Lessons Learned: Wedding Officiants
WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE WEDDING CEREMONY There are two important roles at your wedding ceremony that need to be considered early on in your planning: who will be your wedding officiant and who will sign the marriage license. Often this […]
Lessons Learned: Leesburg Hotels
I wrote an update to this post in 2020, with all the Leesburg hotels for weddings. Leesburg, Virginia offers countless great wedding venues. From barns to vineyards to historic gardens, there is a lot to love in Loudoun county in […]
Lessons Learned: Restroom Trailers
Not a super sexy Lessons Learned today, but important nonetheless. If you are going to have restroom trailers at your wedding or event, you likely will want to spruce them up a bit. You might want to put some nice […]
Lessons Learned: Marriage License Signatures
I frequently work with couples who have a family member or friend officiate their wedding ceremony, particularly in DC and Maryland. Sometimes this friend is able to legally sign the marriage license, and sometimes they are leading the public ceremony […]
Lessons Learned: Table Settings and Sizes
I’ve got a two-for one Lessons Learned post for you today! I recently had a wedding where we told the florist during the planning that all the dinner tables were going to be 6′ round in size, because we were […]
Lessons Learned: Lounges
I recently planned an exquisite wedding at DAR in Washington DC. We had amazing flowers, really cool custom rentals and a soft seating area on the terrace. Somehow I forgot flowers for the coffee tables that went with the soft […]
Lessons Learned: Glass charger plates
Often times a wedding reception table setting will include a charger plate, sometimes also called a base plate. If so, the first course will be set down on top of this plate. When guests are done eating the first course, […]
Lessons Learned: Junior Ushers
This is a wedding planning tip for when you have a junior usher or program distributor or greeter. Someone needs to tell him when he should go sit down before the ceremony processional begins. Adults will make this assumption as […]
Lessons Learned: Buffet dinner plates
Here is some wedding advice that I learned the hard way. When you have a buffet meal at your wedding, you need to order 125-150% of your guest count for dinner plates. Otherwise you caterer be washing plates in the […]
Lessons Learned: Pinspot Lighting
Just because a venue has in-house directional lighting doesn’t mean it will have the same effect as professional pinspot lighting. Often times in-house lighting is either limited or can’t be moved exactly to where you need it to be. Investigate […]
