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5 Essential Tips to Make Your Wedding Ceremony Unforgettable
Planning your wedding? Don’t miss these five essential tips for an unforgettable ceremony, including venue selection, personal vows, and unique traditions.
10 Top Tips for Planning a Grand Wedding: Stay Sane and Budget-Smart
Dreaming of a grand wedding that feels lifted from the pages of a fairy tale or the grandeur of a royal gala? Envisioning a day set in a castle with a grand staircase and a veil that trails for yards? You're not alone. As a celebrant for such spectacular weddings,...
Top 10 Essential Steps for New Brides: What to Do Immediately After Getting Engaged
Top 10 Tips for Post-Engagement: Savour the moment, plan your budget, select a venue, and more. Start your joyous journey to ‘I do’ with key wedding planning steps.
Wedding Ceremony Magic: Crafting Unforgettable Moments with 6 Enchanting Ideas
Dive into magical wedding ceremony moments with enchanting ideas. From personalized vows to creative rituals, discover unique ways to make your day unforgettable
Crafting Your Ideal Wedding Guest List: 10 Tips to Making Cuts Without Severing Relationships
Discover the perfect strategy for crafting your dream wedding guest list without causing unnecessary tension. Learn essential tips for prioritizing relationships, managing plus-ones, and navigating potential conflicts while maintaining the celebration’s essence of love and joy
Mastering Wedding Planning: 10 Top Tips for Maintaining Control and Harmony!
Mastering wedding planning isn't always easy! So, you're knee-deep in the throes of wedding planning, and guess what? Everyone suddenly seems to have an honorary degree in 'Wedding Planning', right? And they’re not shy to give you advice. Your yoga teacher is...
Weddings Unleashed: 10 Empowering Tips to Craft Your Dream Wedding
You’ve just got engaged, and now you’re very excited to be planning your dream wedding to the partner of your dreams. The choices are overwhelming, in all directions. Everyone you know wants a say in shaping that dream. What to do? Between family input, friends’...
7 Ways to Include Children at Wedding Ceremonies
How can I include children in my wedding ceremony? Whether it’s your first or subsequent marriage, you may have children, your own or other people’s, whom you wish to include in your wedding ceremony. This can be very charming and special. It can also be a cause of...
Seven Unique Wedding Ceremony Ideas
The two of you are special. There has never been any couple quite like you. Your story is unique, how you feel about each other is unique, what you want in your marriage is different from what anyone else wants. And you would like your wedding ceremony to be as...
Including Pets in Wedding Ceremonies
Do you have a beloved pet who you feel is a family member, almost like your first child? Over the years, I’ve often been asked to include pets in wedding ceremonies — usually as a ring-bearer. A recent couple had their dog as a bridesmaid, pink frilly dress and all!...
Should you change your name after the wedding?
Are you, your husband or your wife wondering if you’re going to change your name after the wedding? For generations, the norm has been for women to change their names to their husband’s. But in recent decades, women have kept their maiden names after marriage, and in...
Couple to Couple Tips
Couple to Couple Tips You are unique as a couple; your relationship is unique, and your ceremony is unique, especially if you’re having it custom-designed just for you. Yet there are some things that most weddings have in common. Here’s practical advice from those...