One of the biggest headaches that comes from planning a wedding is dealing with the variety of wedding vendors that are involved in your festivities.

No single day is more important than your wedding day. Many people now seek to fuse tradition with their own personalities in their ceremonies, meaning that a slavish recreation of weddings-as-usual is less and less popular. Building something original, however, presents its own challenges. In art, inspiration does not really come out of nowhere; it results from the artist's unique synthesis of all the influences from which she or he draws.

When a girl got engaged fifty years ago, she turned to her mother, aunts, sisters and friends for advice. Now we have a plethora of wedding websites that give every woman the ability to plan her own wedding on her own time.

Once you get engaged, everyone starts asking questions. Have you set a date? Have you picked a venue? Where are you registering? It seems like the minute the ring slips onto your finger, you have to start wedding planning.