Your Wedding Jewelry Doesn’t Have to Be Standard. Staci Sawyer Phebus Can Help.
Nobody needs to tell you how huge jewelry is within the massive wedding-industry scheme. There are some companies that are happy to have you believe that the bigger the diamond, the stronger your love. But it doesn’t have to be that way, of courseyou may find yourself more interested in getting a one-of-a-kind, meaningful piece…
Cake Boss: Edible Arts Bakery’s Todd Mozingo on Some of His Wildest Creations
Many long-established wedding traditions are being altered, twisted, and revamped to accommodate the interests and aesthetics of a new wave of couples. That goes for cakes, too. We talked to Todd Mozingo, the owner of Edible Arts Bakery, the oldest dessert bakery in Raleigh, about some of his bakery’s wildest custom creations and how the…
An Illustrated Gender-Neutral Guide to Suits
Much ado is made about wedding dresses, and understandably so. They can be gorgeous, intricate works of art as much as they are functional garments. But what if you don’t want to wear a dress? Suits, too, are an essential part of wedding wear. The finer details of suits and their accessories are myriad, from…
How to Officiate a Wedding on the Fly When You’re a Marriage Skeptic
Two hundred miles west of the Triangle, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, two waterfalls begin at the head of Linville Gorge. As they cascade down a series of tiers, they merge into one before plunging through more than forty feet of open air. To the Cherokee people, this was “the river of many cliffs,” but…
Seriously, Stop Playing “Blurred Lines” at Your Wedding
There’s a near-infinite crop of songs you can queue up to celebrate the new chapter of your life with your partner. But here are some you should absolutely, under no circumstances, play when you get married. No, these aren’t the well-worn favorites like Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” or Etta James’s “At Last.” These are…
You Can Get Hitched in the Jail, or Above I-40, or at a Lot of Weird Places
The Durham County Detention Facility isn’t the first place you’d think of to get hitched. Unless you’re Natalie Spring and Harris Carpenter, that is. The Durham couple had vowed not to get married until same-sex marriage was legalized in North Carolina. In 2008, they had a commitment ceremony that wasn’t conventional either. The ceremony took…
Where to Find Last-Minute Wedding Gifts in the Triangle
For the couple with a sweet tooth: Videri Chocolate: The area’s best chocolate is made in Raleigh. Videri offers everything from bitter sea-salt bars to creamy milk chocolate. For the best variety, choose the fifteen-piece confections box full of bonbons and caramels. 327 West Davie Street, Raleigh For the garden enthusiasts: The Zen Succulent: A…
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Where to Take Your Out-of-Town Wedding Guests
It’s never easy dealing with the inevitable nerves that emerge as your wedding day approaches. But keeping a needy group of family and friends busy can crank your stress levels to epic highs. Here are some ideas to keep the fam occupied for hours, if not days, while you’re preparing for your own big day.…
The INDY’s Alternative Wedding Guide: Please Yourself, Not Martha Stewart
What can you say about weddings that hasn’t been said a million times before, in a million glossy magazines with size-0 models in $8,000 gowns on the cover? There’s a whole wedding-mag industry dedicated to servicing the wedding industry: Brides, The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings, Town & Country Weddings, etc. And if you actually read…
True Lies: The Most Visionary Directors at Full Frame Know You Sometimes Have to Bend Reality to Pierce It
All decent journalists know that you can’t just aim a recording device at reality and expect it to divulge the truth. You have to analyze, interpret, and present the information in such a way that its hidden inner workings and its invisible outer context are made clear, forming a choreography of storytelling in which truths…
For Paradise Lost Director Joe Berlinger, True-Crime Storytelling Matters Most When It Gets Real Results
Director Joe Berlinger knows a thing or two about the power of true-crime storytelling. His award-winning 1992 debut, Brother’s Keeper, about the alleged 1990 murder of William Ward in Munnsville, New York, challenged the way documentaries presented their subjects. He followed it with Paradise Lost, which led to the release of death-row inmate Damien Echols.…
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas Is a Screed Against the Suburbs’ Numbing Design and Racist Underpinnings
“The irony is, I raised money to make this film by flipping two houses,” Giorgio Angelini says, chuckling, about Owned: A Tale of Two Americas, his documentary about the ugly side of the American housing industry, which has its world premiere at Full Frame. A native of Houston, Angelini bought his first home in Durham…
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