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Wedding planning on a budget as prices rise

Wedding planning on a budget as prices rise

PHOENIX — It’s the time of year when people are starting their wedding planning, but the demand is higher than ever for clothing, vendors, and venues. That’s because so many people have been postponing their big day because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to The Knot, a wedding website and magazine, there will be 2.6 million weddings this year, compared …

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Wedding Planner Answers Questions Couples Are Too Scared to Ask

Wedding Planner Answers Questions Couples Are Too Scared to Ask

As a wedding planner, I’m used to answering questions people are too embarrassed to ask. There are polite ways to say that you don’t want kids or unvaccinated guests at your nuptials. You don’t have to serve a meal or register, but this should be clearly communicated to guests. Loading Something is loading. Wedding planning can take a lot of …

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I’m Wedding Planning With a Disability

I’m Wedding Planning With a Disability

Brides is committed to guiding ALL couples through not only their wedding planning journey, but through relationship milestones and ups and downs. Every love story is beautiful, has its own distinct history, and its own trials—there’s no relationship that looks the same. To celebrate that uniqueness, we’re asking couples to open up about their love story, for our latest column, …

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Wedding Planner Reveals Top Tips for Brides

Wedding Planner Reveals Top Tips for Brides

If you’ve ever planned a wedding, you’ll know that it can be quite an undertaking. With the average engagement period being about 15 months in the U.S, there is a lot to think about during that time––from guest lists to the menu to outfits and decorations. Elyse and Betsy are the sister team behind The Wedding Planning Guide, a Chicago-based …

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Montoto Productions Named Winner of The Knot Best of Weddings 2022

Montoto Productions Named Winner of The Knot Best of Weddings 2022

16th Annual Best of Weddings Awards Honor the Top Wedding Vendors Across America NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MONTOTO PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce that they have been selected as a 2022 ­­winner of The Knot Best of Weddings, an accolade representing the highest- and most-rated wedding professionals as reviewed by real couples, their families and wedding guests …

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A Tradition-Infused Botanical Wedding at an Urban Farm in Chicago

A Tradition-Infused Botanical Wedding at an Urban Farm in Chicago

When event planner and stylist DeYandré Thaxton first asked Vishal Reniguntala out on OkCupid in 2017, he said no—but she took it as a good sign. “We’d bonded over a shared love for basketball. I invited him to Ice Cube’s BIG3 Tournament but he was helping his older sister move that weekend,” she remembers. “It was already a good sign …

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2022 Wedding Boom Creates a Shortage of Vendors

2022 Wedding Boom Creates a Shortage of Vendors

Read more about the 2022 wedding boom in our ongoing Year of the Wedding series. Shelby Henry, 25, thought she would have no problem compiling the perfect team for her wedding on April 9. After all, weddings are her business: Ms. Henry is the founder, lead photographer and videographer of Amavi, a wedding studio in West Palm Beach, Fla., and …

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Couples Seek Gender-Neutral Ways to Define Their Unions

Couples Seek Gender-Neutral Ways to Define Their Unions

Read more about the 2022 wedding boom in our ongoing Year of the Wedding series. When Gail Terman and Micaela Godfrey began planning their February 2020 wedding, Ms. Terman, a 33-year-old software engineer at Broadcom, knew she would call herself a bride. But for Mx. Godfrey, who is nonbinary and uses the pronouns “ze” and “zir,” the term “bride” carried …

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