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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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tip of the week: how to not be a bridezilla

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Hello everyone! The weather has gone downhill here in Montreal, which sadly hasn’t got me thinking very happy thoughts today. So, in the spirit of all things cold and unpleasant, I thought I’d write a little something about bridezillas. When I tell people that I am a wedding planner, one of the most common comments I get in return is “wow, you must deal with a lot of bridezillas!”. For those of you not yet familiar with this term, a bridezilla is basically a bride gone bonkers. Lucky for me, most brides who choose to hire a wedding planner don’t actually have anything to go bonkers over, since they have someone else handling all the stress for them. But, probability being what it is, I ...

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tip of the week: picking the right vendors

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Hello, hello! I started this “tip of the week” thing last week with a post on how to stay on budget, so it felt right to follow up today with a how-to on the actual art of booking wedding vendors. If you are planning your wedding, or if you are simply obsessed with weddings, you might have noticed that this industry is like a shark tank. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of different vendors, from venues to djs and from florists to wedding planners, and everyone’s in for a piece of the pie. So how do you decide who to work with? Picking the wrong vendors can have a pretty disastrous effect on your wedding day. I have heard all sorts of horror ...

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tip of the week: staying on budget

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I was recently interviewed for Bride & Groom, a new Canadian bridal magazine. The fact that I was being interviewed was exciting in and of itself, but it also got me thinking that it was right about time I started sharing some helpful tips on this blog. And so this first Tip Of The Week was born. Today’s subject? The most important one of all: How to get married and not break the bank while going at it. It has to be said, planning a wedding has a pretty bad rep. It’s known for its breakdowns, family feuds, bridezillas, and definitely its expensive-ness. But with careful planning, it doesn’t need to be any of these things. Here’s the How-To: 1- Decide how much you can ...

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