Category Archives: DIY & How To

Wedding Planning IV: The Reception

The most important and expensive stage of planning a wedding is not ordering the dress, choosing the wedding bands or booking the photographer – it’s selecting the reception venue. When you pick your venue, you’re not only choosing a location, you are choosing the chef/caterer, co-ordinators, and theme that come with the venue. It’s a grand decision, and it’s going to consume the largest portion of your budget. Continue reading

Wedding Planning III

Unless you have a ridiculous amount of money and a creepily well-behaved and accommodating family, your plans will be dashed several times before you reach the ultimate, official plan. You will go through The Little-Girl’s-Dream Plan, The Budget-Reality Plan, The Trying-to-Please-Everyone Plan, The There’s-No-Pleasing-Them- Let’s-Just-Do-What-We-Want plan, The This-is-The-Final-Plan Plan and finally The Official Plan, which is the one you actually see come to life on that certain day. My Fiancé and I have at last, come to that last plan and there is no turning back. Continue reading

Wedding Planning I: The Dress

Whether you have an engagement or a wedding in your near future or not, you’ve probably daydreamed about what your wedding dress would be like. A tool that I’ve found to be particularly useful in bringing my daydreams to life is the gown search on the website of Kleinfeld Bridal, home of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress. Continue reading