Pasadena City Hall is a popular location for weddings, offering a beautiful backdrop with its architecture and gardens. While it’s a public space, you can have a ceremony there with or without a reservation, depending on the size of your party and the time of day. For smaller, intimate ceremonies, no reservation may be needed, but it’s always…

Flowers and bouquets are a large part of the decorations and visuals, just like the dress. It wasn’t always this way. Back in Ancient Rome and Greece it had been in vogue to carry aromatic bouquets of onions, garlic dill and other herbs to repel evil spirits. Carrying a favorite flower variety is a tradition…

Brand Park in Glendale is a nice place for weddings, and to visit.  The Japanese tea house, and friendship gardens are very scenic areas for wedding ceremonies. There is a pond with coy fish, and a stream with a small water falls.  There are trees and grass lawns through-out the area.  There is also a…

A Cell Phone-Free Ceremony Cellular phones can capture some amazing memories of your wedding day from various perspectives, but they can also be a nightmare for wedding photographer particularly during the wedding ceremony. In light of this, it’s become popular to plan a cell phone-free or “unplugged” ceremony to ensure that their photographers can capture…

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Martial Art’s History Museum is an interesting place to visit.  They are located at 201 N. Brand Blvd. B100 level, Glendale Ca. 91203. I think they are the only martial arts history museum around. The museum is pretty good size, they recently moved to this new location from Burbank.  They have a lot to see…

Weddings are generally an emotional event but China has taken it to another level with a ritual where bride has to cry for one hour each day from a month before the wedding. Ten days into this tradition, the bride’s mother joins in and days after that, the bride’s grandmother joins them for the ritual.…

When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have.  The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence. Thich That Hanh