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April Showers & May Flowers: Wedding Stationery For Your Spring Fling!
Spring is here! And it's time to relish in all those rainy days and fresh spring blooms BEFORE we suddenly find ourselves in the throes of swimsuit season (UGH). If you're a spring bride-to-be, you can probably depend on fickle spring weather - but rain on your wedding day is good luck - or so they say. Here are a few spring-tastic wedding invitations, shower invites, and save the dates that will suit your spring celebration, no matter what the weather! Of course, these...
Handmade Finds For a Festive Cinco de Mayo Wedding Celebration
I'm a huge proponent of holiday weddings - and I'm not talking about X-mas - I'm talking about your major party holidays - New Year's Eve, St. Patrick's Day, or perhaps, Cinco de Mayo? When your guests are already prepped to celebrate, your wedding celebration can only be EPIC. Am I right? If you think a Cinco de Mayo celebration might be right up your alley, I've found a few nifty wedding decor items that will definitely add a little spice to your big event! How delicious...
What To Do When Ruining Someone’s Wedding
I’ve heard about some bad wedding guest behavior in my day, but I still found this news item particularly shocking. (In short: I guess it started with a little inappropriate dancing with the groom, and ended with the same chick attacking the bride AND a few officers of the law). Which made me wonder - is there any way to redeem yourself after such an abominable display? Hopefully, your bad behavior was much less offensive than Ms. Brooke Burke’s - hopefully, you didn’t 100%...
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4 Fun (And Affordable) Wedding Cake Alternatives
If you haven't yet started pricing wedding cakes, SPOILER ALERT: they're expensive. REALLY expensive. Want fondant icing? Cha-ching! If you're scrambling to find ways to cut back on your wedding expenses, might we suggest some more humble, yet equally delicious wedding cake alternatives? These scrumptious solutions can be as simple, or as fancy as you want them to be! Source your baked goodies from the best bakery in town, or just hit up a Krispy Kreme drive-through. It's up to...
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You Are Now Exiting The Wedding Zone
Brides, when your wedding journey is complete, you may find yourself at a loss. For months or maybe even years, your world has been a haze of wedding planning, wedding blogs, wedding magazines, Pinterest, RSVPs, mason jars, DIY experimentation, and so on and so on. And now, that’s all over. Your wedding day has come and gone - hopefully it was AWESOME. Hopefully, your special day was overwhelmingly special - and better than you ever expected it to be. But now, sadly, the time has...
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Delightful Dahlias: Handmade Summer Flower Wedding Inspiration
Today we've put together a handmade tribute to some our favorite summer blooms: dahlias! If you've set your wedding date for July or August, you should definitely consider making your wedding bouquet dahlia-centric. But why stop there? We've found a basketful of gorgeous dahlia-themed stationery, hair accessories, and centerpiece ideas! Are you a fan of these hothouse hues? Will dahlias be making an appearance on your big day? Let us know which seasonal...
Bust Out The Bubbly: Champagne-Themed Wedding Invitations, Party Invites, & More!
Once you're engaged, you have an ongoing excuse to bust out the toasting flutes.There's your actual engagement, your toasting-heavy engagement party, any random weekend of happy coupledom, a mimosa-filled bridal shower, your boozy bachelorette party, your rockin' rehearsal dinner, and of course, the main event! Champagne waterfalls, anyone?! If you and your fiance are really prioritizing the wedding booze, what better way to let your guests know that this is going to an EPIC (yet...
5 Affordable LBD Options for Bridesmaids
Ladies, if you want your favorite ladies to love you long time, don't make them wear a $250 full length teal gown with a pink chiffon sash. Put them in something sexy and contemporary that they'll definitely wear again - like perhaps, a little black dress? Black is universally flattering on b-maids of any size - and a LBD won't be doomed to haunt the back of their closets for all eternity. Put your gals in the same dress, or let them mix and match! You can't go wrong with classic...
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Bridesmaids Dresses
When Should The Groom Get His First Look?
According to ye olde wedding tradition, the bride and groom shouldn't see each other on the wedding day until the actual wedding. While there is plenty to keep the couple in their separate corners on the morning of the wedding, many couples feel that this idea is a little dated. Truth be told, I had a delicious brunch with my hubs on the morning of our wedding. Looking back, it was a nice and relaxed way to start our big day - and it certainly hasn't jinxed us so far. Many...
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Splurge Vs. Save: The Ultimate Affordable Art Deco Wedding Jewelry Breakdown
Art Deco is one of our (and everyone else's) biggest wedding OBSESSIONS this season! But if you've looked into acquiring any antique bling for your wedding, you've probably noticed it isn't cheap. If you don't have a jewelry drawer of treasured, wedding-ready heirlooms, you're in luck! We've done a little legwork, and we found a bevy of beautiful vintage-inspired gems that quickly conjure up images of sultry 1930's and 1940's Deco babes. And the best news? It's all $100. Feast your...
3 Things To Consider Before You Start Dropping Hints About An Engagement Ring
Turtle Love Co Ladies, I have a burning question for you this week. When it comes to the ring you'll wear every day for the rest of your life, do you leave it all to chance, or do you just drag your man down to the jeweler's? I LOVE surprises, so I was ok with letting my hubs pick out my engagement ring all by himself. But if you have EXTREMELY specific tastes in bling, the idea of leaving your ring selection up to some hapless DUDE might scare you to death. If you feel you must...
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Rings
Splurge Vs. Save: Blingin’ Rhinestone Wedding Pumps
One of these things is not like the other...one is these things is a designer heel that retails for $1,350, and the other is a more budget-friendly alternative that's only $160. Can you guess which is which? Is the designer option studded with diamond pave? Sadly, no. We checked. Is the designer name worth the extra $1,190? Well...just how much did you love your BeDazzler as a youth?
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Shoes
For Brides Trotting Down The Aisle A Second Time
Now, lemme put one thing out there right away. I’ve only been married ONCE So take everything I say with that little grain of salt. But I’m of the age where I have friends who are under 40 - and on their second marriage - which btw, ain’t no thang. However, gals in this predicament seem to have very mixed feelings about getting married again - should they have a big wedding? Should they have a wedding at all? Well, there are a few different ways you can go about this. I think...
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Splurge Vs. Save: The Pippa Middleton Dress
I know, I know - the Royal Wedding was like a thousand years ago. Yet here we are, still talking about a certain infamous bridesmaid who enchanted an entire nation, just by showing us her backside...oye vey. Anyhoo, were you aware you can own Pippa's exact dress? Everyone's favorite slinky, cowl-neck gown is for sale on Net-A-Porter. for only $3475. Not an unheard of sum to pony up for a wedding gown (and because it is THE Pippa dress, I wouldn't bet on it going on clearance anytime...
The Wedding Toast Train Wreck
Weddings fill us with LOVE and affection for well, practically everybody, depending on how much you’ve been drinking. We get a few glasses of champagne in us, and we suddenly feel eloquent, inspired, and best/worst of all - we feel a profound need to TOAST to the happy couple, and also to LOVE, lovers everywhere, a prosperous new year for all (when it's already June), and while you're at it, best wishes to everyone, including your ex-boyfriend Randall, who you still haven’t...
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