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3 Times to Trust Your Gut While Wedding Planning
Most of the time, all wedding planning advice boils down to the same thing: What has the most meaning for you and your partner? That reality can be one of the most frustrating parts of planning a wedding; it’s both highly individual and inherently cookie-cutter.
4 Things To Do with Your Wedding Dress after Your Wedding Day
Perhaps this investment of both time and money is why I feel so strongly about what happens to my wedding dress after my wedding. I want to avoid what seems to be the inevitable fate of all wedding dresses: a long confinement at the back of a closet that ends with a pile of dress-shaped dust. After doing a bit of research, four options became clear.
6 Books to Read While Planning Your Feminist Wedding
“I’ve read all of the books below in my work as a wedding coordinator and let me tell you, each offers something important to help you and your partner have the wedding you want, from why we do this thing called marriage to how to have the disco-inspired ceremony of your dreams. Happy reading!”
Hiring a Wedding Planner? Here's What You Need to Know
Couples don’t hire a wedding planner because planners have some kind of superhuman ability to make a timeline. People hire a wedding planner because they prefer to spend their money rather than their time. Make the most of both by feeling confident in your vendor selection with these simple guidelines.
Wedding Loans Are More Popular Than Ever, and That's Not a Good Thing
“These loans are a way to thread the needle,” David Green told The Post. Green, who is the chief product officer at San Francisco-based online lender Earnest, explained that “people are carrying more debt [and] they want to get married but don’t have the funds to do so.”
The One and Only Way to ‘Mess Up’ Your Wedding
Despite what you might have read or seen, there are exactly three things that you need to get married (in the eyes of the law, anyways): a license, an officiant, and each other. Everything else is just gravy.
Why You Need a Clean Up Plan for Your Wedding Day
Without fail, my clients always forget one very important detail as they plan their weddings: Who’s taking all of their sh*t at the end of the night? You’d think this would be an easy question to answer but, in my experience, it’s often one of the hardest.
The Invisible Labor Women Endure While Wedding Planning
What are all the unacknowledged ways that a bride labors over her own wedding? A big part of it is emotional labor. More often than not, the bride is the wedding’s emotional referee. She fields dozens of requests, needs, and opinions (so many opinions!) from family, friends, and other guests. The stakes are high, too. If she messes up and shows any sign of frustration or anxiety or stress, there’s a nasty word to put her back in her place (it rhymes with “Godzilla”).
The Ugly Truth About Beautiful Weddings: They're Full of Waste
After the guests have left and the couple’s gone home, I and the reception vendors spend at least an hour cleaning up. A typical wedding takes me a half-dozen industrial-sized trash bags.
Stop Asking Engaged People About Their Weddings
What a horrible situation this puts engaged couples in, especially women. What should be a joyous occasion becomes so much work that you can't even enjoy it. It becomes yet another thing you have to do.
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