How to Avoid Cookie Cutter Wedding Formats

e all want our wedding to be memorable and very few truly want it to fit into a cookie cutter wedding format, but how do you avoid it? Aren’t all wedding pretty much the same? Only for the unimaginative and the lazy couple - and even at that by the time you pull everything together a cookie cutter wedding might end up to be an equal amount of work as a unique nuptial celebration designed to fit the individual couple. Dream - Together: If you don’t want a wedding that looks like every... Read more »

How Your Venue Affects Your Wedding Color Choices

In a perfect world the task of choosing wedding colors would be as simple as choosing your favorite combination and leaving it at that. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Neither do we live in a vacuum. And the practice of choosing our favorite combination forgets that our wedding colors have to work in our wedding venue… as many brides have discovered after it was too late to do anything to remedy the situation. Let me illustrate with the story of some friends of ours who were... Read more »

Are Fall Wedding Favor Options Really as Limited as they Say?

If you are planning an autumn wedding then it is only natural that you wonder about your fall wedding favor options. Are you limited to leaf shaped chocolates wrapped in tulle? Absolutely not. Since the changing of the leaves is such a distinguishing mark of the fall season its easy to make the mistake of thinking that fall wedding favors absolutely must have a leaf motif. True, the classic fall wedding reception look with a fall leaf motif need not remind anyone of farmer Johnson’s barn (even... Read more »

Disposable Wedding Cameras Catch the Scenes Your Professional Photographer Cannot

Even if you have the best wedding photographer in the world, disposable wedding cameras nearly fall into the must have category. Yes, if you have done your homework your wedding photographer will be a highly trained professional with the experience to know how to get most of the normal pictures that a new couple wants to remember their marriage ceremony. But most does not mean all and unless you have hired an entire army of photographers there is absolutely no way they can be everywhere to catch... Read more »

3 Food Based Theme Wedding Favors

Should you have white chocolate or dark chocolate wedding favors? Maybe a combination of both milk and dark chocolate almond would be a good idea? Or maybe choose a combination of white chocolate and dark chocolate in one wedding favor. The best idea is to have one flavor of chocolate for the wedding favors. The more flavors you have, the more costly the favors will become. You will probably already have a chocolate fountain, so you can than choose a different flavor of chocolate for the fountain... Read more »

The Advantages of Hiring a Wedding Planner

I did not hire a wedding planner when I got married. I should have. It would have made my life a lot easier. Yes, I made it through the event. The wedding happened and it was… well, a wedding. Best of all, I married a wonderful man and had all my family and friends around to help us celebrate. But it could have been much better with the assistance of a wedding planner / coordinator / consultant / designer (yes, there are subtle differences, but for the most part the terms are interchangeable)... Read more »

Creating a Memorable Wedding Celebration

Gina and David (not their real names) had a traditional Catholic wedding. That was important to them. But they also wanted a way to create a memorable wedding celebration. They succeeded - big time. You see, I was a guest in that wedding. I sat in the congregation and watched all of the pageantry of their tradition with the interest of a friend to whom their tradition meant little. To this day I remember very little of the traditional part of their ceremony. I could not tell you what the priest... Read more »

Planning Wedding Showers: Benefits and Opportunities

Wedding showers are a fun and practical event that can have huge dividends in the establishment of a new family. But even more, a bridal shower offers an opportunity to take a break from the rigors of wedding planning and relax with good friends and enjoy the season and the anticipation of the upcoming big day. Traditionally the Maid of Honor hosts the wedding shower with the help of the bridesmaids. However there are many cases where this is not possible and it is perfectly acceptable for a family... Read more »

3 Types Of Combinatorial Theme Wedding Favors

The first type of wedding favor is Hawaiian with beach theme. A Hawaiian with beach themed wedding favor can be a bundle of fun to prepare. Beach themed bridal showers and weddings have become very well sought after in these few years. The Hawaiian theme set on the backdrop of the ocean beaches which brought together with the colors of white, light blue, gray and sandstone and the combination of the each hue, creating an atmosphere of relaxation and serenity, thus working together to bring the ocean... Read more »

The Problems with Cookie Cutter Weddings

If you just want, “A Wedding,” then perhaps a cookie cutter wedding is the way to go. It is, after all, easy. As a matter of fact, there are wedding facilities available, and not just in Las Vegas or Reno, that provide everything you expect - that is as long as you expect a white dress, black tux, a smattering of flowers, a standard white wedding cake (that might even be artificial so they can reuse it), and a few pictures. If that is all the celebration your wedding deserves, then a... Read more »