Over the years brides and grooms have started to choose exotic vacation destinations as their choice for a wedding location. Instead of getting married at the local church, wedding couples are choosing to get married in foreign countries, resorts and private islands. With the popularity of destination weddings growing many people are wondering what the legal requirements are to have one of these types of weddings. Here's a look at some of the legal requirements you may need to fulfill in order to throw your destination wedding. Residency Requirements Image via Wikipedia Depending … [Read more...]
Wedding Planning 101
If you’re planning a wedding, no doubt you’ve heard the rule that the bride’s family pays for the ceremony and the groom’s pays for the rehearsal dinner and honeymoon. While rules, especially archaic ones, are meant to be broken, you may be looking for ideas on how the two families can split the cost, and save your sanity. The groom probably thought his responsibility was looking at engagement rings and popping the question, and that this was enough to get things rolling without him, but he needs to keep a few things in mind. First of all, it’s … [Read more...]
An Awesome Windy City Wedding Extravaganza
If you're a Chicagoan, know this about weddings: You've got goods on some of the greatest venues at which to hold one! It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or wedding planner) to know that location is important, so here's some of the best places to go based on the style of wedding you might want: For the Trendy Wedding.... Head over to the Fulton's on the River on 315 N. LaSalle St. Why? When you've got a spacious outdoor patio, picture windows revealing the magnificent river, and a spacious dance floor, you know you've got the greatness of a stylistic wedding and reception. Maybe … [Read more...]