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Wedding Traditions

Weddings Good Things: Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue

Weddings magazine editorial director Darcy Miller returns to the show with some blue and white Good...
Announcements: The Wedding

Although notifying the world about your completed vows can come to pass only after the wedding...
The Timeless Traditions: Tossing the Bouquet

It's a suspenseful moment when the single women gather behind the bride for the bouquet toss, to...
The Timeless Traditions: Wearing a Veil

With so many styles, materials, and decorative details available, there appear to be as many...
The Timeless Traditions: Throwing Rice

Tossing rice is a custom from the ancient world that has long been popular in the United States...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: Gold

Gold is a symbol of fire; fire is a symbol of passion. One heart bound to another for a half...
Wedding Cakes

Q. What is the proper way to cut a tiered wedding cake?...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: Steel, Silk, Lace, and Ivory

SteelThe gardener in your life might need a spanking-...
Doily Cones

To send a newly married couple on their way from the ceremony to the reception, there are plenty...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: China

A couple's wedding china takes a beating over a couple of decades of use. Likely a child or two...
The Timeless Traditions

How to honor cherished wedding rituals? For a truly personal celebration, adapt them as you...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: Coral

Once prized as an easily carved, vibrantly colored material for jewelry and other decorative...
Including Cultural Dances

Irresistibly festive and steeped in colorful tradition, ethnic dances add a unique dimension to...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: Silver

Everyone knows the silver anniversary is a couple's twenty-fifth; by this time in a relationship...
Writing Your Own Vows: Real Couples' Vows

Yvetta Fedorova and Scott Menchin...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries: Ruby

In some cultures, a ruby is said to make sorrow disappear and banish bad thoughts. Roman brides...
Cake Toppers: Marzipan Fruit

Marzipan FruitThis ceramic basket overflowing with...
Cutting and Preserving the Cake

The first cut of the wedding cake is ceremonial. A knife tied with a ribbon is set next to the...
Wedding Cake Basics

A wedding cake symbolizes the abundance of...
Just Married Sign

To make the Just Married sign used at Jayme and Chris's Wedding, print the PDF templates with the...