Photo Credits: Jonathan Steingard Congrats! You’re engaged and you’re planning out a Destination Wedding! Choosing a location is by far one of the most exhilarating decisions when planning a wedding abroad. And it’s true, you can actually choose some spectacular locations and depending on budget and timing, the sky’s the limit. And of course – […]
We’re in the trenches of wedding season now and most couples are planning and designing their last minute items. Seating charts, favors, place cards and a nicely decorated box to hold cards generously given by guests. There is a movement towards making these boxes no ordinary boxes- couples know that cards not attached to a […]
Photo Credit: Hanafoto Summer has officially kicked off and with it- all of the wonderful weddings we will all be planning, attending or being a part of over the next few months. Dresses have been bought (but if you don’t have one yet- check out all the listings for a budget friendly frock here, including […]
Photo Credit: Hanafoto Brides maid, (noun) Merriam-Webster definition: “A female friend or relative who helps a bride at her wedding.” Any bride or woman who has been a bridesmaid would agree that this is a very basic definition. Bridesmaids do not merely help – they catch the bride when she falls, throw fabulous parties for […]
It’s almost April and for some of you, Spring has sprung and we are all looking forward to sunny days ahead! Wedding season will be here in no time and so many of you are looking forward to saying “I Do!” outdoors with your family and friends. You may have dotted most of your I’s […]
I’m so excited to be a part of [Wedding Recycle’s](https://www.wedding-recycle.com/) team of blog contributors and just based on my first look of all the items listed- it’s going to be hard to pick just a few to write about! As a wedding planner, I know that keeping prices down in any way possible is of […]
Photo Credit: [Morgan Hill Designs](https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/195399846/reserved-listing-for-rosa-marron?ref=market) My husband and I had been together for four years prior to us getting married. We had everything we needed in our home. My maid of honor had suggested we ask our guests to participate in our wishing well. (Only if they wanted to.) Personally, I had trouble asking our […]
Like most people seem to be doing these days, my husband and I decided on a [destination](https://www.wedding-recycle.com/blog/category/destination-maven/) wedding. We knew before anything was ever “finalized” that we would get married in Vegas. We have now been married for 2 years and looking back on it, I wouldn’t have done it any other way. I didn’t […]
Your wedding day is one of the happiest days of your life, right next to ranking number one in your fantasy football league and discovering the chick that turned you down in high school is really ugly now. Beauty is skin deep, but satisfaction is to the bone. You may or may not have time […]
When I told my parents I was going to get married, the initial reaction wasn’t as I’d hoped. At the time, my dad was on the verge of ending his second marriage and a nasty divorce did ensue shortly thereafter. And my mom, well, she just didn’t want me to get married, period. Despite my […]
Almost every bride I’ve had the pleasure to deal with over the past six years as a wedding photographer has mentioned during our first meeting or email correspondence that they are just looking for everything on their wedding day to be fun. For the most part having fun, being surrounded by friends and family on […]
after being in the photography industry for 2.5 years, i have quickly learned that for me, it is much more than taking photos. i needed a purpose beyond capturing and preserving moments. after a long while of asking myself WHY i was doing this, i realized that i do this job because i believe in […]
It has taken me years to find something I was really good at. It wasn’t until my husband and I got married and received my wedding pictures that I found my true calling… Wedding Photography. We had actually taken a short honeymoon in Banff a few days after we got married. We had the BEST […]
Prior to getting married, I had an extremely hard time picking my 2 MAJOR dances – father/daughter and my first dance with my husband. *FIRST DANCE*: I felt my first dance song must describe our relationship, I didn’t want to “settle” for anything less! I spent countless hours trying to find the perfect song. I […]
When we shoot weddings we use a combination of photojournalism and posed photography. Our goal as wedding photographers is to make the photographs look as natural as possible, only giving very little direction to the bride and groom. For example: “When I shoot the Engagement photos or the Bride and Groom formal shots, I ask […]
Did you know that marriage is work? I mean, like a constant, 24 hour, 7 day a week job. Apparently, all the time courting and dating was just a very long, extended interview. You didn’t know? Me neither! Well, it looks like I got the job. And so far, it looks like this job is […]
When my wife and I were just dating, Valentine’s Day became an annual event that we both looked forward to. And now that we are married, we have an unspoken agreement that we would continue with the tradition of celebrating this holiday as we had when we were dating. For us, it is a fun […]
So one night, after a long day of work, my wife and I decided to call it an early night and get some rest. Just the thought of getting a solid 8 hours of sleep was a treat alone, so we quickly turned off TVs, lights, and set alarms. We gave our kisses good night […]
After our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic, we returned home…back to reality. And I asked myself “What happens now?” Of course, there are thank you cards that need to be written, phones calls that need to be made, and sand that has to be washed out of our clothes. But what about us? Are we […]
It’s over!! It’s finally over!!! Months and months of planning, hours of preparations, last minute adjustments, coordination of a gang of people, and it’s over! We’re married! But not everything was all fairy tales and rainbows. The thing about weddings that brides and grooms have to accept is that something will not go as planned. […]
I have endured weekends of planning, hours of bridal shows, countless emails and phone calls to and from vendors, and it has all paid off! I got an unsupervised bachelor party and guess where I went??? Yep, Vegas!!! This was a much needed and deserved trip. I have to say that if you are going […]
Thinking that I had a Saturday afternoon to relax and step away from all things wedding related, I turned on the TV and positioned myself right in front of it on the sofa. I couldn’t think of a better way to start a lazy day. And right when I was getting comfortable, the soon-to-be comes […]
Over the weekend, the soon to be and I attended a baby shower. From what I gathered, once a ring is put on her finger, you become an obligatory plus one to all events that her friends have. At this particular event, all of the ladies gathered around the presents and cooed at every little […]
One beautiful Saturday morning, my soon-to-be invited me to go look at invitations with her. I thought to myself “How hard can this be? It’s just an invitation.” And besides, it would earn me a few brownie points. Little did I know that this experience would be life changing, even mind altering. So we make […]
There’s an old adage that pertains to the thought process of a woman in a relationship. It goes a little something like this: “What is mine is mine, what is yours is mine”. I thought it was just a funny saying, nothing to be taken serious. How naïve of me! I decided to share with […]
