Archive for April, 2008

How To Set A Wedding Budget

As a professional wedding planner, I’m often tasked with calming stressed brides and helping them work through wedding dilemmas. By far, the issue that causes the most stress is money. Interestingly, money is also one of the top reasons for divorce. Being able to set and stick to a budget is essential to a successful marriage and is also vital to a stress free wedding planning process. The good news is that budget related stress is mostly preventable if you practic... Read More


Becoming One: How Wedding Planning Can Prepare You For Marriage

In many ways, planning your wedding can be considered your marriage preparation boot camp. The skills necessary to plan the ‘perfect’ wedding are also required to maintain a ‘perfect’ marriage. The planning process can test your strength as a couple and force you to improve the weak areas. Communication and Honesty Communication is vital to a successful wedding and more importantly, a successful marriage. Proper communication cannot exist without ... Read More


Bridal Gowns: Should These Always Be White?

Ever since Queen Victoria had her fabulous white wedding gown on February 11, 1840, all wedding gowns to this day had to be white. To deviate from the traditional white was preposterous, but today’s brides are ready to flaunt their choice of bridal gowns - in color and design. Still Virginal White? During the 1800s, bridal gowns were not splendid creations as they are now. The wedding attire for women at that time were usually the best dress that could be worn for ... Read More


Behind The Wedding Gown Scenes

Getting a wedding gown is stressful. The gown has to be perfect and must dazzle everybody, but it sends you to the poor house. No wonder it’s no picnic choosing the bridal dress. But what goes behind choosing the wedding dress? The Engagement Starts The Fuss The moment the man pops the question, the wedding planning frenzy starts, and the fiancee is always overwhelmed with the amount of preparation for the wedding. The wedding gown is the major issue to deal with, ... Read More


How Romantic Comedies Lie To Us

Men and women, bless us all. We shall never truly understand one another. I think we’ve all resigned ourselves by now to the fact that we’re going to have our ins and outs. We’ll all experience both the bitter pain of heartbreak and the blissful joy of love. It’s a cliche to expect a rampant, torrid love affair in your life; the love at first sight, rip each other’s clothes off, then get married and live happily into your autumn years, aging... Read More


Meeting Women — Some Help I Could Have Used

Having been on this planet a few years, I have made a few discoveries in the “art” of meeting women. I hope to share a few of these discoveries and lessons here with you now. Keep in mind that while I was growing up, I did not have the resources that you all have now, so all of this was learned by trial and error (many errors!). What do you want? First, decide what it is you are looking for. A one night stand? A couch buddy to watch movies with? A long term r... Read More