In honor of Father’s Day, today’s post is all about Dads and their responsibilities in the wedding planning process. As the Father of the Bride, you might think your only role is writing checks. Well, think again. Here is your cheat sheet to everything you need to know to make your little girl’s wedding a dream come true:

PreWedding:

• Along with your wife, host an engagement party
• Contribute to the wedding budget
• Help the couple decide on sites and/ or make other big planning decisions
• May help choose a hotel for out-of-town guests and reserve a block of reduced-rate rooms, create maps to be included with invitations, or anything else couple asks for help with
• Rent your own formalwear (talk with the couple if you’re to coordinate with wedding party)
• Help pick up out-of-town guests from the airport; may also arrange transportation to and from the wedding (vans, bus and so on)
• Typically travel to ceremony with bride

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This entry has 0 comments Posted on June 21st, 2010

If you know me at all, you know I love weddings, ice cream and cheese (we’ll come back to the cheese part later). So, when I first learned that my favorite childhood ice cream shop, Marble Slab, catered for weddings it was like a dream come true!

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This entry has 5 comments Posted on June 14th, 2010

This is me at age four. Innocent and pure, already fantasizing about the perfect wedding and the faceless perfect groom to come.

I love weddings because for that one special day, the bride gets to live out her childhood fantasy. She is the center of attention, the luckiest girl in the world, a princess. It is the one day where anything goes. If the bride wants a fountain filled with cheese, she gets it.

I love weddings because each one has so many intricate details that define the bride’s personality. The style, the colors, the music, the candy chosen for the favors – it could be based on a family tradition going back hundreds of years or a four year old’s dream. A wedding tells a story. It represents one couple’s true love and two families coming together to become one. Read More »

This entry has 1 comment Posted on January 9th, 2010