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The Ultimate Guide to Pull Off your Wedding when you Don’t Like to be the Center of Attention
If you’re an introvert and you’re nervous about how to enjoy your wedding without being too much of the center of attention, here are the things you can adjust about your wedding day to make it feel less overwhelming.
A Complete Guide to What to do after your Wedding Day in Chicago
While there are countless things to plan for your wedding day, here are the things that you need to plan for for when your wedding day is finished and over.
The Process and Planning Behind our Love Struck Artists Styled Shoot in Chicago
After planning a styled shoot or fake wedding, I wanted to run through the thought process on making a wedding fit your personality.
7 Fun Dessert Alternatives Instead of a Wedding Cake for your Chicago Wedding
Desserts can be tough to figure out if you’re not sure about having cake. If you’re looking for some alternatives to a wedding cake, here are some options that you will love.
Your Complete Guide to Planning your Mismatched Wedding Party Outfits
When planning for a mismatched color palette for your wedding party, there is a lot to consider. Here are the things to do to make sure it is smooth for you and them both.
7 Things you can do with your Wedding Dress after your Wedding
It can be hard to know what to do with your wedding dress AFTER the wedding is over. Here are the options for you.
How to Prepare for your Hair and Makeup Trial/Preview for your Wedding Day
You hair and makeup trial or preview is going to give a great idea for how you’ll look on your wedding day, but I recommend following these tips to prepare yourself as best as possible.
Your Complete Guide to a Wedding Grand Entrance, Grand Announcement, or Introductions for your Chicago Wedding Reception
Grand entrances, grand announcements, introductions… all things that you may not know how they go. Here is a complete breakdown of everything you need to know about them.
How to Choose your Wedding Colors for your Chicago Wedding
Choosing your wedding colors is one of the most prevalent parts of wedding planning. Read more to see how you can choose a wedding color for your wedding day.
The Ultimate Guide to Making your Wedding Website and What Should be Included
Making a wedding website can surely feel like a daunting task. Here are some of the things that you should add to your wedding website and the things that you can skip.
The Inside Scoop on Tipping your Wedding Vendors and Why it isn’t Factored into our Cost
Tipping your vendors can seem like a weird thing to do for your wedding day. Here are some of the things to know about tipping your vendors and why it is a standard practice, or what you can do instead.
What to do about an Uneven Wedding Party for your Wedding Day
Having a wedding party that isn’t equal on both sides may be thought of as an eyesore, but it isn’t as big of a problem as you think. Here are some things that you can do about having an uneven wedding party that will make it less noticeable.
All the Details your Wedding Party Members Should Know Before your Wedding
When having a group of your family and friends support you, it’s important to try and make things as easy as possible for them. Here are some of the things you should let your wedding party members know before the wedding day.
Top 3 Factors to Consider with Having Kids Attend your Wedding
One of the things you’ll have to consider while wedding planning is if you want children to be in attendance for your wedding day. Here are the top 3 things to think about if you’re thinking about having or not having kids at your wedding.
6 Ways to Prepare Yourself for Wedding Dress Shopping Appointments
Wedding dress shopping can be incredibly fun or incredibly daunting. Hopefully after reading this blog post, you will be prepared enough to have a lovely experience while wedding dress shopping.
The Best Way to Plan your Wedding Budget
Setting a wedding budget is one of the most stressful, difficult parts of wedding planning. If you follow these steps, you’ll likely have a more accurate wedding budget you don’t blow.
A Quick Guide to Wearing your Veil
A few things to consider in your mountain of details is when you want to put on and take off your wedding veil. Here is a guide on how to put it on, when people put it on, and when people take it off.
The 3 Main Ways to Seat your Guests at your Wedding
Making the guests’ seating arrangements can be such a hassle. Here is a breakdown of how you can make your seating arrangements with a seating chart, escort cards, or place cards and how that looks for your wedding.
5 Questions to Ask When Booking a Wedding Planner or Coordinator
Meeting your planner or coordinator may feel overwhelming because you don’t know what to ask them. Here are 5 good questions to ask when booking your planner or coordinator.
Planning for Rain on your Wedding Day
They always say that rain on your wedding day is lucky, but not many people actually plan for it. Here are some things to do when you may end up with a rainy wedding day.