Traveling to a new city can be intimidating. Sure, you have your Lonely Planet guidebook and recommendations from friends and friends of friends, but many travelers want to find out more about their destinations on a local level.

If you are planning a destination wedding in a faraway city, try scouring the web for local bloggers to find some insight into the best restaurants, nightlife and day trips to recommend to your wedding guests. On a recent trip to Australia, I met the lovely, talented and hilarious blogger behind the cake + the knife, an Aussie food blog that’s as entertaining and endearing as she is. With camera in hand at a spectacular Moroccan restaurant, she gushed about all of the  fabulous places I should visit while in Sydney. Talking to her was definitely one of the highlights of my trip!

Blogs like the cake + the knife exist in cities all over the world. One of our office favorites is Little Brown Pen, which is dedicated to the blogger’s undying love of Paris. You can also find sites full of local reviews and tips, like Bahamas Local—a resource that will surely come in handy if you plan to enter to win our Bahamas honeymoon sweepstakes!

A friend forwarded me this article from the New York Times yesterday, and I wasn’t really surprised by what it says. Men are getting more involved in the wedding planning process these days, meaning that they want to help their future spouses to create a special occasion for all of their guests. This doesn’t mean they necessarily want to spend hours picking out flowers or satin ribbon, but they might be interested in the style and color of your invitations, groomsmen attire and event décor.

If you are looking for great online wedding resources for men, we recommend a few of the links below:

• GroomGroove offers everything a guy needs to play his part with finesse. Find tips for making speeches, hosting a rocking reception and even a checklist of the groom’s duties.
• Looking for gifts tailored to grooms, with a little advice thrown in for good measure? The Man Registry is the site for you. They have everything from personalized beer steins to tips for writing vows that will leave her teary-eyed.
• Is all of this a little much for you? Find a place to read about a groom who is even more skeptical than you at The Grumpy Groom. It might even inspire you to start your own blog!

Dear Divas,

I’m getting ready to send out my (beautiful!) Wedding Paper Divas invitations to my guest list.  I’m addressing my own envelopes and I’ve run in to some questions along the way.  Of them, the two that I’ve been unable to find answers for are these: When inviting an unmarried couple that lives together, how do I address the envelope?  What about an unmarried couple that doesn’t live together but is in a serious relationship?  Do they each get their own invite or one sent to one of them but addressed to both?  So confusing, help!

Confused Calligrapher

Dear Confused Calligrapher,

What a great question!  This is so common and can be very confusing, so don’t feel badly about it.  To address (ha! no pun intended!) your first question, when inviting an unmarried couple that lives together, address the envelope just as you would a married couple with different last names: alphabetically, on separate lines on the outer envelope.  So, it would look like this:

Ms. Janine Myers
Mr. Richard Stevenson

Your inner envelope would be slightly different, with both names on one line, as you see here:

Ms. Myers and Mr. Stevenson

If you are not doing an inner envelope, you’d only follow the instructions for the outer envelope, with both names on their own line.

In regards to your second question, if you are sending an invitation to an unmarried couple that live in separate households, try to find out both of their names, even if you don’t personally know them both.  It’s nice to send an invitation to both addresses if you can, with each addressed to the singular person on the outer envelope, and then addressed to both (as in the above example) on the inner envelope.  However, if you don’t know both addresses, it’s also acceptable to send an invite to one of them with both of their names on it, each on their own line, as in the above example.  Alternatively, if you can’t find the name of someone’s significant other, it’s okay to simply address the invitation in this manner:

Mr. John Doe and Guest

You can use these tips to fit your wedding style and formailty level.  And remember, you can always contact the Wedding Paper Divas customer service team with any of your invitation etiquette questions!