TFYP 04 | Plan for a Planner
The single most important aspect of your wedding day is the fact that you and the love of your life are promising your hearts and lives to one another for the rest of time. You should be able to enjoy and remember a day so important! Hiring a wedding planner will allow for exactly this. Panache, one of our favorite event coordinators to work with, put it best on their blog last week: #5 You Deserve to Enjoy Your Wedding The most important thing to remember about your wedding? It’s just one day. If you’re busy making sure all the bridesmaids are dressed and your mother is keeping the flower girls from crying, you’ll miss the chance to live in the moment. With a wedding planner, you’ll be relaxing on your wedding day, not stressing out about the minor details that make a big difference. (To read the rest of their post, 5 Reasons You Need a Wedding Planner, click here!) We couldn’t have said it better. To find the perfect wedding planner, make sure you do your research just as you would with any other vendor for your day. Since you will be working alongside of them in every aspect (or at least trusting them the day-of), you want to make sure the person you hire not only comes well recommended, but has a personality that puts you at ease. What you feel with them for an initial consultation can be a tell for how you will feel the day of your wedding, since they will be the glue that holds it together (Do you have a peace inside when chatting about your wedding with them? Is your consultation meeting well organized and flowing easily? These are great aspects that will help you know when you have found the right coordinator for you). Not only does a coordinator keep you sane, but they keep all of your vendors sane, too. Throughout your wedding day, multiple questions will arise about information that was either not thought about ahead of time, or simply didn’t travel to the right person, and someone will need to answer. If there’s no coordinator, people will come to you. But you have multiple other tasks to get done (like getting pampered and drinking mimosas and making memories, hello!). A coordinator’s sole responsibility is to fill in the missing pieces and make sure things get done without anyone having an anxiety attack. If you’re a do-it-yourself-er and find the planning process of your wedding exciting, you’re amazing – and you’re one of the few. Keep going, babe, and opt out of the prep with a planner; but don’t forget to hire them for day-of coordination. This one addition to your wedding will be one of your most valuable investments, and will allow the day of your dreams to not only come to life, but flow like a fairy tale from start to finish. You’ll be able to breathe, you’ll be able to laugh with your best friends and family, and you’ll be able to relax in front of the camera knowing everything is going according to plan. XO, The...
read moreTFYP 03 | Don’t Forget The Groom
We’re going to make this one simple: don’t forget the groom. So often, a lot of dreaming, research, and conversation circulating a wedding is about a brides dress (and her flowers, and her hair, and her…). There is nothing wrong with this; the bride should be stunning! But in our opinion, a grooms appearance is just as important. Disclaimer: If you’re a bride-to-be reading this with a groom who you just don’t think is as important as you on your wedding day, let’s remember, he’s going to be in all of the photographs, too. And how he looks can make or break your images, no matter how fab you are (yeah, it just got real). Traditionally, a groom doesn’t have as much commotion surrounding his attire. It’s some cases, it’s an after thought. But it’s about time this changes (and thankfully, it’s already begun to!). Here are our 3 tips for getting a groom’s appearance picture perfect. 1. Put your own spin on things A suit not his thing? Cater the grooms outfit to his style. If he loves dressing up – go all out – and don’t be afraid to ditch the classic greys and blacks. Blue suits are currently a huge trend in men’s wedding wear. If he prefers comfy and casual, lose the jacket and vest. Often, a well designed button-up can be just as handsome as a full suit. Don’t forget to accessorize! A hat, a statement watch, some snazzy suspenders, and printed socks are just a few examples of how a groom can accessorize to help make his outfit go from typical to stand out. In the same way that the perfect pair of earrings can compliment a brides updo and dress, a stylish watch peeking out from the grooms jacket pulls everything together. 2. Tailor, tailor, tailor Let’s just talk about how a tailored suit vs. one straight from the rack can sometimes feel the same as life or death. Okay, we’re being way dramatic. But the difference can be astounding. Thanks to this article from Business Insider, we can take a quick glance at a perfect example of how tailoring is the game changer – below are 2 images pulled from the website, pre and post tailoring: 3. Bring in the big guns (err, combs) In our opinion, if there was a single thing most important to a grooms appearance? We pick GOOD HAIR (if he’s bald or opting for a hat, then we pick both tips 1 &2 above as the most important, wink*). Bringing in a barber to touch up the grooms (and groomsmen!) mop is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Not only does it get the men in tip top shape (and have them feeling confident), but it’s an extra fun photo-op, too! A bride’s hair is never an after thought – the groom’s shouldn’t be, either. We can’t wait to see all those stylish grooms this summer, happy planning! XO, The...
read moreTFYP 02 | Get Detail Crazy
If you’re planning a wedding, chances are you have peeked at Pinterest once or twice (ooorrr perhaps are currently living and breathing it). WHY IS PINTEREST SUCH EYE CANDY? It’s in the details, darling. If a tiny part of you (or everything inside of you) wants to create a celebration that could be passed around for Pinterest inspo, it’s time to get detail crazy. The perfectly intricate flowers – both tiny displays and waterfalls of greenery, the chalkboards, the cute banners, lights falling from trees, mouthwatering dessert tables of stacked high Oreo’s and doughnut walls displayed for kings, candles eve-ry-where, and on and on you see themes being pinned and re-pinned. If it’s all a bit overwhelming, or you need a place to start, we’re sharing our 3 best tips for planning pin-worthy details below. 1. Streamlined decor As a bride, when you think flowers for your wedding you think about your bouquet. A simple bouquet is completely beautiful and perfect in the right setting, but a cascading arrangement filled with greenery is even more eye-catching. Go a step further; when you adorn the entire reception venue with that same greenery you not only just took care of your table centerpieces, but you just tied in your bouquet with the reception decor causing for a streamlined theme that is sure to stand out in your photos afterwards. Have a bigger budget? Use your same arrangements to decorate the alter, your aisle, a getaway vehicle, or you could even follow Kimye’s lead and have an entire floral wall. Flowers are an easy way to streamline your decor, but if that’s not your jam, simply pick a theme (it can be as easy as “metallic” or as extravagant as “The Great Gatsby”) and incorporate bits of it into your entire day, start to finish, rather than just at your reception. 2. The little things matter Imagine a dessert table with cupcakes and doughnuts stacked into intricate towers on top of rustic wood slabs or vintage metallic tins or even on rose-gold colored glass. Alongside them, shot glasses filled perfectly to the rim in various milk options. Now instead, imagine two cardboard boxes laid open, the same cupcakes and doughnuts inside, some tipped over, the frosting and glazes rubbed up against the sides of the box. A jug of milk and coffee cups next to them. We’re not saying one of these is the right way and one is the wrong way (hey, if cardboard boxes are your style – by all means!). But one of these is definitely pin worthy, because it called for a bit more attention and just a tad more planning. The little things really do matter when looking at your photos, from the way the room looks that you choose to get ready in (clean & tidy vs. clothes & breakfast plates scattered about, a dark space vs. a room flooding with light), to the handwriting on your chalkboard signs (find a friend who has great penmanship!), all the way to how you set up your dessert table. 3. Plan for light The photos that are pinned the most on Pinterest usually have the very best lighting involved. A large reason for this is because the photographer knew what they were doing. A smaller reason – but...
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