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winter

Come get inspiration for your snowy winter wedding, full of candles and romance and brides wearing boots and drinking hot chocolate…

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Caroline & Dave’s sunrise beach wedding

This week we’re celebrating the tea-length, the mini, the cocktail, and the midi — that’s right, it’s short dress week! Today we’ve got a couple who opted for an early-morning sunrise ceremony, with all of the challenges and gorgeous scenery that entails. You’ll definitely want to hear how they handled the venue and vendors for this particular challenge.

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Fern & Joe’s intimate, secret Cornwall elopement

Boho Cornwall, a sweet couple, and their baby girl — what a way to elope in this UK wedding. The scenery alone with have your heart palpitating with joy. Add in the organic and wild bouquets, TONS of glowing candles, and the tiny flower girl walking mom down the aisle and you’ll be racing to Google “Boho Cornwall elopement” just like these two did!

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Greta & Erty’s community-made Victorian-styled wedding weekend

You know those weddings where you just end up grinning like a damn fool because everyone just looks glowing with happiness and gratefulness and someone walks by and thinks you’re watching something naughty? Yeah, well, this is that kind of wedding. Get ready to look very silly laughing and crying at adorable guitar-playing dads, top hat- (and ice cream-) wearing couples, inflatable horse and pool noodle jousts, giant Jenga, tear-jerking ceremony songs… and I can’t even fit it all in here!

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Lauren & Chuck’s Old Hollywood goofball wedding

This venue will blow your theater-loving socks off. The little geeky touches will steal your LEGO-loving hearts. The wedding party music will steal your pants and run away. Wait, this is starting to make less sense. Either way, there is something for everyone in this fancy-shmancy meets geeky and goofy wedding in a gorgeous theater. Go peek!

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Robin & Maggie’s wedding chapel crashers two-part wedding

These two rascals sneaked into a historical chapel in New Mexico for their legal vows, and then topped it off with a big bash in Colorado with friends and family. It’s a little historical, a little emotional, and downright adorable. Oh, and you might just love one of the bride’s takes on the wedding certificate as full-on AWARD!

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Angela & Ty’s international seaside elopement

Relieve your wedding planning stress by basking in the easy-going glow of this Vancouver elopement. No mess, no stress (except for a teeny shoe snafu!), and this sweet elopement of two lovers from two countries will warm your hearts. Mint details, a seaside venue, a super helpful marriage commissioner — it’s a story of long-distance that will make you root for these two.