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We handle every aspect of your function including pre-planning, event coordination, event design, and emceeing. Our focus: you!
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The secret to a happy marriage
Who knows how many books have been written that supposedly reveal the secret to a happy marriage? They are countless, because there’s probably no single secret. The late, great celebrity chef, Julia Child, had a simple formula: “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love…
Should an Irish blessing be a part of your wedding day?
An Irish blessing transcends your tribe. These blessings express the depth of the human condition with such sweetness, soul, and wit that couples throughout the world embrace them on their wedding day. An Irish Blessing resonates with the non-religious as well as people of faith. They are soulful, without necessarily invoking God, although He is…
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
Traditional wedding vows pledge fidelity for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, and in sickness and in health. They acknowledge that life presents us with bumps in the road. But the bumps are so much more manageable when two are bound together by love and share the journey. No wedding love song better expresses…
Your wedding day schedule makes or breaks your celebration
Couples get hung up on wedding details. How many flowers do we need? Will they like our wedding favors? Please don’t let the chicken fricassee be dry! And yet it’s the actual wedding day schedule that matters more to your wedding guests than these secondary details. Don’t get us wrong: these secondary details are important…
Why grooms carry brides over the threshold … and why they shouldn’t!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qD_zpwtpco Weddings abound with rich, and sometimes odd, traditions. One of the oddest is the notion that grooms should carry brides over the threshold. According to the book “Marriage Customs of the World,” the tradition hearkens back the 7th century B.C. when ancient Rome was founded by Romulus. The city needed to grow their population,…
Wedding attire 101
Engaged? Your wedding invitation should clearly convey your preferred dress code. But not all wedding guests understand what various wedding attire descriptions actually mean. This blogpost provides a quick primer. CASUAL: This is kind of a murky category, because your wedding attire intent may be influenced by your venue and the time of day of…
How to invite good wedding guests to your wedding
Wedding guests matter to couples planning their wedding. The headline above isn’t focused as much on WHO you invite, but rather HOW your wedding guests should behave at your wedding celebration. The purpose of this blogpost is to provide you with practical information to pass on to your wedding guests to enhance everyone’s experience. Just…
How to be a good mother-in-law
Mothers-in-law have been the butt of jokes down through the ages. American sitcoms provide fodder with their often hilarious portrayals of mothers-in-law. Since readers of this blog are interested in planning their wedding and merging two families into one, let’s look at how to be a good mother-in-law. A serious example … The video below…
Top 10 Wedding Movies
Hollywood has churned out some great movies over the decades with wedding themes. Here is our list of the top 10 wedding movies: #10: Runaway Bride It’s a silly premise. A woman (Julia Roberts) gets engaged and stands up one fiancé after another at the altar. Richard Gere is a journalist who wants to write…
The power of professionalism
The video above showcases the dynamic first wedding dance for the Canadian celebrity couple, Josh and Anna Wolfman. The dance is wildly entertaining, but that’s not what leaps out at us. What does is the power of professionalism. Everything is exquisite. The decorating. The lighting. The music. The attire. The videography. Everything. Yes … and…