Your wedding day is one of the most beautiful and memorable days of your life. But what happens when Mother Nature decides to rain on your parade? While it may feel like a disaster at first, there are ways to turn a potentially rainy wedding day into a unique and memorable experience.
If you're dreaming of a destination wedding, the first step is to choose the perfect location. But with so many beautiful places to choose from, how do you narrow it down? To help you out, we've put together a guide on how to find the perfect destination wedding venue.
When it comes to planning a wedding, one of the most stressful aspects can be figuring out the budget. Who pays for what, and how much should each person contribute? It can be a delicate subject to navigate, especially if you and your partner come from different financial backgrounds or have different expectations for your big day.
In recent years, wedding industry professionals have begun referring to the period between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s day as engagement season, given the surge in new proposals around the holidays. Industry professionals estimate that 40% of all proposals take place in this 2.5 month span.
A charity wedding registry is a way to provide your friends and family an option to support the charity or charities of your choosing as their wedding or engagement gift. Guests donate to important causes, rather than to the couple. But should you do one? And if so, how?
Just got engaged and don't know where to start with wedding planning? Here are five easy steps to get the ball rolling so you can start checking things off that (growing) wedding to-do list.
A wedding in Los Angeles and Rhode Island on the same afternoon, you’d need a time turner to make both. So what’s a person to do: how does one decide between two competing weddings?
While white remains by far the predominant color for wedding gowns, many modern brides are breaking with tradition. And major luxury wedding designers, like Vera Wang, are taking the cue — ushering in an era in which skipping the white wedding dress doesn’t come at the expense of style.
Our lives are marked by significant life milestones that define the cadence of our lives. For millennia, generations before us have similarly commemorated these critical moments. Traditionally, a wedding is an opportunity to honor your cultural or religious heritage, carrying forward the torch of tradition for whichever cultural or religious tradition you may inherit.
Let go of the idea of the perfect wedding date. The wedding planning process is all about cultivating that feeling and vibe you want to create for you and for your guests, in whatever way feels most appropriate to you. Get off to the right start by choosing a specific date that matches your desires and needs while keeping your loved ones in mind.
The Emily Post set would have you believe that it is never, under any circumstance, appropriate to ask for a +1 to a wedding. In this school, the names on the invitation that arrives at your door are final, and any omissions or oversights are intentional, if regrettable.
Beautiful floral arrangements are a hallmark of any great wedding. They transform the space, adding an element of natural beauty to indoor venues and enhancing outdoor ones. They help to forge the aesthetic identity of your ceremony.
Pop Quiz: which of the following stories would be appropriate to tell in a wedding speech? The one about the newlywed going on a Tinder date every day the first month they lived in New York. The one about the bride going on a transformative solo trip to Indonesia after a bad break up.
Weddings are relatively rare events. They (ideally) only happen once in a couple’s lifetime, and attendees can’t be expected to inherently know the ins and outs of a wedding ceremony
Purchasing a ring, whether for an engagement or a wedding, is a big step: an age-old symbol of commitment and union. But the commerce of it, the industry, brings with it a heap of considerations.
As you'll know if you paid attention in high school English, Shakespearean comedies all end in a wedding. Weddings, so full of hope and effusive emotion, seem to be the only logical conclusion to the farce and blunders of these comic heroes.
Perhaps you’ve seen the movie or that scene from Roots and are familiar with the tradition of a couple jumping over a broomstick at the end of a wedding ceremony, without fully understanding the history.
It’s tricky to find the balance: to plan a wedding that feels traditionally legitimate and steeped in ritual, drawing on all those romantic movies we grew up loving, without reinforcing the antiquated gender roles that informed them.
Interfaith marriages have been on the rise for decades. Recent data indicates that more than 30% of couples married in the last decade are of different faith backgrounds. That's nearly a 2x increase from the approximately 16% of couples in mixed faith marriages before 1972.
These days, you can really get married anywhere. Just ask the couple who said “I do,” on the ocean floor or the one who enjoyed the first zero-gravity wedding. One New Hampshire based couple, amid the pandemic slew of Zoom ceremonies, even decided to get hitched in the metaverse.
What makes a wedding ceremony meaningful? We’ve spent some time thinking about this question — reflecting on our own experiences, talking to accomplished officiants, and consulting experts on ritual design.
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