About

Today’s Weddings began in July 1999 as a message forum — a free meeting place on Delphi where women planning weddings traded what they had worked out for themselves. It became one of the busiest wedding forums on the service, and the answers people kept giving each other there were worth more than a thread. On 1 April 2000 they became a website, published by Vanessa Kasal Kunze, who created it and wrote most of it.

Where the material comes from

A great deal of it came from the forum: readings members had actually used at their ceremonies, wording they had puzzled over for a difficult invitation, favours they had made at the kitchen table and then explained to everyone else. The rest was researched and written for the site. Where a piece is somebody else’s — a poem, a blessing, a scripture — it is attributed.

What’s here

The reference half is the heart of it: readings for the ceremony, wording and etiquette for the invitations, what each flower means, music for the ceremony and the reception, and a section on the dress — silhouettes, necklines, sleeves, trains, veils and what the fabrics are actually called. Alongside it sit the craft projects, the articles, the cake and bouquet galleries couples sent in, and the vendor directory.

Corrections

Some of this material is twenty-five years old. If a reading is misattributed, a name is spelled wrong, or a page is missing something it used to have, we would rather know — tell us and it will be fixed.

Using it

Everything here was researched and written for Today’s Weddings unless noted otherwise, and it is not to be reproduced elsewhere without permission. Print what you need for your own wedding, with our blessing.