So your loved one has just proposed to you. The future is looking bright and rosy, you are thinking about your future you will have together… once you have completed your studies. Is it possible?

If you are studying and you still want to marry the love of your life, don’t panic! It is possible! Juggling the textbooks with the restraints of a budget can still allow you to have a dream wedding; you just need a little bit of imagination. At the end of the day you are marrying someone w

This weekend, I attended a breath-taking wedding in Pennsylvania. I wasn’t sure what to expect since the last wedding I attended was decades ago and I can barely remember much, but this one will be very difficult to forget.

As I walked through the cobblestone alleyway to get to the door, I held my date’s arm in hopes that I wouldn’t be the first guest to wipe out in these heals. We entered through the double doors into a room of eagerness and anticipation, all wrapped up into beautif

Hello All,

Stage of Life is proud to announce its latest endeavor - the development of the first mobile storytelling game! For the last three months, we have been putting our creative efforts into drafting Writing Race, a multiplayer story writing game for Apple iPhone where friends will collaboratively (or competitively) write a story together using their mobile phone.

Our idea to expand Stage of Life’s literacy initiative to the mobile realm began as some scribbling on

My parents raised me to be thrifty with money, so in my pre-wedding planning stages I've been looking for reliable wedding cost calculators. I found one from ProjectWedding.com. This is the link: http://www.projectwedding.com/cost-calculator.

What I like about this calculator is that you can enter your number of guests, budget, and your zip code for comparison costs. Then the calculator breaks down each cost for you based on your budget, and the "average" budget in your zip code. My

As the title reads, I am newly engaged (and super excited to start wedding planning)! My fiance (weird to write) and I are planning for a late June 2013 wedding... so we still have some time.

I'm just curious to see what the average cost of weddings nowadays is. Google tells me that it is anywhere between $25,000-50,000. That is a semester in college; a new car; a down payment on a house. My friend's wedding cost him $7,000. (I bet him I could go cheaper; he laughed.) So, what is mo

Weddings are beyond overrated in my eyes. Could it be because it costs so much to have one when a good percentage of marriages nowadays end in divorce anyway? Or maybe it's the fact that when one throws a wedding the people that show up, unless actually in the ceremony, are usually unknown by the new happy couple? Maybe it's a mix of the two, I don't know for sure. Personally speaking, I've never even been to a wedding. Not my sister's, not my aunt's (which was scheduled purposely one week

Pretty much all the couples we work with are thinking about price these days, even the ones who are blessed enough to be working with an above average budget. I'm seeing a lot more do it yourself projects, cutting back in decor and flowers, and putting more focus on meaning and personalization.

How are you dealing with the stresses of staying on budget for your wedding in this economy?

We're working on a tight budget for our wedding and everyone I've talked to that has gotten married all have one piece of similar advice, "If there was one thing I wish I didn't scrimp on it was the photographer."

Does anyone know any good photographers that have great packages, people skills, and photos but won't break the bank?

I'm looking for ideas on where to have my honeymoon? Any suggestions? Where did you have yours? What was the best thing about the location?

This is a quick little piece of advice to all you soon-to-be brides out there...

Have a heart-to-heart with your parents about financial expectations verses reality when it comes to paying for your wedding. Talking plainly with them before you start your planning will save a lot of tears.

Let me explain...

I have a daughter, in her mid-20s, who will be getting married this summer. By cultural protocol, as you all know, the bride's family "typically" pays for