Weddings

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. Now that you’ve had the difficult conversation about the guest list, it’s time to move on to the second step in your wedding planning process. It’s time to tackle […]

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, […]

Planning a wedding is a BIG task. There are bound to be some stumbles on the planning road that leads to the alter. While there are many mistakes that you can make in the process of pulling the big day together, we’ve chosen to highlight three big mistakes that we see on a regular basis. […]

After you’ve selected your wedding invitations, you start to stress about who will show up. Will guests RSVP? Will they bring extra people with them? Will I end up with enough tables and chairs? No bride wants to have THAT wedding. You know…the one where people talk about you like a dog and how you […]

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, so they were open to some unique ideas. Suggestion 1: Get married in the morning. This is where […]

There are three words to describe the wedding of Tashia and Kris: Simple. Elegant. Modern. This event was gorgeous! The eye-popping details started with the soft draping in the ceremony area. The bride’s bouquet was so beautiful. And we loved the use of multiple cakes at the reception…a great idea if you want to offer […]

Here at HelloBeautiful we just love celebrating Black love. Every Wednesday we profile newly engaged couples as they describe t he moment he decided to “Put A Ring On It”. His Story: The past two years of our relationship, the talk of getting married was always in the air but  11/11/11 was a day that […]

OMG! You’ve gotten THE RING!!!! Ok. Now what? 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 start trying on dresses. Others start zipping from one side of town to another to scope out their potential venue. […]

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: Kaseem and I met three years ago at the urging of my mother.  She was worried because I was entering my third year of […]

One of the questions I get all the time is this: If my wedding invitation says 4pm, doesn’t that mean that I actually walk down the aisle at 4pm? The answer is simple: no. If your wedding invitation says 4pm, that’s the time the actual ceremony begins. That doesn’t mean you start the ceremony 10 […]

Here at HelloBeautiful we just love celebrating Black love.  Each week we profile newly engaged couples as they describe the moment he decided to “Put A Ring On It”. Her Story: I met Jamel in 2008 on campus. Our first date was on Valentine’s Day at Morton’s Steakhouse and we’ve been together ever since.  Fast forward to March 13, […]

Here at HelloBeautiful we just love celebrating Black love.  Each week we profile newly engaged couples as they describe the moment he decided to “Put A Ring On It”. His Story: About a year ago, Valerie’s younger cousin got married. After that she started taking me to jewelry stores and sending pictures of the style […]