Sometimes I am a bit overwhelmed when I get write-ups from couples for a wedding feature. I open the document and it’s PAGES long and I am immediately struck with anxiety over how the hell I am going to fit this into one post. And then I start to read, and like magic, all the [...]

Today we are sharing a SUPER RAD DIY wedding tutorial thanks to the amazing Michelle at Hey Love Designs. I shared our own DIY photobooth backdrop from streamers a while back, but I LOVE the way this DIY Fringe Tissue Paper Backdrop looks. It would be SO easy to work in different colors, an ombre [...]

Closing out the week with our Top 10 Offbeat, Creative & DIY Maryland, Virginia, & Washington DC Wedding Features from 2012. Man, if I thought narrowing down the engagement sessions to 10 was hard …. this task was nearly impossible. So much so, that I HAD to have “honorable” mentions – because I just couldn’t [...]

Keeping things chic today with this modern purple wedding from Travis Curry Photography [submitted via Two Bright Lights]. I’m not always down with the Georgetown weddings [they don't often fit the bill of offbeat/budget-friendly] but this one felt a bit different. The couple are high school sweethearts [we know I have a soft spot for [...]

“In the end, I married my favorite. Nothing else matters.”  We are back with part 2 of Tatiana & Ben’s awesome, retro small-budget wedding up in the Catskills. Part 1 featured some pretty amazing ceremony shots [so much laughter and happiness!] and Part 2 focuses more on their handmade wedding decor and smashing reception. We [...]

Early this year my sister and her husband Tom attended one of their good friends’ weddings up in the Catskills. I was waiting on bated breath to hear how everything went, seeing as this was the couple whose ah-mazing retro Save the Date I had featured previously: The invites were just as cool [if not [...]

A couple weeks ago for DIY Wednesday, I shared some awesome DIY Photobooth Inspiration – many that linked to tutorials. For the Bachelorette Party that I planned this weekend, I decided to make my own budget-friendly photobooth backdrop, so that the girls could have some extra fun taking pictures with sweet props donated by a [...]

This offbeat, Washington, DC wedding might take the cake with most original and alternative wedding venue I’ve ever seen: the couple’s apartment complex! I mean, regardless of the fact that it belongs to an apartment complex, why the hell NOT use a brand new club room and a fabulous open courtyard – a perfect site [...]

Today we have a wonderful, nontraditional wedding inspiration post for you courtesy of Washington, DC wedding & event planning company, Ribbon Box Events! Unity Candle Alternatives! Personally, Andy & I did a take on the traditional Unity Candle ceremony [we lit candles first for our family members that had been deceased and then had our [...]

A groom from Ireland & a bride from Wiltshire [a Southerner!], England – throwing a DIY, handmade wedding in Northern Virginia. I think I love everything about the sentence I just typed. Douglas Pettway Photography dropped this stunner of a wedding in my Two Bright Lights inbox, and the minute I got the details from [...]