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Top 10 Honeymoon Destinations Trending in 2024

Top 10 Honeymoon Destinations Trending in 2024

Are you planning your dream honeymoon? As you embark on this romantic journey with your significant other, choosing the perfect destination is essential for creating unforgettable memories. Whether you're seeking adventure, relaxation, or cultural immersion, we've...

Top 11 Wedding Flower Trends 2024

Top 11 Wedding Flower Trends 2024

Weddings have always been a canvas for personal expression and style, and the floral trends of 2024 beautifully illustrate this concept. These trends are a testament to how couples are increasingly seeking ways to make their wedding day not just a celebration, but...

12 Genius Tips for Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

12 Genius Tips for Writing Your Own Wedding Vows

The marriage vows you exchange during your wedding ceremony are words you'll both remember for the rest of your lives. So it's not surprising that so many couples are choosing to craft their wedding vows for their special day. The more personalized vows, the better....

Top 30 Wedding First Dance Songs for 2024

Top 30 Wedding First Dance Songs for 2024

The Ultimate Playlist for Your Special Day! Choosing the perfect first dance song for a wedding can be a daunting task for many couples. The song should reflect their love story, evoke emotions, and set the tone for the rest of the evening.

TOP 10 WEDDING TRENDS OF 2024

TOP 10 WEDDING TRENDS OF 2024

So, if you’re a bride-to-be planning to tie the knot this year, you’re in for a treat. Let’s explore the top wedding trends of 2024 together.

9 Awesome Advantages to Having a Winter Wedding

9 Awesome Advantages to Having a Winter Wedding

Warm up to the idea of a winter wedding. In our humble opinion, it's probably the most underrated wedding season. Sure there are inherent weather-related risks to consider, but there are also so many benefits—and workarounds!—that can all but alleviate those concerns....

Everything You Need to Know About Planning an Engagement Party

Everything You Need to Know About Planning an Engagement Party

An engagement party is a great way to share this exciting news and get family and friends together to commemorate your forthcoming union.

Ready to get the festivities going? Read on for everything you need to know about pulling off the perfect engagement party.

100+ New Wedding Songs For 2024 To Play At Your Reception

100+ New Wedding Songs For 2024 To Play At Your Reception

Your wedding guests will be of different generations: from grandparents to nephews and nieces to friends of your own age. That is why both wedding planning experts and modern couples agree that today’s weddings should feature a good mix of new wedding songs (40% of your playlist) as well as the classics (60% of your wedding party playlist).

The 16 Best Wedding Party Favors for Every Type of Festivity

The 16 Best Wedding Party Favors for Every Type of Festivity

While you're not required give out wedding favors on your big day, it's a sweet way to add a custom touch to the celebration. If your budget allows, and you do want to offer up a small gesture of thanks to the family and friends who traveled from near and far to...

Wedding Guest List Mistakes to Avoid, According to an Expert

Wedding Guest List Mistakes to Avoid, According to an Expert

It’s a delicate process, but it doesn’t have to be stressful. Compiling the guest list for your wedding day can be really fun—you, as a couple, get to think about all your friends and family who will gather to watch you become newlyweds! But this process can also be a delicate one…

Trend alert: wedding color palette in 2024 that will be all the rage!

Trend alert: wedding color palette in 2024 that will be all the rage!

Find out in this article what are the wedding colors will be in trend 2024 and leave everyone speechless with your combinations. If you’re getting married and you’re wondering what wedding colours will be in trend in 2024, then this article is for you, because we’ll...

The Hottest 10 Wedding Invitations Trends for 2024

The Hottest 10 Wedding Invitations Trends for 2024

Yes, it is time to start thinking about your wedding invitations since 2024 is right around the corner and a new round of wedding seasons is coming soon. Brides might have the most options of wedding invitations ever in history, with all the different papers,...

20 Ideas to Create a Champagne Wall for Your Wedding

20 Ideas to Create a Champagne Wall for Your Wedding

If there’s one celebratory drink that’s absolutely synonymous with weddings, it’s a flute of Champagne. A Champagne wall—or an installation decorated with flutes of Champagne for your friends and family to grab and enjoy—is a unique décor feature guaranteed to delight your guests, and it’s easy way to put the drink of the night on full display. They’re often used as a way to provide attendees with welcome drinks or as part of an escort card display that leads guests to their seats.

18 Convertible Wedding Dress

18 Convertible Wedding Dress

A convertible wedding dress is a versatile gown that can be transformed into multiple looks by adjusting its components, such as detachable sleeves, skirts, overlays, or straps. It offers brides the flexibility to create different styles within a single dress.

Wedding Trends To Watch in 2024!

Wedding Trends To Watch in 2024!

Audio Guestbooks Say goodbye to traditional guestbooks! Audio guestbooks are emerging as a unique trend, allowing guests to leave heartfelt messages and well wishes through voice recordings. This interactive and personal touch adds an extra layer of sentimentality to...

Wedding Seating Chart Ideas

Wedding Seating Chart Ideas

A seating chart can also add a memorable statement detail to your wedding décor. Your shared hobbies and interests—sports, sailing, and favorite cities—can all provide inspiration, and so can a color palette, mixed materials, or unique textures. See how real couples incorporated glass, copper, wood, fabric, and a variety of other elements into creative wedding seating chart ideas.

12 Tried and True Wedding Color Schemes, According to Wedding Planners

12 Tried and True Wedding Color Schemes, According to Wedding Planners

Experts say that these colors never go out of style. Photo by Shining Light Photography Choosing a color scheme for your wedding is no small task—not only does this planning element help to set the tone for the entire day, but it will also inform many other decoration...

Favorite Wedding Songs of All Time

Favorite Wedding Songs of All Time

To give you some inspiration while you’re making your musical selects for your big day, wedding planners shared, in their view, the best wedding song of all time. Check it now!

Romantic Ways to Propose At Home

Romantic Ways to Propose At Home

If you were planning a proposal outside of the house this Spring, your elaborate plans are probably foiled. So, in light of the present situation, get inspired by some of the most romantic and creative ways to propose at home.

The Top Wedding Cake Trends for 2020

The Top Wedding Cake Trends for 2020

Looking for the perfect wedding cake design for your 2020 wedding? We've rounded up the trendiest styles to give you some serious dessert inspiration. The most delicious part of any wedding has to be the cake. While you may have a few ideas about what you want yours...

Wedding Menu Ideas By Season

Wedding Menu Ideas By Season

Choosing a seasonal wedding menu gives you the opportunity to play with unique flavors and unexpected food and drink ideas. Read on for wedding menu ideas by season.

Fun Winter Foods You’ll Love

Fun Winter Foods You’ll Love

Here are some mouthwatering options to inspire you create a winter menu for your wedding, rehearsal dinner or bridal shower.

Where to Honeymoon If You Love Winter

Where to Honeymoon If You Love Winter

Your honeymoon is the first trip you’ll take as newlyweds and it should be just as memorable as your vows. Wintry destinations can be just as romantic, offering exclusive and unforgettable experiences. Here some tips for you!

Top 10 Best Romantic Songs for Proposal

Top 10 Best Romantic Songs for Proposal

If you’re ready to get down on one knee and ask your loved one to be with you forever, music can really help to set the mood. Here’s our pick of the best proposal songs that will guarantee you a ‘yes’ on the day.

Colorful Fall Wedding Centerpiece Ideas

Colorful Fall Wedding Centerpiece Ideas

When setting the table for a fall wedding, you have plenty of options in terms of colors and styles. Take these creative ideas and color palettes as your starting point, and then customize away for your style.

SOME WAYS TO BEAT PRE-WEDDING STRESS EVERY BRIDE SHOULD KNOW

SOME WAYS TO BEAT PRE-WEDDING STRESS EVERY BRIDE SHOULD KNOW

Most brides-to-be have the occasional flurry of tears while planning the biggest event of their lives, but if you’re feeling a little too frayed around the edges then follow some top tips to looking after your mental health.

Wedding Party Entrance Songs to Get the Party Started

Wedding Party Entrance Songs to Get the Party Started

Have your wedding party make a grand entrance with our list of 50 wedding party entrance songs. Although your wedding ceremony will be a big moment for you and your partner, the reception is what most of your guests are looking forward to. You can serve delicious food...

Real-Life Love Stories

Real-Life Love Stories

Happily married couples look back on how their relationships began. (See, warm, funny love stories don’t happen only in the movies.)

25 First Dance Songs

25 First Dance Songs

When it comes to wedding planning choosing a first dance song can be extremely frustrating - with som many songs out there it can become overwhelming. If you do not already have your song picked out here are, in particular order, the DJ Mark's 25 favorite dance songs:...

6 Tips for Hiring a Wedding DJ

6 Tips for Hiring a Wedding DJ

Your wedding entertainment is one way you can make sure your guests have a blast. It can also be another way of adding your own personal touch to the event. Your wedding is a party, after all! You want to make it a kick-ass party that your guests won’t soon forget....

WEDDING POEMS FOR MODERN COUPLES

WEDDING POEMS FOR MODERN COUPLES

The big day is here: months of planning, stressing, and spending money have reached their end in the form of one very high stakes, very magical day. After all of the energy and hype, the rushing and choosing and organizing, your next moment of stillness will likely...

Vintage Wedding Songs for Your Big Day

Vintage Wedding Songs for Your Big Day

As if planning a vintage wedding isn’t enough stress as it is, finding the perfect vintage wedding songs also poses a great challenges especially if you and your significant other are big music fans. But don’t fret, vintage brides. We have the best songs from days...

How To Write Wedding Vows Step By Step

How To Write Wedding Vows Step By Step

Wedding vows serve as an intimate moment during the ceremony where the couple expresses their love, promise and commitment to one another. We’ve probably all been to weddings where the couple promises to have and to hold from this day forward although, these days,...

10 Most Romantic Honeymoon Resorts in the U.S.

10 Most Romantic Honeymoon Resorts in the U.S.

These super romantic hotels can be found in the some of the best honeymoon destinations in the U.S. Weddings usually already cost an exorbitant amount, so, when considering where you want to go to celebrate yours, you might as well make sure you're getting your...

Top Tips for Choosing Your Wedding Cake

Top Tips for Choosing Your Wedding Cake

After your dress, venue and flowers, your choice of wedding cake is going to be a focal point, especially at the wedding reception, so it deserves more than just a fleeting thought; there are going to be lots of photographs of you posing with it, cutting it and...

Top Bridal Trends for 2020 Weddings

Top Bridal Trends for 2020 Weddings

These Are the Top Bridal Trends for 2020 Weddings From bold color to unique necklines, these are the looks to love for next year's nuptials. By Carrie Goldberg and Heather Hall Aug 26, 2019 Courtesy Last year's trends for the aisle were all inspired by the drama and...

7 Couples Who Met on Bumble Share Their App-to-IRL Love Stories

7 Couples Who Met on Bumble Share Their App-to-IRL Love Stories

It’s easy to see why dating apps have quickly become the preferred mode of meeting new people for a certain generation. Finding dates from your couch? Seriously, it’s the best. And yes, they do work. Just ask these seven couples, who each found the love of their lives...

The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners

Illustration by Victoria Borges Google the word “honeymoon,” and the top three questions people ask are: “Which country is best for a honeymoon?” “What is the best place to honeymoon?” and “How much should you spend on your honeymoon?” And while putting in some search...