When my husband and I got married, we had a small ceremony with just 100 guests in his parent’s backyard.  We wanted to keep things simple, and one thing we opted to do was to skip having a professional photographer.  Instead, we opted to have disposable cameras on each table (keep in mind it was 20 years ago so smartphones weren’t around) and have a few family members use our camera (which was a pretty good one) to take a few specific photos.  Looking back, we both wish we’d gone with a professional wedding photographer.

The truth is that I could have easily posted this blog back in July; most offices (and churches and grocery stores and…..) are cold year-round, and so I find that I carry around a cardigan sweater to most places in the summer.  But there’s something about being cold in the winter that’s different.  Perhaps when it is summer, you can always walk outside and warm up.  In the winter, you drive to work in the cold, walk to the office where it’s cold, and work all day inside an office that’s cold. 

So, what can you do?  Here are a few tips that will hopefully help you survive.

A couple months ago, we shared with you a story about a 25-year-old veil that traveled from Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Winston-Salem, where Brian disassembled the veil, cleaned it, reassembled it, and shipped it back to Tennessee in time for the final gown fitting and ultimately the big day.  The thing we failed to mention in that post, and other posts in fact, was that we do this sort of thing all the time.  We’ve had so many requests for wedding

It has happened to all of us.  You’re out for a lovely evening and you spill something down the front of your shirt, blouse, dress, what have you, and instinctively, you try some club soda or water, take a napkin, and try to rub it out.  But wait – we have some advice; here’s what Shores recommends: