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How To Livestream Your Wedding Weekend

How To Livestream Your Wedding Weekend

Livestreaming was an incredible asset for couples getting married in 2020 with their most intimate circles but still wanted a way to share their wedding vows with far away loved ones. Today, live streaming can still be a great resource for your wedding or event if you have loved ones who are ill or not able to make your wedding but would still love to witness your ceremony. We’ve put together some helpful guidelines when considering how and or if you should live stream your ceremony.

5 Tips for Nailing Your Hair and Makeup Trial

5 Tips for Nailing Your Hair and Makeup Trial

Are you getting ready to have your hair and makeup trial (one of our fave parts of the engagement season of life… I mean, really, who doesn’t love a reason to get all dolled up!). We've put together some tips to help you make the most of your hair and makeup trial

4 Tips for an Epic Engagement Shoot

4 Tips for an Epic Engagement Shoot

One of our favorite things about securing your wedding photographer is also hiring them for your engagement photos. If you’re on the fence about taking engagement photos, we definitely recommend doing them! Here are a few tips to ensure your engagement shoot is epic!

Four Ways To Be Creative with Your Floral Budget

 Four Ways To Be Creative with Your Floral Budget

Florals are one of our favorite design elements. They add such a pleasing aesthetic to your eye and can also add the most sensuous aroma to event space. The textures that can be incorporated through your greenery and floral choices from focal to filler flowers are favorite features of your florals as well. Coupled with just the right rentals, your event space can be completely transformed into a space that is purely YOU and welcome your guests into an amazing experience.

2022 Top Ten First Dance Songs

2022 Top Ten First Dance Songs

Along with choosing your wedding colors, deciding details of your timeline, and what your wedding party will wear, you and your fiancé get to spend time deciding what songs will be played for the traditional elements of your event. One of those most important elements is your first dance!

One of our favorite ways to accomplish this decision making is by…

Don't Make These Mistakes When Getting Your Alterations Done

Don't Make These Mistakes When Getting Your Alterations Done

During the first meeting, you will be trying on your gown and the seamstress will be making notes on the gown, where to bring the dress in, hem it to, or how much to take out. Your seamstress will also make note of the best way to bustle your gown in the back. At your second appointment, you can expect to try on your altered gown. This will be a time for you to make sure it feels right. You want it to fit you like a glove, not too tight, just right. And you can make sure you like the look of all the alterations.


Five Things To Do After You Get Engaged

Five Things To Do After You Get Engaged

Perhaps you’re looking to just have a very intimate courthouse wedding or elopement. If that’s you, then this post isn’t quite for you. But if you’re looking to host a big celebration with your loved ones, you’re at the right spot. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s chat about what you should do now that you’re engaged.


How To Make A Wedding Guest List

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Here are some helpful tools to help you curate your guest list.

Who Gets to Invite Guests to My Wedding?

Know that whoever is contributing to the wedding financially should be able to invite some guests. So if you and your parents are paying for your wedding it is customary to split the guest count amongst yourselves. However, if you are paying for the wedding on your own it is up to you whether you would like to allow your family to invite guests and how many they are allowed to or simply invite family only to your wedding.

Who Should I Invite to My Wedding?

Typically a guest list is comprised these categories calling

  1. Your families

  2. Your friends 

  3. Your colleagues

Remember, this is your wedding and you do get to have the final say on who will be invited.

Should I Invite This Person to My Wedding?

I love this graphic breakfast traffic from brideandbreakfast.ph which will help you determine whether or not you should invite a person to your wedding. some basic things to help you consider whether you should invite a person or not are:

  • Do you consider them a friend,?

  • If they are friends do you feel they are really truly for you? Do they have their best your best interest in mind?

  • Are they family?

  • If so, are you close with them?

  • How much interaction have you had with them in the past years?

  • Will inviting this person make our wedding more fun?

  • Can you afford to invite this guest to your wedding?

  • Is there space for this person at my wedding?

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There are certainly times when parents feel more strongly about inviting a guest then you do and so long as there would not be any emotional harm to having a guest at your wedding that is okay.

Lastly, remember that every venue has a max guest capacity so it is important to keep your invited guest list to within the contracted guest capacity for your venue.  The general rule of thumb when inviting guests is that anywhere from 60 to 80% of the total guess count will attend your wedding. If you are wanting to have a smaller wedding but wanted to invite a lot of people to be kind, you should anticipate the majority of them will be able to attend.

What should you what details should you gather about your guests when curating your guest list?

When you are putting together your guest spreadsheet, you will want to have their full names. They're mailing address, email, and their phone number. If they live out of the country make sure you have the proper zip code, too. Putting together your guest list can be a hefty task and I highly recommend dedicating some #weddingwednesdays for crafting your guest list. I have put together a free wedding guest list spreadsheet for you. Simply click on the button below to access yours. if the thought of gathering all of your guests contact information is overwhelming to you, consider asking your family to help you with this task. specifically, if each of your parents will be inviting guests, simply share the spreadsheet with them and ask them to fill in their own guests contact information.

Should I have an A-list, B-list, C-list?

Your A list will be the guests that will be invited to your wedding no matter what. Most often a B list is comprised of the guess that you would like to invite but the venue doesn’t have capacity for them to attend.  You would move to the B list after your A list guests have started rsvp'ing and you are receiving some No’s. Your B-list would not receive a save-the-date but would receive an invitation in a timely manner so that they can have ample time to RSVP for your wedding. Most couples do not have a C list, but if you do, your C list would be invited after your be list what's gone through and you realized you have room to invite the people on your see list.

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Should I Postpone My Wedding Due to Covid-19?

As the shelter in place orders continue to be extended, we're getting a lot of our clients in a lot of couples in general asking if they should consider postponing their wedding. to be sure, this is an unprecedented time to be engaged and plan anything let alone plan your wedding.

We’ll keep this short and sweet. if moving forward with your original date is giving you too much anxiety and stress I would like she would encourage you to consider reaching out to your clients starting with your Venue and seeing what their postponement policy is. Also start asking your venue what's alternate dates they may have available later this year or in 2021. Wedding planning is already a very stressful time . COVID-19 is adding an extra layer of stress. No one will fault you for wanting to postpone your wedding for the safety of your guess guests and your own sanity. Your family,  your guests, and your vendors all love you and want you to have the wonderful events that you've been planning. We will be there to celebrate with you whenever your wedding can take place. Do know that some vendors are requiring a postponement fee. It would also be a kindness to consider paying a portion of your remaining balance at the original due date to help cover their overhead for this year. 

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To wrap it up, we love you and want you to stay safe and healthy as much as your loved ones and your guests.  That does include your mental and emotional health, too. 

Whether just to create a plan B (or plan C really), we encourage you to start exploring what postponement would look like to help ease the stress and anxiety layer that is here due to Covid-19. 

I’ve created a super helpful tool to help you keep track of your vendor communication and a tutorial on how to use it along with some other helpful tips.