Four Ways to Treat your Bridesmaids

In the weeks leading up to your wedding, your bridesmaids will be your main support system. They’ll help you make favors, dress shop, and more, often dealing with your bridezilla-prone stressful moods. Why not do something nice for the ladies who are helping you plan the most important day of your life? Here are four [...]

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Bringing your Bridesmaids Together: How to Deal with Conflicting Personalities

When you choose your bridesmaids, you might be worried about choosing friends who have conflicting personalities. This is your big day, though – you should be able to choose the girls you love most! Here are five tips for dealing with bridesmaids who don’t get along: 1. Plan one-on-one time. Instead of planning tons of [...]

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Maid of Honor Duties

Everyone in your wedding party is important, but perhaps the most important person is your maid of honor. Picking a great maid of honor is important because you’ll be giving her the bulk of responsibilities. In other words, if your best friend is a bit flaky, you might want to choose your sister instead! Of [...]

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Outdoor Weddings

An outdoor wedding can be amazingly beautiful, and the options for dressing it up or dressing it down are amazing.  From lanterns all over to ribbons in the trees, you can really dress up the space, and you can even save money by using the naturally flowering plants instead of buying flowers for decorating your [...]

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Dressing pregnant bridesmaids

During the time in your life when you and many of your friends are getting married, a lot may also be considering having that first or second baby. Friends starting new families means that brides everywhere who weren’t among the first to reach the alter have to dress pregnant bridesmaids. Over at Wedding Tactics, Stacy talks about [...]

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It’s your wedding, so cry if you want to

Whether you are a stone-cold fox or a touchy-feely sobber, crying at your wedding is a possibility for anybody. After all, it is supposed to be the happiest day of your life! Being the bride means being the center of attention, so you want your tears to be sweet and glistening, not smudgy and messy. Therefore, [...]

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Trends in bridal hairstyles

In this video from the National Wedding Show, Kim from bridalwave.tv talks to bridal hair specialist Karine Jackson about the latest trends in wedding hairstyles. (This image is a fuzzy screenshot taken from the video and is the hairstyle that Karine is working on during the interview.) In addition to the classic up-do’s, brides are [...]

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Bride-to-be manners from A to Z

Wedding planning is stressful, and sometimes you just have to scream. However, it is important to keep in mind that you shouldn’t scream at the people around you! Although getting ready for your big day is tough, if you keep your cool and use your manners, people will be nicer to you in return. Pleasant [...]

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Unique bridesmaids gifts

Instead of a piece of jewelry or a goodie bag of beauty products, give each of your bridesmaids a more unique gift geared toward her hobbies and interests. Here are three great ideas for bridesmaids gifts. For the Partier Buy her a drink. Use a service such as SendLiquor.com to give her a Wine of the [...]

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Does size matter in picking a wedding party?

The people who are standing to your left on your wedding day are almost as important as the person who is standing to your right. Friends and family all want a part in your special day, but you need to ask yourself: does size matter in picking a wedding party? Yes, it really does. For many [...]

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