Tamara Fowler was set to marry her love at the Villa Christina catering hall in Atlanta, GA, but a mere month and a half before the big day, the wedding was called off! Usually when weddings are called off, you’re left with a devastated bride and angry family members ready to rip the would-be groom […]
I feel like we have reached the “Ish Just Got Real” portion of the engagement via the last three posts. In all honesty, being engaged, as fairy tale and shiny as it may appear, is also a very transformative time in your life. You are literally moving from a place of thinking for and about […]
Congrats may be in order for one of the most adorable couples we’ve ever met–John Legend and Chrissy Teigen! These two “Ordinary People” have tied the knot, making their love official. Chrissy and John have been together since 2006 and got engaged over the holidays in 2011. Rumor has it John and Chrissy are going […]
Due to my Type A personality and our limited finances, we decided to fore-go a wedding planner. I am pretty effective and efficient when it comes to making plans and executing them and I have a bevy of friends who are great planners as well, so I figured with my attention to detail and timeliness, […]
So let me tell you also what’s not cute about wedding dress shopping…back fat! And the sales associates attempting to squeeze your size 10-12 behind into an already too-small size six wedding gown…chile! When the associates bring out those big electrical clamps to hold all your business in and together, it feels like Huck and […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, my fiancé and I are different in many ways. One of our major differences is based on efficiency. I am efficient, he is not. I get things done quick, fast and in a hurry, he takes his precious time. He is the turtle, I am the hare. I […]
I could not have been happier. My fiancé surprised me for my birthday. (You caught that right? Not even a nano second after he put the ring on my finger I started calling him my fiancé.) I still had an entire day to continue celebrating because he proposed right after midnight on my birthday. I […]
Yeah, we’d all like to have an amazing wedding with an unlimited budget that would allow us to have anything we want. That’s not reality. The truth is that many weddings take place in church fellowship halls, community centers or at home as an attempt to save money. As a planner, I’ve often heard brides […]
We all swoon over the fabulous, over-the-top nuptials that we see in the gossip magazines and on blogs. But, let’s be real. The normal, everyday bride can rarely afford the huge floral arrangements, the celebrity chef, the national recording artist performance and the silk linens flown in from New Zealand. What’s a bride to do? […]
If I only had a dollar for every bride who came to me and said, “I’m going to get married at home and save so much money!” I also hear, “My uncle has a HUGE yard and we’re going to have the wedding there so I can save lots of cash!” Ummm…..think again. Your house, […]
Rumors have often swirled around NY Knicks star power forward, Amar’e Stoudemire and the latest one is a lot more positive than we’ve seen in the past from this baller. Stoudemire’s made a honest woman out of his three-times over baby’s mother, Alexis Welch. I’ve always loved these two together and it’s beautiful to learn […]
Every bride struggles with the same problems: How do you afford an awesome wedding on a tiny budget?? A few years ago, I did an AMAZING wedding for a couple. They were very creative and open-minded…one of my favorite types of couples. They didn’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on their wedding, […]
