I checked prices on November 9, 2026. A few are in pounds or euros, and none of the shops showed ...
The question I get most in the weeks after an engagement is what color the bridesmaids should wear. The answer ...
I’ve watched more guests arrive in a skirt and top over the last two seasons than in the thirty years ...
In 1996 I planned a September wedding in a vineyard outside Napa, and the bride asked her five bridesmaids to ...
Years ago I watched a groom’s mother wait four months for a phone call about dresses. The bride’s mother was ...
The coldest wedding I ever planned was on a farm in January. The ceremony was outside for eleven minutes, and ...
A bride I worked with this spring chose “light blue” for her six bridesmaids and sent them a link to ...
One of my brides last year sent her bridesmaids a single instruction: any satin dress in a shade of blue, ...
At a wedding I planned last spring, a guest in a pleated powder-blue cape dress danced with the bride’s grandfather ...
At least once a month a guest asks me what semi-formal actually means. Usually she has a lovely floor-length gown ...














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