Thanks to my friends and fellow planners Letetia Nicole from Simply Beautiful Concepts, Katasha Butler from K Sherrie+Company Wedding & Event Planning and Samatha Darr from soireebliss! Wedding & Event Planning I’ve been tagged threefold to fill out this fun little survey. I’ve tagged some of my favorite vendors below to post a bit about themselves, too!

Four things I did today:
1. Answered a slew of emails and job inquiries.
2. Bought special cards for my maid of honor and bridesmaids.
3. Launched Jubilee’s Destination Connecticut service!
4. Worked on finding a location for one of my September ’09 brides.

Four things on my to-do list:
1. Talk with Rob Trenske about getting some head shots done.
2. Review contracts and time line for upcoming event.
3. Register Mike to vote!
4. Call back two potential brides to discuss services.

Four of my guiltiest pleasures:
1. Coffee.
2. 90210 2.0. I have to admit, it is kind of good!
3. Clothes. Specifically, J. Crew clothes. I stalk their website daily to pounce on sales at a moment’s notice!
4. Designer purses. I have to admit, I collect them and have a very twisted love affair with anything leather, labeled, and expensive… I’m trying to break my habit… for the betterment of my retirement!

Four random facts about me:
1. I haven’t eaten a piece of bread, starch or sugar in FIVE years. Let me tell you, it has become more torturous every single day!
2. I collect art books. I have stacks and stacks of them. I love art history!
3. My favorite band is the Grateful Dead. Now those who’ve known me for a long time won’t find this surprising, but I think a lot of people who don’t know me from my younger days do!
4. I love stationary. I mean, I LOVE stationary. I don’t know what it is about fabulous cards, letterpress, couture graphics and pretty inks but I just love ’em!

So now it is my turn to tag some people.
1. The very talented Rob Trenske from RJT Pictures!
2. The equally talented and fun Mrs. Robin Dini from Robin Dini Photography.
3. My birth date twin and all around fabulous invitation designer Erin from Brides Design.
4. My fun and talented colleague from NYC, Sarah from Brilliant Event Planning.

Today is my birthday! I just wanted to let our all brides and readers know that Michael and I are away for the soggy weekend in Newport. We are staying in some luxury diggs at the Vanderbilt Hall Hotel which, I have to say, is absolutely exquisite! Very few hotels have oodles and oodles of art history books lining the shelves of their lobby. I am in complete heaven! Tonight we are going out for a low key dinner, and tomorrow we’ll hopefully be eating at the West Deck where Michael’s childhood friend is the executive chef.

And a special Happy Birthday to my birthday buddy, Erin, from Bride Design. I do have my laptop but I will handle all business emails when we get back. Talk to you all Monday!

White Dress by the Shore is having a Modern Trousseau trunk show Thursday, September 25th through Saturday, September 27th. From their website:

A 10% discount will be granted on any Modern Trousseau purchase made during the event
Event Hours (by appointment only)
Thursday 12-8
Friday 11-7
Saturday 10-5:30
by appointment 860.669.4596

I really wish I could attend but I will be in Newport for the weekend for a long deserving vacation to celebrate my birthday. I encourage all of our Connecticut readers to attend the trunk show! Modern Trousseau is exclusively carried by  The White Dress by the Shore (read our recent post featuring this beautiful boutique).

I wanted to post a quick note to let you know that I’ve updated the layout of The Connecticut Wedding Blog slightly. In order to keep our overall look clean and tidy, I’ve upgraded our theme to its newest version. The biggest change? Excerpts on our index page. In order to read the full articles, be sure to click “read more” or the articles title.

Also, I’ve added some great links to our sidebar. If you are not reading this fantastic blogs, you must! Check out chic to chic, Brilliant Event Planning, By Your Side Events, The Ink Spot, Design is Everywhere, and Robin Dini Photography.

If you are a bride who has her own blog, I want to hear from you! I am looking for smart, unique, and create brides from across the country who are blogging about all the details of their wedding. I’d like to feature thoughts and ideas from you and your wedding as occasional “guest bloggers” here on the Connecticut Wedding Blog. I am especially interested in Connecticut brides planning their wedding locally! If you are interested in “guest blogging” here, please leave us a comment with a link to your blog so we can read some of your posts!

Also, stay tuned for some of Jubilee’s brides who will begin blogging about their wedding planning with our help!

‘Tis the season Connecticut Brides! The beautiful bridal boutique The White Dress by the Shore in Clinton is having a couture sample sale on Sunday, August 10th.

Receive 25-75% off bridal gowns, mother of the occasion, flower girls, cocktail dresses and accessories.  Get the gown of your dreams at an amazing value!  Designers include Melissa Sweet, Priscilla of Boston, Anne Barge, Vineyard Collection, Manuel Moto, Judd Waddell, Modern Trousseau and Watters and Watters.

Happy hunting!!

The Connecticut Wedding Blog has a new feature: user polls! We’ll be asking a variety of questions aimed at our brides and readers. Please feel free to chime in by voting on the featured poll, located in the right sidebar. A full list of currently running polls can be found on our poll archive page! If you’d like to suggest a poll, feel free to email me.

As some of you Knotties already know, Camille Bridal Boutique in West Hartford is having a premiere Couture sample sale August 1-3, 2008.

This is the biggest sale in our history – over 100 couture gowns up to 80% off! We are making room for our new gowns.
• Lazaro, Vera Wang, Amsale, Christos, and more.
• Prices start at $99, nothing over $999.
• Bridal, mothers’ and bridesmaid.

No appointments. First come, first served – so hurry!

Friday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

I smell deep discounts! Time to get on your war paint and find the dress of your dreams at the price you’ve been dreaming of.

Chris Kattan and model Sunshine Tutt were married on June 28th at Chateau Du Sureau. The couple added a lot of green elements to their daylong celebration, including driving to the ceremony in a hybrid car. “The entire menu was all grown organically and locally,” Sunshine said. “We tried to make sure that we did everything by the book to really make this wedding as eco-friendly and green as possible.” Success!

In addition to using local vendors and artisans (which I am a huge advocate of!), the couple gave each guest an environmentally friendly gift bag. The reusable totes were from My Bag Cares— a company that plants a tree in the United States for every bag purchased – and were filled with $1,505 worth of natural and organic health and beauty products. Now that is a wedding I’d love to be a guest at!

The wedding is featured in in Touch Magazine, but I wanted to share with you the beautiful pictures they’ve posted online. Everywhere you look there are beautiful hydrangeas in purple, blue and green. I love the chiffon green bridesmaid dresses with an empire waist and sash – they are so elegant, chic, timeless, and dare I say, you could wear them again! No word on the designer of the brides gown, but she exuded glamour in her mermaid style gown. Also enjoy the randomly gratuitous picture of Jimmy Fallon (who is, coincidentally, a married man himself now :()

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