Feature Friday: DIY Guestbook

Guestbook

Happy Friday SJE fans! This Friday’s DIY project is the wedding guestbook.  If you and your fiancée are sports fans, then try this fun project.  Have your new last name printed on a replica jersey of your favorite team.  Then have guests sign it and place the jersey in a frame to hang on your… read more »

All Things Flowers

Happy February SJE fans! Yes, it’s February, the month of love and soon you may be receiving flowers. Have you ever found yourself wondering about the different flower terms? If you are knee deep in wedding planning or just starting you will probably hear many floral terms during the planning process. It isn’t necessary to… read more »

Don’t Forget to Say Thank You

Thank You

    Happy Monday and Happy February! We are certainly zipping right through 2010 at a fabulous pace. Today we examine the all important “Thank You” of wedding etiquette.   Don’t email. Even though we live in an age of instant communication via social networking, cell phones, and emails, there is nothing more personal than… read more »

Indian Wedding Traditions

Photo Courtesy of the Knot Good morning and welcome to the last full week of January 2010! Whew, time sure flies when you’re having fun. The Simply Jubilee team met so many beautiful brides of all backgrounds and cultures at the Bridal soiree this weekend.  It’s an awesome pleasure to live in an international city such as… read more »

The Second Line Defined

Photo Courtesy of Style Me Pretty.com and Zoieca Images

Photo Courtesy of Style Me Pretty.com The planners here at Simply Jubilee Events have been privileged to plan several weddings in New Orleans over the past few years. This year will be no different! Many couples love to incorporate a “second line” march into their reception processional. The “second line” refers to the participants that… read more »

The Kiss

kiss

  The tradition of the wedding kiss is something so special, which holds an equally special tradition many aren’t aware of. Although the couple may kiss after reciting their wedding vows, the first kiss as a married couple contains a historical meaning as well. Not only is this of course, a way to demonstrate their… read more »

Wedding Traditions

Something blue

Taking part in the tradition of something old, new, borrowed and  blue has become almost a standard in most weddings.  We all take part in it, but where did it come from?  It is a popular rhyme that has been used since the Victorian times.  The “something old” is the bond that ties the bride’s… read more »

The Tradition of Wedding Cake Pulls

Cake Pulls TN

The tradition of cake pulls originated in Victorian England. Prior to a Victorian bride’s wedding, she would hide several sterling silver charms attached to satin ribbons within her wedding cake. Before she and the groom cut the first slice, her bridesmaids would each pull a charm as a special keepsake of the day. Each charm… read more »