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The Start of the Wedding Season

According to my local scrapbook store, February 14th kicks off wedding season. Personally, I thought wedding season didn’t start until May. Regardless, if you are planning to create a wedding scrapbook, now is a good time to research different styles, so when the big day arrives you will be prepared. For starters, unless you are an expert scrapper, you should not create an entire memory book from formal portraits. Formal photos are expensive and leave little room for error. However, they are also some of the best images you have to work with. If formal wedding portraits are all you … Continue reading →

Ways Couple Unite as One at a Wedding

Weddings are very special events for couples. During a wedding, a couple unites as one before God, family, and friends. During the ceremony, the couple may choose to show their love and unite in many different ways. Below I have listed some of the most common traditions that couples use to unite together as one. Promise of Vows It is American tradition for a couple to exchange vows at a wedding. The couple may choose to write their own vows or to use the traditional vows. Exchange of Rings Each partner in the couple purchases a ring for the other. … Continue reading →

Should You Include Your Fiancé’s Family in the Wedding

Planning a wedding can be stressful. You have many decisions that have to be made. Some decisions you may have made years ago and planned from the time you were old enough to even dream of a wedding. However, your bridesmaids cannot be planned that far in advance. Friends change and your life changes. The people that you want to have in your wedding also changes. Depending on the size of your wedding, you may only be able to ask your closest friends or you may be out looking for acquaintances. Either way the possibility of someone getting her feelings … Continue reading →

How Much of Your Wedding Should You Do Yourself?

Planning a wedding can be a big undertaking, especially if you plan on having many guests. A wedding can also be very costly. When on a budget, many women decide to try to do some of the wedding preparations themselves. Planning and carrying out your own wedding can save money and work nicely. However, you need to be realistic. Only choose to do the items that you feel you are capable of without creating you much stress on your wedding day. If you plan to try to do the decorations for your wedding, I suggest only planning for things that … Continue reading →

Wedding Planning: Mother of the Bride/Mother of the Groom

They say that your Mom is probably the second most important involved in the wedding. Wondering which mom is important? The answer to the question both Moms are important to the wedding. Bride and Groom benefit when their mothers are with them and involved in the wedding. Here are some outlines of the typical duties of the bride and groom’s mothers. MOTHER OF THE BRIDE The primary responsibility of the Mother-of-the-Bride is to see that the bride’s wishes are carried out for the wedding. She might serve as the coordinator with the wedding planner. She might just help organize the … Continue reading →

Wedding Planning: How to Host an Engagement Party

The engagement party is the first in the series of events that will take place prior to a wedding. The engagement usually takes place shortly after the groom popped the question. The engagement party is traditionally hosted by one family or the other or thrown jointly by both. The party should invite both families, close family friends as well as friends and potentially co-workers of the bride and groom. Kick Off Event Depending on the type of wedding the couple is planning; the engagement party is the traditional kick off event to the year of celebrations that lead up to … Continue reading →

Wedding Planning: How to Host an Engagement Party

The engagement party is the first in the series of events that will take place prior to a wedding. The engagement usually takes place shortly after the groom popped the question. The engagement party is traditionally hosted by one family or the other or thrown jointly by both. The party should invite both families, close family friends as well as friends and potentially co-workers of the bride and groom. Kick Off Event Depending on the type of wedding the couple is planning; the engagement party is the traditional kick off event to the year of celebrations that lead up to … Continue reading →

Planning a Dallas Wedding? Resources that Might Help

Planning to get married in the Dallas, Texas area? One of the hardest things about wedding planning is making sure you have access to all the available resources. Sure, you can probably do a web search and enter a few key terms into Google and hope you find what you are looking for, or you can check out the following sites that I’ve taken the liberty of googling and look at for you. The first site is complements of WedAlert.com and focuses on helping you locate key wedding resources in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The site offers brides and grooms … Continue reading →

Why Do Weddings Cost So Much?

Why do weddings cost so much? How can you possibly plan to save up for a wedding when a wedding thirty years ago didn’t require a year’s salary. So how do you plan for it? The first step is to calculate what a mid-sized car costs. That’s about what you can expect to spend on a wedding. Currently, an average wedding costs about $20,000 to $30,000. Thirty years ago, that cost was closer to $3,000 to $4,000. Thirty years from now, the average cost of a wedding could easily be $100,000. Okay, take a deep breath. Remember, adjusting for inflation, … Continue reading →

Top Ten Pre-Wedding Tips

The following wedding tips are designed to help you make your perfect day more perfect. Planning a wedding is a lot of work and whether you use a wedding planner, do it yourself with wedding planning software or coordinate it with your parents – these tips are designed to help. Order Extra – Order extra invitations, envelopes and more. It may add a little bit of cost at the beginning of your planning, but it’s better to have a handful too many than need to put in another minimum order later Save Wedding Cake – Your first anniversary is a … Continue reading →