One of the most important things to remember in wedding planning is the list of gifts to be purchased for your bridal party, parents, readers, shower hosts and hostesses, etc.  Traditional gifts such as cuff-links and money clips will always be appropriate tokens of appreciation.  I, however, am a firm believer in giving people something they will love, not something generic in …

The lovely lady who is designing our wedding invitations emailed me today to start the design process for the invitation suite.  The primary thing she needs to start is the wording, which I initially thought “no problem, I’ll just google ‘invitation wording’ and copy, paste” – boy was I wrong.  First of all, there are SO MANY options out there: …

We’re getting married in late August in a garden on a farm on the banks of a river in central Pennsylvania. Our ceremony is under a canopy of trees, and our reception is under a white tent with cocktails and mingling between the two on a poolside patio. Dinner is buffet style BBQ. And to get from one site to …

I plan weddings for a living and because of this, I have developed a very strong anti-traditional bride mentality.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there is anything wrong with carrying on tradition but it’s  just not for me.

Here is a list of things of Do’s and Don’ts I have for our Wedding.

Lets start with the Don’ts.

1.) I will …

First of all, hope everyone had a great holiday break and Happy 2009. I am very excited to be in 2009 and there is now only 5 months to go until our wedding day.

I have talked about the process of choosing our ceremony and reception venues but before I go into more details about decoration, diy projects or my dress, …

With all the hustle and bustle of a wedding, sometimes its hard to find time to figure out exactly what information goes on your paper products. When you work with a custom invitation designer like Zenadia Design, they can help take the stress off this area by giving you suggestions. I always refer my clients to Verse It. This is …

Today we are welcoming Sarah from the fabulous Monogram Chick blog to give us the skinny on monogramming your wedding!  Thanks for stopping by EAD today Sarah! 

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It was barely a week after my [now] husband slipped the ring on my finger that I was shopping for stationery. Specifically, monogrammed stationery with my new, married identity; because really, that …

Post has gone through several revisions based on an ongoing conversation between E and I.

We’ve had a few emails from readers requesting advice on gratuities and gifts for vendors. We though we would answer these as best we can.

We hope you have enjoyed our Etiquette 101 series.  You all had some great questions and hopefully we shed some light onto your most baffling issues. 

To revisit our guest list Q&A, click , , , or . For some amazing advice on gratuities, check out Liene’s guest posts and .  Your burning questions on alcohol are answered .  Flash photography …

Aylee commented with concerns over how to handle out of state/country family members.

I don’t have a lot of relatives here in the US, but I can’t invite all of them due to budget constraints.  I decided to invite only those that are very close to me. However, a lot of them (that I don’t plan to invite) have invited themselves. …

We received the following email from reader Jessica:

Could you please address the issue of tipping…specifically, who to tip and how much? I’m having my reception at a restaurant, and in the contract, the quoted price includes gratuity. Should I still hand out cash to each of the servers and bartenders at the end of the night…that seems awkward, but I …

One of our fellow bloggers, Chitown Bride, wrote to ask about thank you card etiquette. She asks,

How long do you have to write your thank you cards after the wedding? My mother told me six weeks after the wedding, so I followed that rule. But it is funny, I have heard so many variations – six weeks after the …