Tradition: Flowers, the Language of Love
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." ~Henry Beecher
Making Your Wedding a Spook-tacular Event!
Halloween weddings are not for the faint of heart...
Alice's Wedding, Part 2
Creating My Guest List Who would have thought creating a list of names of your family and friends and gathering their mailing addresses would be so difficult? Just kidding! Sharokina tells me [...]
A Girl's Guide to Gowns
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”― Coco Chanel
5 Pieces of Advice for Stressed Out Brides
You’re engaged, and the wedding date is approaching faster than you thought it would. Understandably, you’re stressed. Here are five pieces of advice you should take to ease your [...]
Trending In and Trending Out
What's been done, what's been overdone, and what has been done just right
The Power of the Pumpkin!
Shrugged off as they are, pumpkins are not to be taken for granted. Ask Cinderella.
Princes, Knights, and Everything in Between
Every girl, at some point in her life, dreams of her knight-in-shining-armor riding up to sweep her off her feet and bear her off into the sunset…
How the white wedding dress tradition started and more...
Fairy tale weddings... at some point, every girl dreams about that fairy tale wedding, and the most prominent feature is the dress.
Alice's Wedding, Part 1
Alice Bunch is a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently an intern at Citygirl Weddings & Events. Coincidentally, she is engaged and is planning her wedding for June [...]