Religious Wedding Ceremonies vs. Non-Religious Wedding Ceremonies
Here’s a great question about wedding ceremony planning that we recently received:
I’m getting married this summer, and everything wrt wedding planning is going smoothly. I’m actually surprised how easy everything has been, since I didn’t know much about weddings before getting engaged. The only problem? My family and my fiance’s family practice very different religions [...]
Including Children In A Wedding Ceremony
As we’ve said in the past, TeamWED loves to receive and answer reader questions! This latest one comes from Moya, who is wondering how to include her husband-to-be’s children from a first marriage in their wedding ceremony.
I’m lucky enough to be marrying a wonderful man and inheriting a wonderful family on top of that! I’ll [...]
Applying For A Marriage License
Most of the details that surround planning a wedding are fun, fun, fun. Shopping for a wedding dress? Fun! Debating the merits of various wedding favors? Fun! Wedding cake tastings? OMG, fuuuun. There are, however, some wedding planning tasks that are less than fun, maybe even a little tedious. Standing in line at the county [...]
Happy New Year From All of Us at TeamWED!
Here’s wishing that you and yours have a beautiful and prosperous new year, and a lifetime of love and happiness with your new spouse!
Love,
All of us at TeamWED
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Adults-Only Weddings: Good Etiquette or Not?
The only thing TeamWED loves more than answering reader questions is champagne, and we get a lot more emails from brides-to-be than we do bottles of free champagne. With that in mind, here’s a query from a reader with a big soon-to-be family and an upcoming wedding:
Whenever I dreamed of my wedding as a kid, [...]
Pets In A Wedding? What Would Miss Manners Say?
A bride with a big place in her heart for her pooch sent in this letter asking about including pets in a wedding:
I really, really, really, reeeeaally want to include my dog in my wedding. I know, it’s kind of tacky and weird. But he was my best bud for a long time before I [...]
Bad Bridesmaids?
Here’s a recent letter TeamWED received from a bride who’s just about at the end of her rope.
Dear TeamWED: When I chose my bridesmaids, I thought I had it made. My sister is one crafty chick. My best friend is super organized. My other best friend loves to shop. And my cousin who I’ve known [...]
Bridesmaids Pay For…
We think that the best part about writing for TeamWed is answering reader mail! Brides and grooms and bridesmaids from just about everywhere write to us to have their wedding planning questions answered all the time nowadays, so you can imagine we have a bit of a blacklog of queries. We’re working on it, though, [...]
Wedding Day Emergency Kit
Even though you’ve planned for your wedding for months, accidents do happen. What you need is an wedding day emergency kit that contains the bare essentials such as health aids, attire, and grooming – to get you by should the unexpected occur.
Mother-In-Law Woes
We hear at TeamWED get a fair number of emails from brides-to-be looking for advice. While we admit that we much prefer helping brides find their wedding dresses and bridesmaids’ dresses, we recognize that brides with parental problems need help, too. And by far the most common question we receive in this realm is from [...]
Wedding Planning Advice from Expert Sally Lorensen Conant, Ph. D
Former museum curator Sally Lorensen Conant, Ph.D. of Orange Restoration Labs, and the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists, knows every bride wishes her wedding day could last forever. “We can’t make that happen,” says Sally, “but you can trust us to give your beautiful gown the care it deserves so it will last a lifetime [...]
Tipping Wedding Vendors
Other than the bride herself, it’s the wedding vendors that make a wedding truly beautiful and special. For those who wonder why wedding vendors tend to charge quite a bit for their services, we say just look at what brides and grooms receive in return! Do you expect that your wedding vendors will do a [...]
Paying For a Wedding — By Yourself
What is the one thing that diminishes the excitement of the engagement period more than anything else? Money, of course. Paying for a wedding is tough, especially these days when it’s no longer clear who pays for the wedding reception, the rehearsal dinner, the bridal gown, and everything else brides and grooms need to make [...]
Wedding Traditions
Use traditional colors or patterns in non-traditional ways, like using flowers or colored stones in your bridal headpiece or tiara. Use accents of jade if want to include some green, rose quartz to capture the look of cherry blossoms, or tanzanite stones to capture the look of African violets.
