Category: Weddings

The Wedding Budget

The Wedding Budget

Even before your first boyfriend entered the picture, you may have dreamt about what your wedding would look like.  Perhaps it was filled with hundreds of guests, a Vera Wang gown, fireworks, a castle, private estate, or the Plaza Hotel, decorated birch trees,

The Grand Send Off

The Grand Send Off

You’ve planned the dramatic entrance to the ceremony and the grand announcement as Mr and Mrs when you enter the reception, but have you planned for a spectacular exit?

As a previous wedding planner and photographer, I’ve attended hundreds of weddings and was (more…)

Mrs. Who?

Mrs. Who?

For some brides, agonizing over the style of their wedding dress, the theme of the wedding, or the flavor of the cake, is not nearly as difficult as deciding whether or not they will take their husband’s last name.  Traditionally and in year’s past, it […]

The First Look

The First Look

I first wrote about the “First Look” seven years ago when it was a relatively new concept.  At the time I was a wedding photographer and this option is one that I wholeheartedly embraced! Traditionally, wedding formals

Park Winters Wedding Venue

Park Winters Wedding Venue

While I may have hung up my wedding coordinator hat a couple of years ago, I didn’t hesitate to help out family friends when asked to coordinate their wedding this past weekend.  Thank you, Jenny & Adam, it was an honor to be your coordinator for the day!

Their venue of choice was the beautiful award (more…)

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

More than likely, you have heard this phrase before but you may not know that this superstition dates back to 1883 and comes from an Old English rhyme.  The old, the new, the borrowed and the blue are all meant to be a token of […]

Let them eat cake

Let them eat cake

Wedding cakes have come a long way since medieval times, a time when the wedding cakes or wheat cakes were thrown at the bride as a fertility rite.   Today, and thankfully so, we’ve evolved beyond thinking that our fertility depends on how much cake is […]

Your wedding vows

Your wedding vows

With all of the details surrounding the planning of a wedding, sometimes the details of the ceremony itself can get overlooked, specifically the vows.

Typically, the words that are spoken through the ceremony, including (more…)

Say Yes to the Dress

Say Yes to the Dress

Having worked in the wedding industry for years as minister, photographer, and consultant, you would think I would be past the wedding dress obsession phase.  But no, along with my years past die-hard Twi-hard fan addiction, I think it’s time to add “Say Yes to […]