On my way out the door to meet Studio Foto for lunch I saw in my Google Reader that we were featured on Style Me Pretty this morning! I did a fun tablescape inspired for the DIYer in some necessary spring color! Click here to check it out. Thanks to Abby & Michelle for featuring us!!

I received my very last issue of Domino Magazine a few days ago. I was so upset to hear earlier this month that the magazine would be publishing its last issue in March. It is my go-to for inspiration and I am beyond upset that it will no longer be published. What other magazine embraced our inner vintage, bohemian side?

C’est la vie… Good thing I’ve hung onto every copy published! I will have to hang on to my next favorite magazine, Real Simple (although my love for it has never been quite the same since my friend Amanda pointed out that the entire magazine is just a walking advertisement. Thanks Amanda!!) I feel like with the popularity of blogging, more and more readers are turning to the internet for design inspiration and less to the glossy pages of popular magazines. This is even evident in the bridal world, with the popularity of the Southern Weddings Blog and Style Me Pretty. Their content is equally relevent and gratification: instint! Why should we wait a whole two months, or worse yet a quarter, for a bridal magazine to be published?

What magazines are your favorites and provide inspiration in design, business, life? What are your favorite design blogs?

One of my favorite elements in planning weddings for our couples is learning how they met one another. Love stories are truly inspiring, and this morning I was so excited to see one of my July couples featured in today’s Hartford Courant. Liz and Jayson met on a popular match making site, JDate.com, and their love story has been featured on a real “Webisode” on JDate’s website too. Click here to view the short promo piece for the series where you can see a bit of their interview. They are such a fun loving, gorgeous couple and we can’t wait for their wedding at Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium (where they had their third date!).

Click here to read all about Liz and Jayson: A Few Emails, A Date, and She Knew.

I received some advance copies of the New BRIDES Connecticut Spring/Summer 2009 issue. In a word, it is fabulous! BRIDES always puts together such a wonderful regional magazine, full of amazing content related to Connecticut. Among all the crazy eye candy is an interview we did on our TOP PICKS for a Connecticut bride’s reception. Be sure to pick up your copy to see what they are!

My favorite feature in this issue has to be the Style Inspirations Shopping Trip. BRIDES went to several of our favorite stores — Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel, and West Elm just to name a few. They took each of these stores unique styles and parlayed it into a wedding day design. I love it because it is an extension of what I’ve always said — your wedding should be a reflection of your personal style. You can find inspiration not just in wedding magazines, but in every day life! Look toward your own personal style and let your unique style sense shine.

This yankee loves Southern Weddings Magazine! Our fair ladies in warmer climates really know how to plan, coordinate, and design a wedding. Everyday I am inspired by the real weddings that Southern Weddings Magazine features and the stories behind the beautiful affairs! I wanted to take a moment to remind all our readers about the Southern Weddings blog and website, where they post a ton of content and real weddings which are ready to inspire! They recently redesigned their website and added a lot of new features so check it out and be sure to bookmark it. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if the talented women behind Southern Weddings launched something similar for us New Englanders? A girl can dream!

I’m so excited to tell you that Jubilee Events has been selected to be featured in Style Me Pretty’s little black book of vendors for Connecticut. I admire the work that Abby and Michelle do at stylemepretty.com and I am so honored and thrilled to be recognized by them. They only choose a hand full of vendors recommended by brides and other industry professionals to feature.

There are a few sites that I give my brides for inspiration and Style Me Pretty has always been one of them. Thank you to Abby and Michelle!

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your week. I have some pretty exciting news to share with you all. Jubilee Events as been chosen as one of Grace Ormonde’s platinum vendors for the 2009 wedding year! We were thrilled when we received the call last week and feel so honored to be amongst our talented peers. If you’ve never thumbed through the delicious Wedding Style Magazine, you must! It is available on newsstands now and has some decedent tablescapes, décor elements, floral arrangements, and wedding details. I especially love the New England edition of the magazine.

Be sure to look for us in their first 2009 edition!

I am super excited to announce that Jubilee Events is listed among the industries top wedding planners, nationally, at the Elizabeth Ann Designs Library. Rebekah Ann and Ami Elizabeth have put together an “exhaustive list” of vendors, organized by professional category and state, to assist brides in finding the industries top tier of professionals. We are delighted and honored to be listed in this directory!

I picked up my copy of OK! Magazine’s featurette on Charlie Sheen’s newest nuptials. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. I’m not sure if they were going unpretentious casual elegance or let’s save the money for the divorce, but either way, the photographs and description left much to be desired. I am especially not a fan of the wreath that Brooke wore with her 11.64 carat engagement ring. Yes, 11.64 carats! Are you kidding? The pictures in this cover story looked photoshopped, staged, and stiff. I appreciate his Men’s Warehouse suit, but couldn’t the photographer have him fix his tie and hair? That, coupled with the discussion of his previous (and contentious) marriage to Dennis Richards was in poor taste. The wedding should be about him and his new wife — not his crazy ex!

The table décor was beautiful, however, with chocolate brown, gold, green, and deep reds. It really was very rich in color and texture. The cake wasn’t my favorite, though. Birds and twigs?

For those of you who picked up the magazine, what are your thoughts? If you are interested in reading tidbits from the article, click here!