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 ...