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Ask Liz: What You Don't Know About Your Wedding VenueWhat You Don’t Know About Your Wedding Venue Finding the perfect place can be frustrating. Creating your ideal wedding there could still be tricky. Here are some tips and tricks from the Ask Liz archives that will show you what you’re getting into, and how to get through: What You Don’t Know About Your Wedding… |
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Ask Liz: What Are The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Wedding Planning?I’ve read a lot of business and life management books – it comes with working for yourself. How to be more efficient, how to be more effective, how to be happier (there is no way to happiness, happiness IS the way. Think about that), how to be better, faster, stronger, and keep forging ahead. YES! I’ve… |
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Ask Liz: Guest Wrangling And How to Swing ItDear Liz: We’re getting married in April, and more than half of our guests and most of the wedding party are from out of town. I want to be accommodating, but how much is too much? I definitely want to provide a shuttle service from the hotel, but what else can I do to make… |
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Ask Liz: The (Gift) Envelopes, Please?Dear Liz: My wedding is next week, and My mom is convinced that a lot of our guests, or at least our side of the family, will be giving us cash as gifts, in envelopes, I guess? How does that usually go, would they hand those to us? I don’t think I want to carry… |
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Ask Liz: Marriage and How to Swing ItDear Liz, We’re planning a big wedding in October. I was my best friend’s bridesmaid in February, and since then, she’s told me that they’ve been having problems. She says that they’re fighting a lot, and the last time we all went out together, they didn’t even look at each the whole night. They were… |
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Ask Liz: No, Seriously, Rentals Suck.Yup, still in new project hell. Forgive the punt via Broke Ass Bride. Dear Liz: We’re getting married in October, and we have to bring everything into our venue – chairs, tables, spoons, everything. I’ve started talking to rental companies, and I’m shocked at some of the numbers they’re giving me. Not with the… |
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Ask Liz: My Final Word on Cash RegistriesHi Liz, My fiance and I will be married next Spring. We’ve been living together for five years in apartments, and we want to buy a house sooner, rather than later. We feel we don’t really need the traditional registry items and, not to sound greedy, we would really rather have money for a down payment. I’ve… |
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Ask Liz Flashback: It's the Week of My Wedding, What Do I Do?I’m coordinating a wedding tomorrow, so I thought it was a good time for a repost. There is a lot of stuff that needs to checked off the week of your wedding. I mean, as you read this, I’m about to run out to pick up a cake stand in Marina Del Rey before running… |
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Ask Liz: Head Table vs. Guest Tables. GO!Dear Liz, We’re having a destination wedding in Mexico in July, and my fiancee and I are worried about the seating arrangements. We have a large wedding party – 8 bridesmaids and 8 groomsmen – and half of them are bringing significant others with them. It seems wrong to have non-wedding party members sit at… |
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Ask Liz: Who Should Walk Me Down the Aisle?Dear Liz: I’m getting married in October, and I have a little bit of a dilemma. My mother remarried when I was four, so I grew up with my Step-Dad. I’m close with my real father, too. I would like both of them to walk me down the aisle, but is that weird? My step-dad… |