If you are a event coordinator, photographer, fashion designer, or paper artist and would like to be a guest on this blog, please contact me through my website at www.mrschadt.com/contact.aspx.
Your blog post must relate to weddings, baby showers, graduations, and other events formal gatherings. Articles that give advice, tutorials, and instruct readers on savoring memories during this momentous occassions are best.
Please note, that when you contact me, please tell me what business you are in, your website, and attach your proposed blog post. Links to your business website is permitable and encouraged, however all other affliate links will be removed from your post.
As owner of MRsCHADT, I have the right to edit any content from your post that may not be appropriate for my viewers. Basically, keep it clean.
Your content must be orginal and is considered a contribution to this site and therefore your compensation is deemed as the right to advertise your business through your blog post for one day.
This month our topic is weddings. I will be selecting different guest bloggers at different times that coordinate with the each months topic and relate to occassions that require guest books, photo albums, and autograph books.
I look forward to hearing from those interested.
Showing posts with label wedding planner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding planner. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
A Bride's Planning Checklist
The ring is on, the date has been set. Now, what's a bride to do?
It's time to make a planning checklist.
Six to Twelve months before the big day, a bride will need to do the following:
1. Set a budget. Sit down with your groom and work out together how much financial obligation each party is willing to take on to pay for your wedding.
2. Reserve your ceremony site and reception hall, so that they coordinate with your wedding date.
3. Interview wedding planners.
4. Choose an Officiant (pastor or justice of the peace) and confirm date and availability.
5. Arrange for premartial counseling or marriage preparation classes. Most churches require this step whether you attend their church regularly or not. For new couples entering into the steps of matrimony, it really is a good idea to complete this step.
6. Decided on the number of guests. Begin to compile a tentative list of guests for your wedding day You may want to start this list from immediate family and friends and then branch out to distance cousins. This way, if you need to weed out the number of guests due to your budget factor or location factor (# of people allowed in building) you can start scratching from the bottom up.
7. Select a color scheme. The colors you choose should represent you and your groom. This will become a large factor in the rest of your decoration and even bridal attire decisions.
8. Bridal Party. Who will stand at the alter beside you and support you through this wedding day? Choose and invite friends and family to become a part of your wedding precession.
9. Dress Shopping. May or may not be your most favorite aspect of planning a wedding. This is where you grab your mother or best friend and head to the dress shops. This is the time you begin your search for your wedding gown and brides maids. Don't forget the mothers! Make sure you touch base with the your mother and his mother to talk about their dresses. This is a big day for them too!
10. Start seeking out the professionals. There is much that goes into this day. You can't do it all alone. It's time to think about the following aspects of hiring professionals in the following areas: music, flowers, photography, catering, cake, and invitations.
There are a lot of things here, but don't feel overwhelmed, we'll break them down, add simpler steps, and soon your wedding day will here. By staying organized, you'll be one relaxed bride ready to enjoy this momentous occasion.
10.
It's time to make a planning checklist.
Six to Twelve months before the big day, a bride will need to do the following:
1. Set a budget. Sit down with your groom and work out together how much financial obligation each party is willing to take on to pay for your wedding.
2. Reserve your ceremony site and reception hall, so that they coordinate with your wedding date.
3. Interview wedding planners.
4. Choose an Officiant (pastor or justice of the peace) and confirm date and availability.
5. Arrange for premartial counseling or marriage preparation classes. Most churches require this step whether you attend their church regularly or not. For new couples entering into the steps of matrimony, it really is a good idea to complete this step.
6. Decided on the number of guests. Begin to compile a tentative list of guests for your wedding day You may want to start this list from immediate family and friends and then branch out to distance cousins. This way, if you need to weed out the number of guests due to your budget factor or location factor (# of people allowed in building) you can start scratching from the bottom up.
7. Select a color scheme. The colors you choose should represent you and your groom. This will become a large factor in the rest of your decoration and even bridal attire decisions.
8. Bridal Party. Who will stand at the alter beside you and support you through this wedding day? Choose and invite friends and family to become a part of your wedding precession.
9. Dress Shopping. May or may not be your most favorite aspect of planning a wedding. This is where you grab your mother or best friend and head to the dress shops. This is the time you begin your search for your wedding gown and brides maids. Don't forget the mothers! Make sure you touch base with the your mother and his mother to talk about their dresses. This is a big day for them too!
10. Start seeking out the professionals. There is much that goes into this day. You can't do it all alone. It's time to think about the following aspects of hiring professionals in the following areas: music, flowers, photography, catering, cake, and invitations.
There are a lot of things here, but don't feel overwhelmed, we'll break them down, add simpler steps, and soon your wedding day will here. By staying organized, you'll be one relaxed bride ready to enjoy this momentous occasion.
10.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Creating Your Wedding Planner
Three imporant things you will need to create your own wedding planner.1. a three ring binder (recommend the Avery Durable View Binder)
2. a pencil (with lots of lead)
3. a large manilla envelope (like 6 x9 or 9 x 11)
4. notebook paper or copy paper
Once you gather those things we can started.
In order to keep your wedding organized and all the details covered--even the little ones that I referred to in yesterday's post as "bugs" you'll find that a wedding planner is a bride's best friend.
However, before we get down to what lies within the pages, I want you take your binder and make it yours. No really, when you go to the store and pick out a planner, you want something that you're going to like because you'll be carrying it round with you for a long time. Calenders are meant to last a year.
Depending on your wedding date, you want your wedding planner to last just that long too.
So grab a binder and today we'll start with one of the most important milestones of creating your wedding planner.
Do one or all of the following:
1. Put your name on it
2. Go to your local hardware store and pick out some of your favorite color chips and place down into the viewable part of our binder. (Think wedding colors!)
3. Punch three holes in down the side of your Manila envelope using a hole punch. Insert into your binder. (This is where you'll keep your receipts.)
4. Come back and visit this blog tomorrow.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Do You Need a Wedding Planner?
So, you've just said yes.
Congratulations, your now on your way to aisle full of decisions, financial management, and last minute bugs. I like to call the "bugs" because they are the small things that you step over and forget until they come crawling out at you right when you have less than a minute to spare.
You don't need an exterminator to rid yourself of party bugs. What you do need, however, is a wedding planner.
Now, you might decide that it worth your money to hire an actual person to help assist you in your wedding plans. But, you may find that you don't really need a person, so much as, you do need a wedding planner.
Not a person, then what is a wedding planner?
Well, if you don't need a person to plan your wedding, then you will need a calender, a to-do list, a pencil (you may find all the times things change that a pencil is best for erasing things. Pen tends to get messy after all that scribbling.) and a binder.
Now days, we all have some sort of planner. Some of us carry them in our cell phones, iPad's or PDA's. Some us use built in calendars in our laptops and email programs. Then there are those of us who still prefer the touch of real pages and carry around a paper planner.
A planner helps you keep track of your day to day appoints, responsibilities, and even shopping lists.
That is why you'll find it is important to have a wedding planner of your own. Whether it is human, mechanical, or paper-- a wedding planner will help keep you organized and keep the bugs from scurrying out unattended during your special day.
Congratulations, your now on your way to aisle full of decisions, financial management, and last minute bugs. I like to call the "bugs" because they are the small things that you step over and forget until they come crawling out at you right when you have less than a minute to spare.
You don't need an exterminator to rid yourself of party bugs. What you do need, however, is a wedding planner.
Now, you might decide that it worth your money to hire an actual person to help assist you in your wedding plans. But, you may find that you don't really need a person, so much as, you do need a wedding planner.
Not a person, then what is a wedding planner?
Well, if you don't need a person to plan your wedding, then you will need a calender, a to-do list, a pencil (you may find all the times things change that a pencil is best for erasing things. Pen tends to get messy after all that scribbling.) and a binder.
Now days, we all have some sort of planner. Some of us carry them in our cell phones, iPad's or PDA's. Some us use built in calendars in our laptops and email programs. Then there are those of us who still prefer the touch of real pages and carry around a paper planner.
A planner helps you keep track of your day to day appoints, responsibilities, and even shopping lists.
That is why you'll find it is important to have a wedding planner of your own. Whether it is human, mechanical, or paper-- a wedding planner will help keep you organized and keep the bugs from scurrying out unattended during your special day.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Journal Album? or Guest Book?
Formal elegance in all it's splendor!
I've had these papers dangling in my DCWV Luxury Stack
(affiliate link) for quite some time now. Because of the print it was hard for me to cut and waste a lot of the paper to make the 5.5" x 8.5" guest book albums and the positioning of the paper for the larger 8.5" x 11" wouldn't work. Then it occurred to me these were perfect pages to create more 8 x 8 journal albums. I know.. I know... more 8 x 8 soft covers.
After I put these precious journal albums together it occurred to me that they could be more than journals. I used the scraps to create a book mark for each and included a matching pen for a complete gift set. But, I can't help thinking that these journal albums could also be used as Bride's Journals, Wedding Planner, and most of all a guest book for a wedding or shower.
The covers make them very formal and elegant. So, I went ahead and stamped the corners of the pages with coordinating colors. Pink and Gold, Navy, and Blue. The photo below is the pink and gold journal album, and I used the corner floral stamp.
I have three different colors available:
Pink and Gold
Navy and Silver
or
Baby Blue and Silver
So is it a Journal Album or is it a Guest Book? What do you think?
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Think Hot Pink
I put together this pink dotted foil guest book album and slipped some matching paper into an RSVP pen.
Inside I used gray and pink paper and stamped using a new stamp set I just got with these
unique bow type flowers.
There's plenty of room to write within the signature pages. And it just occurred to me that this could also make a nice pregnancy journal too. Forty pages means one page a week to record your pregnancy and the acid-free and lignin free card stock pages can hold plenty of belly shots!
And for those brides, it can be making lists, recording wedding plans, and making a wish list and photo collage as you prepare for the big day.
I just love how vestal these books can be, don't you?
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