Business Tip: All work vs play time

Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund was featured in an issue of Pink Magazine. I thought her tip to Pink Readers was also a great tip to pass along to wedding industry professionals to help them stay on focus, not burn out and have good boundaries.
She claims one weekend a month just [...]

Beauty Industry Icon, Essie Weingarten a Modern Bride 2009 Trendsetter

I enjoyed reading about Essie Weingarten, a beauty industry icon of Essie Cosmetics in the Modern Bride issues awarding her one of the Top 25 Trendsetters of 2009.
She has a keen eye for color and a flair for names. Essie Cosmetics sells to more than 250,000 salons and spas worldwide, from Denver to Dubai.
My father [...]

Who does your business impact?

I read today an advertisement for Frito Lay. The headline on the ad said:
The biggest impact we can have is not to have one.
The article continued stating that is the goal of Frito Lay. In the last ten years, they have been working to change almost everything they do at Frito-Lay to minimize their impact [...]

Quote: Celebrate Life by Oprah Winfrey

“The more you celebrate your life, the more there is to celebrate!” ~Oprah Winfrey

Do you understand the power of a brand?

We all hear about brands. We know brands because they are ingrained into us through advertising at an early age. My grandson at the age of two years old, knew very well the red and white bulls eye represented Target.  He just recently turned five, and saw a magazine ad for Verizon with the crowd [...]

2009 Modern Bride Trendsetter, Lisa Dupar of Dupar and Company

Modern Bride recently announced the top twenty-five winners of the 2009 Trendsetters. The winners are wedding pros who make cakes, flowers, who work with fashion and help design the entire wedding event and other jobs in between.  Modern Bride says these Trendsetters have transformed how people get married today.
One of the 2009 Modern Bride Trendsetters [...]

Who inspires you?

We just finished reading the current issue of Time, The World’s 100 Most Influential People. There are a variety of people from politicians, artists, entertainers, scientists and more who made this list. A couple of people who made the list that caught our attention and we wanted to share with you is Lauren Zalaznick and [...]

Saturday outdoor weddings

It’s May 2nd, spring in Texas, 3:30pm in the afternoon and it’s dark outside and pouring down rain.  And of course it’s Saturday, the most popular wedding day of the week to get married.  For those brides who have a lovely planned outdoor wedding for this evening, it doesn’t look to promising.  Even it is [...]

Best Cake Artist in America by Food Network

I finally got a chance to watch the final round of Food Network’s Last Cake Standing. Their client was the Dilly sextuplets celebrating their sixteen birthday.  Courtney Clark, Mary Maher and Bronwen Weber were making a birthday cake for the sextuplets in a 24 hour time period. The winner of the competition and the title [...]