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Happy New Year!

Candice — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:55:58 +0000

from ~bostonbill~’s photo stream
… be sure to click to read the beautiful story of his parents, pictured, who met on a blind date on new years eve in 1952 and were engaged by the next morning. they were married nearly 50 years.

New years day might be my favorite day of the year. It is filled with so much excitement, creativity, hope, and enthusiasm for the future. I don’t believe in resolutions and can’t think of one resolution I made in many years past (while I still believed in them) that I actually kept. Instead, I believe in being honest and setting goals. I have so many goals for 2010 and as I began to put them to paper I realized that there are so many things in my life that I have accomplished—yet so much still to do. I hope that I can achieve most, if not all of my goals in this new year. If not, I guess that’s what 2011 is for, right?

2010 is going to be a great year – for some of you, it’ll be the year find love. For others, it’ll be the year you get married or start your own family. You might change careers, buy a new house, take a leap of faith, reconnect with an old friend or make new ones, start your own business, or close a chapter in your history. My advice to you is to keep the excitement you feel today… for a new beginning… all throughout the year. I firmly believe that 2010 will be YOUR year—but what do you plan to do to make that happen?
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PSA: Big sports events and your wedding don’t always mix!

Candice — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:12:12 +0000

Image from So Good!

My husband (!) came home on Friday and told me all about the rant he heard on early morning radio about a personality who was REALLY annoyed that he had to attend a wedding during the epic baseball playoffs (yankees vs. redsocks, particularly). I am not a baseball fan but I can tell you that if I were invited to a wedding during the playoffs and my GMEN were playing — I wouldn’t be a happy camper either! Matter of fact, I might not even go!

Which leads me to the point and motivation behind this post: consider seasons and sports when choosing your date. I’m not talking about average games, but the BIG ones: Olympics, college bowls, final four, baseball playoffs, football playoffs and obviously the super bowl. You don’t want a groomsmen smuggling in a laptop to tap into the venue’s wireless network so they can download a live feed of the game in the lobby — because it WILL happen — and it WILL take away from your amazing event!

Coming up on the blog: the epic wedding of Liz and Jayson plus Veena and Rich!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! xo

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A lesson on why you need to protect your wedding

Candice — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:29:29 +0000

My good friend Samantha Darr from soireebliss! called me to chat last night and told me about a very sad situation that some of her couples are facing in Houston. Apparently, their wedding / reception venue has shut down over night and the owners are nowhere to be found. They’ve taken off with couples’ deposits and full payments. I can only imagine how utterly devastated these couples must be to have lost not only their entire wedding, but their investment in that wedding. Prior to the venue shutting down, they ran a promotion where if couples paid in full, they received 20% off the total event price. Some people signed contracts as little as a few days prior to the venue locking its doors. The venue was also an “all inclusive” kind of venue, where the pastry chef, florist, DJ, and photographer were part of the package and subcontracted through the venue itself. The vendors haven’t been paid either and know nothing of being contracted to work for these couples on their wedding day. So these couples literally have no wedding at all. There are couples with weddings schedule to be this weekend and there is nothing that can be done. It really is a very upsetting situation and I wish there was something I could do to help the couples who are suffering over this. You can view the local news story about it here.

In my experience this is uncommon, but I wanted to share it with our readers because there is a moral here. Wedding Insurance is something that I recommend to all my couples from a liability standpoint and in case something like this happens. When you make investments you always insure them – your home, car, business, the diamond engagement ring you’re wearing. All of those are costly investments that you want to protect. You should think about your wedding day in the same way and spend the extra $200-$800 (depending on the size of your coverage) to insure your wedding and have peace of mind. I cannot stress this enough and I really encourage all of you to do some research on wedding insurance companies, like WedSafe, and consider making the investment. When you have $30K — $100K invested in an event you want to make sure that you are protected in case something goes wrong.

To all our vendors who read, please consider donating some of your services in some capacity to these couples. Many have of course spent their life savings and now they have absolutely nothing to show for it.
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