Wedding Planning Tip #2

Tip #2

For couples planning their wedding...
If you are using an AISLE RUNNER, consider blocking off the middle aisle with a pretty piece of tulle, so your guests have to be seated from the sides and thus, you can have your aisle runner firmly in place before hand. This enables you to put down tacks, hat pins, or tape to hold it in place (so the flower girls and bridesmaids don't get caught in it and fall).  This is also nice so that your groomsmen don't have to lean down and walk backwards with their rears in the air, trying to get the runner to come off the role. Or have to jump over obstacles in their pathway. (I'm not sure why we make the Groomsmen do this job because it is a well known fact that normally guys are not the most critical when placing delicate items - sorry guys, you know it's true!)  :)

OR

If you like the idea of only the flower girls and Bride walking on the aisle runner, then considering purchasing extra white roping and make the aisle runner string a lot longer. That way your Groomsmen or Groom don't have to bend over awkwardly in front of everyone because those aisle runner cords are always way too short. There is also a REALLY neat AISLE RUNNER ROLLER that we saw for the first time a couple of weeks ago. You can find that at rental stores and it saves a lot of hassle and also makes the Groom or Groomsmen look like pro's!

Wedding Planning Tips #1

I am going to start posting 

TIPS FOR WEDDING PLANNING.  

We have seen so many weddings and the things that I post here are things we have noticed over the years that pretty much always could have been avoided, had they known about it.  Feel free to comment and add more to the tip if you feel you can help out a new 'Bride & Groom to be.'

Tip #1

If you are having a fresh flower boutonniere for the groom, consider purchasing a second one. The softer or more delicate the flower, the easier it falls apart when all of the guests hug him right after the wedding and BEFORE their formal photos.  Or you could postpone greeting the guests until AFTER the formal shots and at the reception instead.

Knight Wedding

Nikki & Kevin are such a sweet couple and it was our honor to photograph their wedding day!  We did their engagement photos at Fort Hunter in the fall leaves and Kevin had glasses and no facial hair. When I saw him on the wedding day, I almost walked right past him! Way to keep us guessing Kevin!

Their wedding was at the beautiful White Chimney's in Lancaster, PA.

They had a "unity tree" where the put ground in from each of their childhood homes.

They wrote love notes to each other and placed them in the box to open on their first anniversary.