Your Wedding Color – Don’t Overlook Five Luscious Shades of Purple

Purple Wedding Color – Purple continues to be a popular and beloved wedding color, just as it has been for several decades. The color purple includes a wide variety of shades from traditional “royal” purple to the purples that have blue or red undertones. Whichever shade of purple you choose as your wedding color, feel free to mix it with other purple shades. They look wonderful together such as seen in the bride’s wedding bouquet below. Even though there are many, many [...]

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Your Wedding Invitation and Your Wedding Colors, Part 3

A couple months’ ago I posted, The 10 All-Time Most Popular Wedding Colors and while I was writing the post, I wondered which of Exclusively Weddings’ wedding invitations would work best with the featured colors. And then that thought reminded me of a post I did last year, Your Wedding Invitation and your Wedding Colors, Part 2. So I decided to do a new post similar to last year’s, but this time I am featuring some of the colors from the “most popular [...]

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Impress Your Wedding Reception Guests … Serve the Meal in Shooters

Trying to figure out what sort of meal service you want at your wedding reception luncheon or dinner can be a challenge.  For example, do you want a sit-down dinner, a buffet, or hors d’oeuvres only? If want your guests to be impressed with your creativity, consider serving some or all of the food in shooters, especially if you are DIY-ing some or all of your reception meal. It really is easier than you might think! Some key points to [...]

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10 Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing Short Bridesmaid Dresses

There are so many decisions to make when planning your wedding and quite a few of them involve the bridesmaid dresses. You have decisions on the style, the color, the fabric, the price point and …. the length! In a previous post I covered the options for the look of your bridesmaids as a group, so they will create a cohesive appearance as they walk down the aisle, stand with you at the ceremony and appear in your wedding [...]

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Bridesmaid Dresses – Eight Awesome Options

Today’s bride has a lot of options when choosing dresses for her bridesmaids; not just for the dress itself, but for the overall look of her bridesmaids as a “group” . . . which is what this blog post is all about! Your bridesmaids will be front and center in your wedding processional, during your vows and in your wedding photos, so their bridesmaid dresses play an important role in the overall look of your wedding décor. It is worth taking [...]

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Colorful Wedding Invitations . . . With Cakes to Match

The wedding invitation you choose will help set the tone for your wedding, so finding the perfect invitation is obviously an important wedding-planning task. And when you find that very special invitation design/color that is just what you have been looking for, chances are that you will also love it interpreted on to your wedding cake. To help you see the possibilities of using your invitation design/color on your wedding cake, I’ve put together a dozen options in a variety [...]

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5 Easy Ways to Pamper Guests at Your Beach Wedding

I think it is fair to say that whenever we host a social event we want our guests to feel welcomed and comfortable. And I think that is especially true at a wedding and perhaps even more so at a beach wedding; because for a beach wedding, it can sometimes be a challenge to make guests comfortable. For example, it can be uncomfortably warm and the sun can be unbearably bright. And guests have to take their shoes off [...]

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