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Service: Wedding Makeup / Hair
Anomalie Beauty Agency provides luxury on-site hair styling and makeup artistry for weddings. Think of them as your own personal glam squad! Their mission is to make you feel comfortable,…
Service: Wedding Favors
Salty Sweet's mission is to rid the world of mediocre cookies. Melissa Cohen, baker extraordinaire, is committed to making the most magnificent cookies you'll ever eat. She uses the highest-quality…
Service: Wedding Honeymoons / Romantic Getaways
Weddings With Flair works closely with each couple to create one-of-a-kind vacation, honeymoon, and destination wedding packages with plenty of perks. Because no one wants to show up for their…
Service: Wedding Coordinator / Wedding Planner
Weddings & Events Made Easy is a full-service event planning, design, and coordination company. Owner Lauren Doll says, "It's our goal to alleviate the stress of wedding planning by walking…
Service: Wedding Elopement Packages
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Are you looking for an intimate, affordable, and stress-free wedding experience? Elope In Austin has you covered! From civil elopements to small micro-weddings, they can provide an all-inclusive wedding experience…
Service: Wedding Photography
Bethany Fritz puts it quite simply: “Creative brides and grooms deserve a creative photographer; someone to provide beautiful and unique images that best represent you.” Bethany’s images are atypical, far…
Service: Wedding Photography
Ashley is the type of wedding photographer that becomes your BFF. She's just not satisfied with the show-up-and-shoot wedding experience. Instead, she takes the time to build real relationships with…
Service: Wedding Dresses / Accessories
The Dessy Group is pretty much a wedding industry staple. Founded in New York City in 1939, The Dessy Group got its start designing bridal veils and attendants headpieces! Today,…
Service: Wedding Favors
Freedom Bakery and Confections is all that you would wish for in a neighborhood bakeshop: Family owned and operated since 1975, they produce all of their gourmet wedding cakes, cupcakes,…
Service: Wedding Elopement Packages
High Mountain Weddings offers a stress-free, all-inclusive outdoor wedding package in the beautiful and scenic Lake Tahoe area. Whether it’s a summer lakefront wedding or a snowy winter celebration, Rev.…
Service: Wedding DJ / Entertainment / Music
Amy Yassinger, a professional vocalist and bandleader, established Yazz Jazz as a one-stop shop for all your wedding entertainment needs. She says, “Why not give clients the opportunity to have…
Service: Wedding Insurance
WedSafe® offers two wedding insurance products that can be purchased individually or as a package that may help provide security and protect your wedding: Wedding Event Cancellation / Postponement Plus…
Service: Wedding Suits / Tuxedo Rental
Rent the highest quality tuxedos and suits online without ever visiting a store! Generation Tux has dedicated themselves to overhauling the old brick-and-mortar, laminated-catalog, outdated-inventory formalwear shopping experience with their…
Service: Wedding Invitations
Walk into their store at 3 Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA and you're in wedding stationery heaven. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases of wedding invitation samples fill the room, as well as…
Service: Wedding Honeymoons / Romantic Getaways
LovinAway creates unique and personal destination wedding, honeymoon, and romantic vacation experiences within Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii. They focus on all the travel details so the only thing YOU…
Service: Wedding Video
Shutter and Sound Films doesn't want you to just rewatch your big day—they want you to relive it! They're an award-winning wedding cinematography company serving DC, LA, Denver, Seattle, Atlanta,…
Service: Wedding DJ / Entertainment / Music
Consistently voted one of the top wedding bands in Chicago, David Rothstein Music considers themselves experts at packing the dance floor. Their high-energy bands feature professional vocalists with a music…
Service: Wedding Photography
Teri wants your wedding photos to be not only physical proof that it all happened; but a way to make you remember how it all felt. An artist by nature,…
Service: Wedding DJ / Entertainment / Music
All Ears DJ gets it. You don’t want a cheesy wedding DJ in a ruffled tuxedo playing the Chicken Dance at your reception! The good news is that it doesn’t…
Service: Wedding Coordinator / Wedding Planner
Soirée Weddings & Events is a boutique event planning firm specializing in elegant downtown Chicago weddings. A self-proclaimed “hopeless romantic,” owner Tiffany Munster admits she’s a sucker for all things…