Meeting Your Wedding Planner

Meeting with a wedding planner can be a little scary and unpredictable at first.  Typically, one doesn’t really know how to feel going into the meeting.  The initial meeting will always feel more like an interview than anything.  The most important part as a bride or groom talking to the planner to be is to feel […]

Destination Fairytale Wedding: The Phoenician, Scottsdale Arizona

Almost 1 year ago, we were setting up for a wedding at The Phoenician when a lovely lady and her father peaked into the room.  Turns out they were venue shopping for the bride’s upcoming wedding.  The bride lived in Los Angeles and was only in town for a small amount of time.  I took […]

Wedding Planning: Make Dad Feel Special

With father’s day fast approaching, we have to write about the first true love in many little girl’s lives….her Father:)  As wedding planners, we often work with the Father’s of the Bride, but let’s be honest here….most of the time we are in communication with them is when vendor or venue payments are due.  The […]

Wedding Trends: Blush Flower Girl Dresses

Flower girls are always adorable!  There is just something about a tiny little lady in a beautiful dress or gown that just always makes us smile!  We love finding the perfect flower girl dresses and accessories for our brides.  Lately we have been super drawn to all things blush.   The dresses, the sashes, the shoes, […]

Wedding Planning and Social Media

Now we all know social media has a huge influence over all of society and tons of people are tuning in throughout the day to catch up on news, post, check their “likes”, etc… but we still have a lot of brides who tell us they do not use social media to help plan/design their […]

Fiesta Inspired Wedding: Scottsdale Civic Center, Scottsdale AZ

In honor of Cinco De Mayo, we had to post about this lovely couple’s fiesta inspired wedding.  This bride wanted everything in her wedding from the food, music, and decor to be influenced by her Hispanic culture.   You would think we would see this theme a lot more often being Phoenix Wedding Planners, but […]

A Bride’s Frustration

Don’t get me wrong, this next post is not to be negative in anyway but, the frustration that I have felt in the last 2 months as a new bride to be is real.  Every single detail, and I mean EVERY single detail, consistently crosses my mind and comes up and then goes away daily. […]

Wedding Planning: How to Create Your Floor-Plan

Creating your floor-plan is one of the most important parts of your wedding planning.  It is the foundation of your wedding day design and will really help you stay organized throughout the entire planning process.  As a wedding planner, we are not always hired on from the beginning of a couple’s wedding planning.  We come […]

Wedding Trend: Paper Flower Walls

Just when we thought flower walls couldn’t get any bigger or better!  We are obsessed with this look and predict it will be a huge trend for quite some time.  We love the idea of using a paper flower backdrop for the ceremony area, behind the head table or behind the cake/dessert table.  This is […]

Wedding Trend Alert: Silver Wedding Accents

For the last couple of years, when we are in wedding planning and design meetings with our brides and we ask gold or silver, we were almost always hearing gold.  We were also seeing a huge trend in eclectic styles where brides are open to mix-matched metallic accents but lately, we are seeing a huge […]