There are days when my stress level is seriously at its max and I want to just scream or take it all out on the heavy bag.  I wasn’t looking for perspective when I found Operation: Love Reunited, but perspective found me.  Op Love is a organization that captures and documents (so lovingly and [...]

I had the most awesome time with a very good friend the other evening.  We had been talking for months (literally, I’m not joking) about getting together and spending some much needed girlfriend time together.  So, when I had the opportunity to let the fabutots hold my father hostage, I took the chance to [...]

I think grown women should have grown women colors, don’t you?  I’ve seen some demure things that are gorgeous, but I really do love it when a bride gets a little "risque" with color.  It just says so much about her personality and where she is going with her event when she experiments with [...]

If money is an issue for your wedding, (and with gas at $4.00 a gallon, when is it not?)  you can become innovative by incorporating some things into your design that no one "typically" does at weddings.  It makes you look cutting edge and saves you some money, or none at all, but it also [...]

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  Bella Figura is at it again!  The awesome letterpress company introduced Smock– it’s sister company, with invites and card designed by Amy Graham Stigler.  Just like Bella Figura, Smock is sustainably letterpressed on bamboo paper in the Syracuse, New York print shop. After years in the making, Smock is wedding invitations, social notes, thank you’s, [...]

Exactly how much thought are you putting into your wedding design?  Most brides get so caught up in wedding porn– ahem, all the pretty wedding pictures, that they really forget that a.) all of that prettiness adds up in terms of product and labor and b.) 90% of is a one shot deal– you get [...]

If you haven’t heard, I am the biggest, girliest mixed martial arts fan out there– I’m bored by boxing and other so called "contact sports". Mattie says I have a bloodlust.  I say, Why yes I do.  This weekend is  one of the craziest, most anticipated fight in UFC history:  Jackson vs. Griffin.  *sigh* I [...]

  When featured on The Smart Planner, I admitted that hemorrhoid cream was a must have in my 911 kits at weddings.  I have had people ask me what else I have in that monstrosity of a Emergency Kit that might be unconventional.  As I mentioned before, a lot of this came from competing in [...]

  Your bridesmaids have spent mucho dollars to come to your wedding– the airline tickets, the hotel stay, the gifts, the dress, the hair and makeup, the jewelry….I could go on, but we both know, I don’t have to.  It’s not that often that your gal pals can get together at a gorgeous spot, all [...]