Congratulations on your engagement! Planning a wedding is an exciting journey filled with love, anticipation, and a touch of organized chaos. From the moment you say “yes” to the joyous “I do,” crafting a seamless wedding timeline ensures your special day unfolds just as you’ve always dreamed. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you navigate from engagement bliss to honeymoon paradise, ensuring every moment is memorable.
Elevate Your Wedding: DIY Decor Ideas for a Personalized Celebration
As a wedding planner, I understand the importance of creating a memorable and personalized experience for every couple. One of the best ways to achieve this is through DIY wedding decor. Not only does it add a unique touch to the celebration, but it also allows couples to showcase their creativity and personality.
Who Will Be Contributing To The Wedding Budget?
In our modern world, the lines of who pays for what for a wedding are definitely blurred. Today, there is no official ruling regarding how the wedding budget breaks out, but it hasn’t always been this way.
Choosing your Wedding Date
Planning your wedding is no small task, but the hardest part is over! You’ve found the love of your life, so setting a wedding date should be easy in comparison.
Choosing your wedding date is the first major step in planning your wedding. But picking a date is no small task. There are a lot of factors to consider from weather to attendance to choice of flowers, so it can quickly seem like a daunting challenge.
A Guide for Creating a Budget-Friendly Wedding Guest List
Once you’ve set your wedding budget, the next step should be to get an idea of your guest list. The average wedding in the US consists of 167 guests, and each guest can cost anywhere between $91 – $365…. The number of guests you invite to your special day will directly influence the cost of many different elements of your wedding – from the invitations, to the catering and wedding favors!
What is the Right Time to Send out Save the Dates?
The ring is on your finger and the location of your Pinterest-board dreams is confirmed for the big day—now it’s time to get your guests in the loop. Your first step: mailing wedding save-the-dates (the pre-invitation that officially announces your wedding date). Wondering about when to send save-the-dates or the details of save-the-date etiquette? You’re in luck. We’re answering your most burning questions about this essential piece of correspondence. From how many save-the-dates to order (and if you need extra) to our top tips and tricks to save a little cash on postage, we’re here to help you nail this process and get guests stoked to clear their calendars.
Cake Cutting Routine in a Wedding
Cakes have always been a standard dessert at most weddings, but in recent years, couples have gotten a lot more creative with the tasty sweets they offer to their guests. That’s because when it comes to wedding cake etiquette, no rulebook says you have to serve an extravagant five-tiered design. And for couples who want to participate in the classic cake-cutting tradition—but don’t want a wedding cake—a cutting cake is the perfect alternative.
A guide to Wedding Party Roles and Responsibilities
Once there’s a ring, it’s time to start thinking about choosing a wedding party. If you’re a newly engaged bride-to-be, you might be asking your best friends to be in your bridal party and if you’re a friend to the couple, you might be wondering what your responsibilities will be after accepting your invitation into the bridal party.
Dream Wedding on a Tight Budget? Tips and Guides
In this world of ever-changing wedding trends, you might feel like you’ll need an enormous pile of cash to pull off your dream celebration—the experts know this to be true: “It can be easy for couples to stress about the impact budget is going to have on their wedding,” says Dantus. “Before they even get started, they’re already playing the comparison game.”
9 things to look for when hiring a Wedding Photographer
There is so much that goes into planning your wedding. I believe one of the most important parts of the wedding planning process is hiring a wedding photographer. After all, your images are what you will remember your day by. They are what you will show your kids one day. They will allow you to relive your wedding day every time you look through them. This is why I’m so passionate about wedding photography. My job is to document your memories so they can live on for a lifetime.