Photo Credit: Meg Baisden Photography.
Tip of the Day: Select unscented candles for your guest tables, so you don't overpower the scent and taste of the food guests will be eating.
Plus, check out how to choose your wedding menu.
Photo Credit: Meg Baisden Photography.
Tip of the Day: Select unscented candles for your guest tables, so you don't overpower the scent and taste of the food guests will be eating.
Plus, check out how to choose your wedding menu.
Are you a fan of all things "Mad Men" inspired? Want to give your wedding a retro-rad look? Bring out your inner Joan, Peggy or Betty and consider a tea-length gown. To make the vintage look all the more complete, add short gloves and a stylish cage veil. Don't forget a red lip and some liquid eye-liner for a stylish cat eye. With these few elements, you are sure to create a retro-chic wedding look. See more vintage-inspired wedding ideas dresses.
To find these tea-length gowns, visit moonlightbridal.com, davidsbridal.com, and enzoani.com.
Tell us about your retro-inspired wedding plans!
—Naima DiFranco
Right before walking down the aisle, snag one last shot with your dad!
Bride-to-be Laura vowed to visit Tuscany one day with her husband after watching the film Under The Tuscan Sun.
Make your first look even more dramatic by having your groom wait behind a door for you!
Photo Credit: Cupcakes Couture.
Tip of the Day: Set up your dessert table so that it's accessible from all sides. That way, guests can snatch up their favorite treats without standing in a long, long line.
Plus, check out five wedding cake alternatives!
Hosts (and friends) Christy and Sharon incorporated this bold graphic design into the invitation, banners, garlands and menu signs.
Photo Credit: Unique Design Studios
To My Chief Daddy Officer,
As a child, I never looked at my relationship with my Dad as "different" — I just knew it as unique and special. When I was seven years old, my parents went through a tumultuous divorce, resulting in my mother deciding to leave and move to Boston. Most kids, by default, would follow their mothers. And though some may have had that same expectation for me, at the tender age of nine, I made a decision that one could say marked a pivotal point in both of our lives and paved the way for my relationship with my dad being what it is today.
I made a choice — I wanted to live with my dad full-time. As the CEO of his own pharmaceutical marketing company and now a single dad, he did not run away from the challenge. He ran towards it — he embraced it, cherished it, and gave me a life and parent that some never get to experience.
I am a direct reflection of everything he has taught me and raised me to be, and I'm proud of that fact. He has instilled values and life lessons in what would seem to be an obvious way, but what I've learned is not obvious to most. He showed me by example and then let me arrive at my own decisions (both good and bad). What I never grasped until later in life — he was always strategic, and by that I mean he was always laying down the wireframe for an opportunity to teach me a life lesson. I always felt like he was five paces ahead of me (which, when I was a teenager, wasn't always fun); however, it always was for my benefit.
This whimsical cake is the perfect fit for the couple’s low-key destination wedding on a beach!
Photo Credit: Solar Photographers
Tip of the Day: Classic calligraphy is back in style! Hire an expert calligrapher or take the DIY route to give your print items — invitations, place cards, table numbers, menu cards, and signs at your site — some extra flair.
Plus, check out some gorgeous new invitation styles.