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Wedding Weekend in Charleston

Charleston, a city where Southern charm meets coastal beauty, is nestled on the coast of South Carolina and where Intrigue calls home. Its historic streets are lined with pastel-colored historic homes and cobblestone. Every corner is picturesque, and has been named the #1 city to travel to by Travel & Leisure.

It is also one of the most sought after places to get married! Indulge in the vibrant culinary scene, savoring the flavors of Lowcountry cuisine and experiencing the perfect blend of tradition and innovation. With its picturesque waterfront venues to secret gardens Charleston is a destination that enchants and leaves a lasting impression.

Venue Featured in Lowndes Grove by PPHG

From welcome parties to a perfect after party experience, ensuring an unforgettable wedding weekend is within reach. Below, Here are some exciting ideas for pre- and post-wedding festivities that will make the days surrounding your special day truly memorable.

Rehearsal Dinner Location

Charleston sets the perfect stage for kicking off your wedding weekend and the options are truly endless. One of our favorite locations for intimate rehearsal dinners is Leon’s Oyster Shop

While the wedding day can feel fast-paced and hectic, the rehearsal dinner provides a relaxed atmosphere for everyone involved. It allows the couple to enjoy an evening of celebration without the pressure of the ceremony or the formalities of the reception. The laid-back setting encourages mingling, laughter, and heartfelt conversations, allowing the couple and their loved ones to savor the moment and create cherished memories.

Welcome Party

Since rehearsal dinners are usually more intimate most of our couples don’t want their wedding day to be the first time they see their guests. So we LOVE a Welcome Party, this can be something more casual and relaxed and a place to have fun with the design and details setting the tone of the wedding.

Featured Location: The Wonderer
*Photos provided by Katherine & Tyler

Featured Location: The Longboard

Let’s infuse personal touches and some creativity into the event. Couples can choose a location that holds sentimental value or opt for a theme that reflects their personalities. From some low country barbecues to elegant garden soirées, the options can be designed to fit your vision and personalities.

Wedding After Party Experience

Photos by Nicole Mickle Photography

After your wedding, it’s natural to feel exhausted, but most of our couples aren’t ready for the party to end. Charleston’s nightlife scene is brimming with excitement, check out some of our favorites.

Republic: This vibrant venue promises a lively atmosphere, perfect for those seeking a high-energy experience. Dance the night away to upbeat music and revel in the energetic ambiance.

Trio: For a sophisticated and refined setting, Trio is an excellent choice. It offers a classy atmosphere, ideal for enjoying handcrafted cocktails and engaging in meaningful conversations with your loved ones.

Sharehouse: If you’re looking for a trendy and communal atmosphere, Share House is the place to be. This hotspot encourages socializing and mingling, creating an inclusive and lively vibe that’s perfect for continuing the celebration.

Uptown: With its classy and intimate setting, Uptown provides an excellent option for those seeking a smaller, more exclusive gathering.

Rooftop Bar at The Vendue: Experience breathtaking views of the city skyline at the Rooftop Bar at The Vendue. This rooftop venue offers a sophisticated and upscale ambiance, where you can enjoy handcrafted cocktails while taking in panoramic vistas of Charleston.
Each of these venues promises a distinct atmosphere, catering to different preferences and moods. Whether you’re looking for an energetic dance floor, a classy lounge, or a nostalgic trip back in time, Charleston’s nightlife has something for everyone to ensure your after-party is unforgettable.

Farewell Party

What’s the cure for a hangover, Mimosas and a Farewell Pool Party! As your guest headout of town say your goodbyes at a relaxing pool party or a fun brunch at one of Charleston’s amazing restaurants.

Photos provided by Kathrine & Tyler

How to Disinvite Your Wedding Guests

Bells Will be Ringing, But You’re Not Invited

Couples around the world who dream of the perfect wedding are now forced into difficult decisions. Because COVID-19 limits travel, closes wedding venues, and creates health concerns over large gatherings, many to-be’s have decided not to be for the moment. While some couples chose to postpone their nuptials, others decide to move forward with small ceremonies. This creates one particularly sticky problem. Invitations sent pre-COVID now have couples faced with the odious task of having to uninvite wedding guests to their smaller celebrations.

Intrigue is here to help you uninvited wedding guests this without causing offense!

Nobody wants to be on the cut list, but during a pandemic that continues to spread and threaten lives, people are likely to understand a couple’s need to create a small and safe celebration. In fact, there will be those who can not, or are unwilling to attend due to virus concerns.

That’s why your first step should be to check with the core wedding group (family, wedding party members) to see what their reaction is to a more intimate ceremony. You may find that some are immunocompromised or can not travel due to restrictions. Some may simply be unwilling to take the risk.

Once You Make Initial Cuts..

The time has come to establish some sort of rule for cutting, such as family only. To avoid hard feelings, the last thing you want is to make your decision seem arbitrary. You might even consider a virtual option whereby disinvited guests are asked to participate via digital access.

When you decide on numbers and who you are cutting from the list, it is important to make personal connections with those you are uninviting. A phone call is the best way to chat personally and explain your situation. If not, then the best etiquette is to send a personalized card.

The message you convey will also go a long way toward saving hurt feelings. Begin by emphasizing how difficult your decision is and that it is made absolutely out of concern for the health of all involved. A nice way to make the ex-guest feel important is to tell them there will be a full celebration at a later (post-COVID) date where you will be eager to see them. Or, if a party is already part of your smaller plans, you might suggest that you would like to get together with them later one-on-one.

Finally, When the Wedding Day Arrives..

Consider what you put on social media. Posts that include photos of attendees who are part of a group to which some of the uninvited belong are bound to generate ill-will. For now, it might be best to stick to shots of the happy couple and maybe the wedding participants.

If you are on the receiving end of wedding guests disinvite, try not to take it personally. COVID-19 is a serious threat and cutting a hundred person guest list down to a handful is no easy thing. You were important enough to be invited and important enough for the couple to consider your health. And, yes, you should send a wedding gift even if you are uninvited. It does not have to be the full Reed and Barton silver place setting you had considered. Maybe something more modest. Maybe a lovely pair of toasting flutes or an alloy wine chiller; something that says, “I understand.”

Written by, Megan Glenn

Charleston Bridal Suite at The Faber House

Faber Bridal Suite

The destination wedding dream for many newly engaged couples often includes historic streets, sandy beaches, and southern hospitality. Many come to fall in love with the traditional homes or unconventional settings to host the big day. This is why we wanted to create a beautiful bridal suite that represents all of what Charleston has to offer.

Intrigue is so excited to share our amazing bridal suite with all of the couples choosing Charleston as their wedding destination. We have over 1200sqft of space that includes a private bridal dressing room, full kitchen, traditional Charleston Piazza, full furnished bridal suite, 52″ flat-screen TV, a beautiful outside courtyard, and much much more!

Our Charleston Bridal Suite has a full kitchen so have fun creating your own catering menu for your special day. If you don’t want to worry about the details reach out to our friends over at Caviar & Bananas and select one of their bridal menus.

In reality, Charleston may not be your home, but we will make sure the Faber Bridal House feels like that on your special day. Above all, you and your bridal party will want to savor every moment together and experience a wedding weekend to remember.

Our couples have the option of bringing in their own stylist or working with the amazing team at Silhouette on Site.

Located in the heart of Charleston at

635 East Bay Street

Charleston, SC

Why choose a hotel when you can have the full Charleston experience.

Organizing Your Wedding Inspiration

Guest Post from Aisle Planner

How to Clean up Your Wedding Inspiration Boards so You Can Find Your Perfect Wedding Style.

Wedding Inspiration and Planning

Oh to be an engaged couple freely pinning on Pinterest. Pinterest is this beautiful shiny black hole that you can easily enjoy getting sucked into. After all, long gone are the days where couples had to create wedding inspiration binders with clippings from magazines, now you can be flooded with grand and gorgeous images and with a click of a button. Regardless, you will find your Pinterest board full of a hodgepodge of color palettes and styles. For instance, having mint and coral beach wedding flowers found right next to the warm-colored cottage backdrop. Pinterest is your best friend until it is not.

With so much inspiration, it can be difficult to pinpoint the direction and focus you want for your wedding. However, this is confusing for you and your wedding planner. Wedding planners receive hundreds of photos and wedding inspiration boards. How will you or your wedding planner ever know exactly what you want? It’s time to clean up your inspiration boards and create style guides that will tie your wedding aesthetic into a pristine bow.

Getting Excited

After all, you and your partner are complex humans with so many likes and sources of inspiration. However, it is common to have similar aesthetics or opposite ones that complement each other. Either way, most couples do not know exactly what they want for their wedding and that’s okay! Besides, there is so much to choose from and so many fun options. How can you only pick one!? Maybe you do not have to pick just one. You may be able to find a middle ground or blend styles to make a wedding uniquely yours. Think of a forest, rustic, rooftop wedding. It’s possible!

First Things First

But first things first, at the beginning of the process, you are all bright-eyed and inspiration hungry. Nonetheless, everything looks so good and the world is full of possibilities, so it’s appropriate to go a little wild. See something you really like that definitely does not match your previous five pins? Save it! You are on a journey to finding the style that best represents your relationship. This is the first step to finding your wedding style. After all, every masterpiece had to begin somewhere and from a pool of ideas. Consider this your time to fill your wedding pool so you have ideas to work with.

Consider This

But getting excited is such fun! First, there are no restraints, everything is good and all is imaginable. However, you realize that maybe you can not have it all and that having it all may not actually be what you want. In this case, may feel overwhelmed with all of the options, but take a step back and take a deep breath…you got this. Now that the foundation is set, you can comb through your wedding inspiration and choose the ultimate favorites.

Find Your Wedding Style

First, you will begin to notice a trend in your pins. Follow that trend and you will find that you and your partner are likely leaning towards a theme already.
Then, gain some perspective by thinking about the fact that all of the glamorous shots you are looking at were all staged to look perfect to engage couples like yourself. That delectable five-tier cake is probably not budget-friendly. Additionally, neither is the glass covering every inch of the table and chandeliers. Most of these images are not the most realistic and there is comfort in knowing that you can emulate parts that you like without feeling the pressure to have perfection.
In fact, trust each other and trust your instinct. Choose whatever brings you the most happiness and is a reflection of your love.
Finally, create specific boards and captions. This is the time to organize and clean the aftermath of the wild. You have your style chosen, stick to it, and organize by creating boards for every aspect of your wedding: favors, bridesmaid dresses, linens, flowers, etc.

We Have Your Back!

Now, you can organize on your own but having assistance from a wedding planner can go such a long way. Intrigue Events offers virtual planning so you can plan wherever you are and at any stage in the planning process. By giving you access to virtual consultants that walk you through the planning process, along with access to the Planning Tools, you can find the guidance you need. Also, as a helpful alternative to hiring a full-time planner, they can assist you in using and organizing your inspiration while incorporating both you and your partner’s personalities and styles into your wedding design.

We love using these tools to teach you how to focus your thoughts and ideas. Uniquely, you can use multiple boards, comment on photos, and even add other vendors! We are proud to be able to provide this service and guidance so that you can have your dream wedding style.

Reeling in your inspiration is a very doable and very satisfactory step that will get you closer to having a wedding that feels uniquely true to your love story.

The Best Charleston Wedding Vendors

Intrigue is here to help you find the best Charleston wedding vendors. We thoughtfully curated a list of the finest wedding vendors in Charleston, South Carolina who share the love for timeless designs, and stylish details. Our Charleston Vendors commit to providing you and your family with the service you deserve. We did the work for you, so start wedding planning with our trusted Charleston wedding resources.

Charleston Venues

You said yes to your fiancé and to Charleston, now it is time to look at wedding dates and charleston wedding venues. Charleston has consistently ranked one of the most desirable destination wedding locations. With the plethora of dreamy historic properties, outdoor venues, and waterfront options, deciding on the best venue for your wedding day is no easy task. In the meantime, take a look at our picks for Charleston’s top wedding venues to help you narrow down your selection.

Charleston Rehearsal Venues

You said I Do to Charleston, now it is time to look at Charleston rehearsal dinner venues. Along with planning your dream wedding day, you want a rehearsal dinner venue to match your wedding day charm. Charleston is consistently ranked as one of the country’s food capitals. Given the abundance of prime bars and breweries, restaurants, and unique rehearsal dinner locations, deciding on the best venue for the day before your Charleston wedding can be a feat. Take a look at our picks for Charleston’s top rehearsal dinner venues to guide you in the right direction.

Charleston Photographers

With the excitement of planning your wedding, you should savor each moment. Of course, moments like the engagement shoot, rehearsal dinner, and finally, the wedding day! One thing is for sure, you want to relive your wedding day forever with tangible memories. When it comes to photography, find what appeals to you, and look beyond trends to discover your true taste. Whether your style is editorial, impressionistic, moody, or light and airy, you want to walk away with images that are timeless. Intrigue works with and vets the best photographers Charleston has to offer. Take a peek and discover what style resonates with you.

Charleston Videography

Photography captures most of your wedding day, however, a videographer ensures you do not miss a thing. Just like photographers, videographers take different approaches to their craft. While Documentary-style videos present the events chronologically, a cinematic film is generally more dramatic. Additionally, a cinematic film using interesting angles for a movie-like feel. Figuring out where to start and how to narrow down the selection of Charleston videographers can be overwhelming. Thankfully, we have done the work for you. Browse our top Charleston Videographers, and see which appeals to you.

Charleston Catering

Intrigue knows your wedding day is a big deal, and nothing is too small of a detail. A major consideration for your wedding reception is your food and drink selections. Whether you hope for a full-service, sit-down dinner, or a cocktail hour with passed appetizers, the possibilities are endless. From traditional Southern fare to one-of-a-kind dishes, finding your perfect wedding caterer is a key. Hiring a wedding caterer can be complicated, especially as you calculate budget, guest count, and menu. If your wedding venue does not have in-house caterers or preferred vendors, start the search by narrowing down your choices with our list of caterers we absolutely love.

Charleston Florist

Your wedding flowers might be one of the most important elements of your wedding day. Not only do they provide color and decoration, but they are an expression of your personality. From organic and free-flowing to bold and traditional, the right wedding florist helps make wedding planning a breeze. Here are some of our top Charleston wedding florists, to bring your creativity to life.

Charleston Wedding Entertainment

Selecting the right mix of entertainment on your wedding day will not only help set the overall tone but ensure your guests have a night to remember. It is important for your entertainment to reflect your style and music taste. However, it is equally important to host entertainment that is appropriate for your wedding venue and guest count. From innovative musicality to elaborate 15 piece ensembles, Intrigue knows how to get the party started.

Charleston Hair & Makeup

Of all your nuptial decisions, choosing your wedding day look might be one of the most daunting. After all, you are taking thousands of photos celebrating, laughing, kissing, and dancing the night away. You want to make sure you nail your wedding day do. When choosing, consider your Charleston venue or the silhouette of your gown. Do not fret if you feel completely lost in a sea of pictures on Pinterest and Instagram. Intrigue is here to help you narrow down your beauty look, with these fabulous Charleston beauty experts.