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If you are planning a wedding, let us begin by saying congratulations! We are so glad that you are considering hiring a wedding planner. Depending on the stage of your planning and your own experience with weddings in the past, you may very well be asking yourself, “What type of wedding planner do I need?” If wedding planning is …
Congratulations! You’re engaged! How many times have you heard those words since that magical moment that changed your lives and propelled you down a new path and on a real journey of a lifetime? Enough to make you feel like royalty? Or, enough to drive you to the edge of an anxiety attack? Now is the perfect time for a …
Wedding planners enjoy a kind of humorous notoriety, thanks largely to the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Martin Short and their over-the-top movie portrayals. There are all kinds of fun misconceptions about wedding planners, including the favorite “they just go to parties and eat cake every weekend!” In reality, wedding planning is pretty complex, involving event experience, skilled management of …
Are you wondering what the best ways are to find an event planner in Richmond, Virginia? These are some tried and true suggestions to help you in your search: Trust a friend. Have you attended a great event recently or know someone who consistently throws the best events? Make a quick call or send a text and ask for the …
Having a destination wedding has exploded in popularity and it’s not hard to understand why. Between the lure of saying “I Do” in a remote and romantic location and the convenience and often affordability of an intimate wedding, there is much to love. Destination wedding planners can be critical to the success of a wedding away. Once you’ve found one you …
There is nothing more delicious than closely examining current wedding cake trends. True, it involves a bit of drooling, and a lot of Pinterest and Instagram surfing, but there are much worse jobs! It has been a really strange year in cakes. In the same season we have seen the most simple, return-to-tradition white detail on white frosting cakes while being …
Every couple wants a personalized wedding ceremony – one that uniquely reflects their love story. Sometimes planning a wedding means including the traditional elements as a way to honor our connection to the past. And other times, it means finding, or even making, our own new rituals. Here are some wedding ceremony trends to consider. The unity candle ceremony …
You spend hundreds of hours planning your wedding. There is so much to do – choose a color palette, find a venue, hire a caterer, seat your guests. It’s a full time job just keeping up with all of the details. One event that is commonly overlooked, and one that is particularly pivotal, is the wedding rehearsal. Shh… keep this wedding …
With summer arriving it’s time to think ahead a bit and consider the benefits and drawbacks of planning weddings in the fall. Did we mention we love a Fall Wedding? It’s actually hard to come up with many “cons”. Fall in the mid-Atlantic is usually pretty temperate compared to the oppressive heat of late summer and bitter cold of winter …
You probably didn’t realize when you set out to plan your wedding that you were actually accepting a new and demanding job: Vendor Manager. We always say that weddings have hundreds of moving parts, and among the most important of those parts are your wedding professionals. Since you don’t want to make the news for your epic-ly terrible management skills, …
