Getting ordained, rejiggering seating charts and dance floors, and...
The billion-dollar wedding planning industry has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the vast majority of the country seeing restrictions on social gatherings.There were 2.2 million...
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Simple, inexpensive, high-quality, and personal. Few jewelry stores offer these qualities in their wedding ring offerings and shopping experiences, but they're what many couples want, and what...
View ArticleI'm a professional bridesmaid. Here's what happens after the wedding's over,...
Jen Glantz has worked as a professional bridesmaid for six years, participating in the weddings of total strangers and getting paid, sometimes up to $2,500 per gig.Though she's hired to play a bride's...
View ArticleAs a professional bridesmaid, I get paid to go to weddings and bachelorette...
Summary List PlacementI've spent the last six years working as a professional bridesmaid and running the company, Bridesmaid for Hire. Working with hundreds of clients over the years has made me...
View ArticleA private jet company is offering $28,000 'weddings in the sky' as charter...
Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus pandemic has disrupted countless industries and among those still affected is the wedding industry. A still-ongoing moratorium on large gatherings and push for...
View ArticleThe 17 best bridesmaid gifts we've ever given or received — from customized...
Summary List PlacementYour bridesmaids hold a special place in your heart — after all, they're the ones you choose to stand beside you on your wedding day, even if it's a while away.Sending them a...
View ArticleThis is how we got married with 100 guests amid Singapore's painstaking...
Summary List PlacementShoshi Kudo and Gina Loh had visions of a big white wedding with 180 guests, including Kudo's family flying in from Japan, after he proposed to her in January 2020 during a...
View ArticleI've helped over 3,000 clients plan elaborate marriage proposals. The most...
Summary List PlacementI've always been someone who likes a challenge. I started my company right after graduating college in 2008, when I was only 22 years old. It wasn't an ideal economy to be looking...
View ArticleI became a professional bridesmaid after ditching a career in real estate....
Summary List PlacementI was a real estate agent for seven and a half years before I became a professional bridesmaid in Sydney, Australia. I've never been married. Before I did this professionally, a...
View ArticleHow Kleinfeld bridal shop is prepping for the busiest wedding season ever,...
Summary List PlacementWhen Michelle Flynn found the perfect wedding dress at New York City's iconic Kleinfeld bridal shop in February, she wasn't surrounded by adoring loved ones oooing and ahhing over...
View ArticleOne of London's most iconic luxury department stores, Selfridges, is hosting...
Summary List PlacementCouples now can wed in one of London's most iconic luxury department stores. Selfridges, founded more than 100 years ago, announced Tuesday that it had got a wedding license to...
View ArticleI'm an event planner for celebs like Chelsea Clinton and Matt Damon. Weddings...
Summary List PlacementI launched Rafanelli Events in 1996, and before the pandemic, I employed 50 people — it's now about 20. We design and execute weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, charity events,...
View ArticleWalmart's latest sales ring in a marriage boom as couples hit by COVID-19...
Summary List PlacementAfter months of postponed ceremonies, a wedding boom may finally be upon us in 2021, as the warm summer air and advent of COVID-19 vaccines send cooped-up couples sprinting to the...
View ArticleThe average wedding cost $19,000 in 2020, about $10,000 less than the year...
Summary List PlacementThe average wedding isn't cheap — for 2021, the estimated total stands at $22,500, according to data from a survey of 7,600 couples by wedding-planning site The Knot. Wedding...
View ArticleThe best places to buy wedding rings online
Table of Contents: Masthead StickySummary List PlacementThe engagement ring might be the star of the show when a couple decides to get married, but the wedding bands officially seal the deal. That...
View ArticleMy sister and I launched a boutique bachelorette- and wedding-planning...
Summary List PlacementI started Details, Darling with my sister, Kenzie Swift, about six years ago.We were working events here and there, but then we got connected with Tassels and Tastemakers, a...
View ArticleI listened in on the first-ever Clubhouse wedding along with 26,000 other...
Summary List PlacementNatasha Grano and Michael Graziano made history on the Clubhouse app yesterday when they became the first-ever couple to get married on the audio-only platform — a fitting venue...
View ArticleI just got engaged and I can't stop thinking about fast food-themed weddings
Summary List PlacementI got engaged in May, and ever since I can't stop noticing how oddly rich the world of fast food weddings is.For the truly dedicated, there are ways to make your wedding...
View ArticleI accidentally moved to my hometown during the pandemic. After postponing my...
Summary List PlacementI really wasn't planning to leave New York for what turned out to be 15 months.On March 12, 2020, I went home to visit family in Buffalo, a pre-planned trip that happened to fall...
View ArticleWealthy millennials are blowing their pandemic savings on $200,000 postponed...
Summary List PlacementFinally ready to have the wedding they put on the back burner last year, some wealthy millennials are now doubling the price tag of saying 'I do.'It's partly out of desire and...
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