3 Tips on Effectively Using Wedding Planning Checklists and Timelines

I am such a control freak when it comes to managing my time. I have to have everything I do planned before I engage in any activities. For example, my husband jokes with me about how I even have to plan my shower preparations everyday: Get my towel, wash cloth, slippers, and leave in bathroom. Locate my toiletries and put where I can reach them, Lay out clothes and accessories, prepare hair appliances, check temp in bathroom, etc. I have to have all of these things ready before I turn the water on and step in. These are checklists I’ve committed to memory. I’m sure you also have a task list that you’ve committed to memory based on the fact you’ve done it so often, it’s a natural course of action for you; maybe not. If not, it’s a good idea to start using to do lists to improve the quality of your life.

Be a Thoughtful Host: Feed Your Wedding Vendors [INFOGRAPHIC]

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If feeding your wedding team is not an option, consider allowing them to partake in a bite during your cocktail hour! 

5 Tips to Stay Within Your Wedding Budget [INFOGRAPHIC]

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7 Tips for Finding Your Perfect Wedding Videographer

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Hello Brides and Grooms,

Luxury videographer, Damon Dietz of Absolute Media Productions, shares 7 tips for finding your perfect wedding videographer. As your wedding planner, it is my professional opinion that you should consider hiring both an amazing photographer as well as a videographer who will capture events as they happen for you to relive for years to come. Damon offers insight on what you should be looking for when you're making the decision on who will capture one of the most precious times of your lives.

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5 Steps to a Beautiful DIY Silk Floral Bouquet

By: Shaun Cox of  A D.I.Y. Affair Weddings and Events  (Guest Blogger)

The +1 Wedding Invitation Dilemma

by: M. Shannon Hernandez (Guest Blogger)

Now that you are off your high of being a newly engaged couple, it is time to settle down and get to work.  One of the first tasks you will have to tackle is your guest list, because it will determine the number of everything else needed for your wedding and reception.  One of the biggest questions when working on the guest list is who should I invite?  This is sometimes a much more complex question than one first thinks, because most of us have a budget we need to stick within when planning our events.

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Sherries Pritchard gives tips on how to make sure you don't blow your stationery budget by avoiding some common mistakes that are made when placing your order for your wedding invitations. Head on over now to read what advice she has to give and also review some of Sage & Time Designs Handcrafted and Custom Stationery from Brooklyn stylish stationery made with your personal style in mind. 

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5 Tips to Prepare for Your Spring Wedding

Spring is here symbolizing new beginnings! Hooray! Nature’s divine palette of colors will be in full bloom once again. The botanical beauty of the natural floral arrangement for our senses to behold is breath taking. The sounds of birds singing again, butterflies will appear, and ahhh, I love the smell of morning dew. For my spring couples who are saying their nuptials next season, here are a few tips to consider:

What Wedding and Lifestyle Blogs Do YOU Love and Recommend WE follow?

I love reading wedding and lifestyle blogs. When you love something you tend to focus a lot of attention on it, right? Well for me, I estimate that I invest more than 300 hours per week looking at wedding gowns after gown, centerpieces after centerpieces, peonies to orchids and reading about trends in the wedding industry. Recently I've been checking out some of our favorite entertainment blogs hosted by some of our area wedding dj's and bands learning about what you guys are grooving to the most at your wedding reception. Hmmm...maybe 300 hours is putting it lightly, hahahaha.

Don't Ignore the RSVP card

Whether I’m working an event or hosting my own, there’s a bit of an issue that causes me a lot of aggravation. Are you coming or not?

“Rèpondez s’il vous plaît” is a French term that means “please respond” to whether or not you plan to attend an event you were invited to.

Stylish Weddings & Things Interviews: Floral Preservation's - Debbie Flohr

Welcome to Friday everyone and I'm really excited to introduce today's featured vendor. But first I must ask ladies, have you given much thought to what you will do with your bridal bouquet AFTER your wedding? If you're like most bride's to be, when you picked your flower combination for your bouquet, you did so because each flower had a significant meaning to you. But what are your plans for your beautiful flowers after you've said your I do's and are on your way to your honeymoon?

Tips to Develop a Realistic Wedding Budget

There’s a lot of talk in the wedding community about couples who aren’t realistically developing their wedding budget and looking for services for their special day with unrealistic expectations on costs. Vendors are seeing a lot of couples asking for a lot of services for a lot less money than what these services actually cost. You are shopping blind without guidance on what to expect when shopping for wedding related services and are left feeling pretty bad when you realize you can't afford them. But it’s not your fault. How would you know what anything really cost unless someone (or something) you esteem to be a trusted source tells you? Well I am going to share a couple of tips with you that will help you develop a realistic wedding budget while using the tools provided for free by some of the popular wedding websites.

Stylish Weddings & Things Interviews: SDezigns' - Yvette Sencion

Today is FabuFind Friday again and today's featured wedding professional is someone whose talent is not only remarkable but inspiring as well. You'll see some of her exquisite invitation and stationery designs through out this article that I absolutely love and I know you'll love them too.

Have Our Dessert Fantasy Dreams Come True-Cake for Breakfast?

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I don’t know about you, but I am a victim of chocolate cake and all things sweet. My sweet tooth pretty much makes a lot of bad decisions when it comes to preparing my meals throughout the day. So much to my surprise, an article comes along with the headline “Chocolate Cake Breakfast Could Help You Lose Weight!” Say what? 

Recap: Facebook Bridal Show of Websites - Superbowl Weekend Shopping for your Wedding

I would like to thank you all for joining us this past, Superbowl weekend, for our Facebook Bridal Show of websites featured on both of our fan pages at Stylish Weddings & Things and Paterson Area Brides (NJ). As promised, here is a recap with links back to all of the websites we featured. We hope this will help you with some of your wedding planning efforts and ease some of the burden of looking for the right products and services at the right prices.

Meet Al Ojeda Photography’s - Ida Ochoteco

Stylish Weddings & Things Interviews: Al Ojeda Photography’s - Ida Ochoteco

Today is FabuFind Friday and I’d like to introduce you to Ida Ochoteco, part of a gifted and amazing couple whose passion for each other exudes in their talents in capturing your wedding story through photography.

Beware of the Double Dipping Wedding Planner

I came to the realization that this is an ongoing problem that tarnishes the reputations of great wedding planners everywhere – Wedding Planners who charge a fee to their clients and inflate the prices of their vendors to receive a commission, aka a kick back. These wedding planners are not looking out for your best interests and they are NOT thinking about saving you money. It is my hope that I can help you filter through the nonsense to get to the wedding planner who has your best interest in mind, so here are a few tips to keep in mind to help you make a wise decision when choosing your wedding planner:

Bridal Hair Style Trends for 2012

By: Regina Love, Owner of Lovely Locks

Bridal fashion and beauty styles are constantly changing.  A blessing and a curse, there are many styles and bridal beauty details to choose from.  Soft curls? Sleek bun? Modern Twist?  BIG waves? The options can go on and on, making it a difficult choice for a bride~to~be that already has so much to think about.  Lets discuss some tips that will hopefully help your bridal beauty decisions somewhat easier.  

Intimate Wedding Reception Ideas - Family Style Seating

If you enjoy eating your meals together at the dinner table and enjoying great conversation, then perhaps you should consider seating your guests at your wedding reception in family style.

I Want Cash Gifts for my Wedding

Sigh. I see this question come up all of the time. Brides not sure of what to do and actually having anxiety over the issue of asking for money in lieu of gifts at their weddings.