An Occasion for the Arts on October 3 & 4 from 10 AM to 5 PM This festival is an art show & music festival combined, which is held in the Merchants Square Area of Colonial Williamsburg and downtown Williamsburg, Virginia. At the event there will be live music, wine tastings, painters, jewelers, craftspeople, as […]
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When planning a wedding or even an elopement, sometimes planning the rehearsal dinner gets pushed back to the last minute. The rehearsal dinner is an intimate start to the wedding experience. It allows the close family and bridal party to spend one on one time with the bride and groom. It is also a time
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Fall is upon us, and what better way to get festive than to cook up some pumpkin recipes! Here are a couple of our favorite desserts to get the family excited about October! Pumpkin-Pecan Cheesecake 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans 5 tablespoons butter, melted 3 tablespoons light
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It was a beautiful evening driving on Colonial Parkway on the way to historic Yorktown, Virginia. We arrived around 4:00 pm and walked out to the patio at the Water Street Grille for some appetizers and beer flights. We could see our ship peacefully floating just a stone’s throw away. It was so easy to
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If you are in the Williamsburg, Virginia area for these upcoming weekend festivals, be sure to stop in and enjoy craft beer, local wine, and fine art in the wonderful weather we have been having lately. Virginia Beach will hold their inaugural Neptune’s Coastal Craft Beer Festival on August 29th from 1-6 pm at the 31st
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When planning a wedding or even an elopement, it is inevitable you will have to hire vendors to help bring your vision to life. As you are interviewing potential vendors, make sure to ask these important questions: Do you have references? This seems like an obvious question, but many people are afraid to ask for good
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So you brought the family to Williamsburg to check out Busch Gardens, but what you didn’t expect was the multitude of other activities for you and the family to enjoy as well. Check out these local tours that will excite and intrigue even the hardest to please members of the group! Ghosts of Williamsburg Candlelight Tours
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One of the biggest struggles before we go on vacation is how to most efficiently maximize the rest of our groceries that are in the fridge and cupboards without having to go shopping for particulars. My grandmother was the queen of making a 5 star meal out of nothing as a child of the Great Depression.
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We called ahead for a Wednesday night table for 2 at Food For Thought in Williamsburg, VA. Even so, we waited for about 30 minutes before we could take our seat, and the waiting area was packed full! This is a good omen, undoubtedly. Once we took our seats, the server greeted us with a
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Vacation weight is a real problem. You’re eating good food, and skipping your usual gym routine. We all know how it works, you go on vacation and you feel like since you don’t have your gym membership and the equipment, that you should just take the whole week off. WRONG. It is so much harder
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