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Beach weddings are everything we want them to be – dramatic, beautiful, romantic. When planning a beach wedding, however, you may encounter elements that make it seem more complicated than the average wedding. These include special rules and guidelines for using public beaches, uncontrollable weather situations, and the challenges of holding any ceremony outdoors, not to mention in the sand. …
It’s officially the first day of February. For most of us that means we have 13 days left to figure out how we’re going to celebrate Valentine’s Day. If you’re like Nik and I we are very much last minute nellies and tend to feel obligated to do something because the media has told us that we have to and …
Negotiating your wedding budget probably doesn’t sound like as much fun as creating an inspiration board of gorgeous seasonal flowers, or trying on stunning rings. It is, however, an important first step when you first get engaged, so we’re sharing some of our own, generally painless step to creating a wedding budget. 1. Keep Your Head in the Cloud Or, …
A wedding is one of the most expensive events most folks ever plan. If you search the best wedding planning sites or the shelves of a great bookstore (they still exist!), you’ll find gobs of advice about saving money on your dream wedding, but how much of it is good advice? I think we’ve pretty much heard it all, from …
Ask any wedding planner to name the most popular décor of all time and I’m willing to bet more than half will mention “Rustic Chic” (the other half would probably say “Simple and Elegant”). It’s not surprising, really. “Rustic Chic” endures generation after generation, seamlessly tying past to present. If you doubt this wedding design truth, search “new rustic barn wedding …
There is nothing quite like the experience of taking two families, two sets of friends, and two sets of peers or coworkers, throwing them all into the same room, and requiring them all to get along (often with alcohol). It seems a little unfair that the task of sorting out the whole mess falls to the guests of honor, but …
In the last few years we’ve seen couples become far more aware of how they are spending their precious time on the wedding day than ever before. Tradition dictates that brides and grooms should not see each other before their wedding ceremonies. However, contemporary couples want to join the party at the earliest possible moment. They participate in their cocktail …
No two couples are the same. Weddings shouldn’t be cookie-cutter copies of each other. They should be personal and meaningful, reflecting each love story in a unique way. While trending posts and photos sometimes make it feel like couples have only a few options if they want to have a great wedding, there are so many ways to customize your …
After months of wedding planning, you have reached the night before your trip down the aisle! You’re a little nervous, kind of tired, and a lot excited. Your friends are starting to arrive from out of town and you get to check the really big stuff off your list. There’s nothing left to do, right? Unfortunately, not quite right. After …
I honestly think I have the best job in the world. Who wouldn’t want to be a wedding planner and trot around the World? Our job is to literally plan parties, events, and weddings. Best of all we get to go to them! We are there for the most monumental of occasions. I love coordinating events for people for any …
