Okay So You Want a Destination Wedding Without Going Broke The biggest thing everyone gets wrong about destination weddings is thinking they’re automatically expensive. Like, yes, flying everyone to Tuscany is gonna cost you, but here’s what I learned after planning my cousin’s beach wedding in Mexico back in summer 2021—destination weddings can actually save […]
Okay so here’s what actually happens with wedding budgets The average wedding costs like $30,000 but honestly that number is kinda useless because it depends so much on where you live and what you actually want. I had a couple in spring 2023 who came to me with a $15,000 budget and a Pinterest board […]
Okay So You’re Getting Married and Have No Clue Where to Start First thing you gotta do is set a budget before you do literally anything else. I cannot stress this enough because I had this couple in spring 2023 who came to me after they’d already booked a venue that ate up like 60% […]
Budget Weddings Don’t Have to Look Cheap (Promise) Okay so first thing you gotta know is that budget weddings are like 80% of what I plan now and honestly they’re sometimes more creative than the ones with unlimited cash. I had this couple in spring 2023 who had $8,000 total and their wedding looked better […]
Okay So You’re Engaged and Now What Right so the ring is on your finger and everyone’s congratulating you and then like three days later you realize holy crap I actually have to plan this thing. I’ve been doing this for almost two decades now and honestly the couples who follow some kind of timeline? […]
So You’re Planning Your Own Wedding Without a Coordinator Okay so first thing you gotta know is that planning your own wedding is totally doable but it’s also gonna consume your life for like 8-12 months. I had this bride in spring 2023 who fired me halfway through planning because she thought she could save […]
Okay So Small Weddings Are Actually Way More Complicated Than People Think Everyone assumes planning a small wedding is easier because there’s fewer people but honestly? That’s kinda backwards. You’ve got the same amount of decisions to make, you’re just making them for 20 people instead of 150, and somehow that makes everything feel MORE […]
So You’ve Got Six Months to Pull This Thing Together Okay first thing – breathe. Six months is totally doable but you’re gonna need to skip the whole “let me think about this for three weeks” approach that couples with longer timelines get to enjoy. I had this couple in spring 2023 who came to […]
Getting Your Seating Chart Done Without Losing Your Mind Okay so the seating chart is literally the thing that makes most couples want to elope halfway through planning. I had this bride in spring 2023 who called me at like 10pm crying because her mom and her fiancé’s stepmom couldn’t be within fifty feet of […]
Wedding Checklist: The Stuff You Actually Need vs The Stuff People Tell You You Need Okay so first thing—there’s like a million wedding checklists out there and they’re all kinda overwhelming and honestly half of them include stuff you absolutely do NOT need unless you’re royalty or something. I had this bride in spring 2023 […]