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All stressed up with nowhere to go: 8 tips to de-stress wedding dress shopping

Planning your wedding dress shopping strategy and getting all stressed up with nowhere to go? It’s time to take a step back and look at your priorities. We’ve compiled a few tips to take back the dress shopping experience and de-stress the whole damned thing. Go from stressed up to dressed up in an outfit about which you’ll feel awesome. Here are some tips to de-stress wedding dress shopping.

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Playlists, requests, and backup plans: What to ask your wedding DJ

We’ve worked with lots of great DJs in our time, and finding the right one for you can be a really specific task. They’ve got to get you, your style, and be experienced enough to work on the fly when things aren’t going well. It’s not an easy job, but a great DJ can make your party with excellent tunes, good MCing, and not getting in the way of the festivities. Here are some questions we think you might want to ask your potential wedding DJs to see if they mesh with you.

Wedding recipe card favors - free wedding printable from @offbeatbride

Foodie couples rejoice: DIY these recipe card favors (a free wedding printable)

Laura and Garrett DIYed over 500 of these adorable mini recipe card books based on the pie recipes that were all made for the wedding by Laura’s mom, sister, aunt, and her good friend Katie. We loved the idea of mini recipe card favors so I whipped up a similar free wedding printable to make them yourself! You can edit the names and date, print them up on colored paper, bind them with little binder rings, or run with them any way you like.

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All the single ladies? Nah. Have a co-ed bouquet toss

I am crushing hard on Susan and Jana‘s take on a bouquet toss. They gathered aaaalll the single hotties to the floor, not just the ladies!

And, as if a coed bouquet toss wasn’t cool enough, Susan and Jana rigged up a nifty lil prize for the winner of the toss.