From Wedding Planner, Danielle Pasternak
Wedding planning tips, resources, and inspiration
What To Include On Your Wedding Website
It has become more and more common to have a wedding website. And honestly? Having a wedding website makes things SO much easier for everyone. You save your sanity by making one link that’s easy to share. And your guests get the answers to the questions they have about your wedding.
How to Determine and Track Your Wedding Budget
It doesn’t matter what your budget is. As long as it’s realistic to the expectations you have. But knowing where your “financial comfort zone” lies is critical. Whether you’re investing $5,000, $50,000 or $500,000 in your wedding – knowing your budget will help you in every step of your decision making process.
7 Steps to Build Your Own Processional
The processional is the official entrance of you, as the couple getting married, and any VIPs like bridesmaids, groomsmen, parents, etc. It’s often done with music and marks the official start of the wedding ceremony. Here are seven steps to building yours.
Five Steps To Start Planning Your Wedding
Once you’ve told everyone who matters, whether it’s just a phone call to Dad or posting the ultimate ring selfie… it’s time to take a deep breath and dip your toe into the planning waters.
That said, please don’t feel like you have to “jump in” right away. Everyone has their own pace of planning their wedding. Enjoy the excitement and new-ness of JUST being engaged.
Miss To Mrs Box: Bridal Subscription Box
As many of you know, I’m not just a wedding planner. I’m also a bride-to-be and happily engaged to my amazing fiance, Michael. While we are still figuring out what our own wedding will look like (post-Covid), a friend introduced me to this bridal subscription box and I knew I had to share.
Nine Common Wedding Planning Regrets
I don’t necessarily believe in “regrets”, but weddings are often once-in-a-lifetime events. The more we can learn from what others have learned – why not hear what they have to say!
Need to purchase alcohol for your wedding? Start here.
Planning the alcohol for your wedding may feel like a big deal. No one wants to run out of alcohol, but you also don’t want to spend a ton of extra money either. You want to respect the budget, but you also want to have a good time. Feel like you can’t have your wedding cake and eat it too? With a wedding alcohol calculator, you bet your gorgeous wedding you can!
Going Small: Elopements, Mini-monies, and Microweddings
Because of COVID-19, you’re considering an adjustment to your original plans. Maybe you’re downsizing your entire event, or you might be choosing to postpone the big celebration for another time. Either is fine and you have to choose what’s best for you.
Thinking about having a friend officiate your wedding?
If you’re planning to have a friend or family member officiate your wedding, let me introduce you to wedding celebrant, Alisa Tongg and her Wedding Ceremony Master Class.
When To Order Your Wedding Invitations (And Other Helpful Tips)
“When should we order our wedding invitations?” is a question I often hear being asked as couples go through the planning process. Truth be told, there are a few variables that will affect when YOU specifically should start the process. Hopefully, I can walk you through it and make things as easy as possible.
Can I Afford To Hire A Wedding Planner?
Having a wedding planner used to be looked at as something that was only for celebrities and luxury weddings. If you were spending six or seven figures on your wedding, then yes, of course, it made sense that you would be investing in your own personal wedding planner.
Microweddings – What They Are and Why I Love Them
Microweddings are one of the newer trends we’re seeing hit the wedding industry and I have to tell you, I am so excited for them. They are are the perfect hybrid between having a full-blown, traditional wedding and eloping, allowing you to keep things intimate but still include your most favorite humans on the planet.
Keeping a Healthy Wedding Mindset
Since January is a big month for self-care and setting new goals for ourselves, I wanted to take a moment to remind you, dear reader, that wedding planning can be HARD. (Wait, did you need that reminder?) Ok, I mean wedding planning can be a lot of hard work and it’s important to take care of yourself and keep a healthy wedding mindset as you go through the process.
More of my Favorite Pennsylvania Wedding Venues
These are my personal favorites and at the top of my list for many different reasons. I have to note that there are HUNDREDS of venues throughout the Eastern Pennsylvania region, but these are the ones that the DPNAK team has recently worked at and loved.
Burying the Bourbon: An Interesting Wedding Tradition, To Say The Least
A few months ago, we celebrated Amy and Joe’s Brookside Country Club wedding on a lovely spring day in the Lehigh Valley. Alison Conklin Photography was there to capture every amazing moment, including when our bride and groom “unburied” their bottle of bourbon.
“Why did they do this?” you might ask. Well, let me tell you.
How To: 5 Event Details That Will Make A Big Impact
As a wedding planner, I believe there are ways to incorporate details into your day that will make a big impact with your guests and add to the overall experience of your event. Some are small and inexpensive and others are a bit bigger, but all of these items can be done to some capacity on most wedding budgets.
Venue Coordinators vs. Wedding Coordinators: There IS a difference
There is a common misconception that if your wedding venue provides a venue coordinator, then you do not need to hire you own wedding coordinator. Well, in 95% of cases, I have to say that this is false. A venue coordinator is the NOT the same as a wedding coordinator.
What To Wear: The Morning Of Your Wedding
I’m willing to bet that you’re putting a LOT of thought into what you’re going to be wearing on your wedding day. But chances are, you might not have considered what you’re going to be wearing BEFORE jumping into that outfit. And while you’re more than welcome to wear whatever feels most “you” on your wedding day, I wanted to share two great options for you and your wedding party to look super-chic and function appropriately.
