Venue spotlights, vendor recommendations, and location guides for couples planning weddings across Metro St. Louis and Southern Illinois.
There’s a building on East A Street in Belleville that’s been quietly holding memories for over a century, and it’s about to start making new ones. Built in 1915 as the Belleville Masonic Temple, the space carries that classic, dignified architecture you don’t see built anymore — warm brick, a stately façade, the kind of…
Finding a wedding dress should feel like one of the best days of the engagement. For a lot of brides, it doesn’t. The pressure. The hovering. The sense that someone in the shop has a commission riding on whatever you pull off the rack. The appointments that feel like auditions rather than celebrations. Christine at…
I’ve eaten a lot of wedding chicken. Twenty-five years of photographing receptions means I’ve stood in the back of a lot of ballrooms, grateful for a plate of food between the ceremony and the first dance, quietly eating whatever the caterer brought. Most of it is fine. Some of it is genuinely bad. And nearly…
Host unforgettable events at Olde Wicks Factory, a historic venue in Highland, IL with elegant spaces and preserved charm.
Forever Yours by Black Box Events: The premier wedding coordinator in Clinton County & St. Louis, turning dream weddings into reality.
There are vendors you recommend because they’re good. And then there are vendors you recommend because they’re Carla. Fifty Years of Hair Carla at The Mane Attraction in Collinsville has been doing hair longer than most of her brides have been alive. Longer than many of their mothers have been alive. Fifty-plus years of updos,…
I bring The Cheesecake Lady’s cheesecakes home for my wife…but I’ve never eaten one. I’ve been prohibited from having any. I might actually get shanked over them. My wife is vegan. She has strong opinions about vegan desserts, most of them unfavorable, because most vegan desserts are making an apology rather than a statement. They…