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’ [...]
Engaging Bride knows talent when they see it!
Great Post about me at Great Gatsby Theme Wedding in Virginia by Caroline LaRocca Event Design
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Caroline’s Fave Five
As a wedding planner who likes to celebrate the spark of the divine that is alive and well in brides everywhere, I try not to let myself get caught up in trends. I’m aware of what’s hot and what’s not, simply because it turns me on no end to peruse glossy magazines and websites to [...]
My Top Ten Wedding Pet Peeves
My philosophy and purpose as a wedding planner and writer and speaker is to impart my wisdom and experience and to encourage brides to stand in their power and stay true to their desires no matter how unconventional they may seem and to not be pressured by society and the wedding industry with its “experts” [...]
Panty party
One of the pleasures of loving what you do and living your passion, is that you may choose to do it when you are on vacation. When you are in your pleasure, and what is more pleasurable than vacation?…the creativity surfaces like hot lava from a volcano-sometimes slowly and purposefully and other times so thunderously [...]
About Caroline
Caroline was born and raised in New York City, where she began her event planning career as an apprentice to a wedding planner, during her summers home from college.
