While a few DIY projects for your wedding are a must do to make it your own, we at CWS recommend choosing those projects really carefully.  This day is not supposed to be work for the bride or groom but something to enjoy and a wonderful day to remember forever.   At CWS we have [...]

  This holiday was set up [officially] in 1971 as the last Monday in May but historically it was the 30th of May.   This year, they are both on the same day so it’s extra special.   I have to admit, though, I spent most of my life not really knowing what this holiday was all [...]

  You already know from my blog list yesterday, click here to read, and my re-post of  their labyrinth find, click here to read, that I’m a huge fan of CHARLIE.  Caroline Nuttall and her staff always seem to find the coolest, newest, most fun things!  Last week, though, it took a more serious turn [...]

As I said last week, I’ve been following a ton of blogs in general and  many of them are fantastic ‘real wedding’  blogs full of fantastic idea and images.  Many of the blogs  I follow fall into other categories like various wedding vendor sites, DIY sites which many ideas can parlayed into wedding usefulness, and [...]

    Read the original article from Mint.com by clicking here. “It’s the financial conundrum of many married couples in the making. The caterer is finalized, the programs are printed, and the rings are sized and ready to be exchanged.  You navigated the murky waters of wedding budgeting, and emerged relatively unscathed. But the “big [...]

  On July 1st and 2nd we get another Royal Wedding treat! For some fantastic pictures of the Royal Couple (so handsome!) posted on the Monaco’s official royal website, click here. As reprinted from the Huffington Post travel column, below, to read the original click here. “Can we ever get enough of the magnificent pageantry [...]

        I was catching up on some of my magazine reading last night and grabbed a couple Coastal Living issues, a glass of wine and plopped myself down on my little postage stamp of a back deck and proceeded to find a couple of great Charleston shout outs! Coastal Living has a [...]

  In the course of the last few months, I’ve subscribed to any and every blog that I come across!  I wanted to list a few and hopefully get a few new ones from you!  These are specifically bridal blogs that post about everything wedding with ideas and lots of pretty pictures.   There are a [...]

  I like all things pretty and fun, ask anyone who knows me.   I don’t do ugly topics well at all (think politics and religion as discussed in groups, death, sadness, animals suffering and people suffering – in that order and loss of any sort really). I typically won’t read a book or watch a [...]

Today’s “Wedding of the World” keeps us right here on our own soil with the native cultures of our great land.  As I learned, Native American wedding traditions vary from tribe to tribe, of which there are many.   Wedding Vase I’ve always loved Indian pottery and I love the concept of a wedding vase.  [...]

  Three cheers to Caroline Nutall and her crew at Charlie for consistently delivering the best info on what’s new and hip in Charleston and reminding us about the fantastic existing opportunities in our fantastic town!  I am a big fan of Labyrinth’s and was excited enough years ago to find one at Mepkin Abbey [...]

I’ll admit right away that this is a completely selfish blog post!  Sarah with Dodeline Design is making fabulous webpages that once they encompass this blog will comprise our full, new, wonderful, gorgeous, brawny, overflowing-with-pretty-pictures-and-useful-information-for-brides website! As we build content for her to use on the site, I may post here from time to time [...]

        Hello there CWS blog readers!  My name is Sarah and I am a graphic designer here in Charleston (dodeline design), and I do a lot with the wedding industry, but most especially wedding invitations. As of a week and a half ago though, I became not just a wedding vendor – [...]

    Choosing your wedding vendors can be a daunting task as there is such a wealth of talent in Charleston!  Three of our CWS vendor members speak up on choosing your wedding photographer. Jeni Rone with Sea Star Arts: 1. Find a photographer that makes you smile when you view the images in their [...]

                          What can I say about an Icelandic wedding?  The general gist is the same as ours but turbo charge it!  Add days, multiple church announcements, add a year to two to the traditional engagement, two separate invitations, several hour ceremonies, oh and [...]

                In our last Charleston Local column we featured Drew Harrison and Matt Frye of Roots Ice Cream and this Friday we are still talking food with a feature on the recent Sustainable Seafood Initiative Dinner at Wild Dunes Resort. Thanks to Charlie Mag’s Facebook contest, I won [...]

I love this,  so much pretty and the talent attributes to two of our very own CWS vendor members!  Every single one of these photos is credited to David Despeaux, see more of his wedding and commercial work by clicking here. The reason we are all there on this day is to see the new [...]

Wednesday’s we feature one of our vendor members to do a guest blog post, today’s column is written by Chris Gentry of Palmetto City Photobooth. • “This is the coolest idea!” • “I have never seen this before!” • “Wow! This is so much fun!” • “I wish I would have had a photo booth [...]