Location, Location, Location: Tips for Selecting the Perfect Reception for Your Wedding Your wedding theme Your wedding reception selection will depend a lot on the theme you want for your wedding. A beach, a hilltop, a garden, even a historic area can enhance your reception and make your wedding a very memorable event. Consider the [...]
Let’s talk a little bit today about food. You like food, right? We all do. The number one question that couples often ask me is how do we save money on food. I go over many ways to save money within this website. However, I’m going to give you a little appetizer for your plate. [...]
The reception is traditionally one of the most expensive aspects of a wedding. However, by combining personal creativity and ingenuity — the foundation of lifestylist Sandra Lee’s Semi-Homemade(R) philosophy — with inexpensive, ready-made items available at discount retailers, brides-to-be and cash-strapped parents can host a beautiful wedding reception without blowing through the entire bridal budget. [...]
Music is as much a component of a good wedding as food and drink. You can have a wedding without music, but it’s likely it will seem a little quiet and dull. So whether you have a full live band, a string quartet, a DJ spinning tunes or recorded music from a boom box, it [...]
When a bride orders her wedding bouquet, it might not seem that any “activities” will come from it other than as a thing for the bride to hold. But the bridal bouquet can be the source of many interesting activities and meaningful gestures. During there ceremony there are all kinds of possibilities. Certainly you can [...]
Giving a toast is a responsibility that puts fear in the speaking hearts of most members of a wedding party. While it’s not usually something that is particularly long or involved, it’s public speaking (which doesn’t sit well with many people) and really puts people on the spot. If you are planning a wedding and [...]
