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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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Playlists, requests, and backup plans: What to ask your wedding DJ

We’ve worked with lots of great DJs in our time, and finding the right one for you can be a really specific task. They’ve got to get you, your style, and be experienced enough to work on the fly when things aren’t going well. It’s not an easy job, but a great DJ can make your party with excellent tunes, good MCing, and not getting in the way of the festivities. Here are some questions we think you might want to ask your potential wedding DJs to see if they mesh with you.

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All the single ladies? Nah. Have a co-ed bouquet toss

I am crushing hard on Susan and Jana‘s take on a bouquet toss. They gathered aaaalll the single hotties to the floor, not just the ladies!

And, as if a coed bouquet toss wasn’t cool enough, Susan and Jana rigged up a nifty lil prize for the winner of the toss.

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Photographers don’t always keep your files: Why and how you should protect your wedding photos

Crap happens. Fires, floods, massive earthquakes that flatten Seattle (you all know what I’m talking about). Or maybe we’re just talking about an excited kid who rips a page, or a toddler who spills their milk. Prints can be damaged. And as much as we would like to think that we can always go back and buy another copy, not all photographers keep an archive. So here’s why and how to capture, display, and protect your wedding photos…

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What to do if wedding guests don’t RSVP? Copy ‘n’ paste this polite message!

So you’re down the wire with only a month left before your wedding date, and you still have a third of your guests who haven’t RSVPed? Here’s what to do, complete with a copy ‘n’ paste message for exactly what to say.