Wedding Style: Spring Weddings
Dreaming of peonies, sundresses, and swapping vows in a garden? Sounds like you have a spring wedding in mind. Now you need inspiration!
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Your Wedding Budget: 41 Ways to Save
No wedding budget is ever big enough. Just remember, everything is a compromise -- but it's not as daunting as it seems.
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Tipping: Who, When & How Much So, you feel pretty confident that you've completed calculating costs for the big day. But wait -- before you close that budget binder, did you remember to include tips?
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Photography: Getting Started A guide to finding the right photgrapher for your wedding.
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Marriage License: Basics A learning guide to the basics of marriage licenses.
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Floral Designers: 12 Questions to Ask Lock in your floral designer early in the wedding-planning process. You'll want a designer who is gifted, knowledgeable, and agreeable. Most importantly, your florist should delight in providing you with the most beautiful flowers your budget can handle.
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Disasters & Emergencies: The Bride's Emergency Kit While we hope there are no emergencies on the big day, it's always better to be safe than sorry. We've come up with a list of all those just-in-case items that will ensure your dream
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Wedding Gown-Buying Checklist
When should you start? Where should you go? What happens once you're there? Print out our helpful checklist!
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Wedding Gown Workout Moves
The style of your wedding dress will help determine the type of workout you should do!
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Engagement To-Dos: Meeting Your Future In-Laws
Worried about your first meeting with the future in-laws? Here are 10 tips to help make sure everything goes smoothly.
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Oops! The Bride Did It Again
Brides are only human -- and they're bound to make mistakes. No biggie. But since we hear about some common blunders all the time, we figured why not give you the heads-up?
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Your Vendors: An Overview
You've got the ring. You've set a date. What's next? You'll need to hire a platoon of vendors to make your wedding dreams come true.
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Programs: Basics A guide to wedding programs; what's included, how long it should be, etc.
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Invitations: Cost, tips & tricks
Wedding invitations offer guests a sneak peek at what's to come. Make that vision something truly special to behold. Here are tips and tricks to get you the write stuff.
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Interfaith Weddings: 8 Planning Tips
Planning an interfaith ceremony can be tricky. You'll likely face three major challenges: finding an officiant; combining two sets of traditions without upsetting your families too much; and creating a ceremony that reflects your commitment and your common values. How can you prevent a religious roadblock?
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Registering: Choosing a Store Confused about registering? Start by reading our guide to choosing your soulmate store.
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Picking the Perfect Wedding Date
You're engaged? Congratulations! When's the date? This delicate decision is different for each couple, but a year-long engagement is often about right.
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Top 10 Prewedding Fights & How to Avoid Them Ah, engaged life. Fancy parties in your honor, a legitimate excuse to plunk down thousands for one dress. You never expected the downside: hissing at each other in bridal registry departments, screaming matches over guest lists.
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Selecting Your Wedding Party
Once you've set your date, the next things on your agenda should be selecting your wedding party and asking them to participate.
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Engagement Party Planning 101
Tradition has it that the bride's parents host the initial gathering, but the groom's parents can then throw their own party, or both sets can come together to host the fete. As you decide, here are five things the hosts should keep in mind.
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10 Biggest Prewedding Mistakes
Even the smartest, most on-top-of-things couple can make mistakes during wedding planning. Here are the 10 things you should keep an eye on before saying I do.
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Planning basics: Top 15 trends for 2005 Bye-bye, Bridezilla? Strapless still supreme? Meals going mini? What else does spring have in store for to-be-weds? Here's a sneak peek at the season's 15 best trends.
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Engagement parties: Etiquette 101
The melding of friends and family at your engagement party can be tricky territory. Here's our top etiquette tips for planning and working a party that will pave the way for stronger -- not strained -- relationships.
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Engagement: First 10 Wedding To-Dos
Proclaimed your commitment to one another? Congratulations! Once the initial shock wears off and you peel your eyes away from that sparkly diamond on your finger, many decisions will need to be made. When should the big day happen? Where will it be? Who are you going to invite? Here are the first ten things to start thinking about right now.
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20 Things to Learn From our Wedding Planner 1. Mr./Mrs./Miss./Ms./Dr....help! With email replacing most snailmail, it's no surprise we've forgotten how to address traditional envelopes.
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Is the Rehearsal Dinner Necessary? As if planning for a wedding is not hard enough, then they throw in another party the night before? It may sound excessive but there are many reasons this tradition has held strong.
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Planning A Wedding Budget By now you may have heard or read that the American wedding costs upwards of $20,000. This may be frightening, or it may be a relief. Whatever it means to you, you really shouldn't give it too much credit
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Should I Purchase Wedding Insurance? Everyone seems to have such a strong opinion on this one - is wedding insurance a no-brainer, or just a simple way to make money on worry-wort brides? These frequently asked questions should help you to make the decision that is right for your situation.
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Creating a Registry: Overview and Tips Creating a wedding registry is your opportunity to really stock up on all sorts of items that will make the beginning of your married life together a little more comfortable, sporty, decorative, tasty, and entertaining!
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Keep it Legal: Obtaining a Marriage License This critical document acts as a permit for your entree into a legally recognized union. The laws vary state to state so find out which ones are applicable to you.
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Mastering The Guest List Each and every seat should be reserved for someone dear to you, whether it is family members or friends who share your life, bring you happiness, and will continue to do so beyond this one day.
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