Trials and Tastings

We wanted to stress the importance of testing your vendors products or services before using them on the biggest day of your life.   Today we'll talk about the food and beverage tastings and hair and make-up trials.



Always always always meet with your Caterer for a full tasting.  Try everything you will serve your guests from the canapes to the dessert and wines.  Guests will always remember the food from an event so you want to get this one right.  At the tasting you want to check out the china, glassware, linen, cutlery, table accessories, and chairs so you can start to design the look of your tables and dining room.  It's okay to play with your food and mix and match plates until you find something suitable to your style.   Feel free to suggest mixing and matching different dishes as well.  This is your wedding and you want it to be oh so scrumptious.



I suggest going for a hair and make-up trial approximately one month prior to the wedding day.  Any earlier and a new style might show up on the runway and you'll have to pay your stylist for another trial.  Any later risks time pressures and in some cases skin reactions to make-up products.    Bring pictures, hair accessories and your veil to the trial.

Food pics: Create

Woman: Love My Dress Blog

Worldwide Weddings and Honeymoons

I'm absolutely tickled that two of my wedding planning tips have landed in this month's Worldwide Weddings and Honeymoons Magazine.   Find the tips in the "8 steps to an A-list style wedding" section of the magazine.

Wedding Planning Do's and Don'ts

Happy Friday!  Below are just a few of my favorite wedding planning do's and don'ts.  For a complete list of do's and don'ts contact us for your free copy.



DO check if your vendors include VAT in their price.  An extra 17.5% can be huge (20% in Jan 2011)





DON'T assume that your Minister, Registrar or Rabbi will be available on your wedding day just because your venue is available.  Always check availability of both officiant and venue before booking.



DO ask your florist for a sample centrepiece for the tasting.  Your vision and the florist could be totally different.



DON'T get upset if a detail is out of place on the wedding day. Guests will only see the end result and not the planning.  They will think it was meant to be like that so go ahead and play along!



DO order extra thank you notes.  It's better to pay a little bit more during during your first purchase than a large fee for a few more.  People will send you gifts that didn't attend the wedding and you will naturally make mistakes when writing the thanks yous.



DON'T wear sticky lip-gloss if you're wearing a veil.  The veil can get stuck to your lips and turn into a quick annoyance and sticky mess

Parisian CatWalk

Check out these fashion forward gowns from the catwalks of Paris

Viktor and Rolf

EmersonMade Blooms

We've come across these lovely hand-stiched and hand dyed flowers from EmersonMade a couple of times now and wanted to share the beauty of these blooms with you.   Enjoy, lovlies

Erika Unbehaun in the Press

I had an article written about me on the front page of the business section of The Wharf. The ins and outs of wedding planning, being a wedding planner in London, the unconventional couple and why I love the job.  It's a great start to the Autumn Season...