“Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace”

It’s a phrase you never want to hear a response to when you’re standing at the aisle, ready to speak your vows and marry the person you love. Yet, Hollywood movies and television shows often rely on it as a d ...

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Feeling Inspired While Planning a Wedding

Not everyone feels like creativity comes naturally for them. While all people have the potential to get clever and artistic when the spirit strikes them, it is not easy for many. When you are planning a wedding, you migh ...

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Contacts or Glasses for Your Wedding? A Handy Guide to Help You Decide

Eyewear can be an integral part of your personal style, but you might be torn between wearing your specs on your wedding day or ditching them for contacts. If this sounds like a familiar dilemma, you’re not alone. ...

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Using the New Year to Plan Your Wedding

As a new year dawns, many people like to look back on their lives and reflect upon everything that has transpired over the past year. For some, this means taking stock of everything that wasn’t completed in the pre ...

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Essential Tips for Your Potluck Wedding Reception

Along with brunch-style meals, food truck catering and shindigs featuring “heavy appetizers,” potluck weddings are also gaining popularity among the newly engaged. If your goals include saving money, planning ...

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A Simple Guide to an Effective Registry

Receiving gifts is an essential aspect of your wedding. While you and your partner might not be focused on this side of things while planning for your big day, it is going to be worth your time to slow things down and th ...

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Throwing a Simple and Casual Wedding

Weddings have long been expensive and elaborate affairs. Since not everyone wants or needs this type of event, there has been a rise in how many casual weddings are taking place. Instead of hosting huge parties with hund ...

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The 411 on Wedding Toasts: Who, When, How and Why

Toasts are considered a fundamental part of a wedding reception, but it’s easy to get the jitters if you’re new to the practice. If you’re a close family member or part of the wedding party, however, yo ...

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Close to You: The Music of Your Wedding

Shakespeare was not far from the truth when he suggested that “music be the food of love.” Though song has been used throughout recorded history for a variety of purposes, a vast amount of tunes written over ...

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How to Keep Your Wedding Guests Under Control

A wedding is a wonderful event where friends and family members get to witness a happy couple coming together in marital bliss. This, of course, is a huge cause for celebration. Revelry is a normal sight at this type of ...

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