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Your Guide to The Rehearsal Dinner Guest List

December 19, 2019 by aaadmin Leave a Comment

Rehearsal Dinner

Your wedding is finally here. You and your groom are done with the  planning, you found the dress of your dreams, and you are getting ready to walk down the aisle.

One of the last events before the wedding is the rehearsal dinner. This event is a great time to have toasts from people who would like to share sentiment, but are not speaking at the wedding.

If your favorite aunt, beloved grandmother, or kindergarten friend who wants to speak, the rehearsal dinner is the perfect time. The theme and style are up to you. It can be a formal sit-down dinner or more casual event. It depends on your venue, budget, and other wedding events that you have planned.

So, who are the people that get the invite to the rehearsal dinner? Here are the top picks.

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Ashley & Alexandria’s Real Bride: Lisa is Lovely in Lusan Mondangus

September 4, 2019 by aaadmin Leave a Comment

Lusan Mondangus

Ashley & Alexandria’s bride Lisa was fabulous on her wedding day. Lisa’s intimate ceremony was at the Guardian building and her reception was held at The Whitney in Detroit. Our bride was looking for a classic and timeless style when it came to her wedding dress and she found it with Lusan Mondangus.

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The Etiquette of Having Children at Your Wedding

September 12, 2018 by aaadmin Leave a Comment

Source: Martha Stewart Weddings

Children

For every bride and groom who coo over kids at weddings, there’s another couple that’s nervous kids might disrupt things. Neither group is wrong exactly—asking children to be a part of your celebration (as participants, attendees, or both)—can definitely impact the big day. That’s why, before you finalize your guest list, you should consider whether or not you want to invite them.

Kids make having a flower girl and ring bearer possible. Involving them also means taking the weight off of parents to find a caretaker for their little ones on the day-of. Plus, there may be important children in your life—like nieces and nephews—that you want to share the occasion with. On the other hand, toddlers are known for tantrums, teens may grouch around with their “too-cool” attitudes, or your friends and family members might prefer a break from their younger entourage. As you can see, there’s a lot to mull over!

No matter where you are on the love ’em to leave ’em spectrum, stating and executing your position requires a certain degree of decorum. Thankfully, both traditional etiquette and modern manners offer guidelines on how to stand by your intentions and avoid confusion and hurt feelings. Here, we highlight some of the most common questions we’ve received regarding young celebrants. To answer them, we’ve consulted our plentiful years of wedding experience, plus asked experts to share their advice, too. Aside from responding to Qs, we’ve also added other information that’s relevant to making and carrying out your decision.

Decide Early

Unlike decisions about menus or music, those related to children should be handled quickly to avoid awkward questions from parents who need to make plans.

Is It Appropriate Not to Invite Kids?

Yes—especially if the wedding is in the evening or is very formal. “It may be more of a challenge to restrict children during a daytime or casual wedding without people feeling offended,” says Joyce Scardina Becker, a San Francisco-based wedding designer and planner. The no-kids rule works best when the majority of the families are local, which means that parents can leave their children with familiar babysitters for the entire day or drop them off between the ceremony and reception, adds Karen Kaforey, a wedding planner in Nashville. If you’re hosting a destination wedding, it’s harder to not invite kids.

Address Your Envelopes Explicitly

Address your envelopes properly. Becker says the traditional way to indicate whether a child is invited is to include his or her name on the invitation. If your card will have both an outer and inner envelope, the child’s parents’ names should appear on the outer envelope, but on the inner, the name should be written beneath the parents’ names. (If you’re using just an outer envelope, of course, the child’s name should also be on it.) If the child is over age 18, he or she should receive a separate invitation, even if he or she’s still living at home. Becker feels that it’s “generally not in good taste to address an envelope to ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Family,'” since the wording can be vague. However, Kaforey says that the phrasing’s okay as long as you write the names of those invited on the inside envelope.

Call All Guests with Children

After your invitation is sent (or better yet, before), make a call to your friends and family who have children to explain that your wedding is or isn’t child-friendly. “If you’re willing to invite this person to your wedding, you should be willing to pick up the phone and have a conversation with him or her,” Becker says. This is an especially effective approach if you’re worried about a stubborn friend or flaky relative bringing children against your wishes. Becker adds: “And, if you’re arranging for childcare services, a telephone call is a great way to let the parents know that their children will be well taken care of at the wedding.”

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How to Decide How Many Guests Each Family Can Invite to the Wedding

August 15, 2018 by aaadmin Leave a Comment

Source: Martha Stewart Weddings

Guests

Of all the wedding-related fights you might have, the biggest is often over who’s invited. You want to invite your friends and family, your spouse wants to invite their own friends and family, and both set of parents might have people they want to invite, too. That’s why we spoke with Randi Barksdale of Jet Set Planning about splitting up the guest list amongst the key players. Here, she suggested a few ideas to make this part of wedding planning a little bit easier.

An Even Split

If everyone is contributing equally, or if you and your future husband or wife are footing the entire bill, everyone should be allowed to invite roughly the same number of guests—about a third of the total guest count each. Want more control over the guests? Then the couple should get about half of the guest list, and then the bride and groom’s families each get to invite a quarter of the total number. So, if you’re able to invite 200 guests, the bride and groom should choose 100 attendees, and their parents each get 50. [Read more…] about How to Decide How Many Guests Each Family Can Invite to the Wedding

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7 Unforeseen Wedding Expenses to Prepare For

July 25, 2018 by aaadmin Leave a Comment

Source: Martha Stewart Weddings

Wedding Expenses

Weddings are expensive, and most people are well aware of the costs related to planning a modern-day ceremony and reception. But until you’re the one who is actually getting married, you aren’t fully aware of all the teeny-tiny—as well as the substantial—expenses involved in the year, months, weeks, and days leading up to the big day. To make sure you’re in-the-know as you plan, we turned to top wedding planners to find out about the unforeseen wedding expenses that most couples don’t plan for.

Proposing to Your Wedding Party

It’s fairly common for the bride or groom to come up with a creative and endearing way to ask friends and family members to be part of the wedding party. “Special cards are given with cute poems, asking someone to be part of a bridal party,” Deb Erb, wedding and event planner at Simply Events Inc., says. “Unsuspecting friends receive a special package in the mail, and upon opening the box, find personalized gifts and confetti to ‘pop’ the question to be by the bride’s side on her special day.” As you can imagine, purchasing the items and décor, as well as the cost of sending them in the mail, can range anywhere from $100 to $1,000 or more.

Hair and Makeup Trials

Most brides plan to hire a professional for their wedding-day hair and makeup, but forget to consider adding in the expenses of hair and makeup trials. “Bridal party hair and makeup for the wedding day usually runs $50 to $75 for bridesmaids and $125 to $150 for the bride,” says Erb. While the bride is often the only one who does a trial, she may opt to book multiple appointments to try several different styles.

Food for the Bridal Party

Most brides never think about eating something on their wedding day (other than the menu for their well-planned reception). “It’s usually realized last minute, and the bride, her mom, or bridesmaids are trying to decide what food should be made available for both breakfast and lunch,” explains Erb. “Full course meals are not necessary, but you want your bridal party to get some protein and stay hydrated prior to the ceremony.” No one wants to see a domino effect of bridesmaids fainting at the altar.

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