My Little Flower Shop

The World’s Best Wedding Planning Advice: In through the nose…out through the mouth.

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Greetings all, and a happiest of first-business-day-of-the-New-Year to all. To newly engaged couples: CONGRATULATIONS! But be prepared, wedding planning can be tough. But on behalf of My Little Flower Shop, I say Fear Not!  There is a mantra that applies to any wedding situation, question or pickle.  You’ve read it here before, but excellent wedding planning advice bears repeating:

beautiful wedding dress, covered buttons, antique veil, destination wedding, Palm Springs, CA
make sure you can breathe in the dress! – photo by Cheryl Mac

Breathe, stand up straight and enjoy your moment. 

Don’t worry and get overwhelmed by the whole process.  You’ll take it in pieces, and you’ll hire people you trust (more on selecting wedding vendors in the coming days.).  For now, savor the initial head rush of being newly engaged.  And don’t forget to adore the amazing person who you’re going to marry.  Sign up for updates to our blog for wedding tips, ideas and advice.

Be well, and breathe!

-Dinah

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Size Does Matter. (oh go on. Get your mind out of the gutter).

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A bride and groom on a staircase of the West Q...
Capturing the Big moment!

Does size matter? We have big cars, big houses and in New Jersey’s case, bless their hearts, big hair. So, why did we call our business My Little Flower Shop? After all, our events are no small affairs.

Long ago in a land far, far away (ok- so it was the Beverly Hills Hotel) I, Dinah, worked a very fancy wedding with a  Big High Profile Event Planner. Every day ran according to a detailed timeline. The morning of the wedding, something caught my eye. ” 4:30 (Big Event Planner’s name here) Hair/Make-Up.”

Double checking, I confirmed with her assistant that the Big Event Planner was indeed being professionally beautified that afternoon.  This brides’s family was paying more than the state budget of Idaho to carpet the ballroom white, bring in full size trees and who knows what else, and this woman is getting her hair done at crunch time? Really?
The lesson here is that she thought herself Important and Big. We, on the other hand, know we have an important role to play in a brides’s BIG day. It’s the day that’s BIG. It’s our bride’s BIG moment. And that’s why we are My Little Flower Shop.

Happy New Year Everyone!
-Dinah

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And it was written, that it should be in writing.

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The most important writing done regarding your wedding won’t be invitation wording, thank you notes, or even your vows – because if the writing on your vendor contracts is not carefully read (and rewritten if necessary) you may be only headed down a movie theater aisle that day.

Contracts
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Your contracts must be read. Yep – all the little tiny lettering.  Don’t find out on wedding day that you’re not guaranteed the make-up artist you met and loved at your trial is the one who shows up in your hotel suite.  Spell out your specific needs wants and wishes -and put them in the contracts. Don’t count on your vendors to be mind readers, and you’ll have your peace of mind.

Amen.

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