Buying an engagement ring is a huge purchase and if you haven’t bought a new car or house before this point it may be the biggest purchase y, ou have made yet. The range of styles and prices in engagement rings is endless. There are thousands of rings available from hundreds of retailers online (and [...]
I had the unthinkable happen a few weeks ago. I looked at my vintage heirloom engagement ring and noticed one of the small diamonds on the top was missing. I knew this was bad news and one of the things I feared when accepting the vintage ring from my mother in law and deciding to [...]
Deciding who will pay for what at your wedding in Chicago is one of the most important things to start figuring out when you get engaged. How much money you have to work with and who is taking part in the planning will determine a lot about what you end up doing. The thing is, money is [...]
I have been reading a lot of Bridal Magazines since everyone seems to be giving them to me. Right now I have
8 bridal magazines on my dining room table. I find some of their information really interesting since I have not planned a wedding before and have no frame of reference about cakes, flower centerpieces, [...]
The first step in our engagement process was to find and buy an engagement ring.
I went through many iterations of what I thought was a pretty engagement ring over the years, and as styles changed I came back to liking a very classic style. I was not sure what Steve was going to think of this since engagement [...]
Welcome to my blog: The Chicago Wedding and Bridal Blog by a real live Chicago bride. I just got engaged to my boyfriend Steve on Saturday 9/27/2008 and I am thrilled! I wanted to blog about the process that we are going through now to plan our wedding. It is also something I wanted to do because I wanted to [...]