in-hand with the love of your life, surrounded by friends who literally shower you with affection and well wishes. The wedding exit toss is a great way to help your friends feel included in your happiness, too. Today, there are as many …
Five Unique Centerpieces That We Love!
Five Unique Centerpieces That We Love! There’s a lot to be said for a striking, skillfully-laid tablescape that features an artful and aesthetically-pleasing centerpiece. There’s also a lot to be said about centerpieces that are so artful that they overwhelm a table, and make it next to impossible for the people sitting at the table to see each other around …
DIYing Your Wedding Visual Guides Pt.2
DIYing Your Website Pt.2 Last week we wrote about DIYing your Wedding Invitations and food. Today we’re going bigger! DIY Wedding Arches and Table Decor! Get out your sketchbook and tools and lets get started! If you’re going for a beach or park ceremony, a beautiful wooden archway for the couple to say their vows under creates a lovely image. …
DIY Weddings Visual Guides Pt. 1
DIY Weddings, Visual Guides Part 1 DIYing some or all of your Wedding can be great fun. If you’re a lover of crafts or cooking you’ll love the following visual guides. Part two shows you how to build archways and decorate your tables; but here we will focus on the food! Before we jump right in to the juicy …
Color Coordinating Your BridesMaids
Chances are good that you’ve heard at least one horror story in your life about bridesmaids’ experiences, whether it was a dress that was practically the embodiment of a nightmare, a color that looked nice on approximately nobody, or dealing with a bride who had such specific visions of what she wanted her Big Day to look like that there …
Gifts for Groomsmen
A few weeks ago, we featured a post designed to help out the bride who’s searching for the perfect gifts for her bridesmaids. It wouldn’t be fair if we didn’t give the grooms-to-be the same help with their groomsmen, now would it? Admittedly, it was a little bit difficult even for us to get started on compiling a list …
Gifts for Bridesmaids
Gifts for Bridesmaids The funny thing about bridal parties is that it isn’t just the bridesmaids who have to worry about finding the perfect gifts for the bride. The bride has just as much to think about when it comes to picking out the perfect gifts to say ‘thank you’ to her girls for standing by her side on her …
Dancing with Dad: Father/Daughter Dance Song Ideas for your Wedding Day
If we’re being honest, wedding ceremonies and receptions highlight and celebrate many more relationships than just the one being cemented that day. Sure, the Big One is the relationship between the bride and groom, but from the outset of most ceremonies, another relationship is pretty front-and-center, and the touchstone for the moment that usually starts the ‘worrying about running mascara’ …
Love, Marriage, & the Pursuit of Happiness: Planning Your Fourth of July Wedding
When he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson claimed that everyone was entitled to “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” What could be a better way of “pursuing Happiness” than tying the knot with the love of your life? Here are some suggestions for a star-spangled, patriotic celebration of your love …