by Joann Marks | Apr 21, 2014 | News, photography, Wedding Planning
How do you find the perfect photographer? There are different methods used to figure out how much to budget for the photographer but that doesn’t guarantee you will find the perfect one by looking only at your budget. I photographed weddings where the bride...
by Joann Marks | Apr 18, 2014 | News, Wedding advice, Wedding traditions
It started at the dinner. My son and her daughter had announced their engagement two weeks before. They invited my husband and I, parents of the groom, her – the mother of the bride, and her ex-husband and his new wife to dinner. The dinner was the first we...
by Joann Marks | Apr 14, 2014 | Invitations, News, Wedding advice, Wedding Planning
So you have a major event on the horizon – the wedding of your dreams, your parents’ 25th wedding anniversary, your daughter’s high school graduation – and you need the perfect invitations. Your invitations will help set the tone for your entire event, giving guests a...
by Joann Marks | Apr 10, 2014 | Invitations, News, Wedding advice, Wedding Planning
A wedding is meant to be a beautiful and lasting event that is shared between two people who are in love. However, far too often the wedding can be turned into a much larger ordeal that requires hundreds of invitations and place settings for the reception. In doing...
by Joann Marks | Apr 9, 2014 | Invitations, Newlyweds, News, Wedding Planning
For the first REAL Weddings Submission, I am posting my own wedding which was (in my opinion) PERFECT! The overall theme of our wedding was “classic Hollywood”. We wanted the feel of a 1940’s Hollywood hotspot like Ciro’s or the Coconut Club and we planned our wedding...