Five Ways to Encourage Your Partner to Propose

They say the waiting is the hardest part. I don’t know that Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were talking about waiting to get engaged when they wrote The Waiting, but they might as well have been. Because, really, what’s more arduous than waiting for the person you love more to finally ask that one question: will you marry me? You don’t want to wait to officially declare your eternal love…

Top 10 Celebrity Weddings to Look Forward To

Who are the top celebrity couples you just can’t wait to finally see on the altar together? Remember, Jennifer Aniston was just recently married in secret, so you’ll have to pick someone else. But don’t worry – we’re here to make it easy on you. Pop Sugar recently ran a story on some of the top celebrity couples who might finally be tying the knot soon, and the list is…

The First Wedding Plans You Should Make After Getting Engaged

So you’ve gotten engaged. Congratulations! You finally found the person of your dreams and agreed to spend the rest of your life with him or her. But before marriage comes the wedding, and before the wedding comes the planning. Oh boy. No need to panic, though. Birkat Elyon is here to help you get a handle on the first stage of wedding planning thanks to some tips from the wedding…

Top Celebrity Engagement Rings Part II

  Regular readers of the Birkat Elyon blog may remember our post from a few weeks ago highlighting some of the top celebrity engagement rings of the last 15 years. It was a dazzling list of beautiful celebrities with beautiful rings – but it was just the beginning. Today we’re back with part II of our look at dazzling celebrity engagement rings. Heidi Klum Before her seven-year marriage (2005-2012) to…

Ten Tips to Keep Your Wedding Guests Engaged

Boring weddings – we’ve all been to at least a few of them, and boy can they ever be a drag. No one wants to be stuck at an all-day event for someone else and be watching the clock thinking about how soon they can get out of there without looking rude. Still, it happens. You don’t want your wedding to be like that, of course. No one intentionally sets…

Jennifer Aniston’s Secret Wedding

So no one told you life was gonna’ be this way. Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A. It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear. When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year… I’ll be there for you! Ahem, sorry about that, but with Jennifer Aniston getting married we couldn’t help but think of the theme song from the show…

Top Celebrity Engagement Rings: Part I

Celebrities get the best of everything, don’t they? Well, maybe not everything, but they certainly seem to get the very best engagement rings. In case there was any doubt whatsoever about that reality, here are 12 of the most lavish engagement rings celebrities have ever gotten. Once you’ve read our list, don’t forget to come back next month to see part 2! Kate Middleton Most of the celebs on this…

Buying a Male Engagement Ring

So you’ve found the love of your life, and you’re ready to spend the rest of your life together with this person, huh? You’ve known for a while now that this person was the one. You may even not be sure when exactly it happened, but at some point in your relationship it became abundantly clear that there’s just something about this person, something that makes your one and only…

Party of the Year: The Swedish Royal Wedding

By now even those who literally reside on the underside of rocks – assuming at least someone out there actually does that – know all about the British Royal Wedding. You’ve seen the pictures and read the stories, maybe so many times that you almost feel like you were there. Almost. But the Windsors aren’t the world’s only royal house to recently celebrate a marriage. Swedish Prince Carl Philip, the…

Five Hot 2015 Wedding Trends

What’s coming next to the world of weddings? Well, it could be just about anything. Some “experts” will tell you what’s right and wrong for your wedding, what you can or can’t do. But they’re missing one important thing – it’s your wedding. You can do whatever makes you happy! So go ahead and have a crazy theme, make your bridesmaids wear polka dots, get married on Super Bowl Sunday….