Planning & Parties Blog
What your Wedding Planner Wants You to Know
Jenna Nelson | September 8, 2015Making the decision to hire a wedding planner or coordinator for your special day can be difficult. Your desire to save money and be self sufficient collides with your lack of time and expertise.
4 Bachelorette Themes You HAVE to Try
Jenna Nelson | August 25, 2015When I think of bachelorette parties, so many things come to mind. Not all of those things are 100 percent appropriate, so I will leave the details to your imagination.
How to Entertain Kids at Your Wedding
Kathy Jonas | August 24, 2015The idea of cherubic little girls running around a barn wedding with their curls and frilly dresses billowing behind them is so appealing it feels like a Hallmark card.
Planning a Perfectly Imperfect Wedding: 4 Lessons Learned
Lindahl Chase | August 6, 2015When I embarked on planning our wedding last year, I have to admit I was no stranger to the concept.
Top 10 Worst Bridal Fads
Kathy Jonas | July 31, 2015If you go to a lot of weddings, you know that it is only human nature to create a mental checklist of things you like and things you don’t.
What is Wedding Insurance and Do You Really Need It?
Jenna Nelson | July 27, 2015As your wedding day approaches, you have probably experienced much-deserved satisfaction crossing things off on your to-do checklist, dotting your i's, crossing your t's, writing checks, and securing all of your plans for the big day. You can plan your little heart out, but disasters can strike.
What to Know About Planning Your D.I.Y. Wedding
Kathy Jonas | July 24, 2015The do it yourself movement – from home repairs to sewing to gardening – started in earnest in the 1970s. It embodies the ideas of independence, creativity and the joy of using your own hands to make something.
2015 Wedding Trends
Kathy Jonas | July 13, 2015I was so excited about 2015, I decided to start looking online for wedding trends before the end of the year. But I didn’t find any. It took until the end of January before these inevitable lists started surfacing. Maybe it takes the experts a little while to decide what’s new and fresh!
The Unavoidable Question: Who Pays for the Wedding?
Jenna Nelson | July 7, 2015Thirty-thousand dollars. That's what the AVERAGE cost of weddings are today, according to The Knot. What can you buy with $30,000? Well, I'll tell you. That's a brand new car. A down payment on a house. Two years of college. Somewhere around 10 trips to Europe.
Our Goal: Simply Happy Weddings
Kathy Jonas | July 6, 2015No bride is ever going to say: “oh I wish I could find more information about weddings!” Google “weddings” and you get 36 million results. That’s right. 36 million.