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Wedding Wise Wednesday: IT's Right There!On Wednesdays, I bring you the best wedding stories, deals and events in Los Angeles and from around the web. And we call it Wedding Wise Wednesday. Welcome! Cool Wedding Thing of the Week: Huffington Post – Jesse McLaren took his sister’s engagement pictures…and was kind enough to insert Pennywise the Clown into them. Click… |
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You Want Your Wedding Guests to Have Fun? You Go First.It’s definitely in the top five worries that couples have: How do we make this fun for everyone? What if our guests don’t have a good time? What can we do? It’s a day built for fun, seriously. Free food, free alcohol,free dessert, your favorite people in the world in the room, everyone’s dressed up… |
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Flashback Friday: Nicole and John, 7 Days OutNicole and John live in Scotland, and were planning Los Angeles destination wedding a couple of years ago. About a month out, I started writing about their – and my- behind the experience of pulling together all the parts of their day from 5,000 miles away. Details, Details… So, yeah, I stopped doing the daily… |
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Asking Liz: The Bar, The Rentals, And Where to ParkI’ve got a run of weddings coming up in the next six weeks, so I get questions… Liz, we’re bringing in all the alcohol for our bar, how do I find out how much alcohol we need? The first rule of the DIY bar: give the bartender what they’re comfortable with. Decide what you want… |
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Ask Liz Manners Roundup: Saying it NICELYWelcome to September! First of all are you doing our #charmedweddinginstagram challenge this month? Click here to get the first 10 prompts, and then check out my entry today @lizcharm. He’s so cute, you guys! What you want and what you’re worried about vs. what they want and what they’re worried about. And you know… |
Asking Liz: Venue Questions This WeekQuestions, I get questions from my couples every week. Some of them might help you out, so here we go: My venue manager says that I need to buy insurance. Why do they need insurance if I already gave them a deposit? Will it cover cancellation or postponement of my wedding? This is standard with… |
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Three Things to Tell Your Friend The DJThere is a circling debate in Wedding World about “friendors” – friends or relatives that take the place of a professional vendor at your wedding. We all have horror stories about the aunt who catered the wedding but didn’t bring enough wait staff, or the family friend who provided the bouts but forgot the pins…. |
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Wedding Wise Wednesday: When We Were YoungEvery Wednesday, I bring you the best wedding stories, deals and events in Los Angeles and from around the web. And we call it Wedding Wise Wednesday. Welcome! Cool Wedding Thing of the Week Woodrow and Cook Photography: #photoface. OMG, I have not seen this enough in the States, definitely not in L.A., so let’s… |
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Why Every Wedding is a Destination WeddingJoin me on Facebook Live today at 1:00pm to talk about today’s blog. I plan and officiate a fair number of destination weddings here in Los Angeles. L.A. is a prime location, and people from all over the country and the world want to get married a few steps from the beach, or a hop… |
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3 Assumptions You Should Stop Making About Your WeddingA while back, I wrote Three Assumptions They’re Making About Your Wedding, a list of what people really won’t stop bugging you about, ever. But after talking to a lot of couples in the past few weeks, I’m starting to realize that you’re making a lot of assumptions about your wedding too: 1. That… |