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Fall Destihl Brewery Wedding with Josephine + Brian

Looking back at the photos from this past fall wedding season reminded us how much fun it was! One of the amazing couples we were honored to work with is Josephine and Brian, who tied the knot in September 2022 at their favorite space, Destihl Brewery. They are truly gorgeous and fun-loving, which made working with them a pleasure! The stunning venue spoke for itself and served as a classic backdrop for the couple. So, it goes without saying that their brewery wedding was a beautiful occasion that we’re sure no one will ever forget.

Couples Shower Games

Wedding showers are a moment to breathe in between planning your wedding and your engagement. This is a great way for your guests to meet each other for the first time before your big day. The big question is, how do you keep your guests entertained? Whether you’re planning on having the party for just the bride, or the wedding couple, we have all the answers right here with four of our favorite couples’ shower games!

Must-have Personalized Wedding Details

No two weddings are the same. Each couple has a different circle of friends, different tastes, and different ways they want to make their day unique. With nearly endless ways to add personalized wedding details to your day, every wedding ends up being a special day for the two newlyweds.

Planning A Wedding With No Local Family

Whether it was your college town, hometown, or just a special city you’ve fallen in love with, your heart might be set on getting married in a town you no longer live in or you’ve only visited before. The bustling city could be appealing, or maybe it’s the town’s remoteness and bright, twinkling stars at night, your romantic location can be the spot where you tie the knot! Planning a wedding with no local family in the area can sound ambitious. However, getting married in this town you love is completely achievable!

How to Create a Wedding Hashtag

The venue, Invites, Florals – Check, Check, Check! This next item on your wedding planning checklist can be completely cost-free! However, resources or extra brainpower can be helpful to check off a creative hashtag. You’re not alone if you’d fancy having hashtags guests can use at your wedding on social media! Wedding hashtags have become a staple for couples who want all to see the insta-worthy wedding through a clever hashtag!

Why Do I Need a Wedding Planner in Springfield IL?

When hosting your own wedding, it’s typically your first time putting together an event of such grandeur.  The first time you’re both the “manager” and the key decision-maker on every aspect: budget, decor, timing, all the things! While this may naturally feel like an exciting feat, (finally you get to decide the menu!), there are tons of new decisions to make you probably don’t have experience with. 

To be able to manage the budget, vendors, and execute your vision perfectly, recruiting professional help only makes your life easier! Why do you need a wedding planner in Springfield IL? Let us walk you through all the reasons to hire and ways to benefit from working with a professional wedding planner.

Wedding Website: Where to Start, What’s the Difference, & What’s Needed?

Having a wedding website is by no means a requirement, but many Illinois couples are finding a great way to build excitement for the big day by having a web page dedicated to it! A wedding website is a perfect resource to share more than can fit on a save the date or invitation. Websites can include bonus information to further personalize it like the engagement story, and useful information like links to the gift registry or hotel blocks.

 

New Wedding Colors to Consider in 2021

If we’ve done anything over quarantine, we’ve gotten more creative to squash our boredom. Whether it’s through home improvement, Instagram Reels or Tik Tok challenges, an online shopping addiction, tidying up our home with Marie Kondo, or picking up a new at-home hobby, we’ve had to find ways to entertain ourselves while music venues, movie theatres, and most public places outside the home have been closed. If you’ve been wedding planning, all the extra home time meant plenty of time for Instagram scrolling or pinteresting only helping your imagination run wild! If you’re wanting to bring a beautiful wedding theme to life, start with your wedding colors!

 

New Wedding Colors to Consider

From florals to invitations, your wedding color palette can help you navigate through many future choices for the big day. Selecting wedding colors early on will only help you and your wedding squad’s jobs easier to ensure everyone has the correct swatch or shade of colors you intended for!

We have inspiration for you to help select the best wedding color combinations for a day that fits your taste or even new wedding colors you may have never considered for your elegant evening.

Guide to Loving Your Engagement & Wedding Photos

Congratulations! You’ve just said yes to a bright future together. Now, take that shiny ring and start planning the wedding of your dreams! Because this is such an exciting and once-in-a-lifetime experience, why not also make it unforgettable by having a professional photographer capture the adventure through engagement and wedding photos?

Wedding Planning Checklist in Central Illinois: The Reception

There’s nothing we want more than a successful, upbeat wedding reception, so we put together a wedding planning checklist in Central Illinois. This reception starter checklist will help you get things rolling with planning the party of the year! Start here to create a list of goals so you can pace yourself and have a perfectly planned wedding reception that you can enjoy, too!

Wedding Planning Checklist in Central Illinois

Once you’re engaged, the questions start coming! When are you getting married? Which venue are you using? Will I be invited?! The first thing we suggest is to actually enjoy those first days or weeks of being engaged! Try to focus on what vision you see for you and your fiance on your wedding day. From a hotel reception to one near the beach, spend time with your partner discussing how you can mend each of your visions into one perfect celebration of your love!