by Alison Moore Smith | May 10, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
Finalizing the invitation for the wedding was, surprisingly, the most difficult part of the wedding planning. There are so many options with such cost variables that coming to a final decision was difficult for the bride and groom. (To be fair, the bride — with her...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 14, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
After castigating all potential partygoers for thinking RSVPs are just an old-fashioned, cultural artifact (they aren't!), I have a public confession to make. Although I'm rather a student of formal etiquette (and an enormous fan of Judith Martin!), I don't follow...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 10, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
One of the things we love about our wedding reception venue, is the movable ceiling grids. They can be decorated with lights, fabric, lanterns, or myriad combinations of things. Jessica really wanted to have a pretty ceiling decor package, and Noah's has a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 9, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
Having moved fairly frequently since we married 25 years ago, Sam and I don't have long, trailing roots here in Lindon. Our friends our spread all over the country. So while the announcements will go out to about 400 people, we expect less than 150 at the actual...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 4, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
A Mormon wedding differs from others in a number of ways, but there are many aspects that will be familiar to just about everyone. While there is really no “typical LDS wedding,” there are traditions that tend to surround them, even outside areas with lots...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 10, 2011 | for Love, Mormon Wedding
Ever since I was a young(er) mom, running around Boca Raton with four daughters in tow, I've heard about what I had coming. Most times we were in public I heard shrieks — from senior citizens with strong New York accents — directed at our little estrogen-heavy...
