How To Create Your Wedding Day Guest List
As a wedding planner, I have personally witnessed couples lose their minds so much that eloping sounded like the best idea ever. These meltdows didn’t happen while looking for a venue or the perfect wedding gown though. In fact, that hard stuff is really nothing compared to the endless hours it takes most couples to figure …
The Rest of the Real Wedding Planning Checklist
Welcome to the rest of the real wedding planning checklist. If you missed the first part, make sure you read this first! In Part 1, I talked about some bigger items like selecting your wedding venue and hiring your photographer, band and of course, wedding planner. In this part of the blog, I will finish …
Those Wedding Planning Checklists and Why They Suck
If you’re engaged, or even if you’re not, you’ve probably visited a wedding website or 50 and come across their version of a wedding planning checklist. What you don’t know is why those wedding planning checklists totally suck. You know the type of checklists I’m talking about: what to do first through what to do …
Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year and Ways to Use it in Your Wedding
I don’t know about you, but when I heard about Pantone’s 2017 color of the year, I was pumped. Seriously, I was like way excited. Maybe it was because the past few years I have been less than thrilled with the selection. Maybe it was because I loved using that color and already had ideas. Or …
5 Affordable Ways to Make Your Wedding Invitations Stand Out
Note: This post contains affiliate links. This means that I may receive a small commission (at no cost to you) if you subscribe or purchase something through the links provided. That said, if I say I love something, I really truly love it. Many of my engaged couples are looking for beautiful wedding invitations at …
Wedding Contracts Shouldn’t Be Complicated
I recently wrote a blog about wedding contracts and the importance of reading every last word. If you didn’t catch the details, make sure you read all of them before continuing here. This blog will cover the vendors I didn’t talk about yet and how their wedding contracts can affect your wedding plans. Side note: This isn’t …
Why You Should Read Wedding Contracts
Be honest. You have signed a contract before that you didn’t read. Or maybe you read most of it, but then figured it was just standard legal stuff to ignore. Too often contracts are treated like those annoying “terms of service” boxes where you just scroll down, click OK and get on with your life. But …
2016: Year in Review
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” -Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 9 This has been quite a year. I don’t know about you, but on my personal Facebook page, my newsfeed is littered with comments about how everyone has hated 2016 and is ready for it to be over. Truth be …