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13 things I wish I’d known on my wedding day

Well, the wedding was beautiful and fun and awesome by all accounts, but now I have the “shoulda-coulda-wouldas” and it’s getting me down. But please, LEARN from my mistakes! I offer you this advice as a bride who didn’t think of all of these things before the wedding…

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Fabulous fashion, a jaunt in the water, and one colorful ceremony space

Tribesmaid Inthecorridors created this intricate headpiece from silk millinery flowers and kanzashi on a silk band with a gold-painted Millennium Falcon, atop an ivory stretch lace veil. It’s a fashion bonanza this week in the reader submissions and we are all over it.

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Send your partner a drink before the wedding

Ariel already suggested sending your partner a salatious love note before the ceremony, but what about my old friend Sarah’s idea of sending your partner a stiff drink before the wedding? Sarah explains her genius idea…

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Sarah & Joe’s church wedding with 1,000 cranes

This sweet offbeat lite church wedding just screams down home charm. They may have battled the mid-summer Oklahoma heat, but their community efforts made it all worthwhile. With a scrapbook for a guest book, homemade bouquets, and lots of paper cranes made by lots of people, this is a DIY wedding you’ll love.