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Advice

Wedding advice and etiquette can be a weird thing, especially when you’re talking about alternative and offbeat weddings. We pride ourselves on our compassionate focus on constructive, respectful communication and focus on conflict resolution.

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Gift “play-along-at-home kits” to family and friends who can’t make the wedding

Our Offbeat Intern, Liz, had an amazing idea that she made happen at her handmade well-armed wedding: a play-along-at-home kit! The concept is that you send out a care package of sorts to any family or friends who can’t make the wedding.

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Why I’m giving all my wedding guests +1s

Right now, we’re at the point where we’re addressing and sending out our Save the Dates. I was trying to figure out the best way to include “and Guest” on the envelope, so I searched around. You know what the answer I got everywhere was? “Ask your guest their partner’s name!” and “Guess what! You don’t HAVE to invite people to bring a guest you don’t know! Yay!” Not helpful.

Believe it or not, we decided way early on in our planning that we are totally excited for people to bring people we don’t yet know to our wedding.

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Recognizing when DIY projects aren’t worth it

I read an awesome article today from The Chronicle about a 22-Hour Piñata which I think we should all consider applying to our weddings. Sometimes it just is not worth an insane amount of work. Some projects do not deserve to be priorities. For some people, that means the whole damn wedding. Yes, you heard me.

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Serve snow cones at your reception

I can’t lie, I like snow cones. So when I saw Julia and Kory and Alysa and Ansell each had a Sno-Kone machine at their receptions, I knew it was a sign.