2018 Wedding Trends!

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Event Coordination by Lexi Schafer of Carroll County, Maryland
2018 Wedding Trends Straight from the Experts: Wedding Wire and BridalTweet.com  For 2018 wedding trends, pros from across the country shared some 2018 trends!!       “Woodsy” not “Rustic”. This can include a lot of greenery in the florals and green as the wedding’s main color.  There may not be much burlap and guests will see more wooden details (in the invitation, table numbers, seating cards, tags, chargers, signage, chairs and tables). Romantic Woodland Weddings Goes along with the “woodsy look”. Backyard ceremonies to lavish forest weddings! Lush green weddings with foliage. Hanging installations like hoops, chandeliers, cascading blossoms, lots of floral. Navy is the new Black. As an alternative to formal black, brides and grooms are opting for dark blue as the neutral shade in their wedding’s color palette. Silver and Chrome = the Metallics of the moment Metallic is here to stay, but instead of gold, brass and rose gold, couples are bringing silver
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Beach-Themed Wedding in Maryland

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A Beach Themed Wedding In Maryland While the calendar may be telling us that summer is coming to a close, with these nice warm days, I find that I am not ready for summer to end! So, I’m reminded of a beach-themed wedding I had last year in mid-September. One last glimpse before fall arrives! The lovely wedding was held at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Maryland, http://www.turfvalley.com and photographed by Photography by Tracie, http://www.photographybytracie.com/. I asked the bride from that wedding to share, in her own words, tidbits about their wedding. Read on for more! Dawn shares: For our wedding, all I mainly cared about was that we were going to be outside for the ceremony, that the theme was a beach theme and that I wanted it to look beautiful. We had the theme carry over from little accents at the ceremony site to every small detail of the cocktail and reception space. My
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Tips and Advice from Real Brides!

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Tips and Advice from Real Brides! A couple of my recent brides were kind enough to share what they see as helpful advice when planning your wedding! Setting aside time to just enjoy each other and the excitement of being engaged, since it’s so easy to get caught up in the never-ending wedding planning to-do lists! Scheduling a weekend day or an entire weekend will be for you to enjoy each other, date night, reminisce about first meeting then get back to the to-do list! ~ Sarah Be careful of having too many cooks in the kitchen! Everyone is so excited for you and wants to help, know everything, buy random things for you for the wedding. Limit who helps out and knows the specifics. When more and more people come into the picture, it becomes less about you and your spouse to be making the decisions about your intimate day. And, at times leads
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