The IWED Blog

PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, two independent colours that highlight how different elements come together to support one another, best express the mood for Pantone Color of the Year 2021. Practical and rock solid but at the same time warming ...

Very formal sit-down wedding dinners used to be expected. Everyone sat in their assigned seats and waited until their meal had been served. Although some brides and grooms asked guests ahead of time if they had any allergies or food intolerances, not every guest was accommo...

Elaine Welteroth & Jonathon Singletary, Brayden Boyd & Michelle Fonseca, and Lindsay Crames & Waldo Saville don’t know each other and probably never will know each other.   But the couples all have something very special in common. They all got married during th...

Houses, clothes, hairstyles and even food. Sometimes I look at a photo and just know when the featured item was designed. There’s nothing wrong with being on the cutting edge of style. What would 2010 have been without hipster style? Or athleisure? Abercrombie...

Not every wedding day disaster can be fixed by a little something in anemergency kit. Whether we’ve seen it online or been witness to the actualdisaster many of us know about weddings that, for instance, have been latestarting because the minister double-booked ...

Whether it’s your first wedding or your hundredth party, event planning is stressful. So stressful, in fact, that event coordinator was named the fifth most stressful job in 2017 by Forbes. Why is it so stressful? First of all, there are lots of moving parts. ...

I was coming out of a meeting the other day and heard one of my colleagues say to a womanwho was about to get married, “The party at your reception is the best part of your wedding.”I snorted. “Clearly,” I said, “she’s never been married. The party is the second bes...

Yes, No, WTH!According to the 1863 holiday favorite, ‘Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat’. Butaccording to Wedding Wire, ‘Christmas is coming’ and it’s the most popular day for couples toget engaged. Before the wedding planning starts, before wedding...

Every wedding planning checklist focuses on color. Why so much emphasis on choosing colors?  Because the palette sets the mood for the entire wedding. Probably more than the theme of the ceremony and reception, colors give an immediate feel to everything from invitati...

What do Taco Bell, New York’s Coney Island roller coaster, and the shark tank at the LongIsland Aquarium in Riverhead, Long Island have in common? If your answer is they’re allfood and entertainment venues, you would be right. Kind of. Those places, along with a few...