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Valentines Day Flowers

Send customized, elegant and beautiful flower arrangements this Valentines Day…created with the same passion, style and panache as we do our events. We are a small firm, so your designs will be done with attention and love…All products are fresh and designed locally and delivered with care, to your specs. Choose from our selections or [...]

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Wedding Trends for 2012

Fabulous Forecast of Wedding Trends 2012 The fashions, colors, destinations, decor, entertainment, and exclusive elements that will make your 2012 wedding a spectacular success you and your guests will remember for a lifetime. Download PDF – Fabulous Forecast Wedding Trends Fashion Three L’s: long sleeves, lace, and ladylike. Vampires and Royals are the trends in 2012 with [...]

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About to be engaged?

Come on, you know. That ring is probably locked up his glove compartment or perhaps his best friend’s safety deposit box.  He has been researching diamonds since August and he is now conjuring the prefect proposal.  You are trying to anticipate just when the moment will take place.  Lately your nails stay manicured.  Every dinner [...]

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The True Meaning of Wedding…

With the holiday season among us everybody is talking about the true meaning of Christmas, but when you are in event planning you stop and think about the true meaning of Wedding…. especially when you have just received the photos, fresh off the press, of a wedding that oozed with true meaning. Rashida and Adriennes’ [...]

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Engaging Bride knows talent when they see it!

Great Post about me at Great Gatsby Theme Wedding in Virginia by Caroline LaRocca Event Design

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A teaser from MY BOOK!

I have been having the most incredible ride, WRITING! My book is entitled This Is Not Your Mother’s Wedding, A Guide for the Divinely Modern Bride. It is a witty, it is endearing, it is informational.  It’s not a guide with deadlines and time lines, because guess what?…you already have all that. It’s called your [...]

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Napa Valley Vibe in Charming Lexington, Virginia

September 18th, 2010 House Mountain Inn You know by now that I’m a city girl…New York all the way…horns, crowds, bring it on! But when my DC attorney bride, Nicole, approached me and said I want a Napa Valley style wedding…that’s music to my ears! Nicole and Brian’s wedding was oozing with details and lovely [...]

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Is this cute or what?

compliments of manolobrides.com

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I know weddings, I love weddings, and I want to give you what I got!

Nothing turns me on more than CHANGE.  Change is the way of the universe.  The moon changes on a monthly cycle. Technology changes by the second. Minds change…encouraged by our inner voices, intuition, or just because.  Trends change, styles change, feelings change, and yes BRIDES change.  I started in the wedding planning business in 1988 [...]

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Another Fave Five

It’s September!!!  I want summer back!! The chill in the air has my mind  erupting with “non-trends”, thinking back on all my precious brides…and their personal, silly, totally unique trends that they created, for themselves, by themselves (with just a little nudge from their genius wedding planner). Cake Table Tulle Ok, I don’t do tulle.  [...]

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