I’m so excited to be partaking in an amazing bridal show at The Society Room of Hartford on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.. I would LOVE to meet some of our readers and show you some sneak peeks in what we’ve been working on. Be sure to stop by our booth! Here are the deets, straight from the powers that be:

photography by Carla Ten Eyck

THE SOCIETY ROOM OF HARTFORD

2ND ANNUAL BRIDAL SHOWCASE
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28TH 2010
11:00AM TO 3:00PM

ADMISSION $5.00 PER GUEST

Are you dreaming of finding that one-of-a-kind reception location? Hoping for the most unique and elegant floral bouquet to fit your wedding theme and season? Or that cutting edge photographer to capture all of the right moments and details?

Join us as we fill our historic and ornate event space with a spectacular display of wedding goods and services! Photographers, Bands, DJs, Musicians, Videographers, Bridal Boutiques, Florists, Event Planners and more will all be on site to lend their expert advice to New England brides, and grooms too, as they plan for their special day!

THE SOCIETY ROOM OF HARTFORD
WHERE ELEGANCE MEETS EXCELLENCE
31 PRATT STREET * HARTFORD, CT 06103 * 860.524.0796
WWW.HARTFORDSOCIETYROOM.COM

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My Kate Parker Wedding (MyKPW) is a new inspiration and utility website that sets out to revolutionize how weddings are planned. The website is founded by the creative genius Kate Parker, a well-known, sassy and talented New England event designer and planner. Jubilee Events is very excited to be apart of the launch of MyKPW, which just happened on January 1st! MyKPW is currently focused on brides and grooms in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. The most amazing thing about MyKPW is how personalized it is to every bride and groom’s wedding. It seeks to point you in the right direction after determining key factors like your location, budget, style, and color scheme. We love how intuitive it is!

Among the many features on MyKPW, brides and grooms can track their budget and spending, contribute their ideas and thoughts through their own personal planning blog, find vendors in their area that are geared toward their budget and personal taste, view real weddings, create inspiration boards, read advice from vendors in the MyKPW family, and SO much more. Take a look below at some of the amazing features!

find vendors in your area, like us, geared toward your budget and style. Vendors have been hand selected for their creativity and talents

view real weddings by your color scheme, style, or season. above is an incredible wedding we did in september and photographed by our friend Carla Ten Eyck

read advice from real vendors and industry experts on everything from event design to how to choose the right photographer.

We invite you to sign up for a free account on My Kate Parker Wedding and explore how fabulous it is for yourself! We’re so thrilled to be apart of it and love how interactive it is. Be sure to read our series on how to begin the design of your wedding. I’d love to tackle a topic that is of interest to YOU, so please, leave a comment on this post to suggest what our next featured advice should be on MyKPW!

xoxo

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?

Our contest officially closed on Friday and this morning a winner was drawn, at random. Congratulations to Jen who won $75 toward a save the date suite from Invitation Consultants! Jen, please be sure to check your email for a special message from us. Big thanks to Invitation Consultants for participating in our contest. To all our Connecticut couples — stay warm and enjoy being ‘snowed in’.

XOX

Invitation Consultants is giving away a $75 gift card toward Save the Dates to one lucky couple on our blog! Invitation Consultants carries a HUGE collection of wedding day paper, including save the dates, invitations, programs, and a variety of other pieces. To enter our contest, leave a comment on this post indicating which save the date you’d choose if you won! The contest ends Friday, December 18th at 17:00 and the winner will be chosen at random and announced next week. Everyone is welcome to enter!

Good luck! xo

Our friends at The White Dress by the Shore are hosting a trunk show for Modern Trousseau on December 10th – 13th. They will be showing both bridal and mother of the occasion gowns, with a 10% discount granted off of any Modern Trousseau purchase made during the event. Callie, the design of Modern Trousseau will also be unveiling her incredible 2010 line during this time exclusively at White Dress. Amazing!! Sign up quick as spots are sure to fill. For more information visit the White Dress by the Shore’s special events website!

Happy weekend all! Today we have two amazing couples getting married. Debbie and Will have jetted off to the gorgeous Costa del Sol region of Spain in Marbella at the Hotel Rincon Andaluz. I’ve been working with them closely for the past few months to plan their destination wedding. I wish I could be there (seriously) and can’t wait to hear all about it! Congratulations Debbie and Will!!

Amazing couple Liltrisha and Garnette are getting married here at home. We’re off to begin prepping for their big day!

xoxo

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

I’m not a huge advocate of (fake) reality wedding shows that feature bridezilla’s and princesses with tiaras and white dresses, but this new show by TLC sounds like the anti-bridezilla reality show. I figured I’d share — it sounds like a fun opportunity for our Connecticut brides. Here are the details…