Welcome to the Wedding Guide

Sure, some of us dressed up or arranged stuffed animals, action figures and Barbie dolls for elaborate weddings as kids. Others among us never saw this day coming. But if you’re flipping or scrolling through these pages, you’ve got some ideas about what you want.  From vows to celebrations, you’ve got some mental images flashing, […]

Perfect pairings aren’t always obvious to us all. It takes a perceptive set of senses and a little imagination, sometimes, to see how things might work in harmony. This issue of The Wedding Guide exercises those senses with unexpected combinations and perfectly imperfect fits. If the thought of bridesmaids and groomsmen bookended on either side […]

PLANNING A WEDDING GETS COMPLICATED FAST. The details can grow to a tangle of arrangements and before you know it, you’re overwhelmed. Deep breaths. In this issue of the Wedding Guide, we’re keeping it simple. Flip through and you’ll find plenty of inspiration for celebrating in the moment instead of sweating the small stuff. We’ll […]

Planning a wedding is … a lot. One minute you’re daydreaming about saying your vows in a simple ceremony on the beach with a few friends; the next minute you’re up at 2 a.m. desperately gluing paper flowers onto napkin rings. And speaking of that beach, do you need a permit to wed there or what? […]

Nobody plans a wedding in Humboldt County for the same cake, lace and flowers you’ve seen a million times. Up on the North Coast, we like to do things a little differently, building celebrations around our individual styles, rather than trends that come and go in the flash of an Instagram scroll. In this issue […]

I always thought I wasn’t a “traditional wedding person.” When it came to my own wedding, I didn’t go with the white dress, walking down an aisle or the enormous cake. But after putting together this issue of the Wedding Guide, maybe I am. That is, maybe I love the traditions we set for ourselves […]

Notice anything different? We’ve squared up, changing our look to make the Wedding Guide even more user-friendly and prettier (we think). But beauty is more than cover deep. Inside, we’ve expanded our photographer showcase and broken out a mini-gallery of cakes and flowers to inspire you, while keeping the efficient and nerve-calming pre-wedding checklist. Not […]

Ask a married person about his or her wedding and you might not get too many details. The whole event might be a blur of tulle and canapés. And yet the details are what we get caught up in when we’re planning. You know what none of those married folks will say? “I wish I […]

The moment you get engaged, everybody starts throwing around the word “perfect.” You’re the perfect couple. The rings have to be perfect. You hunt for the perfect dress. There are a million and one details to figure and finalize to make the big day perfect. Bridal magazines, even our own Wedding Guide, are tulle-layered tomes […]