“I suffered through poetry in high school. Why would I want a poem at my wedding?”

Poetry gets a bad rep. Folks moan about their terrible high school reading assignments in thin-papered books.
 
Sure, there is a lot of poetry that you wouldn’t want at your wedding. From cliché greeting card sentiments to hard to understand, badly translated poetry. But there is some great work out there that you can both [...]

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Our friends

We work closely with the following NJ venues:
Merri-Makers
The Mezzanine
Perona Farms

WEDDING RELATED:
Invitations:
Italian designer in Boston Angela Liguri
Flowers:
Flowers on Long Island: Clawflowers
Celebrants:
Ann Keeler Evans, Celebrant (PA based)
Celia Milton, Celebrant (NJ based)
Anita Vaughan, Celebrant (Chicago based)
 
Cakes:
Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, NJ
Travel:
Travel to Italy: Amore Travel Guides 
Green Wedding ideas:
Blue Planet Wedding
Michigan weddings:
WedMichigan Blog
Photography:
Tony Richards Photography
Custom songs:
Custom Crafted Songs
Car [...]

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Holidays.

Holidays tend to be stressful, romantic, nostalgic, dreadful, tiring and relaxing all at once. When you put so many people in one room together, combine it with food and everyone’s picky eating habits, topped with alcohol, you never know what will happen. Or maybe you do because the same thing happens every year.
 
Advice:
Enjoy [...]

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The search for the perfect venue: Tricks to the trade

It is uncouth to discuss money in the United States. This is inconvenient. 
 
If we were more open about money, we’d know how much people paid for things (i.e.: did we pay too much?), how much people make (i.e. why don’t I make a more appropriate salary?) and ideas about how to save better (i.e. [...]

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The Dress and the Bathroom

I distinctly remember being a teenager and watching one of the 90210 characters go to prom in a “Mermaid dress.” (Was it Donna?) She could barely move and missed out on most of the fun, excluding the fun she created by trying to walk.

 
I want to find the perfect wedding dress: it shouldn’t cost a [...]

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Read all about it!

Wordarrangement was recently featured in an article in the Philadelphia Marriage Examiner.
Words of Love: So Soft and Tender
Forget what the song says, words of Love are exactly what we need to hear. (Did you ever notice that we all shift uncomfortably in our seats when someone loudly proclaims “I love you?” “Go get a room,” someone [...]

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Readers share: Pretty in Pink

I received some email responses to my post “To wear white or not?” My favorite was from Courtney, a fellow Smithie alum.
 
She found a gorgeous *pink* dress at Filene’s Basement. Filene’s holds an annual wedding dress sale at select stores (twice in Boston.) Here’s the link: http://www.filenesbasement.com/bridal.jsp
 
A number of people have suggested it to [...]

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Two extra left feet

My fiancé and I have two extra left feet between us. Still, we are committed to learning how to dance. We’d been talking about taking dance lessons since before we were engaged and thought the wedding was the perfect excuse to get serious about it.
 
Over a year ago, we tried a group salsa dance lesson [...]

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To wear white or not?

I’m not sure that I want to wear white on my wedding day.
 
My mother got married in an orange velure dress with a matching hat. My father wore a yellow tie. My great aunt, who recently turned 100, showed me a swath of fabric from her mother’s wedding dress which was dark brown with green floral [...]

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What is a personalized wedding poem?

A personalized wedding poem is a poem written specifically on the occasion of a particular couple’s wedding. The poem can be used in many ways: integrated into the couple’s vows, read during the wedding, framed as a gift, posted on a wedding website or printed in the program, mailed as a part of a thank-you [...]

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