Perhaps one of the easiest ways to add vintage flair to your wedding is through your choice of location. The proper reception site will lend a certain charm to your wedding, and help tie the theme together.

A Bombshell isn't an ordinary, run-of-the-mill kind of girl. As Lauren Stover stated in The Bombshell Manual of Style, "A Bombshell never dresses carelessly...[and] she behaves as if all life's a movie in which she is the star." It's true. And two of us have decided to document just what sort of an evening a Bombshell has before an Evening Out. We don't simply "change and run out the door." Getting ready is part of the event.

Conflicting reports have him born either April 5 or 10, 1911, but either way, I'm proud to say he's a fellow Aries. Hard to imagine a fiery astrological temperament emanating from the very Soul of Exotica—music made to aurally massage the mind, even if it's already been softened up a bit by a Mai Tai or two.

About 20 years ago I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the New Hampshire bank where I worked granted us Veteran's Day off. With the snow falling softly outside my windows, I set up the ironing board in my little Maine duplex and turned on the television.