Your wedding day schedule makes or breaks your celebration

wedding day schedule

Couples get hung up on wedding details. How many flowers do we need? Will they like our wedding favors? Please don’t let the chicken fricassee be dry! And yet it’s the actual wedding day schedule that matters more to your wedding guests than these secondary details. Don’t get us wrong: these secondary details are important…

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Why grooms carry brides over the threshold … and why they shouldn’t!

carrying the bride across the threshold

Weddings abound with rich, and sometimes odd, traditions. One of the oddest is the notion that grooms should carry brides over the threshold. According to the book “Marriage Customs of the World,” the tradition hearkens back the 7th century B.C. when ancient Rome was founded by Romulus. The city needed to grow their population, and…

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Wedding attire 101

wedding attire

Engaged? Your wedding invitation should clearly convey your preferred dress code.  But not all wedding guests understand what various wedding attire descriptions actually mean. This blogpost provides a quick primer. CASUAL: This is kind of a murky category, because your wedding attire intent may be influenced by your venue and the time of day of…

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How to invite good wedding guests to your wedding

wedding guests

Wedding guests matter to couples planning their wedding. The headline above isn’t focused as much on WHO you invite, but rather HOW your wedding guests should behave at your wedding celebration. The purpose of this blogpost is to provide you with practical information to pass on to your wedding guests to enhance everyone’s experience. Just…

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How to be a good mother-in-law

How to be a good mother-in-law

Mothers-in-law have been the butt of jokes down through the ages. American sitcoms provide fodder with their often hilarious portrayals of mothers-in-law. Since readers of this blog are interested in planning their wedding and merging two families into one, let’s look at how to be a good mother-in-law. A serious example … The video below…

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Top 10 Wedding Movies

top 10 wedding movies

Hollywood has churned out some great movies over the decades with wedding themes. Here is our list of the top 10 wedding movies: #10: Runaway Bride  It’s a silly premise. A woman (Julia Roberts) gets engaged and stands up one fiancé after another at the altar. Richard Gere is a journalist who wants to write…

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The power of professionalism

the power of professionalism

The video above showcases the dynamic first wedding dance for the Canadian celebrity couple, Josh and Anna Wolfman. The dance is wildly entertaining, but that’s not what leaps out at us. What does is the power of professionalism. Everything is exquisite. The decorating. The lighting. The music. The attire. The videography. Everything. Yes … and…

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Is a marriage name change in your future?

marriage name change

What does Jennifer Lopez have in common with 88% of married women? She legally changed her name when she married actor Ben Affleck in a much-hyped wedding last year. Despite evolving wedding customs, a marriage name change is still the overwhelming norm. Most couples embrace a marriage name change out of tradition. It’s a legal…

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A tribute to Burt Bacharach love songs

Burt Bacharach love songs

An old man died last week that you may not know, but you probably know his music. Yes, ninety-four year old Burt Bacharach died after a legendary career of composing hit songs. Burt Bacharach love songs are one of a kind, which is why we still get requests for them for wedding first dance songs.…

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Which Rihanna love song do you like best?

Rihanna love song

Super Sunday is almost here! This year’s Super Bowl halftime show features the Barbadian super star, Rihanna, making her first public performance in five years. Seems like a good time to consider if a Rihanna love song would be a good fit for your upcoming first wedding dance. “Lift Me Up” What better place to…

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