Blog Profile / Always a Blogsmaid
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| Filed Under: | Relationships / Weddings | |
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| Posts / Week: | 4.3 | |
| Archived Since: | June 8, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Making Magic with a Glass Vase: DIY Vase Decor
So, as most of you who frequent this blog know, for years we’ve shunned away from DIY projects for weddings because, well, Hey, isn’t that what people pay us for? However, recently we’ve had a change of heart and let me explain why: First, we believe in Couture Living whenever possible and, sadly, it’s getting [...]Show More Summary
WPW, Thursday Edition: Elephants and Rabbits
Hi Everyone! I’m back from a quick, quick Vacay to Kiawah Island. I decided to take my vacation seriously and NOT over-work and instead drank tons and tons of wine and lolled around on a beach for 4 days flipping through magazines. It was magical. So, I request your pardon for posting my Wedding [...]Show More Summary
Couture Itinineraries with Sonar Travel
With all of this wedding planning, are you having a hard time planning your honeymoon? Just trying to sneak away for a weekend to relax from the stress of planning…or maybe just stress? For all of you that know exactly where you want to go, but just don’t know what to do once you get [...]Show More Summary
Razzle Dazzle Wedding Shoes
It’s Friday, which makes me happy, so what better way to celebrate happiness than to ogle at shoes!!! Fabulous Bridal shoes have long been a staple of a complete “wedding look”, so in celebration of Punk: Chaos to Couture, I thought I’d showcase some of my most favorite, eye-catching evening shoes with an edge! First [...]Show More Summary
How to Pin a Boutonniere (video)
It’s funny how things that seem second nature to us now are some of the things that other people are fascinated by. One of these things is how to pin a boutonniere. For some reason this confounds people every time, even the gals who freelance for us on wedding days. Like, no one wants to [...]Show More Summary
WPW: Leaning In When You’re The Boss
I read an article on startup blog Perfection Paradox that got me thinking about the message for today’s Wedding Pro Wednesday. The post looks at Sandberg’s book “Lean In” and how it relates to startups and I found myself wondering, how do you “Lean In” when you are already the boss? Jonathan Brigham, in his [...]Show More Summary
Punk: Chaos to Couture to Wedding?
So, last night, a bevy of stars walked the red carpet at the Met Museum Gala, which, as a girl growing up in New York was like a magical dream night for me. I would look to Page Six the next day and check out the Socialites and Ladies Who Lunched. I held it as [...]Show More Summary
Cinco de Mayo Inspired
Last year when I was speaking at Love Mexico I did a presentation entitled “Get Inspired by Mexico”, to encourage travel agents, Mexican venues and destination wedding planners to start SHOWCASING more Mexico when speaking to people about possibly getting married IN Mexico. I thought it was ironic that people choose Mexico because they love [...]Show More Summary
Great Gatsby Inspiration Board
Obviously, the world is in a tizzy about The Great Gatsby movie’s impending release…. especially with the premiere party having happened at the Plaza last night. And, in looking back, I realized I have been talking about The Great Gatsby for Evs on this blog. So, below, a repost from Feb of 2011, and a [...]Show More Summary
WPW: A Rose Might Smell as Sweet, But Would It Make As Much Money?
Last week I wrote about how our language in talking about our services may be hurting the way our clients perceive us and in turn be creating frustration and project dissatisfaction for ourselves. This week, I’m still on my semantics streak and want to discuss business names. For many in this industry, the answer was [...]Show More Summary
Easy Peasey Cinco de Mayo Party
Mayra and I may not know everything (though don’t tell her that), but we do know a LOT about having a party. It seems that when we aren’t putting them together for clients, we are putting them together for our friends and, since Mayra and her husband have a big back yard, it’s not uncommon [...]Show More Summary
Bridal Fashion Week ReCap: Spring 2014
I’m just accepting that it’s Spring 2013, but the forward moving wheels of fashion could care less about real time and have already marched forward to Spring 2014, with some trends that delighted, some I worry will be dated by the time they actually get into stores, some insight into accessories and, of course Vera [...]Show More Summary
Wedding Pro Wednesday: Hooker Talk
Happy Wedding Pro Wednesday! I’ve been getting a lot of emails from some of you gals just starting out on how we think that you should be charging… My answer to everyone is always that it depends.. not only on your marketplace, but where you are at in your business. In the past 10 years [...]Show More Summary
Get Your Dose of Ceci Style
I am so thrilled to have been asked to be the Co-cover girl with Ceci of Ceci New York in her weekly magazine, Ceci Style. If you haven’t been subscribing to Ceci Style you are missing out as somehow- on top of running her legendary eponymous couture stationery business, she also manages to put together [...]Show More Summary
The Perfect Place: The Beauty of Assigning Seats
Mayra and I were delightfully able to be guests at a wedding this weekend! It was a thrill- Lauren and Jon put together a perfect Saturday evening with elements of glitz and glam at an amazing old mansion up in Yonders. With years as an editor of a bridal magazine under her belt, Lauren knew [...]Show More Summary
On Vision: Clarity (Wedding Pro Wednesday)
Happy Wedding Wednesday friends! So, it’s been a couple of weeks full of impact moments for us here at AaB…. those rare times when the Universe seems to all line up and make it really clear a) what your talents are b) what you should do with them and c) what things are distractions. One [...]Show More Summary
Inspired by… T Magazine in this Week’s NY Times
This weekend the NY Time’s T Magazine came out with it’s design issue, which is, absolutely delicious. Literally cover to cover with inspiring goodness, including a quote on taste that really got me thinking about weddings. Deborah Needleman summarizes a lengthier piece on Taste: “What seemed like bad taste when it was new irons itself [...]Show More Summary
Tuscan Inspiration
TGIF!!! Although I have to say it’s been a pretty great week here at the AaB offices- kicked off with Briana and Jason’s wedding at the St. Regis, rounding out with a design meeting with one of our clients and some time to catch up with friends and family sandwiched in between. One of the [...]Show More Summary
WPW: Walking Through Open Doors
Happy Wedding Pro Wednesday. This is the Sleepy Head edition, as I still am not 100% recovered from the Bride’s Live Wedding, but hopefully I can make some coherent sense. I wanted to write to you all about something that has been brewing in my mind for several months now and, it finally gelled for [...]Show More Summary
Behind the Scenes: Brides Live Wedding
I’m back at my desk…. exhausted and invigorated by the weekend at the St. Regis in Monarch Bay and the marriage of Briana and Jason at the Bride’s Live Wedding. The show (and it was truly a show- an entertaining hour of programming directed and produced by Zuckerberg Media- was one hour and included the [...]Show More Summary