Weddings are complicated ventures whether you are booking the vendors yourself or working with a wedding planner. Expensive, too. And what if we told you that an extra $1,000 is needed for tips. That’s right, tips. It’s smart to budget a little something extra for the makeup artist that made the bride sparkle and the florist who got the groom’s …
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At the end of a winding dirt driveway in Black Forest, Deborah Ritchey unlocked the gate to her alpaca pen. A cluster of alpacas in their black, white and gray coats huddled in the middle of the corral. “That’s Summer,” Ritchey said pointing to a small white alpaca that seemed fluffier than the rest. Ritchey’s alpacas are one of the …
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At the end of a winding dirt driveway in Black Forest, Deborah Ritchey unlocked the gate to her alpaca pen. A cluster of alpacas in their black, white and gray coats huddled in the middle of the corral. “That’s Summer,” Ritchey said pointing to a small white alpaca that seemed fluffier than the rest. Ritchey’s alpacas are one of the …
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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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COVID has thrown quite the curveball at the wedding industry and Fairey coins 2022 as “the makeup year.” July is the month where inquiries and emails quadrupled for the venue as all the make-up weddings mixed with new weddings, Fairey said. A typical day for her is a juggling game of leading potential clients through venue tours, answering calls, replying to …
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