Category: Saying I Do

  • For the struggling bride: how to pick your bridesmaids

    Through the course of getting engaged, wedding planning is supposed to be fun, yet it can also be stressful. For the struggling bride to be, here’s my take on how to pick your bridesmaids from a bride who chose NONE. I fear that today this dilemma commonly destroys more friendships than it holds together –…

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  • DIY Beach Wedding Centerpieces and Decor [A Chic Mermaid Wedding]

    I got married this past Spring, in March. 10 months later, I can’t even believe how fast the year of planning came and the big day began and flew by within a blink of my eye. But I’m feeling slightly boastful as I look back on pictures of that day – how did I even…

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  • DIY Artificial Wedding Bouquet Under $100

    It’s very simple to create your own wedding bouquet. You could spend thousands of dollars on a real one from a flower shop, and never exactly get what you want in the first place. You could pay a fraction of the price for a DIY bouquet, and in the end have it to remember forever.…

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  • Simple wedding guest DON’TS from a Millennial bride

    Wedding [guest] etiquette, and yes I’m going there. As much as we like to think, or believe, there are no rules that apply [to us, an invited guest]…um, think again. As if you don’t think manners apply, either, say…when you’re having dinner with the Pope, the President, or how about God? Yeah, I went there, too.…

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  • My 6 best tips for planning a small wedding

    Smaller, destination weddings are becoming the new fad. Or they always were, but now they’re not exactly in secret. Either way, I went against the grain of the traditional, big, over the top wedding. I had less than 50 people total, though at the end of the day it didn’t seem too few. Here are…

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