How to survive planning your wedding

Planning a wedding is exciting, but overwhelming. It’s easy to let the big event overtake your whole life- but there are ways to stay calm and take it one step at a time.  Let’s learn some successful strategies for making wedding planning manageable.

  • Have perspective:  Any large undertaking can seem insurmountable.  It’s important to put things in perspective.  Planning a wedding is akin to eating a life size chocolate elephant.  You need to do it in pieces, and a little at a time or you’ll feel very uneasy in your stomach.

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    A well planned wedding: Liz & Kathleen
    photo by Max & Friends
  • Know where your strengths are:  There are going to be parts of the process that appeal to you more than others.   Are you a foodie? Focus on the menu.  Fashionista? Designing the event will be oodles of fun.  For the places you’re dreading, don’t force yourself to slog through – recruit help, professional or friends and family.
  • Don’t rush it: We get it.  You’re in love, and don’t want to wait around.  But Rome wasn’t built in a day! Rushing through details will cause details to be overlooked, details that properly looked after, could be the moments that mean the most to you and your intended.

Being engaged is a joyous time – make sure you breathe and savor the interlude!  Once the streamers are tossed and the  DJ has packed up her records, chances are you’ll remember the process as much as the day itself.  Enjoy the journey.

Be well, and love well.

Dinah

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You’ve got to learn how to be the best in the business!

Recently we all were charmed by America’s best winter athletes at the Olympics.  But we all know they didn’t get where they are by showing up one day and expecting to just “know” how to be successful at their sports.

It’s the same with success in business – especially one as people-centric as events and hospitality.  You have to learn -sometimes in more painful ways than others- how to meet and connect with pwople who will help you along your way.

If there was a shortcut you could take towards that goal of being able to connect with people beyond just shaking hands and exchanging business cards, you’d take it, wouldn’t you? In that case, show up Wednesday night at the Wedding Warriors March Mixer to learn from the best about making networking your friend, not something you roll your eyes at.

We’ll be joined by Melissa G. Wilson, author of “Networking Is Dead” and she’ll blow the roof off all you thought you knew.

Plus our signature socializing, fun giveaways and Pastry Swan’s to-die for cupcakes (worth the trip all on their own!)

See you there!

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Gorgeous wedding bouquet photos

The talented Dre Naylor shot these at Yesterday’s Wedding Show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs. Lovely shots. (the bouquets are pretty stunning too).DreNaylor1

wedding bouquets at a show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs
wedding bouquets at a show at the Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs