Category Archives: Advice

Flower Girl Fashion

A client recently asked me for flower girl dress recommendations that are under or around $50.  Ever since becoming a mommy I’ve become a wee bit obsessed with the baby + kid sections at Target, Gap and H+M.  Right now, or after the holiday when the sales start, are great times to hit the stores because…

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Wedding Planning Tips: Transportation

{photo by our labor of love via ead} It is really a generous and nice gesture to provide transportation for your guests…especially when your wedding is far away or up a mountain or there will be heavy drinking involved…but, if you want your guests to arrive to your wedding on time and sober do not…

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nancy : The Sway Report - Sounds like you know from experience..? ;)

Emilia Jane - This weekend's wedding started an hour behind schedule because the bus bringing the guests showed up late. And by the time it did show up all the guests were wasted! Not my fault! I didn't schedule the bus just tried to coordinate it getting to the venue on time but guests kept telling the driver to pull over and make pit stops!

Alexia - Eek! That sounds horrible! Great idea to tell the guests that the bus leaves a half hour earlier than it does. I always tell my fiance we have to be somewhere a half hour before we actually do 'cause he's always slow getting out of the house ;)

Invitation Saga and Some Advice

{a little sneak peek…how cool are those trees!} Once upon a time I thought that invitations were really, really important to me. I love graphic design and I go kind of gaga over pretty fonts and pretty paper. This was going to be the one project into which I invested the most of my time…

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OK, now what? Let’s Get Organized

Last Friday I laid out my advice for having a less stressful, more practical and happier wedding planning experience. This week I thought I would talk more about what has kept me (somewhat) sane through my own wedding planning. Everyone organizes their life and work differently so if this is not how you process information…

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Eco Yogini - ok, excel kinda scares me, however this is a fantastic idea. i need to do this… :)
thank you so much for sharing and even including possible columns. :) I am with you on the geekdom!

Emilia Jane - Excel is your friend! :) Let me know if you need any help with your spreadsheets and I would be happy to help.

We’re Getting Married! OK, now what?

I wanted to start a series on this blog that deals with the more practical side of planning a wedding or event. We all know I love the pretty but I am also a very organized person. Who says we can’t have the practical with the pretty, anyway? Where better to start than at the…

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hifiweddings - wow i've never seen that site to see the average wedding costs! mine was less than $5k and to see the numbers at $19-$32k is insane to me!!

Emilia Jane - I want to hear/see more about your wedding! Under 5K! I wish we could have pulled that off!

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