Tips and Tricks from The Pros with Bliss Elevated Wedding Coordination

Congratulations on your engagement…

This can be one of the most amazing times of your life, but it can also be filled with a lot of stressful decisions and anxiety.  Weddings are involved, costly and filled with choices!  Which is why hiring a wedding coordinator or planner might be the best decision you make on your journey to happily ever after!  If you think you cannot afford a wedding planner or if you think it isn’t for you, consider hiring someone who specializes in day of coordination or partial planning.  You will be amazing at how affordable it can be and how much less stressful they will make everything!

A great professional wedding planner is part unbiased gal pal, part style expert, part psychologist, part local expert and part shopping guru.  She is detail oriented, organized, creative and extremely good at time management!  While I think everyone deserves a professional wedding planner for their wedding, there are couples that should especially consider hiring one.

• Your wedding is being held out-of-town.
• You are on a tight budget.
• You are just too busy with your career, school, your friends, your family, etc.
• You or your spouse get easily stressed.
• Organization isn’t your strong suit.
• You don’t want your family and friend to have to “work” on your wedding day.
• Your just not that into it.  It’s okay!  Planning a wedding is not for everyone.

Here are five reasons that you should hire a wedding planner, brought to you by from Bliss Elevated Wedding Coordination.

Tips from The Pros with Kassi from Red Door Photobooth

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Photo booths are the perfect addition and a must have at any wedding. Your guests can be entertained throughout the night and take home pictures that will last a lifetime!  Here are 10 tips to help you hire the BEST photo booth for your wedding.

1. Look for hidden costs– Is the price the company quoting you including the prop’s, the scrapbook, double prints, a copy of the nights pictures, and custom designed logo with your name and/or wedding date. Make sure to add up these costs if the company does charge an additional fee because a company that doesn’t charge may be the better option. What’s a photo booth without props?
2. Does the company have liability insurance? This sets the companies apart and is really important at your wedding.
3. Is the photo booth an “open air booth” or an actual step in, push a button, pose photo booth? This is an important question because a true photo booth isn’t “open air”. How can you get that “Let’s get crazy, No one is looking” pictures if in fact everyone is looking. Plus will the booth be an eye sore or will it blend into your wedding? Also remember that in open top photo booths if there is sun or lights shining in the top your pictures will have many shadows and glare. Look for companies that have a roof on the photo booth or fully enclosed.

Tips From The Pro’s with Floral Design by Linda

Linda Malone of Floral Design by Linda has been an Elite Member of The Wedding Connectors for over a year.  She is an amazing woman and really listens to how you envision your flowers will be for your wedding when working with her couples.   Floral Design by Linda will help make your wedding day everything you had dreamed of.  Here are the top 10 questions Linda recommends you ask when interviewing florists.

1. Does your website contain a portfolio of your work?

2. Are you familiar with my ceremony and reception location?

3. What is the cost of each item: bridal bouquet, bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres, centerpieces, etc.?

4. How far in advance will you be making my bouquet and centerpieces?

5. What creative ideas do you have to work within my budget?

6.When will the flowers be delivered and what will be the fee?

7. How many weddings will you be doing the weekend of mine?

8. Can you also provide an aisle runner, candles, candle-holders, trellises, etc?

9. What is the required deposit?

10. When is the balance due?

 Contact Linda today!

Floral Design by Linda

www.FloralDesignbyLinda.com

(303) 895-0784

linda@floraldesignbylinda.com

Photos provided by Floral Design by Linda.

  

Tips and Tricks from The Pros: Choosing a DJ and Music for Your Special Event

Choosing a DJ and Music for Your Special Event

By Jeff Donovan, DJ On Demand

"Everybody's favorite DJ Company"

When you plan an event, a wedding, holiday party, or summer picnic, choose your music wisely.  Certain music genres complement specific events.  Consider that your DJ will play about 15 songs per hour; so, select songs that flow easily in that timeframe. Talk to them about your selections.  Remember they are the professionals and can guide you through this process.

Will you be dancing at your event?  Consider that most functions run about 4 hours, so plan for 2-2 ½ hours of dance time. Music can make or break your event, especially dance songs.  Upbeat, popular, recognizable songs get people off their chairs onto the dance floor. You can mix slow songs with fast ones to break up the pace, but remember to pick music that brings out the crowd.  Think to yourself, is this something that I would go to a club and dance to or is this something that my friends and I would listen to at my house?