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Philanthropy Playlist
Image via rockpopgallery.comYou've got your donors in a room, glasses are clinking, appetizers are being passed, your guest speakers are wetting their whistles and checking their notes. Now all you...
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When Wine Attacks
Dear Bashionista, image via winetourtips.com My friends and I love red wine - but the thing about wine is, the more you drink, the more you spill. What's the best way to get out a wine stain...
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Five Tips for the Best Wedding Speech Ever
All aboard the weddin' train! BY MATT MARRONERecently, I gave a wedding toast that went well. But while I got lots of compliments from people who thought it was an effortless triumph -- "it's so...
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Penne with Skyy Vodka Sauce and Cajun Airline Chicken
BY CARA VALLA image via LifesAmbrosia.com This past weekend I attended my cousin Anthony's wedding in the great city of New Orleans. I saw hundreds of family members, paraded through the streets of...
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Cara's Death by Chocolate Cake
image via TheSmirkingCat.blogspot This post is a follow-up to Cara Valla's menu inspired by her recent skydiving expedition in New Orleans. Click here if you'd like to feast on Penne with Skyy-Vodka...
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I Drank Beer So You Don't Have to
The Lizzes take on the Beer Festival! A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of roaming around the American Craft Beer Festival in South Boston, sampling way too much and then writing...
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Throw Down: 90's Prom
TheBashionista on prom night, 1994. Let's take a trip back to a time when Seattle was grunging up the airwaves, you were lucky to have a dial-up internet connection, and rocking baby doll dresses or...
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'90s Prom Playlist
Planning a '90s prom? Here's a mix of music that will bring you back. Whether you're french twisting your hair and zipping up your formal wear, or bike riding to your best friend's pool party, the '90s...
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Party Invitations for a Post-Modern World
Dear Bashionista, photo via innovive.com.I swear, I'm not on Evite's payroll.In your opinion, what's the best way to invite people to your party? Is Facebook the way to go? Is it better to just use...
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'90s Prom Photo Gallery
This is my actual senior prom dress, y'all! And myamazing friend Bridget Stoyko couldn't make it, so she had that corsage delivered to me day of. Here are some of my favorite costumes from my '90s...
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Vanilla Marshmallows
I adore homemade marshmallows. They're bouncy and fluffy and all-around charming, but HOLY PROFANITY when the things get toasted... more profanity. Set to roast over a flame, a homemade marshmallow...
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Smokey Couscous with Herbed Cucumber Yogurt
By Cara Valla image via theworldinmykitchen.com It's been beastly hot lately, so here is a quick and easy meal that's delicious and - more importantly - will not turn your kitchen into a sauna!...
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Denise & Zach's Jersey Fresh Wedding
All photos copywrite Lara Kimmerer 2009. Denise Chadwick and Zach Davis were married in October 2009 at Perona Farms in Sparta, located in the Skylands of New Jersey - not far from Drew University,...
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Denise & Zach's 10 Best Wedding Tips
All photos copywrite Lara Kimmerer 2009. Denise & Zach chose to have their wedding at Perona Farms in Sparta, NJ, so they could showcase the beautiful farmland of Northern Jersey, and serve...
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Denise & Zach's Wedding Menu
All photos copywrite Lara Kimmerer 2009. One of the benefits to having a wedding at Perona Farms is that the food is outrageously good, and the ingredients are as local and fresh as possible. Denise...
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Denise & Zach's Wedding Playlist
All photos copywrite Lara Kimmerer 2009. Denise & Zach managed to turn their wedding reception into an epic dance party - mainly by playing the songs our crew grew up loving in the '80s and...
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Denise & Zach's Wedding Gallery
Here is the story of Denise & Zach's Jersey-Fresh Wedding at Perona Farms, in 20 pictures. Enjoy!All photos copywrite Lara Kimmerer, 2009.Zach's saying his vows. Cue the waterworks!Married! First...
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Turf War
Dear Bashionista, What happens if you throw a party and invite friends who recently broke up - and then they both show up, bringing their respective posses. How are you supposed to keep the peace?-...
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Sam's Simple Mint Juleps
I don't know about you, but I could use a drink right about now. Here to help us out in that department is . . . my Dad! Apparently, he and my Mom have been enjoying a nightcap in the evenings this...
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Throw Down: I Heart Huckabees Movie Night
What would you do as an American with a philosophical crisis, 3,500 miles and 72 years from the epicenter of existentialism? You'd outsource your problem to a husband & wife team of Existentialist...
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Thanks for coming, now get out
image via iwillnotdiet.com Dear Bashionista,Let's say you're having a party and it's a smashing success - but now it's getting on to the wee hours of morning, most people have left, but there are...
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If You Like I Heart Huckabees . . .
Our I Heart Huckabees movie night was a success! We sipped cocktails through mancala hour, enjoyed a little ice cream with Angela, tried not to be sick at the sight of Jude Law breastfeeding Jason...
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Help! I need to reboot my dinner parties.
Dear Bashionista,I want to throw parties! Specifically, themed dinner parties. My fiancé and I throw regular dinner parties - cozy, homemade, casual yet classy, with great conversation. They are...
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Rachel's Cupcake Academy
Guest chef Rachel Moliere has a few things she'd like to tell you about cupcakes:My favorite New Year's resolution this year was to become a better baker. I decided to start with something fairly...
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Kristen's Chocolate-Salted-Caramel-Pretzel Cake
This year, my friend Kristen Bonstein offered to make me a birthday cake. Here are the amazing results, with instructions so you can make a cake of your very own. Happy birthday, every one!I asked Liz...
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