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The Cover Story

How to Plan a Wedding, From Yes to Honeymoon

The complete order of operations — what to decide first, what to book when, and the handful of choices that make every other one easier.

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The Edit

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Celebrity Weddings · Lists

The 25 Most Iconic Celebrity Weddings of All Time

From Westminster Abbey to a San Francisco judge’s chambers, from a Medici fortress to a Georgia island chapel: the weddings that changed how the world gets married, ranked.

Planning · Budget

What a Wedding Costs in 2026

The latest national figures, the median most couples never hear about, where the money goes and where it leaks — and a simple way to build a budget that holds.

Wedding Movies · Lists

The 30 Best Wedding Movies of All Time

From Philadelphia society to a Delhi monsoon, the films that understand weddings best: the vows, the families, the speeches and everything that goes wrong in between.

Planning

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Planning

Engaged: What to Do in the First Month

Before the venues and the vendors — who to tell and in what order, insuring the ring, the engagement party, and the one conversation that makes everything after it easier.

Wedding Dresses

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Dresses · Celebrity

The Most Famous Celebrity Wedding Dresses

Twenty-five wedding dresses that changed what brides asked for, from Wallis Simpson’s blue crepe to Taylor Swift’s Dior, with the designers who made them and why each one mattered.

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 — read the whole sonnet

Style

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Ceremony

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Ceremony

How to Write Your Own Vows

From a blank page to two minutes you can say out loud — what to include, what to leave out, and how to get through it standing up.

Celebration

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Celebration

How to Give a Wedding Toast

For the best man, the maid of honor and the father of the bride — how long to speak, what to say, what never to say, and how to land the ending.

Celebrity Weddings

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Wedding Movies

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Etiquette

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Etiquette

Anniversary Gifts, Year by Year

Paper, cotton, leather and on to diamond — the traditional material for every anniversary, what it’s meant to say, and gifts that honor it without being literal.

Travel

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Travel · Destination Weddings

Destination Weddings in 2026: How to Plan One Well

Choosing the place, the paperwork that decides whether you’re actually married, what your guests will spend, and why so many couples say their legal vows at home first.

The Reference Library

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104 readings

Ceremony Readings

Poetry, scripture and prose, printed in full, with a note on each.

Every situation

Invitation Wording

Divorced parents, a second wedding, a double wedding — the correct form for each.

A to Z

The Language of Flowers

What every bloom meant to the Victorians, and what it still says.

Moment by moment

The Music Library

Prelude to last dance: the songs, and where each one goes.

Four languages

Ring Inscriptions

Words for the inside of the band, sentimental to irreverent.

Year by year

Anniversary Gifts

Paper, cotton, leather and on to diamond — with ideas for each.

176 films

The Wedding Movies Directory

Every wedding movie worth watching, 1934 to now, with what happens at each wedding.

Silhouette to train

The Wedding Dress, Decoded

Every term you will hear in a bridal salon, and what each one means.

40 weddings

Celebrity Weddings

Royal, Hollywood and music weddings, 1947 to 2026 — the venues and the dresses.

Since July 1999

Twenty-seven years of weddings

Today’s Weddings began as a message forum where women planning weddings traded what they had learned. The cakes and bouquets in our galleries are theirs — real weddings from the late 1990s, described by the couples themselves.

We keep that archive as it was written, alongside everything we publish now.

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