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Bridal Tips: Golden Hour, Sunset, and Blue Hour

Golden Hour, Sunset, & Blue Hour For this month’s bridal tips, we are chatting about golden hour verses sunset and blue hour, or moreso what they are, when they are, and how they pair together. Starting off with golden hour… titled for its beautiful “golden” light that falls in during the hour before sunset and the hour after sunrise.  Backlighting …

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Bridal Tips: Specialty Bartending

Specialty Bartending this month’s bridal tips, we are getting our party on with The Sangria Truck team who helped answer our questions about speciality bartending!  After meeting these lovely ladies at a recent wedding, we just couldn’t help but “ooh” and “ahh” over their killer 65 Zipper Camper turned sangria truck. The Sangria Truck is idea that was ten years in the …

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Bridal Tips: Picking the Perfect Venue

Picking a Wedding Venue For this month’s bridal tips, we are tackling the very first step of the wedding planning journey check list of picking the perfect venue!  With Florida being a beautiful state to have weddings year round, we are so fortunate to also have a variety of venues to pick from ranging from gorgeous chapels, to museums, to ranches.  With a few questions in …

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Bridal Tips: Family Holiday Portraits

Family Holiday Portraits Can you believe the holiday season is almost upon us!  For this month’s bridal tips we are tackling our clients’ most asked questions about family portraits. 1. The big question – when should we take our photos?  While November and December are a few months away, the best time to take your family formal portraits are now, …

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Bridal Tips: Let them eat cake!

Probably the most delicious item on your wedding checklist, a wedding cake, cupcake, or sweet treat is always a must to enjoy on wedding day!  For this month’s bridal tips, we are chatting with Lia, owner of Couture Cakes, about you guessed it – wedding cakes and questions you should ask when selecting the perfect cake designer. Couture Cakes specializes in a select number of exclusive …

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Bridal Tips: Featuring Your Photos Before, During, and After Your Wedding

Prints & Albums For this month’s bridal tips, we are diving into albums and printing your pictures!  There are so many ways to display your imagery before and after the big day.  Here are some three tips to help get you started! Prior to Your Wedding – Save the Dates are an excellent way to share you engagement photos.  There are so …

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Bridal Tips: Keeping the Dance Floor Hot

Picking a Wedding DJ For this month’s bridal tips, we are partnering up with Roeshink Entertainment on the topic of picking the perfect DJ.  Based in Central Florida, DJ Vince and his Roeshink Entertainment team travel throughout Florida for weddings and events.  Sitting down with Vince, I wanted to better understand what our couples should look for when picking a DJ, what to expect on wedding day from their …

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Bridal Tips: Creative Engagement Ideas

Creative Engagement Ideas For this month’s bridal tips, we are chatting about creative ideas for your engagement session.  A great way to warm up to the camera before your big day, engagement sessions are also a way showcase your love for one another and personalities.  With so many locations, ideas, and themes, we wanted to share a few silly and fun ones …

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Bridal Tips: Bouquets & Boutonnières

Wedding Bouquets & Boutonnières For this month’s bridal tips, we are chatting about bouquets and boutonnières.  One of our favorite details for the big day, we love capturing the customized bouquets that range from classic roses to modern succulents, along with complementing boutonnières. 1. The Classic A timeless option, roses never fall out of style. For my couple Dinara and Rick, the two opted for …

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Bridal Tips: Wedding Guest Tips

How to be a Five Star Wedding Guest For this month’s bridal tips, we are diving into what to expect as a wedding guest and what is expected of you as a guest.  For many of our guests, they may not have attended a wedding in recent years or at all.  These tips will help in preparing your guests or yourself …

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Bridal Tips: Party Favors

Party Favor Wedding Ideas, Options, and Alternatives For this month’s bridal tips, we are chitchatting about party favors – should you add them to your wedding day budget; what are popular options; what alternatives are there to the traditional idea of what a party favor is?  A fun item to have, but not necessarily required, party favors are a great little …

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Bridal Tips: Ceremony Procession & Recession

Your walk down the aisle will be emotional, exciting, and filled with love.  From your immediate family, to your wedding party, to yourself, here are a couple ideas of how to arrange how and who should walk down the aisle with you… Procession 1. Family to be Included – your immediate family is important to include for the procession, however …

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Bridal Tips: Wedding Day Send Off

From start to finish, your wedding day will feel like a whirlwind of excitement that goes by much too fast!  However, why not celebrate the ending of a beautiful day with a fabulous send off.  For this month’s edition of Bridal Tips, send off idea planning will be our topic of choice.  Why shouldn’t you say goodbye in style! 1. …

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Bridal Tips: Wedding Day Design

Wedding Day Design For this month’s bridal tips, we wanted to dive into wedding day design.  From color schemes to a central theme, there are so many beautiful ways you can incorporate design and color in a cohesive manner throughout your wedding decor and attire.  Below five tips in doing so! Define Your Style Before even jumping into purchasing items or picking colors, …

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Bridal Tips: Holiday Portraits

Bridal Tips for Holiday Portraits With the holidays approaching fast, you may be wondering when to take your holiday portraits?  Below are the top four questions we receive from families when preparing for the holiday time in sending out cards to spread good cheer to friends and family. Scheduling 1. When should we schedule a holiday portrait session?  The number one question we receive – and …

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Bridal Tips: Wedding Day Hairstyles

Wedding Day Hairstyles Picking out the perfect hairstyle to complement your dress, veil, and theme of your wedding can definitely be a challenge.  With so many options to choose from, and believe me I have done my fair share of pinning on Pinterest to know, I thought I would break down my take on updos and downdos… Updos 1. Updo …

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Bridal Tips: Five Fabulous Tips for your Engagement Session

Engagement sessions are such an incredible way to capture your love at the start of your wedding planning journey. Many of our couples ask us for tips when preparing for their engagement session, so we thought we would share our top five recommendations! 1. Outfits – I must say that I completely disagree with the majority of advice online about …

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Bridal Tips: Anniversary Portrait Sessions

Anniversary portrait sessions with your hubby or wife are the perfect way to celebrate a one year, five year, or really any year milestone! Within just the first year, you would have taken the honeymoon of your dreams, potentially purchased your first home together, began married life, and may have even started your family or a new career.  For this month’s bridal …

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Bridal Tips: Wedding Coordination & Planning

Wedding coordination and planning is a frequent topic we are asked about by our brides.  It can be overwhelming to both plan out your entire day, along with picking vendors, in addition to the actual set up when the big day comes.  Partnering with my sweet friend Katy from Coastal Coordinating for this month’s Bridal Tips, we are going to …

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Bridal Tips: Formal Portraits

Below are three great options to picking your perfect formal portrait option based on your family! Option One – Both Sets of Parents Together Partner I – newlyweds, parents, siblings with families, grandparents Partner I – newlyweds, parents, siblings Partner I – newlyweds, parents Partner I & II – newlyweds, both sets of parents Partner II – newlyweds, parents Partner …