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tip of the week: traditions: keep’em or toss’em

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Hello everyone! I feel terrible, as I skipped my “tip of the week” last week. It’s been absolutely hectic here in our office, as wedding season is now only a few short weeks away. I have been spending a lot of time with my clients preparing their wedding day schedules, and inevitably one question always pops up: What about the “traditional”? What has to stay? What can go? So I’ve decided that today’s tip will be all about traditions. Some are old, some are new, and depending on the couple, some are altogether obsolete. Still, there is something nice about traditions. They are what our parents did, and their parents did before them, and their parents’ parents did way back when. Traditions attach us to ...

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tip of the week: in timely fashion

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Hello! I hope you’ve all had a splendid week. I’ve blogged about picking vendors, staying on budget, and staying cool. I think that the time has come for us to talk a little bit about time in general (well, only when pertaining to your wedding). I recently booked a bride whose wedding is {gasp} in 3 months from now. If you haven’t felt the panic, let me rephrase. Her wedding is in ninety days, and she has absolutely nothing booked. Now, I definitely love a good challenge, and as a wedding planner, there are definitely a few strings I can pull to make sure this wedding turns out flawless. But if you are flying this one solo, or if you would simply like to be ...

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frame me!

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As you all know from my last post, I am hard at work finalizing the details for Jennifer and Mathieu’s wedding this coming February 13th. One of the touches we wanted to add was to have various signs at special spots around the room… Menus, cocktail recipes, the couple’s thoughts, etc. In order to do that, I needed pretty frames, in various colors matching our theme (Valentine’s Day reds, pinks, and whites). I found a few frames that worked with that, but mostly I found pretty frames in totally wrong colors. So what did I do? I took my girly nail polish to good use! I hope this inspires you to try out your own little DIY project… xoxo

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