When winter feels dark and heavy but glittery hearts, red roses and chocolates line store shelves, even the most cynical among us can fall in love with love. Why not? Love gives life meaning. It helps us out of bed on those cold mornings and gives us lovely dreams at night. This month we invite you into the love stories of three Mount Pleasant couples: John and Debbie, Abbie … [Read more...]

Finding the perfect dress to wear at the altar, not to mention gathering the coordinating bridesmaid dresses, is often one of the most important details for a bride’s big day. Picking out these gowns, however, takes time and patience, so it’s even more important to be aware of how long it will take to actually get your hands on the dress once you’ve found it. “Bridal gowns … [Read more...]

When planning her own wedding, Natalie Knox, director of weddings and events at Boone Hall Plantation, knew she’d be poring over details, engaging vendors and curating an event that she and her then-fiancé, Hampton Rosenzweig, would treasure for a lifetime. As a professional planner for over a decade, however, Knox was not expecting the pressure she’d feel when friends and … [Read more...]

The dream of most young women is to have the perfect wedding. These days, much time and effort (as well as money) go into the planning and orchestration of that special day. And many businesses hang their hopes on that day, too, and welcome the referrals that come from a perfectly planned and orchestrated day. But weddings haven’t always been the huge affairs they are … [Read more...]

While planning an event often sounds tedious, planning your nuptials should be pure magic — including the dress, the bridal party, the shoes and the invitations. Yet, while some women already know their exact floral arrangements, others can’t tell a peony from a pansy. For ideas and inspiration, no matter where you fit, visit CharlestonBrides.com. Whether you want a … [Read more...]

Valentine’s Day is a strange holiday: a feast of love, built on the feast day of a martyr, in the dead of winter. Weird. And deeply suspicious. Turns out that while chocolate, roses, diamonds and dinner are lovely gifts, we focus our love of red hearts and presents on Feb. 14 as a result of an odd combination of mythology and marketing. Mythologically speaking, we … [Read more...]

If you’ve been dreaming of tying the knot in the Holy City or the amazing surrounding areas, then CharlestonBrides.com is the website for you. From planning a large wedding to an intimate affair, CharlestonBrides.com provides all of the essential resources. Planning a wedding is a lot of work, but it can be a fun project with proper guidance. CharlestonBrides.com encourages … [Read more...]

Valentine’s Day is Feb. 14, and the amount of heart-shaped boxes of chocolate and genetically modified pink roses that line drugstore shelves prior to the day of adoration can be slightly overwhelming. In elementary school, Valentine’s Day was filled with those tiny candy hearts, whose chalky consistency was eerily similar to antacid tablets. Still, we’d let the sugary messages … [Read more...]

Everyone has blind spots,” said Mount Pleasant relationship counselor Todd Steiner. Steiner was not talking about Cupid, the mischievous and notoriously blind god of desire from ancient mythology, but he might as well have been. Love, after all, always looks easier in someone else’s life, much like that verdant grass in the old adage. “The grass is not greener on the … [Read more...]