How to Elevate Your Wedding: The Key Investments That Make a Difference

Planning a wedding means making countless decisions, from the big-picture vision to the tiniest details. And while every wedding is unique, there are a few key choices that can truly elevate your experience, reduce stress, and make your day unforgettable. Whether you're planning a DIY celebration, working with a coordinator, or going all-in with a full-service planning team, these investments will help you get the most out of your time, energy, and budget.

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Redefining Your Wedding Party: Meaningful Ways to Connect + Feel Supported

Traditionally, a wedding party was about following a set script: siblings, childhood best friends, a strict hierarchy of who you should include based on outdated rules of obligation. But weddings are evolving, and so is the role of the wedding party. For modern couples, it’s less about who has been in your life the longest and more about who shows up for you in the ways that matter most.

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All You Need to Know About Marriage Documentation

Whether you are eloping or having a formal wedding, marriage licenses can be quite a process in making sure you’ve got all the correct information. We frequently get questions from couples about how this process works.

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Must Buys for Your Wedding Weekend (That Don’t Suck)

Weddings are an intricate movement between tradition and personal intention. At Tapestry Event Co., we encourage couples to plan in ways that reflect who they are, prioritizing quality over quantity and meaningful choices over mindless consumerism.

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How to Choose the Right Wedding Photography Editing Style for Your Day

Want to know how to choose the right wedding photography style for you? We got through some of the most popular photography editing style and break them down for you!

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Home Sweet Home: Betsy + Josh

Want your celebration to really feel like home? Check out how our Tapestry couple transformed their five-acre home into a multipurpose event space, with a little help from us.

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What Hosts Pay for + What Guests Pay for in a Weekend-Long Wedding

Oftentimes, we are the proud planners of couples who want to host their friends and family for an entire weekend of activities and connection.

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Tapestry’s Vision for the Wedding Industry: The Vendor Community

The only way I know how to write this blog is by rooting for the future that I wish already existed today. The ideas that follow are not revolutionary because they are new...

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Creative + Meaningful Ways to Include Your Loved Ones in a DIY Wedding Day

We love living in the age where couples are creating their own modern definition of marriage. Rather than assuming the mantle of what marriage meant to generations past…

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I Do's, Rain or Shine

“What happens if it rains?” We get this question A LOT as adventure wedding and elopement planners in the Pacific Northwest. And it’s a fair question.

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Tapestry’s Vision for the Wedding Industry: The Planning Journey

Writing about our vision for the future of an industry is no small act. There are so many facets to consider, so many potential lives impacted, and so much already bound up in marriage and weddings.

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Run of Show: The Best Coordination Practices for Your Big Day

The role of a coordinator for a wedding is much like an octopus; you’re pulling resources, people, and plans into one centralized body. More often than not, each each team is unique to each couple and each celebration.

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How to NOT Gatekeep the Outdoors

Gatekeeping the outdoors is a complicated topic because of the intersection of conflicting ideas, motivations, and experiences that inform how people educate about…

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Tapestry’s Vision for the Wedding Industry: Couples

What we envision at Tapestry, more than anything else, is an industry that shifts its center from binding traditions, aesthetic trends, and consumerism to an industry based in…

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The Week Before Your Wedding: Emotions Edition

Your wedding day can kick up a lot of feelings, and we want to support you in how to best support yourself. Over the years, we’ve observed an incredible range of …

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Should I Tip My Wedding or Elopement Vendors?

“How does tipping work in the wedding industry?” This is an incredibly valid question to ask. The wedding industry is a unique meld of a bunch of other industries…

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Tapestry Event Co.'s Favorite Registry Ideas

The tradition of a wedding registry has a lot of history. In this blog, we are going to share our favorite registry items as well as some background on the wedding registry tradition.

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What Wedding Planners Bring to Your Event Design

When thinking about your wedding planner and event design, I want you to imagine your wedding planner as an octopus. Yep, you heard me, an octopus.

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