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This story originally appeared in the Jackson Free Press. It was added to the Mississippi Free Press website in 2025.
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Welcome to oppressive heat, summer vacation and the wedding season! Here at [FLY], we think your wedding should be nothing short of, well … fly! So we’ve dropped a few tips and tricks that you can use to make sure your wedding day is as unique and awesome as you are. In this issue, you can find guy-friendly wedding showers, a killer gift guide for all kinds of couples and the ultimate Jackson area resource guide to getting that checklist done in time for the big day.

In this issue
Alternative Send-Offs
Shower Gift Guide
DIY: Wedding Centerpieces

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.