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Green Wedding Favors

Green weddings have become a popular theme for weddings in the last decade and green wedding favors or bonbonnieres can assist in reducing your weddings carbon emissions. Here are some ideas for your green wedding favors.

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Hiring a Wedding Planner for Your Outdoor Wedding

Are you currently entertaining the idea of an outside wedding due to COVID restrictions? Have you thought about hiring a wedding planner for the event? Planners provide invaluable support for outdoor weddings and can help you navigate the changes ahead as you adjust your wedding plans. They can make phone calls to vendors, help with updated contracts, and suggest location ideas, along with a million other things. Below are some considerations when hiring a planner for your outdoor wedding.

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Notifying Guests of Your New Date

It’s slowly becoming clearer— the future of 2020 weddings in the QCA is bleak. Unfortunately, a 50-guest wedding and a socially-distanced dance floor aren’t what most of today’s couples have in mind. Chances are you’re going to need to change your plans. After you’ve contacted your vendors and your VIP family members and bridal party, your next step will be to notify your guests.

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Current COVID Guidelines

No one could have seen a pandemic affecting our lives so greatly, and no one really knows how the next few months will go. Iowa and Illinois are approaching the re-opening process quite differently, but we’re here to clarify what’s currently allowed in each state and give you some pointers for moving forward.

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COVID Advice from QCA Vendors

Today, we’ve asked QCA wedding vendors to share their thoughts and advice with area couples considering postponing. We recently released our guide for decision-making and arranging alternate dates — COVID-19 & Your Wedding. And we also have some graphics to help you organize availability of your vendors, friends, and family for potential postponement dates. You can download that here— Vendor Potential Dates and VIP Potential Dates. We’re also working with vendors to compile a spreadsheet of their 2020 availability.

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Your Wedding and Coronavirus

The NCAA tournament. PGA tour. Broadway. Disney World. Bars. Restaurants. Is your wedding next?

The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has changed our lives in a matter of days. And now we’re left to figure out where to go next. If you have a 2020 wedding planned, here are some tips to keep in mind.

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Registry Etiquette

Gift registries are a super fun way to compile your marriage wish-list! They’re an ideal way to reasonably guarantee that you won’t get twenty can openers and that you do get the bath towels in the color you wanted.

Before you start adding to your online registries or head to Bed Bath & Beyond, consider these basic wedding registry etiquette tips.

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