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Wedding Traditions | SIxpence for Your Shoe | The Day's Design | Samantha James Photography

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Since I’m a wedding planner, people always seem to like to get my take on ideas and trends within the industry.  These questions and posts across the internet seem to surface most often right as we’re ringing in the New Year.  However, I want to get a little ahead of that game.  My season is […]

5 Disappearing Traditions

Sep 27

Wedding Planning & Advice

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Simple, clean, elegant and timeless – white has been the go-to color for the modern bride.  Whether lace or taffeta, short or long, it seems hard for us to imagine a decade when the bride didn’t wear white.  But this tradition really hasn’t been in fashion as long as one might think. Throughout history brides […]

The White Wedding Dress

Nov 13

Wedding Planning & Advice

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Who started this silly tradition about saving your wedding cake to eat on your first anniversary?  Here’s your little history lesson for the day… Once upon a time people got married, got pregnant and had a baby.  Bam, bam, bam.  So these celebrations were often fairly close together and once the baby was born a […]

The Cake Debate

Jul 24

Wedding Planning & Advice

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