You have been planning your wedding for months, scrutinizing every detail and meticulously counting the days till you say “I Do.” After all of your hard effort, do you want to actually work on your wedding day? The reality is that many brides do work and become quite stressed because they have difficulty relinquishing control […]
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Creating Atmosphere
Live music can add allure, entertainment and elegance to your wedding day. Here are three traditional, three affordable and three unique ideas to help you add the right live music to your wedding. Traditional: 1. Walk down the aisle to Pachelbel’s Canon in D performed by a solo cellist, a flute and guitar duo or […]
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Wedding Trends
What’s glam? What’s hot? What’s the wedding excitement for this year – the year of political change, of economic mystery, of eco-conscious lifestyle? The buzzwords are: green, budget-conscious, vintage, creative, intimate, cozy and fun. Modern vintage is our summation for the next year of weddings. The cliché “less is more” will be the matrimonial motto. […]
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All That Legal Mumble Jumble…
Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! As exciting as the prelude to your wedding may be, do not forget about the official marriage documents you need to obtain. Make sure that the following important legal matters are included on your wedding planning to-do list. You need to obtain a Nova Scotia Marriage License in person. In […]
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Lights? Camera. Action!
Many bride and grooms want professional videos capturing every moment at their weddings. The quality of these videos often comes down to lighting. Movie sets have plenty of lights. For excellent video quality, cameras need their sets to be well lit. This cannot always be the case for wedding venues. Brides and grooms may want […]
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Something Old, Something New, and Something “Green”
Greening your wedding does not mean compromising your dream wedding. The inspiration you already have envisioned can be modified to reduce environmental impact without compromising style or elegance. Online resources, including the Green Bride Guide (www.thegreenbrideguide. com) offer glimpses into real weddings, allowing you to see how “green” choices have impacted their celebrations. The Bridal […]
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Friends, Laughter & Wedding Wisdom
This past summer, I enjoyed a fun evening with my three best friends. All of us were each other’s bridesmaids at our weddings. As we consumed lots of scrumptious food and wine, we told many stories and made plenty of jokes, laughing raucously at our wit. Our exuberant talk turned to our past four weddings, […]
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Three Essential Elements for an Amazing Day!
Planning a magical wedding that you and your guests will remember for years to come is a challenge for any bride. With an abundance of information on wedding websites, social media outlets, books and bridal magazines, brides begin to suffer information overload whereby the fun aspect of planning loses its luster. But it shouldn’t! Step […]
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Bubble Over
Make your first toast as a married couple award-worthy, with L’Acadie Vineyards’ sparkling wine. L’Acadie was the first in Nova Scotia— the province’s cooler climate makes it ideal growing grounds—to produce sparkling wine through the traditional method or méthode champenoise: bubbles are created in the bottle rather than injected in afterwards, like carbonated soft drinks. […]
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Choosing your wedding date
Choosing a wedding date can be like putting together a big jigsaw puzzle. There are many details to piece together when narrowing down the best time of year, day of week and time of day to host your wedding. Use the following questions as basic guidelines to help select your ideal wedding day. 1. What […]
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Shell Talk: eating local oysters
Oysters can be a succulent way of giving your wedding an east coast feel, as long as you know when to do it. “Oysters in Nova Scotia are edible all year long, although not at a high quality of meat all year long,” says Philip Docker, owner of ShanDaph Oysters, who says he only harvests […]
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The Soundtrack of your wedding
Music is often one of the last services to be planned by brides and grooms for their weddings – often coming after venues, food, flowers, and even chair covers. But it is the music that makes a wedding become magically etched to memory. When a wedding is videotaped, the day’s moments come to life with […]