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Nicole & Michael’s Big Day

{Inspiration} Will You Be My Bridesmaid?

by Cheryl on 01.31.2012
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You’ve landed the guy of your dreams, got the bling, and you’re getting married! What more could a gal need? Her bridesmaids of course! While your friends are likely to eagerly accept your request to be bridemaids, here are few fun and creative ideas to help them get even more excited about their important role [...]

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{Real Wedding} Nicole & Michael’s Vintage-Inspired Big Day

by Nicole on 11.03.2011
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Do you know that I never did an official Real Wedding post for my own wedding? Sure, I did a ton of re-cap posts, I introduced you to all our wedding vendors, shared DIY projects and more, but I never treated my own wedding like other real weddings I feature on the blog. I guess [...]

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Meet My Bridal Boutique: A Joyous Occasion

by Nicole on 05.27.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. Alright, it looks like after almost 7 months, I’m finally to the last of my wonderful wedding day vendors. Today, I’d like [...]

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Meet My Officiant: Rev. Carolyn Claiborne

by Nicole on 05.18.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. Alright, I know…it’s been over 6 months from my wedding day, and I’m still reviewing vendors. But I’ve been a pretty busy, [...]

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Meet My DJ: Knoxville Premier DJ

by Nicole on 03.22.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. Did I tell you guys the story of how my original DJ selection canceled on Michael and I just 4 days before [...]

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Meet My Vendor: Simply Sandy

by Nicole on 03.18.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. You may remember the DIY tears of joy project I shared with you a couple weeks ago. While many of you complimented [...]

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Meet My Florist: Samuel Franklin

by Nicole on 03.07.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. Oddly enough, of all the vendors I needed for my wedding day, I met with more florists than any other vendor. Honestly, [...]

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DIY “Tears of Joy” Tissue Packets

by Nicole on 02.28.2011
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It’s inevitable: people are going to cry at your wedding. You might even cry at your wedding, so you might as well be prepared by providing tissues for your guests. Of course, you could just put out tissue boxes, OR you could get creative and make these adorable “tears of joy” tissue packets! They’re easy [...]

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The Wine & Love Letter Box

by Nicole on 02.23.2011
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We got a lot of great feedback about our wedding day, but one little detail of our ceremony that got quite a few really positive reactions was the wine and love letter box ritual. This was one ritual I had never heard of before our officiant mentioned it. However, as soon as she explained it [...]

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See My Venue: L&N Train Station

by Nicole on 02.15.2011
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The “Meet My Vendors” series is my attempt to help other East Tennessee brides choose wedding vendors. This series presents my dead honest reviews of the people who made my big day possible. Okay, okay…so you can’t really “meet” a venue, but I guess I should have thought of that before I named this series [...]

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