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The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
Welcome to The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast! This podcast is for brides, grooms and anyone else who doesn't feel represented in mainstream wedding media. Haven't been dreaming of your big day since you were six? Don't care about chair covers or personalized napkins? Thinking about eloping, nixing the wedding party or only spending $5000? You're in the right place! From engagement to honeymoon and everything in between, join me as we plan weddings that are about what we really want -…
Episodes
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
How Do You Plan a Backyard Wedding Without Losing Your Mind?
Inspired by listener Michelle, this week's episode is all about backyard weddings and how to plan them without absolutely losing your sh*t! Because it turns…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
11 Wedding Planning Regrets to Watch Out For
REBROADCAST: Back in episode 50 I shared 9 common wedding planning regrets and how to avoid them. So for episode 70, I'm back with 11 more regrets you should…
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How to Choose Your Wedding Date
One of the first major wedding planning tasks you have to accomplish is choosing your wedding date. But how do you actually make that decision? Tune in for my…
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Your Wedding Planning Checklist (Part 2)
REBROADCAST: I'm back with part two of your wedding planning checklist and timeline. We're picking up where we left off with everything you're "supposed" to do…
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Your Wedding Planning Checklist (Part 1)
REBROADCAST: Welcome to your wedding planning checklist and timeline! On today's episode I'm taking you through what a typical wedding planning checklist and…
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How to Host an Alcohol-Free, Dry Wedding (But Still Have Fun)
Whether you're sober, not a big drinker or just thinking about not serving alcohol at your wedding to save a little money, there are lots of good reasons to…
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Everything You Need to Know About Vows
REBROADCAST: This episode of the Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast is all about VOWS! From how to decide if you want to write your own to how to write…
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8 Things You Never Want Your Wedding Guests to Do
From switching seats at the reception and bringing you a gift that wasn't on your registry to overdoing it at the bar or starting some family drama, I'm back…
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How to Not Feel Guilty About Going Over Your Wedding Budget
REBROADCAST: Going over your wedding budget and over-spending SUCKS and can make you feel super guilty. But we don't want to spend our entire wedding planning…
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8 Mistakes Wedding Guests Make (and How You Can Help Fix Them)
As a couple planning a wedding, the last thing you want to deal with is a guest showing up late, ignoring the dress code or not bothering to RSVP. But how do…
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12 Fun Wedding Planning Tasks You Can Do Together
REBROADCAST: When your wedding planning just feels stressful, chaotic and like way too much work, it's time to focus on the FUN side of wedding planning. Tune…
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Why You Shouldn’t Hire Friends as Your Wedding Vendors
REBROADCAST: Hiring friends to be your wedding vendors (or friendors) isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, they know you well and will probably do it for a…
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9 Actually Good Wedding Gift Ideas for Your Parents and In-Laws
We're talking wedding gifts and sadly, not just the ones you are going to receive. This week's episode is all about the wedding gifts you have to give -…
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How to Plan a Wedding with Your In-Laws
REBROADCAST: Planning a wedding is tough enough but now add in family dynamics? Yikes! What is the best way to involve your in-laws in your wedding planning?…
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11 Reasons to Pay for Your Own Wedding
REBROADCAST: Turn down free money? Yeah, maybe. On today's episode of The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast I'm diving into 11 reasons why you should pay…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
16 Gen Z Wedding Trends - Love 'em or Hate 'em?
With more of the wedding industry being dominated by Gen Z, this millennial thought she'd weigh in on some Gen Z wedding trends. What is the younger generation…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
15 Things to Know Before Planning Your Honeymoon
REBROADCAST: So you're planning to go on a honeymoon...congrats! As a big travel lover, the honeymoon is one of (the most?) important part of my wedding…
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How to Navigate Tricky Family Relationships on Your Wedding Day
Wedding planning is hard enough when you remember that you're combining two families, spending more money than you ever have and planning a once in a lifetime…
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What to Do When You Have Wedding Regrets
REBROADCAST: Uh oh! You made a decision about your wedding and now you've changed your mind. But it's too late! What do you do when you have wedding regrets?…
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What Actually Happens If You Go Over Your Wedding Budget
There's a lot of wedding content out there about how to stay on budget for your wedding - how to save money, how to set your budget, how to be under budget…
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To DIY or Not to DIY
REBROADCAST: The big wedding planning question: to DIY or not to DIY? We've been told that DIY projects are what makes a budget wedding and that if you want to…
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11 Wedding Vendor Red Flags to Watch Out For
So you think you've found an amazing wedding vendor. You've been fawning over their social media pages for years and they just so happen to be available for…
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How to Tell Someone They’re Not Invited to Your Wedding
REBROADCAST: This episode of the Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast is all about that awkward conversation...when you have to tell someone they're not…
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Answering More of Your Wedding Planning Questions
This week we're diving into three listener wedding planning questions tackling subjects like wedding weekends and what your guests expect, how to plan a…
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All About Wedding Invitations!
REBROADCAST: Today's episode of the Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast is all about wedding invitations. And because this isn't a podcast about etiquette…
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I Want to Elope and He Wants a Big Wedding. Now What?
What happens when you want to elope and your partner wants a big wedding? Or when you've always dreamt of a destination wedding and your fiance prefers to keep…
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What to Do When Wedding Planning Feels Frivolous
REBROADCAST: Sometimes wedding planning feels frivolous. Or silly. Or ridiculous. Or just unnecessary. Especially when something big and real and awful happens…
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14 More Wedding Details to Cut From Your Budget
Looking to save money, time and stress? Aren't we all! This week I'm back with even more wedding details and extras that you can CUT from your budget. Not only…
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15 Wedding Details to STOP Spending Money On
If you want to chop your wedding budget in half, you're going to need to make some drastic cuts. But what if you just want to save yourself a couple hundred or…
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How to Tell People You’re Having an Unconventional Wedding
REBROADCAST: If you're planning an unconventional or non-traditional wedding, sometimes you need to break the news to the people in your life ahead of time…
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How and When to Ask People to Be in Your Wedding Party
If you're newly engaged, it can be so easy to get swept up in the excitement as you share your news with all of your friends and family. But then all of a…
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What If You Don't Want to Be Given Away?
REBROADCAST: So what happens if you're a bride and you don't want your father to give you away? Do you have to have your dad walk you down the aisle and hand…
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12 Wedding After Party Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
Once upon a time weddings were just ceremonies. Then came receptions. And now we've got welcome parties, rehearsal dinners, next day brunches and, of course…
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9 Common Wedding Regrets (& How to Avoid Them!)
REBROADCAST: On today's episode of the Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast I'm diving into nine common wedding regrets from real brides and grooms. Are…
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Is It Just Cold Feet or Something More Serious?
Good news, wedding planners! I used a new recording platform to record this episode and I think the audio is way better! Let me know what you think (contact…
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How to Plan a Budget Wedding for Less Than $5000
REBROADCAST: I'm back with another wedding planning episode all about budget weddings. Specifically, can you plan a wedding with a budget of only $5000?…
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What You Actually Need to Include on Your Wedding Website
Welcome to episode #150, wedding planners - we made it! It only took us 150 episodes to finally talk all about the wedding website. But we're here now, so…
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How to Survive a Long Engagement
REBROADCAST: So many engaged couples have had to deal with long engagements as their weddings get pushed out, postponed or downsized. Most couples are engaged…
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10 Things Wedding Party Members Should NOT Have to Do
If you're planning to have a wedding party (aka bridal party with bridesmaids, groomsmen, people of honor, etc.) at your wedding, you need to listen to this…
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How Long Should You Be Engaged For?
REBROADCAST: If you just got engaged, congratulations! With the proposal behind you and wedding planning on the brain, you might be wondering how long this…
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How to Plan a Wedding When You’re Short on Time
How do you plan a full-scale wedding when you only have <6 months to pull it off? Or how do you plan a wedding for hundreds when you're busy with work, life…
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The 7 2025 Wedding Trends I Love
After hating on 2025 wedding trends a couple of weeks ago, I thought I'd end the year with a little love and share the 2025 wedding trends I'm excited about…
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The 15 2025 Wedding Trends I Hate
With 2024 coming to an end, it's time to look ahead at the biggest wedding trends for 2025! I'm starting things off with a little hate sharing the 2025 wedding…
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Part 2: 13 More Wedding Etiquette Rules All Guests Should Follow
I'm back with part two of my wedding etiquette rules all guests should follow. In this episode, we're talking about rules for the reception and after the…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
Part 1: 14 Wedding Etiquette Rules All Guests Should Follow
As people planning a wedding, it can be really annoying when your wedding guests don't follow what we assume are basic wedding etiquette rules. Why can't they…
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How to Combine the Spiritual and Secular in Your Wedding
What happens if you're religious and your partner isn't? Or they're secular and you're spiritual? Or you're both religious, but they're Pagan while you're…
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5 Hard Wedding Planning Truths You Need to Hear
REBROADCAST: Whether you're planning a budget wedding or a lavish wedding, whether you have a wedding party of 20 or no wedding party at all, whether you're…
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What to Include in Your Wedding Backup Plan
Even the best laid plans can be totally upturned when a vendor no-shows, guests get sick, your partner breaks their leg, and it decides to rain and hail on…
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Help! My Dad Thinks We’re Being Cheap With Our Wedding
In today's episode, I'm tackling a listener question all about wedding budgets and parents. What happens if your parents think you're being cheap or are…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
Should You Change Your Last Name?
REBROADCAST: Today we're tackling the big question: After the wedding, should you change your last name? And, if so, what should your married last name be? Are…
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How to Compromise With Your Partner When You Have Different Wedding Visions
You've always envisioned a six-tier wedding cake while your partner wants to serve donut holes. You want an outdoor wedding and they want it indoors. You want…
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Who Gets a Plus One?
REBROADCAST: When it comes to your wedding, who gets a plus one? Do you have to give a plus one to all of your single wedding guests? What about the ones in…
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How to Plan a Wedding as a Parent
Whether you're chasing after a two year old, creating a blended family with your spouse-to-be or empty nesters, planning a wedding as a parent can look a lot…
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Your Wedding Should NOT Be the Best Day of Your Life
REBROADCAST: We always hear that your wedding day should be the best day of your life - that your wedding day is going to be perfect and you should go all out…
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13 Low Cost Ways to Reduce Wedding Waste
In this mega-episode I'm covering 13 ways you can reduce wedding waste without increasing your wedding budget. Tune in for lots of practical tips, easy changes…
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How to Stand Up to Wedding Judgment
REBROADCAST: It's sad but it's true: people are going to judge your wedding. Wedding judgment is real and people are full of opinions if you're a bride, groom…
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How to STOP Being a People Pleaser With Your Own Wedding
How do you stop being a people pleaser and prioritize your own feelings and wants in wedding planning? And how do you stop feeling guilty when you finally…
- The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast
What to Do When You Lose Your Wedding Planning Mojo
REBROADCAST: In last week's episode I talked about hitting wedding planning burnout. So what do you do when you lose your wedding planning mojo? It is totally…
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Planning Your Wedding Before You’re Engaged
You may assume that most couples don't start planning their weddings until after they're engaged. But according to a study by The Knot, you'd be wrong! As many…
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It’s Okay to Have a Cheap, Budget Wedding
REBROADCAST: So often couples feel ashamed or guilty if they're not spending $35,000+ on their weddings. But I'm here to tell you: IT'S OKAY TO BE CHEAP! It is…