Wedding Ideas & Trends
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Planning a wedding is the ultimate exercise in imagination. You get to combine your favorite ideas with your beloved's favorites, and use them to create a gathering that, hopefully, your guests will appreciate as much as you do. If you're not used to hosting large events, it can seem daunting. After all, the wedding is a blank canvas, and it's all up to you. Where do you even start? Read the articles below for inspiration.
TV Themed Weddings
Maybe you can’t get enough of that mysterious Don Draper. Maybe you've recreated your wardrobe around Carrie Bradshaw’s closet. Maybe you've started thinking that motorcycle ownership may be for you from the first moment you saw Jax Teller roar away on one. …
Avoid These Inadvertently Insulting Love Songs
When you're choosing music for your wedding, it's tempting to snuggle by the fireside with your sweetheart and write a long list of all of your favorite love songs. Many couples also turn to their friends for romantic…
"Green" Your Catering
If you're hosting a party and you want to ride the leading edge of the greening trend, there are a number of ways you can make your celebration "green," or more ecologically-sound. From the ingredients you choose to the…
Introducing Voiceovers into Your Wedding
You have a wonderful wedding planned with flowers, food, invitations, reception, the dress, the car, the venue and the entertainment. Needless to say, you want everything to be perfect and memorable for you and your guests. You want people to leave inspired and feeling tingly…
Outdoor Weddings in Hot Climates
Are you planning a spring or summer wedding somewhere tropical? While sunshine and blue skies are the stuff of most couples' dreams, hot weather also comes with its own set of complications. Plan ahead to make sure your…
Banish First-Dance Jitters
Does the thought of getting up in front of a large audience and trying to coordinate two sets of feet make you break out in a cold sweat? Dancing gracefully is hard enough without being forced to do it in front of all…
Bridal Boudoir: “B-Pics”
So you’re getting married and want to find a groom's gift that’s going to knock his socks off. You’ve searched the stores and nothing has that “wow” factor you are looking for. Well, have you given any thought to a bridal boudoir photo…
Nature’s Big Surprise
While scientists tell us that Nature abhors a vacuum, what they’re less likely to reveal is that Nature loves Love. I perform a large number of outdoor weddings, and even in a place as climatically dynamic as…
Ceremony Music 101
The wedding dress, the flowers, and the candles all make a wedding special, but what about the music? Music is used throughout a wedding ceremony for a very good reason. You may have heard the saying, “Music makes the moment.” Nothing could be truer. We all have a…
It’s the Pirate’s Life for Me: Hosting a Swashbuckling Soiree
Got a little buccaneering spirit in you? Find yourself more at home at sea than on land or have a general distrust of all things too clean or too orderly? Whether you embrace the ideology or simply the spirit…



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