How to create a good enough website

For most people, that’s all you need. A website that’s good enough. Not that breaks new ground, establishes a new identity, discovers new ways for people to interact online. Just a good enough website that didn’t kill you (or bankrupt you) to launch.
Try on for size this simple advice on creating a small business [...]

The Little Black Book of Vendors

Style Me Pretty just announced last week the debut of The Little Black Book of Vendors. In addition to polling their readers, they interviewed former brides, colleagues and industry professionals to find out who the favorite wedding vendors are in each major bridal category and each major bridal market. So, whether a bride [...]

How Healthly is Email?

I ran across this story the other day from a organizational psychologist who doesn’t like email. He has been recognized as one of the top 50 coaches in America. I thought you might want to read it.
Ken Siegel doesn’t beat around the bush. He doesn’t like e-mail.
“I don’t even have an e-mail account,” he says. [...]

Should I have a Blog?

Are you asking yourself, “Should I have a blog in addition to my website?” Every time you turn around someone new is blogging and each week we hear about another wedding and event professional who has a new blog in addition to their website. As we mentioned in earlier posts, Martha Stewart and Preston [...]

Time to get Organized

It’s fall and finally in the last couple of days it is beginning to truly feel like fall with some cooler temperatures. We normally say it’s time to spring clean but in this business it’s important to do your “spring cleaning” so to speak in the fall before the end of the year arrives.
Have [...]

Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?

There are so many factors to consider when creating a new website or even updating your website. For many designers the greatest of these factors is aesthetic appeal. There is, of course, something to be said for having a unique look; it is not just about the service or product, after all, but about how [...]

Gown Sale This Weekend

If you have brides who are presently searching for their wedding gown, you might want to mention to them about the upcoming event this weekend sponsored by Making Memories and Brides Against Breast Cancer.
Brides Against Breast Cancer is having their annual wedding gown sale. Prices for the gowns range from $89 to $799, including hundreds [...]

New DWP Graduates

This past week, the October 2007 Dallas Wedding Planner Training Program took place. We had a busy and productive weekend with a super group of people. I am so excited to see new wedding planners in the marketplace working hard to succeed in their business.
Continued good luck to:
Kristyn Hall
Ashley Harbour
Tim Howard
Trish Kinder
Karen [...]

In Style Magazine Features Cakes

If you are compiling pictures of wedding cakes for your brides, you might be interested in the fall issue of In Style magazine which features 25 cakes. I watched a show on We TV last night about wedding cake designers and of course they all feel like the wedding cake is the most important element [...]

Martha Stewart’s Bridal Guide Blog

If you like to read blogs, you might want to check out yet one more, Martha Stewart’s wedding blog. They began the blog in August of this year. Darcy Miller is responsible for the blog. She is the Senior Vice President and Weddings Editorial Director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. She is [...]

More Choices for Wedding Gowns

Who today is not selling wedding gowns? Everyone seems to be entering that market regardless of the cost, as we saw with the Issac Mizrahi collection at Target.
Nordstrom is another choice for your brides these days. These gowns range from $130 to $1,000. Check out the Something Blue blog today for some additional [...]

Wedding Etiquette Instruction

Have you had a bride ask you about wedding etiquette and where she can go for some instruction?
Marsha Horne, resident maven of proper behavior, owns The Etiquette School of Frisco. They offer Wediquette programs for brides, grooms and wedding parties. Classes are held for couples on a Saturday.

Warren Barron Bridal Boutique

Dallas’ newest couture bridal salon, Warren Barron, is taking the local bridal market by storm. Owners Elle Warren and Cecilia Flores-Barron have worked directly with many of the industry’s top designers. Although the salon carries many couture lines, it’s the only boutique in town where you’ll find the Oscar de la Renta’s bridal collection. They [...]

What’s Out and What’s In

I thought I would put my two cents in and give you my list of what I see happening or not happening in the wedding industry these days. Brides do not always see this information in the wedding magazines. I would encourage you to let your bride know “what’s hot”. You might even [...]

Get Married on Lifetime TV

David Tutera is spreading his wings again. This week he joins the show, Get Married. He’s planned Star Jones’ wedding, launched Jennifer Lopez’s perfume line, designed dinnerware for Macy’s and worked with Hollywood’s elite.
Now, David Tutera is the new host of Get Married! Every weekday morning on Lifetime, David Tutera, event planner to the [...]