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overcoming adversity

Wedding planning isn’t all wine and roses. Sometimes you’re dealing with the loss of a loved one or a job, illness, or even a terminal diagnosis. This is our archive of posts about working with wedding planning hardships that go above and beyond the usual concerns.

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Winter Storm Jonas couldn’t stop this glam Harry Potter wedding

“If you’d asked me a week beforehand, I would have said that my biggest challenge was probably trying to commit to the seating chart or something. But that was before Winter Storm Jonas blew in and changed my whole perspective. Getting hit with multiple feet of snow on your wedding day really forces a gal to adapt, y’know?” This glam Harry Potter wedding prevailed despite the heaping snow with guests literally walking for miles to get there!

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Trees and fishies: some of our favorite wedding memorials from offbeat weddings

A lot of weddings feature amazing ways to honor those loved ones who have left us. We have a whole archive dedicated to it. Let’s recap a few of our favorite (and some new) ways to memorialize your dearly departed family and friends including with memorial trees, boutonniere charms, gifting your bouquet, and even one “releasing of the goldfish.”

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How to cancel your wedding after the death of your partner

We’ve talked about cancelling your wedding when you decide to break up, but what if tragedy strikes and your fiancé passes away before the wedding?

This is a tragic circumstance that brings far more complexity than simply trying to explain what went wrong. Here are the steps we recommend you take if your partner has died before the wedding took place.

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A cyclone didn’t stop Nic & Dan’s Star Wars beach wedding from happening

A cyclone may have hit this wedding right before the wedding, slowing down vendors, keeping guests from arriving, and generally mucking things up. But this pair rallied together to get.shit.done. Their “From the sea to the stars” wedding was going forward with love, sand, and awesomeness.