If you’ve ever toured a wedding venue, chances are the coordinator handed you a “preferred vendor list.” These lists usually include florists, photographers, DJs, and other services the venue suggests you use. Sounds convenient, right? But here’s the deal: many of these lists aren’t built on quality alone—they’re often built on cash. It’s less about “this vendor is amazing” and more about “this vendor paid us to say they’re amazing.” For couples, that can be misleading, and for vendors like me, it’s frustrating.

Planning a wedding without a budget or boundaries is like driving the Parkway with no speed limit signs… chaotic, dangerous, and guaranteed to end with someone crying. Weddings are emotional, but if you don’t get your financial roadmap and your boundaries straight early on, you’ll spend your engagement drowning in stress instead of enjoying it.

This isn’t about killing the fun, it’s about keeping control. Here’s your no-fluff guide to making sure your budget, priorities, and boundaries actually work for you.

Calling all dreamers, adventurers, and couples who know deep down that “till death do us part” hits harder when it’s whispered in a mossy forest clearing or a candlelit castle hall. If you want a wedding that feels like it stepped out of a Tolkien book, a Studio Ghibli film, or a medieval daydream, welcome to your guide.

Fantasy-inspired weddings in New Jersey can be magical as hell—if you plan them right. Here’s how to make yours feel enchanting, not cringey.

Everyone’s out here planning pumpkin patch proposals or chasing cherry blossoms—but winter? Winter is for the bold, the intimate, the wildly romantic. Eloping in the snow strips the wedding day back to its rawest, realest parts: just you two, wrapped in love (and probably thermals). And for couples looking for that next-level cinematic, whisper-quiet magic? A winter elopement might be exactly your vibe.

Planning your wedding in New Jersey? Whether you're dreaming of a rustic barn bash in Sussex County or an offbeat industrial vibe in Jersey City, there’s one thing you definitely can’t skip: the legal stuff. Yeah, I’m talking about that oh-so-sexy marriage license.

Getting legally hitched in NJ isn’t rocket science, but the rules can be confusing AF if you’ve never done this before. So here’s the real-deal, no-fluff guide to making your marriage official in the Garden State—without the headaches.

Let me drop a little truth bomb on you: before I was running around photographing love stories like it was my damn calling, I spent a solid 10 years behind the decks as a wedding DJ. Yup. That was my original in into this wild wedding industry—and while I’ve traded the turntables for cameras, I still know what makes a good DJ and what makes a great one.

So if you're planning your New Jersey wedding and you want the party to actually feel like a party (not a middle school dance with awkward song transitions), listen up. Here's how to find a wedding DJ who won't kill the vibe.