Pack your bags and gather your girls: Whether your prefer a big city, wine country, or a beach, these eight destinations have everything you need to relax, renew, and bond all over again. { READ MORE }
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Pampering Spa Deals, From $199Hotels in California, Idaho, New Mexico, Florida, and Missouri offer perks like facials, massages, manicures, and pedicures.
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Cinco de Mayo Made Easy
Throw a fun taco party: Roberto Santibañez, culinary director for Maria Maria restaurants (owned by Carlos Santana), provided the recipes. We created the invites, games, and favors. Just add your friends.
Throw a fun taco party: Roberto Santibañez, culinary director for Maria Maria restaurants (owned by Carlos Santana), provided the recipes. We created the invites, games, and favors. Just add your friends.
Go on a Shopping Safari
It's not like you need an excuse to go shopping…but what if we could lead you to deals (almost) too good to be true? Now that might even justify a retail field trip.
It's not like you need an excuse to go shopping…but what if we could lead you to deals (almost) too good to be true? Now that might even justify a retail field trip.
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Ask GigiOur resident travel expert dishes on where to shop in Paris, party in South Beach, and more…
bachelorette handbook
Game On, Girls!
Whether you're staying in or out and about, nothing makes for bachelorette party memories like playing games with the bride-to-be.
How to Plan a Bachelorette Party
One getaway doesn't fit all any more than one wedding dress, so we've identified five types: a wild night out, pampering at the spa, food and wine, an outdoor adventure, and a beachhouse rental. Throw in a few personal touches, and you're set for a fab weekend.
Readers' Party Tips
Here are your stories and suggestions, both practical and offbeat, for how to maximize the bachelorette party fun. (Tip 3: Get your kicks during a pole-dancing lesson!)
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The Give and Take Vacation
A renovation-challenged traveler tests a new breed of volunteer trip that factors in time for work (stove building, anyone?) and play.
A renovation-challenged traveler tests a new breed of volunteer trip that factors in time for work (stove building, anyone?) and play.
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