Category: Wedding
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Just a few generations ago it was unthinkable for a bride to walk down the aisle wearing anything but her mother’s wedding dress. While that tradition has become increasingly uncommon in today’s weddings, it’s not because brides are less sentimental than their predecessors. If anything, it’s just the opposite. Now, more than ever, both brides…
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Anyone planning a wedding knows a million details need to be sorted out before the big day. Registering for gifts is one of them. While it’s typically one of the more fun aspects of wedding planning, deciding what to include can be time-consuming. Generally, couples should begin about nine months out, ensuring that most everything…
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After months, sometimes years, of planning, the big day has almost arrived. With the “I do’s” merely hours away, what should couple do — and not do — the day before the wedding to help ensure that all goes as planned? For starters, prospective brides might want to cancel any spa appointments. “No massages within…
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Poor Marie Antoinette, not only did she end her life at the guillotine, but her lasting legacy is having uttered a phrase that most historians agree she didn’t actually say. Regardless, “Let them eat cake” has been a popular maxim for more than 200 years and for equally as long, if not longer, that’s exactly…
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Chapter nine of the Weddings 101 handbook states that all reception tables should be perfectly round, provide seating for eight guests, and have white tablecloths with identical floral centerpieces. End of discussion. Or is it? And is there even a Weddings 101handbook? Probably not, but that hasn’t stopped countless couples from abiding by those rules…
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Under a shower of rice and cheers from the crowd, the bride and groom duck into a waiting limo before being whisked off to the airport and jetting to some exotic destination with palm trees and umbrella drinks. It’s the kind of stuff that dreams are made of. However, as romantic as it all sounds,…
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From the exchanging of vows to the cutting of the cake, every wedding has its share of unforgettable moments. There’s the first kiss, first dance, and, of course, the very first time the bride and groom see one another on their wedding day. Traditionally, it’s a moment that has been largely reserved for the church…
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Let’s be honest. Stories that begin with “Once upon a time” and end with “happily ever after” are rarely more than fairy tales. And though most couples go into their wedding day hoping that their life together will turn out like one, chances are that it won’t. The truth is that marriage, much like anything…
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Do you take your daughter, the future bride, and promise to love her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health, as long as you both plan for this wedding? Yes? Great. Then, with the power vested by the engagement, you are now pronounced Mother of the Bride. Weddings are both exciting and stressful,…
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We’ve all the seen the disturbing photos. Like evidence from some sort of fashion crime scene, they are images of women wearing frozen grimaces, shellacked hair, and uncomfortable bouffant dresses in cotton candy pink, some even with matching lace umbrellas. For years, bridesmaids just had to grin and wear it, no matter what gown the…
Sarah Lemire 