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Five Ways to Fix Your Fake Ceremony Time (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)Ohhkay, but they’re still going to be waiting when you get there. Photo: B&G Photography Fake ceremony times are my very least favorite wedding thing. Putting 5:00pm on your wedding invitation when you’re planning to start the ceremony at 5:30pm, or worse, 6:00pm. You lose prep time, you lose photography time, so if you’re not… |
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Nicole and John 22 Days Out: Getting from Point A to Point B (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)Wonderland Wedding Inspiration Photo: All the Beautiful Things by Loreta My Husband: “22 days.” Me: “Huh?” Husband:” October 10 is 22 days away.” Me: (Counting quickly in my head) “Damn it!” So, there’s that. But we’re moving along. Talked to Nicole this afternoon. We are going to shoot for a 3pm ceremony start time, which… |
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Nicole and John 26 Days Out: The Photographer's Site Visit (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)Please control your bleeding on your way out. Today I met Julie Patterson, Nicole and John’s photographer, at Heritage Square. A crew was shooting a student film when we showed up, which seemed to be some sort of horror sci-fi thingy? If we were in their way, they didn’t say anything. Heritage Square requires that any… |
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Nicole and John: 27 Days Out – Rentals and Answers (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)The Last Wedding I coordinated atHeritage Square Museum, on Style Me Pretty.Photo: Honey Honey Photography Heritage Square is what I call a “Bare Venue” – Nicole and John have to bring pretty much EVERYTHING in, except the restrooms. If your wedding at one of these places is the forest, and your timeline is the individual… |
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Nicole and John 28 Days Out: Hair & Makeup (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)Nicole’s hair and makeup inspirationStyle Me Pretty – Styling by Thorne ArtistryPhoto: Carmen Santorelli Studio About an hour ago, I spoke with Heather Roach, Nicole’s hair and makeup stylist. Turns out there are four people getting both hair and makeup done, which is scheduled to take about four and a half hours, from 8am – 12:45pm. I always feel… |
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29 Days Out: Nicole and John 10/10/15 (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)This is the Alice in Wonderland-ish themethey’re going for. Picture by All The Beautiful Things By Loreta This morning I spoke with Julie Patterson, Nicole and John’s photographer. She’s also going to be talking with Nicole directly on Tuesday, but I wanted to get an idea of what Julie’s expectations were for what would be going… |
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30 Days Out: Nicole and John at Heritage Square Museum 10/10/15 (Los Angeles Wedding Planner)Confirmed their cake yesterday with Hansens.Just like this, except with the green flowersand white frosting. I start constructing day-of timelines one month out, which was Thursday, 9/10. The museum also requires one then, too, and a list of vendors.I always get a little itchy about giving any kind of timeline to the venue this early,… |
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Ask Liz: Wedding Time vs. CateringDear Liz, The second deposit for my venue is due next week, and when I looked at the contract and thought about what we want to happen that day, I’m starting to freak out. Our wedding is next month, we’re getting married at 5pm, and the music has to be off by 10pm, so we… |
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Congratulations Connie and Mark!Among other fun things, I officiated Connie and Mark’s wedding on Saturday at Calamigos Equestrian: They created such a relaxed, wonderful wedding day. You can’t see me, but I’m grinning while I’m typing this – being in front of so much love and joy at one time is fantastic. It’ll be there for you, too,… |
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Wedding Wise Weekly – September 4Every week I bring you the best wedding stories, deals and events in Los Angeles and from around the web. And we call it Wedding Wise Weekly. Welcome! Cool Wedding Thing of the Week: This great picture of Ian and Emma’s 9/1 wedding, shot by Angela Love Torres and posted on Instagram by Emma’s stylist,… |
