Another Wedding Movie: “License to Wed”

Wedding movies are big business and Warner Brothers is working on another wedding movie, License to Wed.
This upcoming movie License to Wed follows newly engaged Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and his fiancée, Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore), who has always dreamed of getting married in a traditional wedding at her family church. The problem is St. [...]

Destination Wedding Gown Tips

There is a growing trend for brides to choose destination weddings. How will choosing a wedding gown be different if you go the destination route? Here are some tips that might help in your selection process.
There’s No Destination Like Home: If you are getting married in your backyard or a local mansion, the key to [...]

New Photographer: Helmutwalker Photography

Are you still adding to your vendor portfolio?  There is a fairly new wedding photographer in town that you might want to check out.  They just started advertising on the DWP website on the Local Directory.  I have not personally used them so I cannot speak from personal experience but they are work talking to, [...]

Business Tax Deductions

The Internal Revenue Service is doing what it can to clarify things. Two years ago, it laid out the rules–with examples included–and continues to post updates at its Web site. Because this deduction has been prone to abuse, the IRS also has been looking more closely at who deserves to take it.
The key to the [...]

New Ideas in Catering

Are you wondering what’s new in catering? Brides and grooms don’t know much more than what they saw at the last wedding that they went to. Hotels just tend to serve the same old thing unless you ask them to do something different. However, a good chef I believe will open at the [...]

Tips for your Business Cards

Here are five tips to make your business card stand out.
1 – Use Full Color Printing
2 – Use a Tagline
Think of your Business card as a “Mini Billboard”. Pretend that you are writing a classified ad for a newspaper. You only have a small amount of space to describe [...]

Using Your Time Wisely

Do you ever find yourself saying, there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done on your to do list? If so, here’s an article for you. Sherry Borsheim of Simply Productive, has written an article on how to conquer the paper and email traffic jam.
Did you know that the average [...]

Vera Wang Serta Beds

Vera Wang has her hand into another endeavor. The designer has expanded her line of bridal gowns into an empire that consists of: evening and cocktail wear, bridesmaids dresses, fine china, shoes, jewelry, fragrances, eye wear, home collections, books, a special honeymoon suite in Hawaii and now…beds!
Wang and Serta have joined together to bring us [...]

Wedding Planner: Michelle Rago’s Book Released

Michelle Rago is a rising star in the world of weddings, and she has made her name by focusing on the biggest trend in weddings today: personalization. Now she makes her creative process available to everyone in her new book; Signature Weddings: Creating a Day Uniquely Your Own revealing the techniques that made Modern [...]

See you Next Week

Hope everyone is doing well. DWP will be taking off this week for Spring Break. See you next week.

What Planners in Green Bay Wisconsin are saying…

One wedding planner in Green Bay Wisconsin says, she think brides are looking for something different. They’re looking for something that’s unique to them and that symbolizes something in their life; something that’s a signature to the couple.
Wedding consultant Cindy Williquette, owner of Silhouettes, says she’s seeing more chocolate wedding cakes recently than ever before. [...]

Another Website Critique Requested

We have another DWP Graduate you has requested a website review.  Please take a few moments and review the website of Kimberlyn Hall – www.www.blueberryhillevents.com.  I know everyone probably has a busy weekend, but I appreciate you helping a fellow wedding planner in this critique.
Please email me your individual responses to karol@dallasweddingplanner.com regarding this website.

July Wedding of Eva Longoria

US Weekly has reported that Eva Longoria and Tony Parker are planning to marry this summer on July 7th at Chateau de Chantilly, a beautiful castle just north of Paris. This is one of the most popular wedding dates for 2007. According to sources, Parker feels that this date, 07-07-07, is the luckiest day [...]

Update: Wedding Planning Software, My Wedding Hero

Weddings are stressful for most brides and being organized is an important element in helping eliminate some of that stress.  My Wedding Hero has online wedding capability. This could be an asset to you and your bride because you could both access the information online at the same time.Here’s what they say about their information: [...]

New Wedding Book, Southern Weddings

As wedding planners, we are always looking to see what’s new at our local Barnes & Noble. Here’s a new book out in print.
From the Southeast’s preeminent wedding designer, Tara Guerard, comes Southern Weddings: New Looks from the Old South. This unique new book puts readers on the most coveted guest lists to the most [...]