Ask The Expert: What does the process look like for reserving a block of...
Expert: Hilton Dallas/Park Cities Catering Manager, Hannah Turnbull What does the process look like for reserving a block of rooms? What tips would you give a bride who’s reserving rooms? The best...
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Expert: Wedding Cakes and Dessert Tables, Sugar Bee Sweets Bakery How do you recommend that brides and grooms incorporate their personalities into their cakes? Couples can incorporate their...
View ArticleLove Wins: How Real Dallas Couples—Like Lauren & Andy—Are Handling COVID-19
Our talented and personable staff photographer, Elizabeth Lavin, makes friends wherever she goes. It’s partly just her nature, but it’s also a professional strategy: By engaging with everyone, she...
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Love Wins: How Real Dallas Couples—Like Kelsey & Austin—Are Handling COVID-19
In Texas, there’s much to look forward to in the spring as temperatures begin to warm and everything is in bloom. For Kelsey and Matt Houser, spring was especially welcome this year with their wedding...
View ArticleWedding Planning? Think (Far) Ahead
Q and A with Molly Rasmussen, Founder and Wedding Planner behind Pop Parties Q: Even in the best of times, why is wedding planning well in advance important? A: As always in wedding planning, good...
View ArticleHealthcare Heroes and Husband and Wife: Benjamin Morrissey and Lauren Fine
To recognize the courage and sacrifice of our healthcare workers, we caught up with past D Weddings doctor brides and grooms to understand how the pandemic is affecting them. First, they don the...
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Love Wins: How Real Dallas Couples—Like Kara & Spencer—Are Handling COVID-19
When Arlington residents Kara and Spencer Elswick got engaged in September 2019, they took into consideration Kara’s desire for a strict, shorter-than-most engagement timeline. She feared she would be...
View ArticleWedding Ring Shopping from Your Computer…or Your Car
Virtual design is the new way to put a ring on it. The road to “I do” begins with a ring. That’s what gets the party started. Until recently, visiting jewelry stores to browse, select, and design...
View ArticleRevisiting Angela Dupont and Benjamin Hall’s Non-Traditional Nuptials
If your original wedding or reception venue is temporarily closed due to COVID-19, or if you had to cancel and re-book and are now facing a long waitlist, think outside the box for venues and...
View ArticleHow Dallas Bridal Shops Can Help You Find the Dress of Your Dreams (From a...
Whether you have browsed bridal stores with a friend or watched reality television shows about shopping for a wedding dress, you know this isn’t your average shopping trip. It’s an event. From...
View ArticleRevisiting Yolanda Hall and Cedric Jones’ Intimate Aldredge House Wedding
If COVID-19 has you feeling frustrated about making so many changes in wedding planning, or if you are newly engaged and hitting roadblocks with every idea, consider an elopement. This couple had a...
View ArticleThe Quarantine Diaries: Kyle Blackburn and Saumya Tayi
To recognize the courage and sacrifice of our healthcare workers, we caught up with past D Weddings brides and grooms working in this industry to understand how the pandemic is affecting them. Kyle...
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Looking Back: Missy Rogers Peck and Tim Peck’s Wedding was a Party to Remember
If you are in the midst of planning—or re-planning—a wedding during COVID-19, when frustrations arise, remember to pause, take a step back, and focus on what is truly important. Missy and Tim Peck were...
View ArticleRevisiting Kaitlyn Canfield and Philip Sterling’s Backyard Brunch Nuptials
Most weddings take place late afternoon or early evening, as guests dance the night away. Because of postponements and cancellations related to COVID-19 restrictions, engaged couples are quickly...
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No Venue? No Problem. How to Throw a Swoon-Worthy Wedding at Home.
On December 30, 1945, Virginia Stovall and Bert Fincher were married at her parents’ small home in Abilene, Texas, about 180 miles west of Dallas with about 15 family members in attendance. They had a...
View ArticleRevisiting Katie Jones and John Templeton’s Whimsical Wedding
Did you know you can have a unicorn at your wedding? It’s true. This couple enlisted the help of a unicorn to pass out late-night snacks and dance-floor props—just a few of the nontraditional touches...
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The Wedding That Couldn’t Wait…From Engagement to “I Do” in Just Five Days
There are short engagements…and then there area really short engagements, as in five days short. This is exactly what Dallas couple JaLisa Jefferson (Vaughn), 27, and Cory Jefferson, 29, wanted when...
View ArticleRevisiting Haley Hall and Trevor Tamlyn’s Sweet, Surprise-Filled Nuptials
Big weddings may be on hold for a while, thanks to COVID-19 restrictions, but that doesn’t mean you can’t think big when it comes to special touches, elegant features, and fun surprises. This wedding...
View ArticleRevisiting Hanna Abood and Nick Pike’s Budget-Friendly, Beautiful Elopement
This couple went from engagement to saying “I do” in just 44 days. If the restrictions of COVID-19 have put a damper on your wedding planning, remember this couple. We admire how they pulled off a...
View ArticleStressed About Wedding Planning? Zone Out at The Ozone Bar
Once the excitement about your engagement subsides, the planning begins–setting a date, booking a venue and caterer, choosing flowers, cake tasting, and wedding dress shopping. For many brides, finding...
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