Your Ceremony, Your Way

Your Ceremony, Your Way Supplement the standard order of events with creative touches that represent you as a couple. Make an Entrance A recent YouTube sensation may inspire couples to dance down the aisle, but there are other ways to make the processional your own....

Personalize your ceremony

Personalize Your Commitment Consider a ritual — it’s a powerful way to express your love, and the perfect complement to your vows. Unity Candle In this Judeo-Christian tradition, the bride and groom each use a lit candle to light a larger third candle that...

Rehearsal Bouquet

              Martha Stewart Weddings, 1999        A bride shouldn’t walk down the aisle at the rehearsal empty-handed. This bouquet, made out of ribbons from the bridal shower, is a much more practical accessory than the traditional hat fashioned from...

DIY Wedding Beauties

Photo booths are one of my favorite details at a wedding. They’re such a  simple concept, yet can show your personality and easily add to whatever element or themes you’re trying to project from your wedding. A  somewhat newer backdrop that I’ve seen and am rather...

Kissing Photo Booth

  There are endless ways to display affection. Have your guests demonstrate  their favorite smooching styles in a photo-slash-kissing booth. Provide a  Polaroid camera so that they can immediately slip their photos into an album —  and you get an instant...

Planning a long-distance wedding

Imagine taking your vows barefoot on the beach on Martha’s Vineyard. Or  dancing your first dance by moonlight beneath olive trees at a Tuscan villa. Or  exchanging your first official kiss as husband and wife in the town where you  grew up. For many engaged...