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Wedding Bathroom Baskets: Everything You Need (And an easy way to buy!)
Wedding Bathroom Baskets Wedding bathroom baskets, also called "hospitality baskets" can be a great addition to your wedding. A bathroom basket for wedding is filled with often-needed toiletries for guests to use while getting their celebration on at [...]
7 Steps to Build Your Own Processional
SPOILER ALERT: There is no one “right” or “wrong” way for you and your VIPs to enter for your ceremony. But building your own processional can be a confusing process if you’re tasked with creating it yourselves. If you’re getting married in a church [...]
Five Steps To Start Planning Your Wedding
OMG You’re engaged!!!!! Take a breath and let that set in... (This is exciting - remember to breathe!) Ok, now what? 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 [...]
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 sub [...]
Nine Common Wedding Planning Regrets
As a wedding planner, it’s my job (my super awesome job that I love) to be aware of the common regrets of our time, and make you aware of them. I don’t necessarily believe in “regrets”, but weddings are often once-in-a-lifetime events. The more we c [...]
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 ca [...]
Going Small: Elopements, Mini-monies, and Microweddings
So COVID-19 has really turned your wedding (and your life!) upside down. I am right there with you. We’ve all had to adjust and rethink so many things. Our brains are tired, and it’s ok to be upset about all that’s changing. When things get turned ov [...]
Thinking about having a friend officiate your wedding?
You make a LOT of decisions as a couple when you're planning your wedding. One of those decisions is WHO gets the honor of officiating your ceremony. If you're reading this and thinking:"We already know. We're asking a friend or family member to do i [...]
COVID-19: Should we send our wedding invitations or Save The Dates right now?
Let me start by saying how incredibly sorry I am. This incredibly joyous time of your life is being affected by COVID-19. Yes, it's undeniably true that "it could always be worse". But it does not take away from the fact that this is a very difficult [...]
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 [...]
Lessons of a Wedding Planner: 10 Key Things I Learned In The Last Decade
I recently (and quietly) celebrated my ten-year journey of being a wedding planner. *Cue the confetti canons* While I've probably learned roughly 1,502,439 lessons along the way, I thought it would be a good opportunity to pick out the ten KEY lesson [...]
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 wedding planni [...]
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. By definition, "microweddings" are intimate weddings with roughly two to 30-or-so guests in attendance. Microweddings ar [...]
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 h [...]
More of my Favorite Pennsylvania Wedding Venues
Back in 2015, I wrote a post about my Top Five Favorite Pennsylvania Wedding Venues from that year. Thanks to Pinterest, it's gotten quite a bit of traffic. Since it's now 2018, I thought it was time to put together another list of my favorite Pennsy [...]
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 [...]
