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The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast — 185 episodes

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How to Tell Your Family That You’re Not Having a Traditional Wedding

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Listen to This on Your Wedding Day!

3

Should You Invite Kids to Your Wedding?

4

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before My Wedding

5

How to Make Your Wedding Guests Feel Like They Matter

6

How to Actually Connect With Your Guests at Your Wedding

7

My Real Wedding Budget: What I Spent vs What I Budgeted

8

Everything You Need to Know About Wedding Thank You Cards

9

6 Ways to Stop Comparing Your Wedding to Everyone Else's

10

Do You Really Need a Day-of Coordinator?

11

10 More Wedding Traditions You Can Skip

12

13 Wedding Traditions You Can Skip

13

Your Wedding Planning Questions, Answered

14

How to Have a Feminist Wedding

15

Planning a Wedding During Political Instability

16

Where to Start with Wedding Planning (Newly Engaged? Start Here!)

17

13 More Hidden Wedding Costs You Don’t Want to Forget

18

The 5 Worst Questions People Ask Right After You Get Engaged

19

12 Wedding Hidden Costs You Need to Budget For

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7 Things to Do as Soon as You Get Engaged

21

How to Announce Your Engagement

22

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Right After I Got Engaged

23

6 Things to Talk to Your Partner About Before Getting Married

24

How Are Couples Getting Engaged in 2025?

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How to Make Hard Decisions for Your Wedding

26

13 Wedding Budget Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

27

7 Drastic Ways to Save Money on Your Budget Wedding

28

8 More Last Minute Wedding Planning Tasks (+ 5 You Can Skip!)

29

11 Last Minute Wedding Planning Tasks You Don’t Want to Forget

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6 Wedding Planning Mantras to Never Forget

31

14 Wedding Planning Tasks You Can Tackle More Than A Year in Advance

32

Bachelorette Parties Have Gotten Out of Control

33

WTF Is a Wedding Party Questionnaire and Do You Need One?

34

10 Special Moments for the Two of You on Your Wedding Day

35

How Do You Plan a Backyard Wedding Without Losing Your Mind?

36

11 Wedding Planning Regrets to Watch Out For

37

How to Choose Your Wedding Date

38

Your Wedding Planning Checklist (Part 2)

39

Your Wedding Planning Checklist (Part 1)

40

How to Host an Alcohol-Free, Dry Wedding (But Still Have Fun)

41

Everything You Need to Know About Vows

42

8 Things You Never Want Your Wedding Guests to Do

43

How to Not Feel Guilty About Going Over Your Wedding Budget

44

8 Mistakes Wedding Guests Make (and How You Can Help Fix Them)

45

12 Fun Wedding Planning Tasks You Can Do Together

46

Why You Shouldn’t Hire Friends as Your Wedding Vendors

47

9 Actually Good Wedding Gift Ideas for Your Parents and In-Laws

48

How to Plan a Wedding with Your In-Laws

49

11 Reasons to Pay for Your Own Wedding

50

16 Gen Z Wedding Trends - Love 'em or Hate 'em?

51

15 Things to Know Before Planning Your Honeymoon

52

How to Navigate Tricky Family Relationships on Your Wedding Day

53

What to Do When You Have Wedding Regrets

54

What Actually Happens If You Go Over Your Wedding Budget

55

To DIY or Not to DIY

56

11 Wedding Vendor Red Flags to Watch Out For

57

How to Tell Someone They’re Not Invited to Your Wedding

58

Answering More of Your Wedding Planning Questions

59

All About Wedding Invitations!

60

I Want to Elope and He Wants a Big Wedding. Now What?

61

What to Do When Wedding Planning Feels Frivolous

62

14 More Wedding Details to Cut From Your Budget

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15 Wedding Details to STOP Spending Money On

64

How to Tell People You’re Having an Unconventional Wedding

65

How and When to Ask People to Be in Your Wedding Party

66

What If You Don't Want to Be Given Away?

67

12 Wedding After Party Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

68

9 Common Wedding Regrets (& How to Avoid Them!)

69

Is It Just Cold Feet or Something More Serious?

70

How to Plan a Budget Wedding for Less Than $5000

71

What You Actually Need to Include on Your Wedding Website

72

How to Survive a Long Engagement

73

10 Things Wedding Party Members Should NOT Have to Do

74

How Long Should You Be Engaged For?

75

How to Plan a Wedding When You’re Short on Time

76

The 7 2025 Wedding Trends I Love

77

The 15 2025 Wedding Trends I Hate

78

Part 2: 13 More Wedding Etiquette Rules All Guests Should Follow

79

Part 1: 14 Wedding Etiquette Rules All Guests Should Follow

80

How to Combine the Spiritual and Secular in Your Wedding

81

5 Hard Wedding Planning Truths You Need to Hear

82

What to Include in Your Wedding Backup Plan

83

Help! My Dad Thinks We’re Being Cheap With Our Wedding

84

Should You Change Your Last Name?

85

How to Compromise With Your Partner When You Have Different Wedding Visions

86

Who Gets a Plus One?

87

How to Plan a Wedding as a Parent

88

Your Wedding Should NOT Be the Best Day of Your Life

89

13 Low Cost Ways to Reduce Wedding Waste

90

How to Stand Up to Wedding Judgment

91

How to STOP Being a People Pleaser With Your Own Wedding

92

What to Do When You Lose Your Wedding Planning Mojo

93

Planning Your Wedding Before You’re Engaged

94

It’s Okay to Have a Cheap, Budget Wedding

95

How to Handle Important People Not Being at Your Wedding

96

Should You Have a Destination Wedding?

97

18 Things to Do the Week of Your Wedding

98

17 Things NOT to Do the Week of Your Wedding

99

How to Talk to Your Partner About Proposing

100

How to DIY Your Wedding (Without Making It Tacky!)

101

11 Things to Skip at Your Wedding Reception

102

14 Seating Chart Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

103

How to Stay on Budget for Your Wedding

104

More Wedding Planning Q&A

105

All About Wedding Gifts!

106

Wedding Gift FAQs

107

How to Deal With People Who Are Upset They Didn’t Get Invited to Your Wedding

108

How to Navigate Family Dynamics Before, During & After Your Wedding

109

MINISODE: Do You Need Wedding Favors?

110

How to Pay Tribute to Passed Loved Ones at Your Wedding

111

MINISODE: Should You Do A First Look?

112

6 More Wedding Photography Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

113

7 Wedding Photography Mistakes to Avoid

114

MINISODE: Do You Need to Have a Rehearsal/Rehearsal Dinner?

115

How to Plan a Semi Destination Wedding

116

Creating a Wedding Ceremony That’s Actually Meaningful to You

117

How to Not Feel Lonely While Planning Your Wedding

118

Why You Don't Need a Wedding Party

119

Help, My Maid of Honor Is a Flake!

120

How to Talk to Your Parents About Your Wedding Budget

121

11 Wedding Guest List Mistakes to Avoid

122

How to Include Your Pet in Your Wedding

123

How to Make Your Wedding a Safe Space for Your LGBTQ+ Guests

124

8 Ways to Combat the Post Wedding Blues

125

The 5 Things Guests Want at Your Wedding

126

It’s Not the Woman’s Job to Plan the Wedding

127

Wedding Planning Q&A

128

17 Unpopular Wedding Opinions You Should Consider

129

How to Brutally Cut Your Wedding Guest List

130

Do You Have to Host Post-Wedding Celebrations?

131

How to Plan a Restaurant Wedding Reception

132

11 Questions to Ask Your Partner About Kids Before You Walk Down the Aisle

133

13 Tips for Planning a Wedding After Party

134

How to Actually Get People to Help You With Your Wedding

135

Your Guide to Mixed Gender Wedding Parties

136

Everything You Need to Know About Bridal Showers & Bachelorette Parties

137

Answering Your Wedding Planning Questions!

138

What Your Guests Actually Care About at Your Wedding

139

How to Deal with Wedding Night Anxiety

140

6 Things Couples Get Wrong When Wedding Planning

141

The Ultimate Guide to Wedding Speeches

142

Should You Read Your Wedding Vows at Your Ceremony or in Private?

143

The 6 Parts of a Wedding That Still Matter Years Later

144

The 2023 Wedding Trends I Hate (+ 4 That I Love)

145

Welcome Back, Wedding Planners!

146

Important Announcement for Episode 100!

147

How to Not Feel Guilty About Your Wedding Choices

148

Wedding Party Gifts: What to Give (and NOT to Give!)

149

How to Manage Money with Your Partner

150

6 Mistakes I Made While Wedding Planning

151

How to Stay Present on Your Wedding Day

152

Unconventional Ideas for Your Pre-Wedding Events

153

How to Get Your Partner More Involved in Wedding Planning

154

How to ​​Handle Wedding Attention as an Introvert

155

10 Tips to Have the Best Honeymoon (+ Our Honeymoon Story!)

156

12 Wedding Regrets I Have from My Own Wedding

157

How to Stop Stressing About Your Wedding

158

14 Disasters that Happened in the Weeks Before Our Wedding

159

We’re Married! Our Wedding Story

160

How to DIY Live Stream Your Wedding (for less than $100)

161

Dishing on Netflix’s Marriage or Mortgage

162

When to Pull the Plug on Your Covid Wedding

163

We Set the Date!

164

So You’ve Got Baby Fever

165

The Pros & Cons of a Zoom Wedding

166

MINISODE: Do You Have to Host a Reception After Your Elopement?

167

Who to Tell About Your Surprise or Secret Wedding (And When)

168

Wedding Planning Q&A Part 2

169

How to Plan Your Honeymoon (in the middle of a pandemic)

170

How to Tell People You Got Married

171

Wedding Planning During a Pandemic SUCKS

172

Should You Just Elope?

173

Wedding Planning Q&A

174

All Things Rings! (It’s Okay Not to Have a Diamond Engagement Ring)

175

How to Cut Your Wedding Budget in Half - Part 3

176

How to Cut Your Wedding Budget in Half - Part 2

177

How to Cut Your Wedding Budget in Half - Part 1

178

Why You Don’t Need Wedding Stationary

179

Should You Postpone Your Wedding?

180

My Plus Size Budget Wedding Dress Shopping Experience

181

MINISODE: Do You Need a Photography Shot List?

182

MINISODE: Do You Need Save The Dates?

183

6 Reasons to Have a Surprise Wedding

184

My Wedding Story

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Trailer: Welcome to The Unconventional Wedding Planning Podcast!