A Back-Up Plan For Your Wedding Day. Rain? Snow? Heat? Be Covered.

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This weekend’s heat wave /extreme weather caused difficulty for many California brides, grooms and planners.  Choosing wedding locations in California like Palm Springs, perfect for destination weddings, often make people think they don’t need to worry about weather.  Here’s the bottom line:

If any part of your wedding will be outdoors, always have a back-up location.

I’ll repeat.

If any part of your wedding will be outdoors, always have a back-up location.

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Get the flowers (and your guests) out of the weather)!

Wherever your outdoor venue is, make sure that you or your planner make arrangements for a space nearby to be available in case of bad weather.  That could mean a tent, the church basement, or a banquet room inside, but make sure you have somewhere to go, and people designated to direct guests.

Chances are, you won’t need your back-up location.  But looking back at  the last year’s tornadoes, hurricanes and heat waves, you’ll surely breathe easier.

Live well, and love well,

-Dinah

I am enjoying writing in a new spot, Squidoo.com

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A new platform! This is a post about writing a killer “thank-you” note relevant to our clients and readers. As a blogger for My Little Flower Shop, I get to blog about all things wedding/event/floral here on our site. But when I want to write about other things, I’m starting to branch out. I hope readers will enjoy content I’m posting on other sites like Squidoo.com, a sort of clearinghouse for many writers posting about all sorts of topics. I’m hoping to get more what they call “lenses” up soon, and will let you know when any more are in line with topics we cover here at My Little Flower Shop. Full disclosure, they put ads in posts and allow me to get a cut if readers buy anything.

Thanks for reading the My Little Flower Shop blog, and in advance for helping me become a better writer!
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-write-a-genuine-thank-you-note

Wedding Movie Wednesday Suspended – Supreme Court News

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OK – yes, it’s Wedding Movie Wednesday, but what with the momentous events of this morning, I just can’t idly prattle on about wedding movies.  Today at the Supreme Court, we turned a corner as a country. All details aside, the bottom line is that love is love, and that a same sex couple getting married should cause no more uproar than any other two people (no comment from this Palm Springs florist on uproar caused by crazy families, everybody’s got those).

So,having overcome obstacles both dramatic and comical, we have a victory for love. I said no movie talk, but in the end, isn’t two couples embracing on the steps of the Supreme Court the Hollywood ending we all hoped for?

Be well, and love well. Finally EQUALLY well.

-Dinah

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