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Wedding Inspo

When you’re planning a wedding, really good wedding photography can almost be like looking at dirty pictures! This is our archive of posts focused more on wedding photography (and less on written explanations).

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Io’s gothy wedding

If your tastes tend toward the gothy, film noir, and slightly victorian, your head may explode from io’s southern gothic wedding photos. I’m especially pleased with her little wedding hat, the groom’s striking outfit, and the bat cake. (Thanks, Kat!)

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Crystal’s pom-poms and stick centerpieces

Are you looking this picture and thinking to yourself, “Self, I want to know more about those awesome colorful pom-poms and non-froofy centerpieces”?

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Unity cocktail

Adrianna and Christian got married recently, and I was scrolling through the pictures. First I noticed the groom’s cake (er, cupcakes?), but then I was really struck by their new tradition: the wedding cocktail.

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Serve your beverages in mismatched ugly mugs: Muglies!

This will look familiar to those of you who’ve read my book — one offbeat bride borrowed my Muglies idea for her recent wedding, complete with using the explanation copy I wrote to explain the concept to guests. Aww. 🙂

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Short wedding up-do

Despite being stressed out about my hair before my wedding, my short hair turned into a marvelous updo. It can be done! Here’s some hope for you all. I started my day off pretty early, going on errands and such, getting ready for my hair appointment at 11. this picture was taken at 11:25, with […]

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Collect years of sweet wishes from your guests with a Wish Tree

Yet another great concept for the “steal this idea!” vault, this one courtesy of Hope Meng, founder of Stich Lounge: Red envelopes are traditionally given by chinese people on days of celebration filled with money. instead, we asked that all guests at our wedding participate in our ceremony by writing their wishes for our marriage […]