Ask the Wedding Planner

I’m going to be holding a wedding planner seminar called “Ask the Wedding Planner” on April 30th. Tentative location is at the Olympic Collection in West L.A. It’s basically going to be an extended Q&A session, where brides and grooms can come with their questions. And, oh, yes, there will be cake. And vendor discounts….

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So Far

I’m about two days from changing the website, I swear. I think part of the reason that I’ve been dragging my feet is that I really like my site, it’s just getting creaky. It’s time for a change, but, you know, I built it with my own two hands and latent html skills, and it…

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Top Ten Tips for a Charmed Wedding

If you go to the website right now, you can sign up to receive my Top Ten Tips for a Charmed Wedding. They’re really good. Honest!

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Made a few changes

…to my website. Tightened up the text, changed the message in “About The Silver Charm” – which you’ll enjoy if you liked Shakespeare in Love as much as I did. I should have an all new website up in the next couple of weeks (yes, I’ve been saying that forever), but I got tired of…

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Meanwhile, back at Barnes and Noble

The boy and I just spent a couple of hours sipping coffee and reading at B&N. And they’ve already set up a special table for wedding books and magazines. One that caught my eye was “The Knot Guide for the Mother of the Bride”. 108 pages, but I can sum it up for you in…

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Old Traditions, New Uses

I got into a discussion about wedding dresses with my sister-in-law, and she told me that she once went to a wedding where the bride wore her mother’s wedding dress, which had also been her grandmother’s wedding dress. Yes, that tradition. And she didn’t change it anyway, either, so she was wearing a 50-year old…

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Chocolate and Errands

I consider this part a public service announcement: The First Annual Chocolate Festival is being held in Ventura this weekend – www.vcchocolatefestival.org. Me and the boy are SO there on Sunday. Anyway, as wedding season is coming up fast, I’ve been thinking about expanding my services. I’m thinking about offering a service just for people…

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Trying to find a place to have the darn thing

So, this week, I’ve been hired to find a place to hold a birthday party in June. I love research, so it’s fun for me, but this stuff tends to be kind of frustrating for the person I’m working for. What you tell someone that you want, and the picture in your head can be…

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Magazine Review Time!

I was kind of shocked by both of these, actually – there were tons more advertisements than there usually are, which bums me out, because it’s just that much harder to get to the good stuff. Ah, well. Everybody’s got to pay the rent: Martha Stewart Weddings: – Round page. 31, There’s an RSVP card…

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Charmed Weddings: The Podcast Lives!

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