I’m Baaaaaackkk!
I know — you guys thought I’d abandoned you. Even at my worst last year I never took such a long break from my blog. I have excuse, I swear. I was suffering from a little wedding planner burnout coming out of the January, February and March weddings. Before we hit the crazy wedding season that starts in April, Bill and I ran away to St. Croix for four days for a little R&R. All work and no play makes Sandy a bitchy, no-fun wedding planner. But we found a way to tie wedding planning into our little getaway — scoping out locations for honeymooners on the nearby island of St. Croix!
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Hello Brides and Grooms!
It’s a gorgeous day in Vieques! We’re in full-steam-ahead wedding mode here with Bethany and Tim’s pig roast beach party this afternoon and their wedding tomorrow. But I wanted to take a quick moment to pop off a blog about some budget-saving tips for brides that will help save money without your guests even noticing you did anything out of the norm. In this economy, more couples are finding themselves paying for more of their own weddings than ever before. Girls who thought they could count on “daddy” when the big day finally arrived are finding out that, due to the economic crunch, their parents are able to contribute less than they’d hoped for their big day. Don’t despair! There are ways to navigate the budget crunch that won’t be obvious to anybody attending your wedding! Let’s talk about 10 ways to save money without compromising too much on the wedding of your dreams.
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Hello everybody!
I’m sorry I haven’t been writing — it seems like I can never get a down minute for myself these days. I like blogging, but I like sleeping too. Sometimes I have to choose one or the other. We’ve got another large wedding group on the island this weekend for Bethany and Tim’s destination wedding weekend. It seems like it’s going to be a fun group — they’re all so happy to be out of the cold and in the Caribbean. But I want to pop off a quick blog today about an important topic I get asked about all the time — wedding invitations!
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Hello Friends!
Today’s blog was inspired by a new client of mine. She hired me last week for a wedding in 2010, and the first thing she did after she signed my contract was send me a copy of a wedding planning calendar that she’d found online. She wanted me to fill in all the due dates on it as it applied to her wedding. I had to explain to her that a traditional planning calendar that you find in a bridal magazine is for planning a wedding at home, not a destination wedding. The structure of planning a wedding on a Caribbean island, as well as the deadlines attached to those action items, is very different.
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