After I solidified my wedding vision, I began searching for the decor I needed. Shepherd’s hooks were first up. These bad boys are not cheap. 36″ hooks would be the best bet for us, and the cheapest I found them was around $7-8 plus shipping. We needed twenty; our decor budget skyrocketed without buying any real…
Early on in my wedding magazine reading, I noticed that weddings these days need to have a theme or unifying vision. Personally, I think that marriage is a good wedding theme. Working off of my desire to have a Hokie-colored wedding and a June wedding date, I headed over to every bride’s (or wannabe bride’s)…
Congratulations! You’re engaged, and you’re on the hunt for tips to create your perfect wedding registry. You’ll come across loads of articles on the must haves and must avoids, so I wanted to share the steps we used to actually put together our wedding registry. We moved in together in 2010 and became engaged about…
Or, why we decided to do our own flowers. Once upon a time, I realized just how much I utterly adore roses. Red, yellow, pink, orange. Bring them to me! I must have roses at my wedding (this may have influenced our June wedding date). But roses are expensive. Given the cost, I decided that, at…
And we’re going to get married. Yes, you read that correctly. Mac and I are not having a church wedding ceremony. Why? It’s a bit of a religious firecracker. Mac was raised rather without an organized faith. His father is Jewish, his mother is Catholic, and neither is particularly observant. Mac describes himself as a…