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20 Backyard Wedding Ideas

20 Backyard Wedding Ideas

Are you and your partner planning a backyard wedding? First of all, congratulations! Second, props to you for your thoughtful venue choice.  A home wedding is budget-friendly, personal, meaningful, and can be customized to fit your vision. You can make your nearing nuptials as grand or as casual as you wish.  Since you chose a backyard over a traditional wedding...

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How to Throw a Bachelorette or Bachelor Party at Home

How to Throw a Bachelorette or Bachelor Party at Home

Whisking the bride or groom away to exotic locales for a huge pre-wedding bash sounds like a dream for some. For others, this may not be ideal due to busy work schedules, young kids, budgetary concerns, or other valid reasons. If you’ve taken on hosting duties, see if the guest of honor would like a bachelor or bachelorette party at...

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10 Backyard Date Night Ideas

10 Backyard Date Night Ideas

Life keeps us busy, so squeezing in a date night can be tricky for some couples. Between work, sleep, chores, and family obligations, it can feel like your energy is spent by the time the evening or the weekend arrives. But a date night doesn't have to be a big to-do with fancy outfits, dinner reservations, and valet parking. In...

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How to Decorate Your Outdoor Dining Table

How to Decorate Your Outdoor Dining Table

When we’re styling our dining photos we like to pretend we’re actually throwing a backyard get-together. We think about how many people will be attending, will we be serving a meal or just appetizers, cloth napkins or paper? There are so many options when you’re pulling a table together (real or pretend!).To help you with your own gatherings, we’ve compiled...

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11 Outdoor Entertaining Gifts To Include in Your Wedding Registry

11 Outdoor Entertaining Gifts To Include in Your Wedding Registry

When considering gift ideas for wedding registries, many couples tend to focus on indoor essentials such as flatware, kitchen appliances, and linens. But if you have an outdoor space, adding backyard essentials to your registry will ensure it’s always ready for entertaining.  We’ve gathered 11 ideas for outdoor items that you simply must add to your wedding registry. They’re practical...

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Our 5 Favorite Ways to Entertain Outside

Our 5 Favorite Ways to Entertain Outside

So, how are you reading this article? Perched over your laptop? Cradling your smartphone or tablet? As a culture we are becoming steadily more obsessed with technology, and with all this scientific advancement comes a tendency for us, and especially our kiddos, to stay indoors. Don’t let your beautiful patio go to waste — we’ve compiled our five favorite outdoor...

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How to Throw an Outdoor Winter Party

How to Throw an Outdoor Winter Party

Your backyard doesn't have to go into hibernation in the winter months. Whether you want to throw a casual wintertime get-together or a cold-weather hang with cocktails, you can host an affair to remember no matter where you live. So grab a hot toddy, and let's start planning an epic outdoor winter party. Stay Warm and Cozy Braxton 5-Piece Deep...

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How to Host Friendsgiving

How to Host Friendsgiving

Friendsgiving has been a huge holiday in recent years, with seven in 10 Americans ranging from ages 18 to 38 preferring Friendsgiving over a traditional Thanksgiving. We totally get it — you don’t have to worry about being on your best behavior, offending grandma, or being bombarded with personal questions. If you’ve ever felt this way on Turkey Day, why...

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10 Fun Things to Do on Thanksgiving

10 Fun Things to Do on Thanksgiving

If you’re not in charge of cooking this year for Thanksgiving, why not provide the entertainment for your guests while you wait for the main meal to begin? This will keep the “Is the food ready yet?” questions to a minimum, and it will keep boredom at bay. Check out the following festive activities the whole family can enjoy. 1...

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