Archive for March, 2007

See us in the latest issue of the Bridal Guide!

See us in the May/June issue of the Bridal Guide!  We were contributors to the article “Avoiding Big Day Glitches” by the fabulous Jennifer Lazarus.
 Pick up a copy or check the press section soon

See, wedding planners have a sense of humor too!

A few wedding planner friends and I were joking around about what could possibly be the worst song you could pick for your first dance.  We had such a good time laughing about these…

“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2
“What’s Love Got to Do With It?” by Tina Turner
“I Will Survive” by [...]

What NOT To Do For Your Wedding: The Theme

To some brides, choosing a wedding theme can be as complicated as developing the budget or the guest list.  For others, it’s the only thing that holds them together!  Picking a theme doesn’t have to be hard or complicated, and it actually can make your planning process flow a lot easier. 
 What NOT to Do:

Pick more [...]

Spencerian For Hire

Are you looking for the perfect look for your wedding invitations, programs, menus and placecards? 
 Spencerian Penmanship, or American Cursive, the writing that inspired the USPS’ wedding stamps, is making its way into weddings way beyond the stamp.  Spencerian is an elegant mid-19th century form of cursive penmanship that is growing popular again with commercial artists. [...]

Trash that dress, girl!

I know you are looking at me and saying, “Terrica, you are completely NUTS”.  Really, I’m not…and I’m not talking about what you think I am either!
 ”Trashing” your dress just means that you have a bridal photo session post-wedding.  It consists of you coming back home from your wedding/honeymoon, completely EXHILARATED that all that planning is over [...]

What NOT To Do For Your Wedding: The Guest List

Now that the budget has been sized up (or down, for that matter), you have a realistic view of what you can do for your wedding.  Depending on how you allocated your funding in the budget segment, a majority of what you can do will revolve around the your guest list.  Don’t believe me? Let’s take [...]

What NOT To Do For Your Wedding: Your Budget

Ok, so everyone knows now that you’re in love and you’re ready to party like its 1999.  So what should be your first step?  The budget.  A lot of brides think that it’s not that important, that they can wing it or worse, ignore it.  Wrong!  Your budget is your friend! Embrace your inner meiser!  [...]

What NOT To Do For Your Wedding: Your Engagement

Congrats! He’s popped the question– now what?
What NOT To Do:

Tell everyone but your parents and expect them to pay for your wedding
Buy a wedding gown the day after
Make promises that might be hard to keep later (”I’m getting married and you just know you are invited!” or “He asked me to marry him! You [...]

New Series at the O Blog: What NOT To Do For Your Wedding

We are going to debut a new series of our blog, called “What NOT To Do For Your Wedding“. The series will start from the engagement process and go through out the wedding planning to the event itself.
We see a lot of “how-to”, “do-it-yourself” and the like, but no one ever really sits you down [...]