Those with a desire for sunshine and an open sky, but a slightly lower tolerance for bugs and grass clippings may lean to the side of an urban promenade. There are no shortage of green…
The Big Day: Great Outdoors
Sometimes four walls just can’t hold the dream party you have planned. The great outdoors can create the biggest, and maybe the best, frame for your wedding. The crunchier among us may opt for a…
The Big Day: Generations
Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. The generations that came before us help envelope us into traditions and usher us into the next chapter of our lives. Who is this whole to-do really for, if not…
The Big Day: Dress
Full-length princess gown? Boat neck, tea-length dress? No matter which way you slice it, it’s the focal point of a wedding. The bride is the star of the show, and the dress is her superhero…
The Big Day: Architecture
The dress, the food, the music. All the planned elements of the big day converge to create a cohesive scene. But perhaps no element of a wedding is quite as effective at framing and transporting…
Big Day: Dance Floor
Ah, the dance floor. The great equalizer. The part of the party where your guests get to let loose and really celebrate. This is the time to forget the solemn ceremony and all the planning,…
The Big Day: Animals
The furry little friends in our lives are often the first family members to vet (see what we did there?) the new boyfriend or girlfriend before they ascend to the level of husband or wife….
The Big Day: Details
If there’s a day to get all fancied up, today is it. This is a time of celebration, and a time to treat yourself to the finery you usually skip for a day at the…
The Big Day: Reactions
The groom’s priceless face when the bride appears at the end of the aisle, the pop of a champagne bottle, a meant-for-your-ears-only story that the maid of honor decides to spill to the whole congregation…
Family Matters
Strategic planning and guest list coordination really go out the door when your two-year-old son is diagnosed with brain cancer. Celia and Geff Kinzel met and quite classically fell for each other in 2012. In…
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Janean + Andrew Date: 10.15.16 Venue: Glen Echo Ravine Photography: Rachel Joy (racheljoybaransi.com) We’re pretty sure Janean and Andrew have the wedding some couples dream of: ohmygodjustgointhewoodswithafewfriendsanddoit! But their wedding wasn’t just a get-it-over-with quickie—it…
Woman Seeking… Human Shield To Ward Off Unwelcomed Wedding Questions
I’m great at being single. I love catching a movie solo, heading to the North Market on a Sunday morning, spending an evening in to watch whatever I want. I’m good at it and sometimes…
Love, Local…
Marti Babcock and Lindsay Hetzer gave us so many killer ideas for last month’s wedding section, the Big Day, that we couldn’t keep it all contained within just one section. Besides, wedding season isn’t even…
Self-Made Band
Something tells us if you can get a group of welders to gather around a wedding ring that elicits jealous oohs and ahhs, you’ve stumbled on something in the nuptial game. That’s the case for…
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Megan & Rob Some weddings are in a galaxy all their own. Both Star Wars fans, Rob and Megan included homages to the movies in many of their wedding details-complimentary Darth Vader Vans, custom-painted R2-D2…
New Traditions
Let’s face it: the traditional bachelor/bachelorette parties have become somewhat archaic. Sure, getting trashed and buying phallic-shaped lollipops is never going to go out of style completely, but for a memorable pre-wedding bash we recommend…
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Adam + Jenn (White) Emery Adam + Meghan (Kwast) Brouillette Dan + Stef (Seger) Mize Greg + Taylor (Gibson) Cobb Logan + Laura (Leonardo) Burnside Sylvester + Cynthia (Godwin) Nadar Vinay + April (Pucheril) Mathews
Tailor-Made
In her two-room studio downtown, Jennifer Kessler floats to the door and greets me with wide-open arms and a beaming smile. She coos a welcome and shows me around; it’s nothing at all like what…
Advice: Chill the F*ck Out
By Marti Babcock & Lindsay Hetzer | alltogethernowohio.com After their engagement, many of our clients come to us frantically overwhelmed; realizing all of the tasks that must be accomplished while planning their wedding, while also having…
The Big Day: Jason and Bree Quicksall
Jason and Bree (Frick) Quicksall would admit that of all the stages they’ve graced, this one might have been the most impressive. The long-standing musicians who can be seen on just about every intimate stage…
Sixpence, You’re the Richer
“Cheap” isn’t a quality that many women look for in a lifemate, but a few might have been swayed if they’d met my husband before I did. He raised the art of penny-pinching to something…