Whoa, I just read that Vera Wang has designed a line of Wedding Gowns/Dresses for the David’s Bridal Chain Stores. This is the shock of the month. Why would she do that?
On one hand Vera Wang has headed a design company that has produced many of the most elegant wedding gowns and formal gowns I’ve ever seen. She [...]
I’ve been looking at the trends in wedding flowers since I got married last year and the interesting thing I’ve found is that there is no one trend everyone is doing right now. There are more options than ever for incorporating flowers into your wedding and the events surrounding it. Don’t forget that you can [...]
It seems that Weddings are still a hot topic to write about in the third year of this recession. (I know we’re technically out of it, but we still feel like we’re in a recession around here.) I keep running across articles about how to get married on a budget or how to cut costs [...]
Its been a few months since I got married and the more I hear about other weddings, the better I feel about our choice to have a small simple intimate wedding in Chicago rather than a huge over the top event. It worked out really well to have just around 100 people and a 4 hour [...]
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 [...]
Yes, more reception hall sites! ( Carriage Greens Country Club in Darien, the Hyatt Hotel in Lisle and the Glen Oak Country Club in Glen Ellyn) I blogged about our difficulty in finding a reception space for my wedding in the southwest suburbs of Chicago last week and since then we have looked at 3 more locations [...]
Picking a date for my wedding has hinged on finding a location to hold the wedding reception in Chicago. There are no shortage of Country Clubs, Golf Clubs, Banquet Halls, Hotels and Large Restaurant locations in Chicago and the suburbs, but yet my wedding reception search has been difficult.
The reasons the search for a reception location in [...]
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 [...]