Personalizing Your Wedding Music

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The dinner and dance music, we were also providing music and microphones for the Ceremony. It’s always a good idea to have music, and if you’re not having the wedding in a church, the DJ is the most obvious choice to provide the music. The music was more than just your average classical or instrumental […]

9 Ways to Pick your Wedding Music

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Music is a big part of most weddings, and if you’ve already started planning one, you know there are more than a few decisions to be made. Whether you decide to hire a band or a DJ or provide the wedding’s soundtrack with your own iPod, we have a wedding music guide to help you […]

Is Your Guest List “Up-To-Snuff?”

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One important wedding planning task which must be considered before the happy couple begins scouting potential locations for the wedding ceremony and reception is the guest list. It is very important to give the guest list some consideration before looking at ceremony and reception locations because you want to select locations that are large enough […]

Setting a Date for Your Wedding – What You Need to Know

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Sometimes one of the hardest decisions a couple will have to make in regards to their wedding is the date for the wedding. The bride to be may eagerly blurt out “yes” when the groom to be proposes marriage, the couple may be positive they want to have their wedding in a certain location and […]

Designing Your Wedding Cake

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A pretty big deal, right? And let’s face it…most of us are NOT professional bakers! But, have no fear! This quick blog post is going to give you some much needed “hacks” when it comes to designing your “Big Day Cake!” For most brides the dress is considered to be one of the most important […]

When Traditions Collide at Your Wedding

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One of the most difficult situations when planning a wedding involves cases where the bride’s family and the groom’s family have different religious or cultural traditions associated with weddings. These situations become difficult because both sides of the family may expect their traditions to be followed and feelings can become easily hurt if the couple […]

Bridal Party Decisions

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One of the important parts of planning a wedding is making decisions about the bridal party. These decisions may seem to not be terribly important but they can actually cause a great deal of stress for some couples. In particular couples who have many siblings or close friends may have a great deal of trouble […]

Finding Favors For Your Wedding

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Giving out wedding favors is an excellent way for couples to show their appreciation to the guests who attended their wedding. And it’s a lot easier to choose what gift you’d like to give when you’ve decided on a theme for your wedding. These small gifts should be selected to be meaningful and meant to […]

In Pittsburgh, the wedding cookie table is a wonderful local tradition

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Amy Rosen is the food editor at Chatelaine Reprint “So they don’t do this where you’re from?” asks the grandmother of the bride, quite incredulously. “You’re from Canada, right?” Trying to explain to a group of cookie-mad Pittsburghers that elaborate wedding cookie tables are indigenous and pretty much isolated to their city is like trying […]