Featured Wedding Photo: Leslie Spurlock Photography

This week Something Blue is featuring the work of Leslie Spurlock Photography and is showing two great photos. Here’s a bridal session where the photographer, Leslie Spurlock did a mix of traditional and modern. I love that. Something to make every bride and mom happy. It’s great to have a wedding photographer with a [...]

The Wedding Book by Mindy Weiss

The last book we are going to share with you this week is The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day by Mindy Weiss and Lisbeth Levine. There is a vast amount of wedding planner notebooks on the market today. Your brides are buying many of those because they feel the need [...]

Table Flowers by Paula Pryke

Table Flowers: Innovative Floral Designs for Entertaining by Paula Pryke can lend floral design and color for a wedding planner and bride searching for the right color combination. Paula teaches sought-after classes at her flower school in London.
Her latest book Table Flowers: Innovative Floral Designs for Entertaining explores the newest trends in floral design and [...]

Simple Stunning Wedding Showers by Karen Bussen

If you are venturing into other parties in your business besides weddings, you might find this book helpful.
In Simple Stunning Wedding Showers, author Karen Bussen draws on her experience as a wedding and party planner to guide you through each step, from budgeting and etiquette, to choosing refreshments that enhance the ambience, to devising activities [...]

Simply Elegant Flowers with Michael George

Today’s book is Simply Elegant Flowers with Michael George by Michael George and Bob Shuman.
New York’s premier fashion industry florist, Michael George is known for his signature graphic, modern arrangements that are as popular in Manhattan hotels and storefronts as they are on the pages of Vogue and on the set of Good Morning America. [...]

Book Week at Industry Insider

This week on Industry Insider will be book week. As event and wedding planners, we are always looking for new and unique ideas to bring to the table with our clients. Each day this week the Industry Insider will feature a different type of book to keep you aware of the many options [...]

Featured Wedding Photo: Your Perfect Wedding by Di Fiori

Something Blue has a new feature on the blog, Featured Wedding Photos. We will share our featured wedding photos on Mondays. In case you are not reading Something Blue, we will post them on Industry Insider as well because we think you will enjoy seeing the photos. If you have a photo of a wedding [...]

Event and Wedding Planner Jung Lee

We can learn from so many sources including other well-know event and wedding planners. Today we wanted to share some information about Jung Lee.
You may have seen Jung Lee on “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?”. In July 2001, when Jung Lee, a real estate project manager, and Josh Brooks, a marketing manager for a dot-com, [...]

Selling Kate Aspen Products

Are you interested in selling wedding accessories for additional income for your business? Kate Aspen is offering for businesses to sign up.
I know everyone wants extra revenue but then selling product on the Internet these days is becoming more difficult. Everyone and their grandmother is literally selling wedding favors, invitations and accessories so [...]

Inspiration:Fun Menu Cards

Is your bride looking for something fun and creative for their menu card? When wedding guests arrive at their reception dinner table, they could have this fun menu card known as a cootie catcher sitting on their charger or napkin. Doesn’t this bring back some good childhood memories?
If you have forgotten how to make those [...]

Communication with Brides via Email

Brides are not picking up the phone much these days, they are using email. I don’t blame them, it  is easy and better than playing phone tag. So whatever you do, check your email inbox often. The instant nature of digital communications has led to a certain level of impatience. When a bride emails you, [...]

Wedding Color Ideas from the Pantone Spring 2008 Color Report

Pantone has released their Spring 2008 color report. We see these colors repeated in the fashion industry but we also see them repeated in home decor and more including wedding colors. If your bride is struggling with color choices or if you are a wedding planner giving your brides ideas to implement, I would encourage [...]

Consider Serving Cheese

Marcy Blum, New York wedding planner suggests that brides consider serving a cheese course as a sophisticated finale to your reception dinner. You can have a printed menu of the cheese to be served or the servers can enumerate the options to the guests. In order to have a variety of hard [...]

New Magazine in Town

Have you seen the new bridal magazine in town? Modern Luxury has recently released ists premiere spring/summer issue of Dallas Brides. It is definitely not for the low end bride and the advertisers in this oversized glossy magazine are catering to the affluent bride. I personally don’t know how it will compete with all [...]

Wedding Cake:Classic White

For the bride who wants the solid white look on her wedding cake with her color accents in other areas in the room, here’s a basic classic white wedding cake with small delicate flowers from Papillon Cakes. It looks like a spring wedding!