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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.

Essential guest list questions from @offbeatbride

Guest list primer: questions you must ask when making your guest list

Ultimately, nothing decides how large your guest list can be more than your venue. But within those physical boundaries, you’ll still have lots of questions to answer to form your guest list. Let’s get down to basics and see what questions you’ll want to ask yourselves to get to your final list.

10k wedding budget breakdown

Wedding budget breakdown of a $10k wedding

We got married on May 16th, 2015 in Orlando, Florida (depending on time of year and location is clearly part of one’s budget as well). I figured that I’d break down our budget and share with others who may be feeling that they can’t do an awesome wedding within their budget.

Scheduling a wedding around the holidays as seen on @offbeatbride

8 tips for scheduling a wedding around a holiday

Planning your Halloween wedding, Christmas wedding, New Year’s Eve wedding, Arbor Day wedding? That last one probably isn’t such a big deal, but the other biggies certainly can be. For one thing, you’re likely running into pre-made days off for more wedding frolic with your pals, but might also run into folks already on their own vacations. Here are some tips that we gathered for scheduling a wedding around a holiday.

Wedding brainstorming tips from @offbeatbride

How to plan your wedding using active wedding brainstorming

If you’ve ever worked in corporate America (or the equivalent in other countries), you’ve probably been involved in some fancy-pants organized brainstorming sessions. They’re all about goal-making and no answers are wrong and generally being really structured. I figured that since these sessions can end up pretty useful, that they could probably be applied to wedding planning. And you know what? they totally can. Let’s see how we’d do some high-level wedding planning brainstorming.