Newlywed Tips: Celebrating Holidays with Your New Families
Hurray! Your wedding day came and now you’re married!! But you didn’t just marry your fiancé, you married into the family. That entails many things like family vacations, reunions, birthdays, family dinners, and the holidays! We are here to help you make the best memories with your new family when celebrating the holidays.
You should be talking with your spouse early and often about what you both want out of the holidays. This is significant so you can understand what’s important to each other. After you’ve talked with your spouse,
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How to Choose Your Wedding Color Palette
Congratulations, you’re getting married!! The first few weeks of engagement can feel like a rush of excitement but then comes the planning! Planning a wedding can feel like a lot to take on, especially when your wedding is only a few months away. We’ve put together a list of helpful tips in choosing your wedding color palette in hopes that it’ll help spark some inspiration. Because choosing your wedding colors isn’t just picking your favorite colors, it’s about understanding what you want for your wedding. The time of year, location, and atmosphere all play a big part in deciding what colors best suit your wedding day.
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Tips for Continuing to Date Your Spouse
Your wedding day finally came, your honeymoon was an adventure, and now you've settled into your daily life with your spouse. Hopefully, that still includes dating your partner but if it doesn't don't worry. Start now!
Let's be real, life gets busy juggling careers, bills, errands, friends, family, hobbies, etc. but making time to date your spouse will benefit you greatly. By dating your spouse you are creating a healthy space for love to grow and when love grows everything around you feels more doable because your foundation is strong. We've put together a few fun and easy ways for you to keep that spark alive.
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Three Types of Games to Play at Your Wedding Reception
Wedding receptions can feel like a whirlwind of activity for the bride and groom, but today I wanted to discuss fun games for your GUESTS to enjoy. These games are especially perfect for those “in-between” times while you are prepping for the next bride and groom moment. And a GREAT way to keep restless kids entertained and parents relaxed.
If you’ve been to a wedding recently (or searched Pinterest for wedding ideas), you will probably have seen an example of this activity idea.
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How to Choose a Wedding Cake Style
Brides-to-be…. Did anyone else know that there were SO MANY OPTIONS when it came to wedding cakes? The sky is the limit when it comes to your cake and as long as you have a great baker on your dream team of vendors, you have a perfect opportunity to add a bit of personality to your big day. As a major focal point on your big day, your wedding cake should represent you and your partner but it should also perfectly align with the overall theme that you’ve already determined.
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Practical Items Every Bride Should Have On Her Wedding Day
Your wedding day is a big deal.
Now I know this isn’t groundbreaking news, but the day you get married may very well be one of the biggest and busiest days of your life. Though you’ve prepped day and night for this event, even the most prepared brides can run into a sticky situation or two on their wedding day.
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Five Ways to Share the Wedding Planning Journey with Your In-laws
For the bride, the wedding planning process is likely a big fulfillment of all your hopes and dreams. For the groom, it’s a big balancing act of keeping everyone happy by making decisions on things for which you don’t have a big preference. One way I’ve found to keep everyone happy is simply by inclusion.
Brides, you don’t have to let your mother-in-law make decisions for you, but I bet she’d love to show up on the big day and not be totally surprised by everything.
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6 Brilliant Ways to Repurpose Wedding Decor
Choosing your wedding decor is the fun part of wedding planning because it’s the personalized detail that goes into the big day that makes it uniquely yours. You spend hours scouring Pinterest so that you can create the perfect touches and you might even DIY a lot of it yourself!
But after the cake has been eaten and you are happily hitched to your S.O, what in the heck are you going to do with all the decor that you spent SO MUCH MONEY ON?!
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What to Expect When Hiring a Wedding Cake Vendor
Hiring a wedding cake vendor is a BIG DEAL. Your wedding cake will be a focal point at your wedding and will definitely be on display for all your guests to see. If you’re anything like me, you won’t only want it to look good but you’ll want something that tastes good since it will likely be getting smashed in your face (or romantically fed to you) at some point on your wedding night.
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Three Entertaining Outdoor Wedding Reception Activity Ideas
With such breath-taking scenery and warm seasons in Utah, I can see why so many of the couples that I work with choose to host their wedding reception outdoors.
Not only do outdoor wedding receptions make for some jaw-droppingly gorgeous photos, but they also create the perfect venue for non-traditional activities for your guests.
So, today I would like to share three fun and Insta-worthy activity ideas to steal for your outdoor wedding reception.
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How to Decide Between Catering or Homemade Food for Your Wedding
Whether you’re having a backyard wedding or a formal seated arrangement in an event venue, one of the biggest decisions you’ll make for your wedding reception, wedding dinner, or any sort of wedding-related cocktail party is the type of food you will serve. There are endless possibilities when it comes to catering or providing sustenance yourselves, so today I wanted to quickly break down a few thoughts and things to consider to help you make your choice.
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Choosing the Perfect Wedding Exit Attire
Of all the decisions you make when planning your wedding, choosing what to wear when you’re leaving your reception might just be the most fun, least stressful decision. These pictures are some of my favorites to take because both bride and groom and just overflowing with joy and excitement to be past all the big festivities and ready for some time away, just the two of them.
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Four Tips to Prepare for the Unexpected on Your Wedding Day
This post has been something I’ve thought about a lot as the year goes on and all the COVID-19 craziness has effected so many weddings. I’ve seen brides alter their plans by postponing their wedding, eloping, and a lot of my local Utah brides have opted for civil ceremonies until they can get sealed for eternity in the LDS templates when they open back up.
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3 Unique Reception Favor Ideas
There are a lot of factors in play when it comes to choosing the right wedding favors for your wedding guests. A large part of where to start revolves around your budget. How much money do you have to spend on wedding favors? Once you have narrowed down your allotted budget, it is time to think about your theme and things that would complement the mood you are going for. Many couples choose things they love as favors or items that have meaning to them. Other couples want their guest to be able to take
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Five Favorite Timeless Wedding Hairstyles
One of the most stressful decisions I pick up on from a lot of my brides is the decision of how they should wear their hair on their wedding day! I know it seems like a silly, low-totem-pole consideration, but I completely understand, especially from my position as a wedding photographer. These are your WEDDING photos, the images you’ll look at for the rest of your life! It’s a big decision, even though it may seem silly.
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5 Reasons You Should Have a Wedding Registry
Whether or not you should create a wedding registry is a touchy subject. This is probably because creating one gets such mixed reviews. I hear from some couple that they enjoy picking out all their dream home accessories but there are also other couples who think it is the worst part of wedding planning. Here are five reasons why you should have a wedding registry. Get what you want. This reason is pretty self explanatory. Tell people exactly what you want, are you are more likely to actually get it!
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Engagement Outfit Inspiration for Each Season
The engagement session season is in full swing! Couples who are planning late summer or fall weddings who got engaged this past spring are ready for pictures! Spring is a beautiful time to take engagement pictures or even family photo sessions. Really, just any session outside is going to look beautiful in the spring. But, uncommon opinion alert: I actually believe that any season can be beautiful for outdoor photos. Why is that?
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How to Communicate with Your Fiancé During Wedding Planning
Anyone who has ever been in a relationship can tell you that communication is important. Without fundamental communication skills, every relationship gets that much harder. Luckily, by the time couples are engaged they have usually have an idea of what communication skills they share and where they need a little work. This brings us to how to communicating with your fiance during wedding planning. Know how you both communicate. As your relationship grows, knowing how you both communicate
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Budgeting + Saving for Newlyweds
Money talk is probably one of the hardest conversations to have with anybody, universally. Money and consumerism are such ingrained parts of our lives and even our personalities and things can get really personal, really quickly. Whether you’re talking to a friend or a family member, it’s important to have respect for one another’s viewpoints on money.
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When the Wedding is Over: 6 Ways to Enjoy Being Newlyweds
Ah, you’ve reached the point you’ve been waiting for: driving off into the sunset with your sweetheart after a long, family- and friends-filled day of wedding celebrations, and you’re so ready to begin your new life together! After the confetti has settled and the tan lines from your tropical honeymoon have faded, it’s time to focus on just enjoying this new life together.
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