Hello there!
Does your future mother-in-law really want to help you plan the wedding? Does your mother call you every day, twice? Does the groom’s mother have an awful lot of opinions? Has your mother started e-mailing you pictures of the bouquets SHE likes — who taught her how to embed an attachment anyway? Has dinner with his parents become a torturous question-and-answer session about the nitty-gritty details of your Caribbean destination wedding? Sometimes, it’s easier to find a special project to keep a well-meaning relative busy than it is to keep that same person out of your hair during your entire wedding planning experience.
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Hello Readers!
I’ve been answering a lot of questions about invitations lately — the most consistent question being about the differences between different kinds of printing techniques. There’s really three different methods that are commonly used today — and I’m no printer so forgive me if I get something technical wrong anywhere in this posting — engraving, thermography and laser printing. If you don’t know what you’re looking at, you use your fingers to tell the difference!
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Hola Everybody!
Drumroll please… Ta-da! Part III in our series on creating written materials for your Caribbean destination wedding has finally arrived — writing a welcome letter that won’t have them wandering lost all over the island missing the good food and drinks that you’ve already paid for at the party they can’t find!!!
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I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkk!
And so is Part II of our three-part series about creating the written materials for your destination wedding weekend. Today we’re going to talk about the newsletter you’re going to send out to your guests four to six weeks prior to your actual wedding weekend.
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Hello Readers!
Today is a very special day — Part I of a three-part series about the written materials you should create for your wedding weekend. If you’re one of my clients, I create these materials and e-mail them to you so you can personalize them and edit them and do what you like with them before you send the packets out to your guests. But, if you’re not lucky enough to be my client or to be getting married on Vieques Island, I figured you might need a little help with this part of the destination wedding planning process too. So let’s move on to the topic of the day — writing your travel information packet.
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Hi there!
Do you rememeber the scene in Steel Magnolias where all the women are asking about the wedding, and Shelby tells them her colors are “Blush and Bashful!” Her mother snorts and replies ”Pink and Pink.” For some reason that scene has always made me giggle. Even before I was a wedding planner.
Do you ever wonder how other brides choose their color schemes for their weddings? Or have you always known that you wanted to use three different shades of pink? Did you spend hours culling through bridal magazines to find just the right color combination? Or are you three months out from your wedding and you still haven’t the faintest idea what colors you want to see decorating your wedding reception? I have to be honest and say that I have seen some beautiful color schemes and I’ve seen some butt-ugly color schemes, but they all have one thing in common — they are exactly what the bride wanted!
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Hello Brides and Grooms!
This is one of the most important blogs that I will ever write.. It’s a topic I bring up periodically because it is important enough to talk about it over and over and over again. Packing!!! It’s never too early to start packing, and I do mean you can start today. (Read More…)
Happy Monday!
I am spending this morning working with flower budgets for Claire and Danielle’s weddings next year. The task actually inspired me to take a break and blog about flowers for your parents at your Caribbean destination wedding. What is traditional back home is not the norm in the Caribbean. Especially on Vieques Island. But what is traditional back home has been changing anyway, so why worry about tradition at all? For example, the pin-on corsage has gone the way of losing your virginity on your wedding night. It’s rarely expected anymore.
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Hola Mis Novias y Mis Novios!
It is Sunday on a non-wedding weekend and I am going to play all day. So I figured I’d better post my blog early and get it over with. Today’s blog is an extension of yesterday’s blog — we’re going to talk about appropriate gifts for the parents of the bride and groom. Yay! How exciting! 
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Happy Saturday to My Readers!
Today’s topic is sort of a preemptory lecture for all of my clients out there, but it’s also very useful guidance for every bride. The gifts you purchase for your wedding attendants — bridesmaids and groomsmen — are supposed to be thank you presents for the time and energy they are putting into your wedding (not to mention the fortune they have to spend). It is not an opportunity for the bride to buy matching purses, earrings, necklaces, or other jewelry for your girls so that they match on your wedding day. This is also not your chance to buy matching shoes for all the groomsmen to wear to the wedding. Thank you gifts for your attendants should be focused on them — not on your wedding!
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