Once you’ve secured your wedding date, time, and venue, it’s a perfect opportunity to start exploring your wedding invitations. While some couples prefer their invitation suite to reflect the season,…
Amanda Hanna
Amanda Hanna
Amanda Hanna is a fictionist, non-fictionist, poet, and Chicago native. Her work has been featured in Wolf-PAC, Starcity, Crain's Chicago Business, Slag Glass City, LitCity312, and elsewhere. Follow her at theamandahanna.com.
Once you’ve sealed your vows with a kiss, your wedding guests will be eager to celebrate. To avoid any confusion or disarray with seating arrangements, it’s common to display wedding…
One way to get creative (and have fun!) with your wedding website is by establishing a URL that represents you and your partner. Whether it’s simple, catchy, or quirky, your…
- Registries + GiftsWedding Guests
How Much to Spend on a Wedding Gift: 8 Things You Should Know
by Amanda HannaWhen you receive a wedding invitation and RSVP as “Attending,” it’s common practice to give the happy couple a wedding gift. You can think of this gift as a sweet…
Your wedding registry is an ideal (and fun!) opportunity to start preparing for your new life together. After all, you and your fiancé get to sit down, take stock of…
With more couples choosing to get married virtually, collecting RSVPs for a digital event might feel unnecessary. After all, couples can simply share their live stream link by text or…
Over the last few months, the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has upended, or altogether halted, many couples’ wedding plans. Due to safety precautions like state- and city-wide lockdowns, stay-in-place orders,…
Gone are the days when wedding planning meant using a paper calendar to organize your schedule, sifting through print ads for venues, and handwriting your To-Do list. Of course, you…
Pooja and Ajinkya met through an arranged marriage and though their homes in Pune, India were only three miles apart during their undergraduate years, they never crossed paths before. After…
- Tips and TricksWedding Planning
How Much to Tip Wedding Vendors: Our Comprehensive Guide
by Amanda HannaFrom your photographer and videographer to your hair and makeup artist, it takes a village to pull off a wedding. So how do you show your gratitude for a job well…
Widely regarded as “America’s Finest City,” San Diego offers a host of luxuries to suit any budget and preference for those planning their wedding. With white-sand beaches, picturesque oceanfronts, and…
How did you get into DJing? I initially got into DJing while doing radio when I was at UC Santa Cruz. I was an on-air personality and fell into DJing…
As the 13th largest city in the US and the 4th largest city in California, San Francisco has no shortage of historic and romantic places to get engaged. Known for its breathtaking views and vistas,…
Love is as universal a feeling as hunger. But just as cultures around the world are vast and diverse, so too are the traditions and expectations that fall within them…
When you first get engaged, it’s common to experience waves of emotion—shock, surprise, thrill, joy—much like a Jackson Pollock painting. But when the paint dries and the initial excitement wears…