Wedding Ideas Blog
Preparing Your Home for a Backyard Wedding
Tips for Planning a Wedding At Home Planning a wedding is both stressful and expensive. One way a lot of families cut down on both is by scratching the venue search and instead opting to have a backyard wedding. Not only is this way more cost-efficient than renting out a church or a reception hall…
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DIY Wedding Flowers
Do-it- yourself wedding flowers can be a huge job to take on, as most of the work takes place so close to the wedding. However, you can also save a lot of money. At An Elegant Encounter, we’re sharing some of our best floral prep secrets, so your flowers will be almost as gorgeous as the bride.…
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DIY photography tips
Have you ever seen those people with the impressive camera equipment, out taking pictures? Long lenses, short lenses, shutter clicking away. And you know in your head that the pictures are going to come out amazing, because their equipment is soooo good? Did you know that you can rent that same professional photography equipment, for…
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DIY Wedding Supplies
You are a super creative person, and you’re getting married (congrats!) You have sooooo many good ideas for cute, custom DIY projects for your wedding. How do you make all of those ideas that are running around in your head, transform into a tangible reality? With unique DIY wedding supplies like these examples here: So many things can…
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Bride Pops The Big Question
Weddings are a big deal. There are a lot of steps, stages and events leading up to the big day. For example: Step one- the Proposal. Gotta get everyone on board with this marriage, right? You have a big gesture planned out, and it blows up in your face (sometimes literally). Occasionally things just don’t…
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Make It Memorable With Wedding Thank You Cards
Thank You … two quick words, but strong enough to keep the relation going, two words which bring smiles, words which lets one forget all the vices, words which one often loves to hear … To add to the smile-bringing factor of a thank-you, there are now Thank You cards. And these come for various…
Read ArticleDon’t Gamble on Your Wedding!
Shake ‘em up, shake ‘em up, shake ‘em up shake ‘em! Seven-eleven, seven-eleven! Are those the bets you’re willing to make on your big day? Subliminally we all feel as though we can pull off just about anything. And Pinterest, YouTube, Google Images and others alike give us the false sense we are experts at…
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No Bride Left Behind
Welcome to the DIY revolution, where Pinterest boards become an obsession and savvy brides find affordable ways to make their big day unique and memorable. We get it. You’re like Super-Bride. You feel invincible. Nothing can hold you back from bringing your idea boards to life. However, we have one bit of advice… Don’t get…
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Rustic Wedding Ideas
Rustic weddings are one of the most popular trends for 2014-2015 weddings. With the ever growing popularity it’s no wonder that rustic wedding accessories are some of top selling items. From a burlap wedding guest book to a vintage lace garter you’ll find accessories for both your ceremony and reception. Today we feature some of…
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Vintage Inspired Wedding
We absolutely love this Vintage inspired DIY wedding! The bride described her vintage wedding in full detail below. Thank you for the amazing photos Derrick Tribbey Photography! From the bride: Vintage inspired would be an understatement when describing our wedding. After 10 months of planning, researching, crafting, painting, designing, DIYing, and antique shopping, we were…
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