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Inviting Children to Your Wedding

The guest list surrounding your wedding is an area bound to cause you a great deal of stress. Making cuts to the list and attempting to reach out and figure out who forgot to RSVP can be a lot of work. To keep yourself s ...

Category: Wedding Planning

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Contrary to Popular Belief, Millennials Are Not Killing Weddings

Check the news from the last few years, and you’ll see headlines bemoaning a wide range of millennial spending habits and lifestyle choices. As a demographic cohort, adults born between the late 1970s and the mid-1 ...

Category: Wedding Planning Society

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Blue Planet: How Other Cultures Handle Loss

Losing someone close to you can be paralyzing. Death is hard to accept, no matter how old you might be or how used to loss you might think you are. While it can be hard to move forward, there is comfort in knowing you ar ...

Category: Funeral Ceremonies Society Loss

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The Backstory Behind “Here Comes the Bride”

If you've attended a few weddings, you might have heard the familiar “Bridal Chorus,” otherwise known as “Here Comes the Bride” or the “Bridal March,” played during the processional. Y ...

Category: Ceremonies Marriage

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Good Eats: Hiring a Food Truck for Your Wedding

When you think about a typical wedding reception, you probably picture a fancy multicourse dinner, an elegant family-style meal or even a delicious buffet. Yet thanks to a burgeoning street food trend and creative thinki ...

Category: Wedding Planning Ceremonies

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Understanding Cremation for Your Loved Ones

Death can be incredibly difficult to deal with. When someone you know has passed away, you must find a way of coping that works best for you. Of course, there are some situations where you might not know how to process t ...

Category: Funeral Loss

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Finalizing Your Venue Choice

Where you decide to host your wedding reception is going to have a big impact on the way your event plays out. You probably already know this and have lost many hours of sleep trying to narrow down your options. When you ...

Category: Wedding Materials Wedding Planning Ceremonies

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In Sickness and Health: Making the Right Married Lifestyle Choices

Marriage is a joining of two souls as one. Of course, this does not always suggest the best results. When two people come together who both have destructive habits, those habits can easily grow out of control. Even seemi ...

Category: Marriage Society

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In Living Color: Designing Your Wedding’s Palette

Bringing your wedding to life takes a combination of planning, creativity, collaboration and funds allocation. While not every couple chooses a theme, most pick their attire and décor using a palette of two or thr ...

Category: Wedding Materials Wedding Planning Ceremonies

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“Creator, Does This Unit Have a Soul?”

Is there life after death? We have pondered that question about ourselves and our animal companions for millennia. Now, the same inquiries are being posed about androids, robots and other kinds of artificial intelligence ...

Category: Society Technology

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