Wedding Favors with Meaning

Wedding favors have been a traditional component to the wedding celebration for hundreds of years.  They are a way to thank your guests for sharing in the joy of your wedding.  Sometimes deciding what to give for a favor can get overwhelming.  The Knot Wedding Shop, one of the largest wedding websites, has over 550 [...]

The Secret Ingredient to a Christian Wedding and Marriage

When I started praying for inspiration for our wedding, I made a very simple declaration.

“Lord,” I said, “You have brought this amazing man into my life. I am so profoundly thankful for him. Because You did this mighty work, this is really Your wedding. Please show me what You want this to be. What is [...]

How to Choose Your Wedding and Marriage Verse

A lot of wedding sites give suggestions for Scripture verses to incorporate into your wedding. While there is nothing wrong with this, I am not going to offer specific Bible verses for you. Instead, I am going to suggest that you pray and ask God to show you how He defines your wedding [...]

12 Essential Tips for a Successful Engagement Party

So you’ve decided to have an engagement party.  Here are some helpful tips and etiquette how-to’s to guide your party.

To Engagement Party or Not to Engagement Party...That Is the Question

I know, I know, it’s a cheesy cliché.  I just couldn’t resist.  I am a fan of cheesy clichés.  And puns.  But, that’s for another post.

Anyway, whether or not to have an engagement party depends on several things.  From an etiquette perspective, an engagement party is optional.  There are a few reasons to have one [...]

Six Steps for Announcing Your Engagement

I was so excited to tell everyone that I was marrying the man of my dreams.  But, I had to keep my excitement in check to do it right.  This was one of those times I was so thankful for my Christian growth that I was not led by my feelings, but by God’s spirit [...]

Four Principles for Announcing Your Engagement

I am the most blessed woman on the face of the earth.  That’s what I was thinking after Dave left the night he proposed.  It doesn’t sound like the most romantic proposal but to me, it was.  I was recuperating from surgery and lying on my couch feeling lousy when he came over, got down [...]