Beauty •
10 Tips to Help You Look and Feel Your Best on Your Big day
Don’t miss these 10 pro tips to helping you look and feel your best on your big day.
Wedding Planning Advice •
The Ultimate Guide to Stress-Free Wedding Planning on a Budget
Wedding planning doesn’t have to be stressful, overwhelming, and expensive. In this post, you’ll find the best tactics for planning a wedding on a budget you can afford– all without the stress and overwhelm!
Health + Fitness •
How to Avoid Pre-Wedding Stress
While overwhelming, wedding planning is also magical. Here it is, the day we’ve thought about since we were little girls. It is so important to keep the magic with you along with the stress if only to help maintain a good perspective. Too much stress and
Tough Subjects • Wedding Planning Advice •
A Simple Way to Ease Wedding Day Worries and Fears
Photo by Lidya Nada on Unsplash There’s no doubt about the initial thrill that comes after saying “Yass!” to your one-and-only. At that moment, you couldn’t wait to start planning your wedding, picking out color palettes, and getting knee deep in tulle. But now that some
Wedding Planning Advice •
Five Tips for the Busy Bride
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a work hiatus to focus on wedding full-time? Since you’re here, we’re assuming you can’t exactly afford to do that! So instead, check out these five tips for the busy bride to help fit wedding planning tasks
Money Saving Advice •
How to Stay Sane While Planning a Budget Wedding
I knew planning a wedding would be a lot of work, but I didn’t quite grasp what that would mean for my daily life until the time to plan the big day arrived. I know I’m not unique. Between working full time, preparing to move, investing
Random •
Small Wedding Confession: It Wasn’t All Because of the Budget
“If you don’t like it, then you/they pay for our wedding….” I love him to death but my fiancé has said this a few times whenever the issue comes up about our guest count (under 80) and/or the reason for keeping our wedding small. And it
Wedding Planning Advice •
Tips for Surviving The Inevitable Bumps of Wedding Planning
No matter how long you plan or how simple you want your wedding to be, you will run into some bumps along the way. These issues I encountered mattered a lot to me at first. But now they seem like small pieces of what will be
Wedding Planning Advice •
Why My Bra Is Not the Only Support I Need
Budget Savvy or not, every bride has a moment (or two ….. or a hundred, in my case) where anxiety takes over. It’s looking at the budget, the timeline, the list of conquests you chose to take on and wonder “What was I thinking?!?!”. You have
Beauty •
Don’t Get a $6.99 Haircut Before Your Wedding
*I wrote this post weeks ago, but haven’t had time to submit it since I’ve been busy with planning. This is my last post before my actual wedding post! I went in for a trim, and the stylist cut my hair so short that it’s now
Wedding Planning Advice •
Things I Thought I Knew and Learned I Didn’t
Let me just start by saying that getting engaged and preparing to get married has been one of the most exciting times in my life. I’d be lying though, if I didn’t include the fact that it has also been one of the most stressful times
Bachelorette Party • Parties + Showers •
Pre-wedding Fun & the Rehearsal
Hello BSB fans! I hope you haven’t forgotten about me since my last post was in September. The months leading up to the wedding, I was a sleepless wreck. I tried very hard to stay awake but either nerves or the 100 things swirling around my brain
Tough Subjects •
Choosing Not To Freak Out
This post is backdated, but worth sharing. Life seems to pop up and happen while planning a wedding and sometimes you just have to go with it. xoxo-Jessica Happy November BSB-ers! Life has been a whirlwind the past week. It’s early November and I’m 38 days
Random •
Last Day of Work as Ms. Z
So here I am on my last day of work as Ms. Z – I’m a teacher so kids are all asking me what my new last name will be and can they still call me Ms. Z. I say yes, because I remember it being
Tough Subjects •
Handling Our Wedding’s Stickiest Situation
Recently someone was asking me about how the Boy and I are having two weddings and how we are handling family. What she wanted to know specifically was, “did we have to handle any tricky or delicate issues while planning the weddings and how did we
