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While planning a wedding is something that you may have dreamt about and looked forward to doing for most of your life, it can also be a very stressful and emotional process. As a bride, you will turn to your close friends and family members throughout the engagement to help cheer you along and make the journey extra special. However, sometimes those same loved ones can start to feel a little too comfortable, and say the one wrong thing that at the drop of a hat, changes everything.

Here at BG, we receive thousands of real wedding submissions every year. Our favorite pictures make it into our Photo of the Day spotlight, where we highlight the best wedding photos and ideas.

Guest blogger: Joanne Barken
Joanne Barken is the CEO of The Bach, the first online platform for planning bachelorette parties. Joanne, who lives in New York City — one of the country's top choices for a special night out with the girls — has helped plan over a dozen bachelorette parties before launching The Bach.

Nothing says “Fiesta Time” quite like Cinco de Mayo. So if you and the girls are looking to throw a true party for the bride-to-be, there’s no better theme. Here’s everything you need to pull off a fabulous event.

Send Out Fiesta-Inspired Invitations

Let your guests know the theme in advance so that they can plan accordingly. A fun invitation helps to get everyone excited for the event.

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Decorate With a Vibrant Color Scheme

Set the party mood with brightly colored flowers, balloons, and streamers. Think vibrant pinks, oranges and yellows for your decorating pallete.

Welcome to our latest installment of "Ask the Experts," where our contributor team of wedding planners solves readers' most pressing wedding-planning dilemmas! This week, Kristin Alexander from Esoteric Events and Tonia Adleta from Aribella Events decode wedding contract lingo. Do you have a question that you'd like to submit?

The world is absolutely smitten with wedding photography. We post, like, tag, retweet, and pin our favorite wedding photos, but we rarely stop to consider the style behind certain wedding photography ideas until it’s our turn to say “I do.” So, before you start that Pinterest board with all of your favorite wedding photo poses, take a moment to explore the many styles of wedding photography out there. When you think about wedding photography, themes like traditional, contemporary, and modern probably come to mind.

You know proposal season is in full swing when put-a-ring-on-it videos start to surface everywhere on social media! One of our recent favorites: Kevin Moran (aka Reddit user @kmoran18) asked his girlfriend Molly McGinnis to marry him in a photo booth. We could feel the groom's nervous anticipation in the first 10 seconds of the video.

Welcome to our latest installment of "Ask the Experts," where our contributor team of wedding planners solves readers' most pressing wedding-planning dilemmas! This week, Kristin Alexander from Esoteric Events and Claire Gordon from Claire Gordon Events weigh in on the sticky subject of plus-ones. Do you have a question that you'd like to submit?

Every couple wants their wedding to be special, meaningful and memorable; a celebration of love to share with family and friends that not only encompasses all of the joy they’re feeling but also tells their story in such a way that guests will always remember how unique the wedding was — and how much fun they had.

One of the biggest trends today is the rustic-chic wedding. Brides and grooms are having barn, farm, prairie, country, ranch and vineyard weddings where they can showcase myriad details in any number of inventive ways.