How to Preserve Your Wedding Bouquet
To many brides, the bouquet is as essential to their wedding look as the gown, hair and makeup, and something blue. Once the reception is over, though, it can be pretty depressing to watch the blooms start to wilt. Luckily, there are tried-and-true ways to preserve your gorgeous flowers. Keep them fresh Flowers can wilt […]
How to Ask Your Friends to Be Groomsmen in Your Wedding
Groomsmen have a lot on their list in order to support the groom: renting suits or tuxes, attending wedding events, writing a speech, getting along with everyone in the bridal party. Finding a clever way to ask them to be in your wedding will show your appreciation from the get-go. First Things First – Etiquette […]
5 Wedding Expenses that Don’t Have to be Expensive
Admiring that wedding nest egg you’ve feathered over the past (what probably feels like) infinity months, you may feel like your options are limitless when it comes time to finally make choices and cut checks. If you’re anything like me, your wedding is the first event you’ve seriously saved for in your life, and seeing […]
5 Things Nobody Told You About Your Wedding Day
Hi, everyone! I’m Kari Kriewald, fashion and beauty blogger over at Sophisticated Whimsy. Today I’m sharing five things I experienced on my wedding day that no bride would know to prepare for. Keep reading to get an inside scoop on what the unsuspecting bride should expect! You’ve planned your magical day—everything from the programs to […]
What It’s REALLY Like to Be a Groomsgirl
By the time I was asked to be a groomsman, I had never even been a bridesmaid. Growing up, my best friends were boys. It’s not that I didn’t have any female friends – I did then and I do now, and I love them all. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I was […]
“6 Things My Husband and I Do Now that We’re Married—That I Hope Never Stop”
I won’t lie—I wasn’t prepared for married life to be that much different from engaged life. Before we tied the knot, Joe and I had gotten into a pretty good cohabitation groove after living together for almost two years (he became the unofficial toilet cleaner, I became the unofficial sheet launderer). I thought that our […]
Having a Destination Wedding? Read This.
Believe it or not, marrying away from home used to be synonymous with the old-fashioned version of eloping — boarding a train or plane to marry without family approval. While destination weddings look different now, they’re still a great way to ensure you have a wedding that is completely you. A destination wedding can involve […]
6 Tips for Dealing with the Party Animals in Your Wedding Party
There are two types of wedding party attendants out there. There’s the type who will think of your wedding as a symbolic culmination of your and your partner’s love and devotion to one another, and a dramatic step forward into a new phase of your relationship, and then there’s the type who will think of […]
Splurge vs. Save: How to Prioritize to Create Your Wedding Budget
We’ve all seen those weddings where it looks like the couple had absolutely no budget and spent a ton on every single detail. But that’s not reality for most of us. Creating a wedding budget is all about prioritizing what’s most important to you and your future spouse—and it’s different for everyone. But if there’s […]
7 Wedding Expenses You Might Forget
When you’re creating your budget, of course you’ll factor in the big expenses – your venue, catering, flowers, etc. But there are lots of smaller expenses that you might not initially consider that can cost a bundle. Check out our list of wedding expenses that you’ll need to consider. Postage Depending on the size, weight […]
