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St. Louis Wedding Photographer Selection Process

lindsey — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:13:48 +0000

We finally picked a photographer out of the incredibly saturated market in St. Louis. I must confess that Justin and I didn’t do a whole lot of searching ourselves. Like many things so far, wonderful things are falling into our laps. A couple nights we sat on the couch and looked at multiple websites and [...]

A Note About Wedding Sponsors

justin — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:59:04 +0000

I’m sure you’ve noticed the advertisements on this blog. We’ve got a Google ad at the top of each post and an Amazon widget on the sidebar, which should be more relevant going forward. I do hope that these ads don’t detract from your experience on our blog. Many a good site has been ruined [...]

History of Wedding Traditions

justin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:45:06 +0000

Lindsey and I are going to meld some traditional stuff as well as some new stuff at our wedding. It’s going to be pretty cool for those involved, as well as the guests. However, when deciding exactly what traditions I want to keep I found it best to look up the origins of that tradition. [...]

Wedding Showers: To have, or not to have

lindsey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:19:46 +0000

Planning a wedding is difficult, but let’s not forget about the maid of honor who has a lot of planning to do as well. While Justin and I plan our wedding, I am also serving as maid of honor for my sister’s wedding this May. Being Maid of Honor for a Stock woman would be [...]

Worst Wedding Ever

justin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:53:46 +0000

I love gawking at other people’s misery. It’s a pretty nasty practice, but I can’t help myself. Since this is a wedding blog, I go to focus on wedding related issues. So, today’s post is about awesome (shitty) weddings. Five Candidates for Worst Wedding Ever This one is very recent, but will surely be a classic. A young [...]

Cool Wedding Traditions and Crazy Wedding Ceremonies

justin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:33:42 +0000

Reading about weddings and planning my wedding has opened my eyes to quite a few different matrimonial traditions around the world. Each culture has its own way of celebrating the special day. Lindsey and I hope to incorporate some of these really cool, culture specific ideas into our ceremony. We’ll see how that goes, but [...]

Wedding Planning and the Internet

lindsey — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:19 +0000

Planning a wedding can be incredibly time consuming. I am a person who needs lots of “me time,” or lots of home time. I feel grounded when I am at home, so I like to log many hours of my free time in my home. The other day, my mom made a well-substantiated comment, “imagine [...]

A Super Cool and Free Wedding Planning Tool

justin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:31:50 +0000

Lindsey and I spend a lot of time going back and forth planning our wedding. We have to keep track of a lot of different vendors, venues and other things. Sometimes I’ll work on it at lunch, and sometimes I’ll work on it at home. Lindsey is the same way. There is a tool out [...]

Suggestions for An Alternative Wedding Ceremony

justin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:24:01 +0000

Hello Internet! Please feel free to share any ideas you have, have read, have heard, etc on alternative Wedding ceremonies. Lindsey and I are sort of custom designing our ceremony with our officiant. We want to really celebrate love, companionship, and all the other cuddly things that go into a life long union. I don’t [...]

Ninth Street Abbey Is the Perfect Wedding Venue In St. Louis

lindsey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:44:40 +0000

As we mentioned before, it is quite arduous to find a wedding site in Saint Louis, Missouri, that isn’t a church. Easiest answer would be to go to the beautiful outdoors, but our date is in March, so this risk of chilly weather and/or rain is too great. What we have left is informal meeting [...]