Magazine
Magazine
Share This Article With Your AF Friends!
Inside the May 2025 Issue of Engaged AF Magazine: Chaos, Cake, and Cold Hard Truths (With a Side of Whiskey and Fire)
Welcome to the May 2025 issue of Engaged AF Magazine — the only wedding mag that tells it like it fucking is. We’re not here to stroke your Pinterest board or sell you overpriced monogrammed bullshit. We’re here to drop truth bombs, roast outdated traditions, and hand you the tools to survive this manic rollercoaster called wedding planning. Whether you’re a bride-to-be with a murdery gleam in your eye, a groom clinging to your sanity, a vendor praying for one chill client this season, or just someone who loves mess and champagne—buckle up. This issue is locked, loaded, and
Wedding Party 101
Wedding Party 101: You’re In, You Lucky Fuck — Don’t Screw It Up By [Your Name], The Wedding Industry’s Snarkiest Ringleader, Engaged AF Magazine Congrats, you absolute legend. You’ve been chosen. Not just to clap politely in the second row and collect a slice of cake — no, babe. You’ve been picked to stand the fuck up, wear the outfit, handle the chaos, and show up for your humans like the ride-or-die you claimed to be. This isn’t a free-pass to blackout and make out with a bartender. This is a goddamn honor. With responsibility. And consequences. I’ve shot
Spring Wedding Vibes
Spring Wedding Vibes That Aren’t Just ‘Blush and Sage’ Again By Engaged AF Magazine — because beige is not a personality. If we see one more so-called “timeless” wedding palette featuring dusty rose and sage green eucalyptus again, we’re gonna fake a fainting spell in the middle of a flower market. It’s spring, dammit. The flowers are horny. The air smells like rebirth and patio cocktails. Why the hell are we still tiptoeing around pastels like this is 2017? Blush and sage had their moment — they’ve been to therapy, started a book club, and now it’s time to
Venue Magazines Are the Future
Venue Magazines Are the Future (And the Flex Your Brand Deserves) By Engaged AF Magazine Let’s be real: if you’re a wedding venue still handing out single-page brochures or relying on a follow-up email to make an impression—you're doing yourself a massive disservice. Couples touring venues today are overwhelmed. They’ve just spent a weekend looking at six different ballrooms, barns, and Airbnb properties, each one starting to blur into the next. They’ve got screenshots in their phone, notes in the margins of some flyer, and approximately zero emotional connection to most of what they just saw. But you? You
Wedding Venue Magazines
Wedding Venue Magazines: The Untapped Marketing Opportunity You Can’t Afford to Miss Get First in Line for Every Couple at Your Favorite Venues Imagine this: every couple walking into your favorite wedding venue sees your business first before anyone else in your industry. Every single engaged couple considering that space gets your brand in their hands before they’ve even booked their date. Your company is not just an option—it’s the option. This is exactly what our new Venue Magazines offer is: an exclusive, hyper-targeted marketing opportunity that puts you front and center at the venues you want to work with
Overused meaning of love
Love: The Most Abused F*cking Word in the History of Ever Let’s start with the basics: the dictionary definition of love. According to Merriam-Webster, love is "a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person." Sounds profound, doesn’t it? A word so powerful it’s shaped history, toppled empires, inspired revolutions, and made people do some truly dumbass shit. And yet, here we are, using this legendary word to describe… pizza. You love pizza? Really? Are you prepared to take a solemn vow to honor and cherish pizza in sickness and health? Will you defend pepperoni’s honor till your
Valentine’s Day and Weddings
Valentine’s Day and Weddings: The OG Love Story That Keeps on Slaying Valentine’s Day isn’t just a Hallmark holiday, it’s the day to celebrate love in all its wild, messy, magical forms. Whether you’re head over heels, planning a Valentine’s Day wedding, or happily single (and crushing it), this day deserves a spotlight. Let’s dive into the juicy history of love’s favorite holiday, how romance has evolved, and why conversation hearts are second only to Cadbury Creme Eggs. The (Slightly Messy) History of Valentine’s Day Before there were chocolates and overpriced dinners, there was St. Valentine—a rogue Roman priest
2024 Wedding Trend Spotlight: The Audio Guest Book
2024 Wedding Trend Spotlight: The Audio Guest Book Gone are the days when a simple pen-and-paper guest book was the go-to way for guests to leave their well-wishes for the happy couple. Enter the latest trend in wedding keepsakes—the audio guest book. In 2024, couples are opting for more creative and interactive ways to capture the love and heartfelt messages of their friends and family, and the audio guest book has quickly become a favorite. It offers an incredible, personal way for guests to share their thoughts, stories, and love, while giving the couple something deeply sentimental to cherish
Same Day Edits at Your Wedding
Same Day Edit at Your Wedding The Problem with Same-Day Edits: Why This Practice Needs to Die in the Wedding Industry Let’s cut to the chase: same-day edits and previews are one of the worst trends in the wedding industry, and it's time for this nonsense to be buried once and for all. The idea that couples should be pulled out of their wedding day to relive moments that just happened, while the party is still going on, is not only unnecessary—it's downright disrespectful. The Ego-Driven Madness of Same-Day Edits Let’s be real for a second. Same-day edits aren’t
The Wild West of Second Shooters
The Wild West of Second Shooters: Why Most Aren't Worth The Rate They're Demanding Let’s get something straight: I truly do think the second shooter market is out of control. Over the years, I've hired second shooters at both high and low rates, and let me tell you, the vast majority aren’t fucking qualified to charge even $50 per hour. Yet, here they are, waltzing into weddings with entry-level gear, minimal experience, and a blatant disregard for the clients they’re supposed to be serving. It’s time we had a serious conversation about the standards—or lack thereof—in the wedding photography