Wedding Weblog

Can you imagine how you would feel if you put months of planning into your wedding only to have a vendor cancel a few weeks before the big day? What if you don’t receive everything you were promised!? What if substitutions were made without your permission? What if the final bill is double what you anticipated? Do you know your rights? What will protect you? Detailed written contracts are the simple answer. There are 6 essential elements to a …

In October, my wife and I traveled out of the country for the first time. In December, we met Linda at Totem Travel who has so much knowledge about stateside and foreign destinations. We only wish we met her sooner so that our first out-of-the-country travel experience could’ve occured without all the stress — rushing to get passports we didn’t realize were required, trying to find out about the cultures and safety issues in Mexico and Belize, and more.

I just returned from Phoenix, AZ where I was a speaker at the Wedding MBA convention. I met so many great wedding professionals from all over the country who were looking to find a better way to provide the absolute best service to brides.

If you’re ever interested in a career in the wedding industry, the Wedding Merchants Business Academy is a great place to start.

I’ve been home for 12 hours and I’m leaving again in the morning for Seattle to co-produce our Wedding Expos in Tacoma, Bellevue, and Lynnwood.

A radio promotion for the upcoming Wedding Expo in Tacoma is geared towards the guys. We’ve seen more of this trend happening lately in wedding planning. Since more couples are paying for their wedding (or at least a larger portion of it).

At the Tacoma Wedding Expo:

The 100th groom through the door each day will receive a free pair of home theater speakers from Sound Waves Entertainment. See a picture below.Also any couple who books …

Ok, I get fan loyalty and all but some people take it to far, maybe being a girl its just a gene I wasn’t born with. Earlier this week in the news there was a story out of New Orleans about a bride who is getting dozens of people calling to tell her they can’t make it to her wedding because the Saints are playing the Eagles in the Superdome. Did you get the part about dozens, not just a few, seriously people. Luckily for this poor girl two loyal …

Imagine having your wedding in a beautifully restored building from 1906.  TheGrand Ballroom at Cornerstone Commons features 16-foot high ceilings, carved oaktrim and gold leafed details.  Located at the corner of Main and Cunningham,the building was most recently the home of the Butler County Chamber of Commerce. It was purchased two years ago and has undergone extensive renovations.  TheGrand Ballroom is on the third floor, and the large windows …

Something we’ve seen at a few weddings this year are photobooks used a guestbooks. These photobooks are compiled by the couple, featuring some of their favorite photosand plenty of space for guests to write on the pages.  One great place to createa custom photo album is Shutterfly. You can upload your digital photos, or send them your film.  Then, you can designyour album yourself, picking page layouts and which photos go on each page. It’s very …

To mark Veteran’s Day last week, OneEnchanted Evening in nearby Wexford, PA gave away gowns to military brides. Gowns normally retailing for hundreds or thousands of dollars were sold for zilch. If you missed it, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had a front-page article in the Nov.11 issue (available online at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06315/737545-85.stm). We thought they deserved a shout-out.

We love baked goods, and are happy to report another bakery coming soon. We recently received the following e-mail:

Dear Bloomery,

I am the owner of Dozen Cupcakes, a cupcake cafe opening in Squirrel Hill thisDecember. We currently available for catering weddings and bridal showers. Made popularby Sex and the City and Oprah, cupcake trees are the latest trend in wedding cakeoptions. A unique and elegant alternative to the traditional …

We’ve had a number of posts on making unique seating charts for your wedding, butthis is the first on actually planning who sits where.  A new website named SimpleSeating.com isa free (for up to 50 guests) on-line tool for you to design your seating layout,and

SimpleSeating.com is the fastest and easiest way to make seating charts online.Experience the power of expensive desktop seating chart applications on the web withoutthe learning curve. Create, preview, and print your seating charts in just a few simplesteps.