WHEN: Even though most people have their rehearsal dinner the evening before their Philadelphia wedding, immediately following the ceremony run-through, you can have it whenever you want. WHO PAYS: Traditionally, the groom’s parents plan and pay for the rehearsal dinner. These days, however, many Philadelphia couples shell out for the shindig themselves or ask both [...]
1. Facebook Facebook is the original social network! Almost every wedding professional/ business has a Facebook page. Check out the pages of different vendors you might be interested in hiring, vendors usually give tons of advice or link to inspiration from around the Internet through their Facebook pages. You can check out their most recent work too, [...]
Always the start of amazing celebration, Philadelphia wedding florist Melissa Brannon understands the wedding industry better than virtually any expert out there. She was seven when she planned her first party. She made her first wedding cake at the age of 15. When she was 19, she went to the Culinary Institute of America. She [...]
I am on the hunt – the hunt for wedding shoes. And to be honest, I’m not having much luck. I love shoes. I love to go shopping for shoes. I love to drool over shoes while shopping. I love planning my outfits around my shoes. But for some reason, that perfect shoe eludes me. [...]
I have one of those little apps on my iPhone that provides me with a countdown until the wedding. I look at it every once in a while, but never really became focused on it. However, I looked at it today, and it said that I have less than 6 and a half months to [...]
I have to say – I’m feeling pretty good about this whole wedding planning ‘thing.’ Steve and I are about (little past) the four month mark, which I find hard to believe. Where did the past seven months go? I feel pretty comfortable in saying that we could get married this weekend if we wanted. [...]
I recently experienced a wedding planning dilemma that has left me quite speechless. I mean, its so far out of left field, that I couldn’t even imagine such a thing happening. Upon learning about this situation – I didn’t yell. I didn’t scream. I didn’t swear (a feat unto itself). My response was simply, “Huh. Didn’t [...]
As you can tell from my previous blog posts, I have been rather stressed out about wedding planning thus far. I wasn’t making decisions fast enough for my liking, and I was easily distracted by everyday life and work. I can’t tell you how many times I said to myself “OK, tonight is the night. [...]
There is one question that I am dying to ask the wedding gods. Just where in the world did the idea of a ‘cake topper’ come from? Who decided that when you get married, you needed to invite a miniature plastic bride and groom to sit upon the top most layer of your wedding cake? In [...]
I have the privilege of being friends with some of the most amazing women in the world. Some of have been in my life for thirty years; some only a fraction of that time. They are the ones that I raise a glass of wine with in celebration or lean on when things aren’t going [...]