Your Most Outrageous Wedding Disaster Stories!


Updated 06/29/10 1:07 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 5 comments

Outrageous Wedding Disaster Stories

When I asked you guys to share the worst wedding disaster stories you know, you really brought your A game. From fainting grooms, to falling out hairpieces, to ringing phones, lots of crazy stuff has gone down at the alter and later at the reception. Below are some of your wedding nightmare stories that could make even the coolest bride-to-be lose sleep. I was at a wedding not long ago where Read more

Share Your Worst Wedding Disaster Stories!


Updated 11/09/10 7:33 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 49 comments

Wedding Disaster Stories 2010-06-19 09:42:52

We're all about the the big day, as we start to wrap up wedding season here at Sugar. Everyone wants their wedding to go smoothly, but sometimes disaster strikes. It may not be as comical as in 16 Candles, when the bride got her period and zonked out on pain medication she took to ease her cramps, but wedding nightmares can turn out to be just as dramatic. Maybe the roses showed up hot pink Read more

How to Make Sure You Seal the Deal on Your Wedding Night


Updated 07/01/10 10:43 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 5 comments

How to Make Sure You Have Sex on Your Wedding Day

More than 65 percent of you had sex on your wedding night. That's more than half, but the 35 percent of you who didn't suggest that it's not easy to get busy after an exhausting day. Based on your comments on our poll, I found a few tips to help brides seal the deal. Don't worry about having the best sex ever. spacekatgal explained that although she had sex: "I was exhausted. Non-exhausted sex Read more

Wedding Decor: Our Cocktail Reception


Updated 06/28/10 1:19 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Wedding Tablescapes With Milk Glass and Succulents

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member Saittica from the Lovely Little Vignettes group. I'm loving her milk glass centerpieces! We had a cocktail reception so we had couches and benches for seating and coffee tables with succulent center pieces.  The succulents are planted in milkglass pieces that we collected at flea markets. For more lovely photos, keep reading. Read more

How to Give a Toast Without Embarrassing Yourself


Updated 06/16/10 6:13 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 2 comments

How to Give a Great Wedding Toast

A good toast will never be the most talked about part of a wedding, but a bad toast will be — for all the wrong reasons. Surely we all remember the scene in Wedding Crashers, when Rachel McAdams's character awkwardly silences the room with her jabs at her sister's money-grubbing tendencies. If you've been asked to stand up and say a few words, don't fret. Just follow these simple tips to make a Read more

Did You Have Sex on Your Wedding Night?


Updated 11/05/10 1:24 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 40 comments

Did You Have Sex on Your Wedding Night?

Weddings can be exhausting, especially your own. After hours of being "on" — not to mention months of planning — I can imagine just wanting to plop down on your postnuptial bed and zonk out. But if there's any night when "I'm tired" should be no excuse, your wedding night would be it. Especially if you've saved yourself for marriage! So, to the wives out there: did you manage to make it to Read more

Awkward! Cut From the Wedding Guest List!


Updated 06/03/09 11:44 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 33 comments

Awkward! Cut From the Wedding Guest List!

Beware. Bad behavior can get you cut from a wedding guest list. At least it happened to a friend of mine last year. The bride in question was throwing an engagement party. Without any warning, my friend pulled a no show. The bride later found out that instead of going to the long-planned party, she spent the day with a new crush! And the bride was particularly hurt because my friend (also her Read more

Do Tell: Where Would You Hold a Destination Wedding?


Updated 07/22/09 9:19 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 46 comments

Do Tell: Where Would You Hold a Destination Wedding?

I'm heading to Paris later this year to be a bridesmaid in my good friend's wedding. Anywhere they chose was bound to be a faraway destination for many guests, considering she's from Chicago, her fiancé is from Australia, and they live together in England. They chose Paris for the wedding, since they got engaged there, and well, it's très romantique! While a destination wedding can be Read more

5 Wedding Traditions and What They Mean


Updated 06/26/08 4:00 PM · Posted by · 42 comments

5 Wedding Traditions and What They Mean

Something borrowed, something blue, and something . . . . totally bizarre. Don't you sometimes wonder where our weirder wedding traditions come from? From throwing rice to wearing blue, lots of things happen at weddings that I've never totally understood. Mental Floss has a fun list of eight weird origins of wedding traditions. Here are five of my favorite back stories from MF's list of bizarre Read more

Bride and Groom's First Dance Is Timeless!


Updated 06/20/08 1:01 PM · Posted by · 13 comments

Evolution of the Wedding Dance

It's become trendy for the newly married couple to forgo a sappy love song during the wedding reception and bust out a high-energy choreographed routine instead. I thought no one could top the couple who raunched up the dance floor with their "ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh" to Sir Mix-a-Lot, but watch the duo below. They took a cue from the wildly viral Evolution of Dance and did it all. There was Read more