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The Right Way to Approach Your Wedding Party

Asking friends and family members to be a part of your special day can be thrilling. While you might want to rush out and get people involved as quickly as possible, it can be a bit more useful to take your time and cons ...

Category: Wedding Materials Wedding Planning

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Throwing an Engaging Engagement Party

Getting engaged is cause for celebration. Once you and your significant other have decided to get married, you are going to want to have a little bit of fun. Plenty of couples opt to do this by throwing an engagement par ...

Category: Wedding Planning

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Planning Your Rehearsal Dinner: What You Need to Know

Planning your wedding is a big deal, but you must also make arrangements for the smaller social affairs leading up to your big day. Your rehearsal with the dinner afterwards are also important, and the two combined make ...

Category: Wedding Materials Wedding Planning

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Wedding Planning Challenges Unique to Nonbinary People

When someone says the word “wedding,” most people will picture a bride and groom, while a few individuals may think of two brides or two grooms. Since wedding traditions are based on gendered cultural norms i ...

Category: Wedding Planning Ceremonies

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4 Tips for Writing a Eulogy

Dealing with the death of a friend or loved one is never easy. If you’ve been asked to give the eulogy, you may feel anxious. You might worry that you won’t know what to say, you’ll lose your composure ...

Category: Funeral Ceremonies

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Money Matters: Paying for Your Wedding

Weddings do not come cheap. In fact, financial experts have stated that weddings are one of the most expensive events that a person will have to pay for in life. The average cost of a wedding in the United States in 2016 ...

Category: Wedding Planning Marriage

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International Examples of Coping With Death

Death is not an easy concept to grasp. Even though people have been aware of their own mortalities for a very large chunk of human history, there is still something very unsettling about pondering what lies beyond life. ...

Category: Funeral Loss

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After the Ring Is On Your Finger

Plenty of people dream of their weddings from childhood. While there are countless women and men who plan each little detail in their heads before even meeting a potential partner, there are still a ton of people who nev ...

Category: Wedding Planning Perform a Wedding Marriage

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Finding Your Vegan Wedding Cake

Whether you’ve chosen a vegan lifestyle to improve your health, lessen your impact on the environment or reduce animal suffering, you’re probably eyeing a vegan cake for your wedding. Chances are, you’r ...

Category: Wedding Planning Society

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A Fast Guide to Bar Mitzvah Guest Etiquette

The presence of social media at social events such as weddings, funerals and bar mitzvahs has added another layer of complexity when it comes to etiquette. Within the last decade, experts have set down guidelines for the ...

Category: Ceremonies Society

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