Weddings

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So, you have the ring and you’re super excited and you can’t wait to start planning. Now what? Most people would tell you to start selecting your save-the-dates. Before you start working on that, let’s analyze some things: -Are you doing a destination wedding that will require your guests to travel a long distance and […]

Here at HelloBeautiful we just love celebrating Black love. Every Wednesday we profile newly engaged couples as they describe the moment he decided to “Put A Ring On It”. How We Met I met my fiancé, Dean, back in HS. I was a freshman and he was a junior. I don’t remember exactly how we […]

Recently engaged? HelloBeautiful would love to hear your story. How you met? How you were proposed to and a pic of the ring. Share your “Put A Ring On It” story with us!  Leave us a message on Facebook orTwitter and you can be featured too! Take a look at one of our faves: PUT A RING ON […]

If I only had a dollar for every bride who came to me and said, “I’m going to get married at home and save so much money!” I also hear, “My uncle has a HUGE yard and we’re going to have the wedding there so I can save lots of cash!” Ummm…..think again. Your house,  […]

Here at HelloBeautiful we just love celebrating Black love. Every Wednesday we profile newly engaged couples as they describe the moment he decided to “Put A Ring On It”. Her Story: I met Phillip on a BlackPlanet, which my girlfriends insisted I should be a member of. I loved the fact that Phillip was very consistent in keeping […]

Many young girls fantasize about their wedding day from the time they’re old enough to know what a wedding is. It feels like a right of passage to be treated like a princess on your own special day. Every intimate detail as precious as the next, some of us never let go of those pricey […]

Are you recently engaged and trying to figure out this whole wedding planning “thing?” It can be tricky. Especially when figuring out whether to do a buffet or a plated meal. Living in the South, I find that buffets at weddings are super popular. Brides like the idea of giving their guests multiple meal choices […]

It’s a week of wedding planning advice for the newly engaged! If you’re one of those brides, we’ve created a blueprint for your first few steps. Before you start trying on dresses, looking for reception venues or obsessing over wedding colors, there’s something much more important you should be working on: Your Wedding Budget. Yeah, […]

Love is in the air! And if you think your special guy plans to surprise you with an engagement ring over the holidays, you need to get ready. Most brides do a couple of things first. I’ve seen brides who run to the store and buy every wedding magazine on the shelf. Some brides immediately […]

Every bride struggles with the same problems: How do you afford an awesome wedding on a tiny budget?? A few years ago, I did an AMAZING wedding for a couple. They were very creative and open-minded…one of my favorite types of couples. They didn’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on their wedding, […]

Times are tough and weddings are expensive. What’s a bride to do? Save money wherever she can, of course! There are some ideas that brides come up with that drive their wedding vendors CRAZY. Here are 3 big mistakes that brides make that cause wedding vendors to want to pull their hair out. Can’t I Just […]

Have you ever attended one of those weddings where there are just too many guests and not enough seats? And someone is running around trying to rearrange chairs or pulling extra tables and chairs from another room? Or maybe you’ve been to a wedding with a buffet where there was more people than food? I […]