We have an interesting dilemma in the forums and I’m hoping you creative divas might have some suggestions. User virtualvoice writes in with this predicament:
Our wedding ceremony is going to be outdoors in an amphitheater- the seats are all stone and somewhat dirty. We need to have blankets or fabric or something so that the [...]

Hey DIYers,
Reader Julied has a question that I don’t readily have an answer for. Perhaps you can help her out?
Do you know any easy way to set up a website and send out email invites that people can reply to online and it all be kept upto date on a database - so that invites [...]

I’m not a friend of the traditional bridal shower. The mere rumor of one being held in my social circle makes me break out in a sweat of dread and dismay. It’s not that I dislike hanging with my pals or that I don’t want to celebrate the bride. (I love my friends and [...]

The celeb gossip world is buzzing with news that one of P. Diddy’s guests was turned away for wearing an off-white trousers to his annual White Party, where guests are instructed to wear all white. Horrors! Oh, the scandal!
(Not that I’d ever land an invite to Diddy’s party but I look HORRIBLE in all-white. What [...]

In my latest internet travels for info about budgeting, I came across this very interesting article posted in the August 24 issue of The Wall Street Journals Online’s The Number Guy column.
We’ve all heard the $27,000+ price tag stat on “average” US weddings, right? Well, Carl Bialik is taking a closer look at that number [...]

Ramit Sethi, personal finance smart cookie at I Will Teach You To Be Rich, has one one of the absolute best posts I’ve read about the reality of wedding finances on this site. Check out: The $28,000 Question: Why Are We All Hypocrites About Weddings?
The post is an interesting look about our collective attitudes [...]

Let’s talk about wedding debt. I had previously written about credit card debt back in January 2005, in the Avoid The Wedding Debt Trap article and offered some alternatives to paying for your wedding.
A recent article at Yahoo Finance, “What Credit Card Companies Don’t Want You To Know”, reminded me to talk about wedding [...]

I received an invitation to an industry soirée in yesterday’s mail. This beautiful piece of stationery, an invitation to a $100-a-plate networking dinner, started with “Your Invited”. Oy.
Invitations not only serve to give your guests event details, they also give your guests their first impression of what your wedding will be like. If you [...]

My friend and penultimate wedding diva, Terrica from Once Upon Your Wedding, had a fabulous post the other day about stupid wedding things you can skip that no one will notice.
It’s easy to get caught up in the spending frenzy that weddings tend to become and we tend to buy things we don’t really want [...]

I’ve absolutely adore cake decorating and I’m learning as much as I can. It’s a lot harder than it looks on paper, I tell ya. I have the utmost respect for anyone that can produce perfect, flawless fondant, consistent icing colors, and smooth-as-silk buttercream … and do it with original style. Kudos to all [...]