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Welcome to the Elizabeth Bliss Events Blog—your go-to resource for expert wedding planning tips, industry insights, and behind-the-scenes advice from professional planners. Whether you're newly engaged or in the final stages of planning, our blog is packed with helpful guides, creative ideas, and practical tricks to make your wedding planning process smoother and more enjoyable. From budget breakdowns to timeline tips, styling inspiration to vendor advice, we cover everything couples need to plan a beautiful, stress-free celebration. Start exploring and let us help you bring your dream wedding to life with confidence and ease.
5 Common Mistakes Couples Make When Planning
As a professional wedding planner, I see many mistakes that couples make when planning their wedding. Today I wanted to narrow down that list of mistakes, to the top 5 that I most commonly see, and tell you how to avoid those common mistakes.
10 Summer Wedding Ideas, Tips, and Tricks
Not sure where to start when it come to planning your summer wedding? We have 10 tips & tricks for you to use when plnning your big day in the summer time.
The Ultimate Wedding Planning Checklist: Month-by-Month Timeline to Stay on Track
Planning a wedding can get really stressful, really fast! That’s why we took the initiative to write out a full Wedding Planning Checklist for you!
Everything You Need to Know About Save the Dates
If you're in the process of planning and creating your save the dates, you may be thinking, "where do I begin?!". Navigating stationary can get confusing and stressful sometimes, but rest assured this article will tell you everything you need to know about your save the dates!
The Ultimate Guide to Your Wedding Stationary
The sky is the limit when it comes to your wedding invitations, but where do you even start?
10 Spring Wedding Ideas
Spring weddings are truly something special, but how do you even begin planning a spring wedding? What color scheme should you use? What decor should you use? While most of those questions are completely up to you as a couple, I'm here to walk you through some spring wedding ideas to show you what other couples have done, and what you can do to make your spring time wedding stand out, and stay true to the theme.
‘Written In The Stars’, A Celestial Styled Shoot
When you think of your love story, you may think is was fate, a love destined to be by the Gods themselves. That’s what I wanted to incorporate into this shoot. I wanted to bring in all kinds of celestial elements, because who doesn’t want a wedding under the stars?!
The Complete Guide To Choosing Your Wedding Songs
The music you choose to use on your wedding day is SO important! Afterall, it’s a reflection of you as a couple. But how do you go about choosing your wedding music? Do you pick traditional songs? Songs you love? Songs that represent you as a couple? Why not all of the above!? In this blog post, I’ll go over all types of wedding day songs- what songs I see used the most, my personal favorites, and more!
10 Winter Wedding Ideas and Tips For Your Big Day
Are you having a winter wedding? Check out these tips and tricks to have the best winter wedding ever!
Hayley and Nate's Fall Viking Wedding at the Amana Golf Club Barn
Hayley and Nates wedding was the literal defenition of a perfect fall wedding! They used a terracotta color palatte of burnt orange, tans, and other neutrals AND had a really cool wedding theme of... Vikings! You heard that right, the couple opted to have a viking themed wedding which consisted of drinking out of mead cups made from bull horns, grazing tables, and a hog roast!
Wedding Favors 101: Unique Ideas, Trends, and Inspiration for Your Big Day
Wedding favors are a really cool way to add a special touch to your big day. They can be a reflection of you as a couple, or go along with the theme of your big day! Within this article I'll go over everything you need to know regarding your wedding favors including how many you should have, how to choose your favors, as well as some favor ideas.
Unique Wedding Guestbook Ideas: Creative Alternatives Your Guests Will Love
There are SO many different things you can do for your wedding guest book. From a traditional book to a polaroid guestbook, there are always new trends and unique ideas couples are coming up with to ensure they remember their guestbooks forever! If you're tired of the same old wedding guestbook that will most likely sit on a shelf collecting dust, then this article is for you.
10 Fall Wedding Ideas For Your Big Day
Fall weddings are becoming more and more popular, but how do you even begin planning a fall wedding? What color scheme should you use? What decor should you use? While most of those questions are completely up to you as a couple, I'm here to walk you through some fall wedding ideas to show you what other couples have done, and what you can do to make your fall wedding stand out, and stay true to the theme.
The Elizabeth Styled Shoot at The Midnight Gem
I love fairytale vibes, I mean, your wedding day basically is a fairytale, right?! That's exactly what I wanted this styled shoot to feel like. I wanted to give couples a bright pastel color scheme to work with, and show off some of the most elegant and luxorius feeling decor. I'd call this a mix between a Bridgerton and garden style wedding!
Should I Ask My Family To Help With My Wedding, Or Hire A Day Of Coordinator?
Your friends and family don’t want to work on your wedding day, but they’re not going to tell you that. They aren’t going to want to arrive early to your venue to take hours to set up all of your décor, check in all of your vendors and answer their questions, keep you and your bridal party on schedule, keep your photography schedule on time, etc. That’s a lot to keep track of right? Well that’s just a few things they’ll need to do BEFORE your ceremony, there’s even more running around they’ll need to do after that!
Why You and Your Fiancé Should Have a First Look Before the Ceremony
You're sure to have seen the rising trend of couples doing a first look before the ceremony. You see the groom with his back turned to his excited bride, as she lightly taps on his shoulder. He turns around and see's how stunning she looks for the first time that day, his breath catches and he tells her how perfect she looks. It's such a beautiful and intimate moment, definitely one of my favorite moments within a wedding day!
Tree Planting Wedding Ceremony: The Ultimate Guide to This Unique Unity
Are you a plant lover? Then you should do a tree planting ceremony for your unity! Even if you don't have a green thumb (much like me, I killed a cactus. How does that even happen?!) you can still partake in a tree planting ceremony, but you might choose to have a more durable and harder to kill plant since the whole point of a tree planting ceremony is that it symbolizes your love growing.
The Ultimate Guide to Having Signature Cocktails at Your Wedding
It's becoming more and more popular to have signature drinks at your wedding, but it can sometimes be difficult to think of the perfect cocktails to feature for your big day. Don't worry, in this post I'll go over everything wedding cocktail related; from tips and tricks to cocktail recipe ideas, this is your one stop shop to finding your signature wedding drink!
Everything You Need To Know About The Shoe Game
The shoe game is becoming more and more popular at weddings as it shows how well the couple really knows each other! It’s a fun game between the bride and groom that really gets their guests involved and makes them laugh, especially when the answers don’t align! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the shoe game, here’s a breakdown on how it’s played.
What’s The Difference Between a Venue Coordinator and a Day of Coordinator?
I’m starting to see venues offering coordinator services more and more and that’s great! But don’t think they cover the same services a day of coordinator does. Typically a venue coordinator is assigned to a couple for them to have a point of contact on the day of their wedding, whereas a day of coordinator is hand selected by the couple to work their wedding day ensuring the couple can stay stress free by not having to deal with planning or setup.