New Addition to My Blog Roll!

Introducing BelAmi Voyages!

I don't know how I got introduced to BelAmi, but I started getting email updates about new posts on their blog....so I journeyed over and fell in love. If I could redo my honeymoon, I would TOTALLY be booking a trip with BelAmi and sailing around the USVIs and BVIs. Their blog is a fun read and an interesting peak into the islands, especially boat living (which is an awesome way to live if you're not familiar with it). Check out their blog - linked on the right side. You may want to bookmark it as winter continues to creep upon you northerners! =)

Happy Thanksgiving!

To all my American clients - past, present and future!

Who is going to be out shopping tomorrow at 2am? Here in the islands, the only store that really has a Black Friday sale is KMart and they open at 6am. I did it one year - to save $4 on a carseat! Ha! I'm sleeping in tomorrow...

Plan Bs

The weather has been so crazy this past year. I used to be able to tell brides, "oh, it hardly ever rains! We've done hundreds of weddings and rain has only ever affected about 2 or 3". That, my friend, is no longer true. This past spring (April & May) and this past fall, things have been WET. Quite a few weddings had to be rearranged, often very last minute.

But, this is why you hire a wedding coordinator! I'd like for all my brides to wake up on their wedding day and not fret about a thing. If a Plan B is necessary, we will take charge and make what changes are needed. It's often moving to a covered location and if possible, moving the time or even the date. Our ultimate goal is to make sure your wedding is beautiful, rain or shine.

Did you meet Skylar?

I posted this picture on our Facebook page last night (excuse the poor iPhone quality photo!). I believe this is the first time I had a couple bring down their furbaby for their wedding! I love it - little Skylar got all dressed up to celebrate with mommy & daddy. So cute! I thought she'd make a good laugh for all of you about to start your weekend...

And for another laugh...this week has been very crazy busy with weddings. I've been running around a lot this week and haven't carved out a lot of time to feed myself. On my way to set up for my wedding yesterday, I grabbed a snack bag of Oreo cookies at the gas station. This morning, I was getting my girls in the car to take them to school and my four year old sees the empty bag of cookies. Our conversation follows:

Marley: "Are those cookies??"
Me: "Yes, but they are all gone."
Marley: "WHO ATE THEM?"
Me: "Well, they were for work...."
Marley: "So a bride ate them?"
Thinking it will save me a lot of grief for eating them all and not saving her any, Me: "Yes, the bride wanted them for her snack."
Marley: "Cookies are not a healthy snack."
Me: "Yes, but a bride can have whatever she wants on her wedding day."
Marley: *puckering her bottom lip* "I wish it was my wedding day."

Cruise Ships & Flowers

Some of the cruise lines have a policy about taking fresh fruits/vegetables and flowers on and off their ships. Thankfully, I have never had a bride tell me that she wasn't allowed to bring her fresh flower bouquet back on board of the ship (if you are a past bride that couldn't get your flowers on board though, please do leave a comment and let us know!). I think the security guards don't have the guts to tell a bride all dressed in white that she isn't allowed to keep her bouquet!

Some brides have not wanted to take the chance - or simply want to keep their bouquet forever. If this is the case, silk bouquets are a popular choice. I wanted to share a picture I took of a bouquet that a bride brought down a few months ago for her island wedding. There are a lot of online shops that sell silk bouquets (to my surprise, at the same price or much more than fresh flowers). Silk bouquets are also a good alternative for brides that want phalaenopsis orchids (live phalaenopsis orchids are very fragile and do not hold up well in bouquets). In the bouquet below, there were pink phalaenopsis orchids. They really do a great job replicating these in silk flowers!



The pink phalaenopsis boutonniere:

We have a winner!!

When my husband asked me how I was going to chose a winner, I told him that I take the number of comments and put that in www.random.org - he asks, "did you just make that up? Is there really a website called Random.org???" and yes, there is! It is not made up.

And I did just that - and it chose number SIX! Which is Carrie L'Abbe! And, interestingly enough, Carrie had commented on my post about the cool wedding invitation and it turns out, she used the same Etsy vendor for her invitations! She even sent me a picture that her photographer, Elisha Orin, had taken of the invite.

Isn't it awesome??



Carrie, I just sent you an email - congratulations! Thanks everyone for playing!