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Ask Liz Archives: Wedding Time – The Big To-Do Part 2

    Photo: EP Love Last week I said that while you’re planning your wedding — like, the actual planning and choosing and deciding — you shouldn’t focus on when you’re making those decisions or feel pressured to stay on track and not fall behind, whatever that means. You have a list of checkboxes, take…

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When Your Wedding Isn't The Only Wedding

My article this week on The Broke Ass Bride is UP: Photo: Chasing Glimpses Photography We got an email from a bride who has been invited to two other weddings this year, on the same day, on the other side of the country. Two. Yes, it’s definitely that time of year, not to mention that time of your life….

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Tuesday Tip Day: What Two Questions Should You ALWAYS Ask?

How many guests will this cake serve? Dunno. Ask.Photo: Weddings with Zsa Zsa Let’s face it: Everyone is afraid of looking stupid. Not knowing what to do, doing the wrong thing. But you should never let the fear of looking stupid over something you think you’re supposed to know interfere with finding out what you need to…

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Ask Liz: Five Wedding Planning Habits You Should Probably Start Practicing Now

I believe that it’s not enough to simply survive planning your wedding, you should thrive and feel like a Boss while you’re doing it.  Here are five wedding planning habits to start practicing now that will help.Let’s start with the money, first:1.Multiplication. Avoid sticker shock that every couple goes through, and  remember that you are…

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Wedding Time, Part One: The Big To-Do

My weekly column on The Broke-Ass Bride is up: Photo: Persimmon Images  It’s not always the first meeting. Sometimes it’s the second meeting where it comes up: “The wedding timeline I found online says that I should have started planning this seven months ago. I’m supposed to have my engagement photos and my lingerie by now!” Or…

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Ask Liz: The Holidays vs. Your Wedding

If it’s Friday, it’s time for My weekly column on the Broke-Ass Bride: Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I found out that the current number of Mrs. Coopersmiths would soon be increased by one  – my husband’s little brother got engaged. Yay! But then I looked at the calendar again and frowned. Two weeks before Thanksgiving….

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Brides.Com Asked Liz: How to Plan Your Wedding When You're Shy

Okay, fine, they asked a few other wedding pros, too: Photo: Caroline Tran Photography A Complete Wedding-Day Survival Guide for Introverts By  Elizabeth Mitchell, Brides.com (Re-printed with permission) Overwhelmed by large crowds? Hate being the center of attention? Need alone time to reenergize? Then you might be an introvert! And as excited as you are for your…

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Wedding catering

The Olive Garden Rule – A Perspective on Wedding Catering Costs

  1/20/19 – This blog post was originally published on Nov. 29, 2012. I updated the restaurant’s prices on their current  2019 menu.  I’m having a lot of discussions with brides about wedding and catering costs lately. As in, “I have a 12k budget, my venue is $5,000, am I going to make it? Here’s…

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Family

Yes, Weddings Make Families Do the Wacky

I have a tough “Ask Liz” question, coming up on The Broke Ass Bride, which inspired me to repost an article that I wrote for the The Huffington Post earlier this year: There’s your Mom, critical of every single wedding decision the two of you have made, from the flowers to the invites to the…

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