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Your engagement and wedding rings are a significant financial and emotional investment. Here's how to treat them with the respect they deserve. Insurance You insure your house, your car, and your life. Why wouldn't you also insure the thousands of dollars worth of jewelry that you
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Clients sometimes ask me about wedding insurance: what it is, how to get it, whether they need it. Much like all other insurance policies, you don't really need it, until you do. Many venues require couples to obtain wedding liability insurance, also known as special event coverage. But
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Have you ever been to a wedding and thought, "I would never do that at my wedding"? I have, and I'm always left wondering how on earth the couple could have made such a blunder. One of my roles as a wedding planner is to offer
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Apologies to William Shakespeare for that terrible pun in the title, but I couldn't resist. When the time comes to address your wedding invitations, you basically have three options: computer-generated, handwritten, or professional calligraphy. Your invitation sets the tone for your wedding. Only you can decide what you
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One of the topics I often find myself advising clients on is what to do with an unresponsive vendor. Sometimes it's the venue or the catering company—kind of a big deal! Here's the advice I give them. First, it is not at all unreasonable for
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One of the biggest dilemmas when planning a wedding reception is whether to go with a band or a DJ to provide the entertainment. Like everything else about your wedding, it's a personal choice. But there are considerations to take into account. Here's the advice I
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As a wedding professional, I'm asked a lot of pretty random questions. I'm sort of a human Google in that regard. In this Q&A Grab-bag, I'll share some recent questions and answers, updating it periodically as I get new questions. Q: Do
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I recently heard a story about a bridesmaid who traveled quite far to be part of a friend's wedding, only to have expensive hair and makeup appointments sprung on her and the rest of the bridal party at the last minute. Even worse—the hair stylist and makeup
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The hunt for The Dress can be a lot of things: fun, exhilarating, exciting, exhausting, frustrating. Many girls' first wedding dress experience comes when they try on their mother's gown as a child. They picture their own wedding day and fantasize about feeling and looking like a
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With the summer solstice just a few days away, it is officially Wedding Season. Despite my usual snarky, sarcastic demeanor, I love weddings! Okay, I admit that sometimes I also enjoy being snarky and sarcastic about weddings, but generally speaking, I love weddings. Having recently been a bride myself, I
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In this go-go age when people are glued to their phones while scarfing down something they grabbed from a local food truck, and when seemingly every new restaurant embraces the quasi-fast-food “order at the front and we’ll bring your food to you” business model, etiquette and table manners have
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You might be saying to yourself right now, "I didn't know there was a difference." If that's the case, you're not alone. The average person cannot tell you the difference between an escort card and a place card, but it's