RSS Feed
Share the Love!
- Please link to us! Download a button, save it to your server, and link back!
Badges & Awards
Subscribe
Sep
13
Blue Bridal Shoes!
Filed Under Planning Tips, Shoes | 5 Comments
Aren’t these shoes stunning? Who says brides need to wear white shoes on their wedding day? Have fun with it! Photographer Hilary Mercer from Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina sent in this photograph of these lovely shoes. The bride will be wearing them on her wedding day in October, and they have planned their whole color scheme based on the blue in these shoes!
Stunning!
Lots of fun, funky, wild, and all around beautiful shoes coming up over the next few weeks – along with the gorgeous weddings to go with them!
Sep
3
We’re working on a feature about shoes that are anything but traditional for the wedding day. Not your average white heels, or the boring black tuxedo shoes. These days, people are letting go and going COLORFUL!
Had a client who wore something fabulous and you want to show the photos off? Or are you a wedding planner who had a client build their whole wedding color palette around the shoes? Or best of all — you’re a bride or groom, and you want to share not only what you wore on your big day, but also the story behind it? Fabulous! We want to hear all about it!
You can send them all my way – christine@whollymatrimony.com – and over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring some of the amazing shoes! Think of it as Shoe September!
We’ll have a whole new look next week too – so be sure to come back and check it out!
Aug
25
Beautiful Custom Jewelry!
Filed Under Jewelry, Planning Tips, The Perfect Gift | Leave a Comment
While browsing blogs this morning, I spotted a post at Aisle Be Your Guru with the most adorable jewelry made by Kathryn Riechert! Aren’t these pieces just charming? And so affordable! Get yourself some diamond earrings, or have a custom ring or necklace made for your sweetheart! I just love them all!
[via Aisle Be Your Guru.]
Jul
31
Bride$hare™ – a Brilliant Idea!
Filed Under Decorations, Jewelry, Planning Tips, The Dress | Leave a Comment
I was so excited this week to learn about Bride$hare™, the fantastic creation of Dana LaRue, the bride behind The Broke Ass Bride. If you’re looking for tips on planning your wedding on a budget, well … as you can guess, the Broke Ass Bride has them!
The inspiration for Bride$hare™ started like this:
Way back when, Rebecca saw a blog post of mine lamenting the desire for paper lanterns to spruce up the space at my venue, and she contacted me to suggest we go in on them together and share them. That was just the beginning. Together, we were able to co-purchase and recycle many items from our weddings, which went perfectly with Hunter and my mission to both save green and be green in our wedding plans! In fact, the reception venue owner likes them so much, she might even buy them off of us after the fact and keep them up, which means future brides can benefit from them, too! My bridal karma meter must be off tha charts, son!
Hunter & Dana were married back in May, and in early July they went back to their same venue to enjoy their decor all over again – as guests at Rebecca & her husband’s wedding! Dana & Rebecca shared $4000 worth of expenses – saving them each $2000, AND doing something good for the environment by not buying duplicates of the same items!
Dana knew a great thing when she saw it, and has since set up the BrideShare™ site as a way for other couples to save money on their wedding plans and have a wedding with a smaller carbon footprint at the same time.
The Bride$hare™ site is described as part social networking and part wedding planning. Bride$hare™ offers brides the opportunity to team up and share the daunting task, and costs, of wedding planning while creating less waste – addressing three top priorities of brides’ current economy.
While Dana is getting most of the mad props in this post, I want to share some with her fabulous husband, Hunter, as well. Because he has to be supportive and wonderful to stand beside her as she took on creating Bride$hare™, but also because this video he made cracks me up *every* time I watch it. He is mad creative, I tell you!
The Fresh Hubby of LA from Digital Princess Productions on Vimeo.
May
22
Considering having your family member or friend photograph your wedding? You might want to think twice about doing that, and this post shares lots of the reasons why.
“Weddings are a “live” event where just about anything can and will happen to throw a wrench into the schedule. A professional wedding photographer knows this and can adapt to situations that arise with a transparency and skill that can only come from experience, skill, and training. “Uncle Bob” just doesn’t have anywhere near the experience, skill, and training of a professional wedding photographer.”
There is no do-over when it comes to your wedding day. If your photographs matter to you, invest in a photographer who is running a business photographing weddings. One that knows weddings and all the ins-and-outs that can happen on that day. One that can help you create the best images possible that your family can treasure for generations to come.
One of the biggest problems with having a friend or family member (or the college kid you found on Craigslist) photograph your wedding is that they do not have backup gear. If you talk to any wedding photographer they will tell you that sometimes gear fails when they least expect it. They drop a flash and it will no longer fire. Their camera suddenly has a weird error on it, and nothing will make it go away. They have to be able to think very fast to recover — and sometimes, they just have to set that piece of equipment down and pick up another flash or camera and move on. If someone isn’t a pro, they most likely will not have a bag full of backup gear.
If you truly value your wedding photography – the memories your family will cherish for generations – then make the most of it and hire a professional. Are you hiring someone with no experience to do everything else that goes into your wedding day?
{WM!} Sponsors
Other Things
