Seminar

Dear Bride,

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! I'm so excited to be offering this seminar and know it will not only be a fun experience but will change the rest of your wedding planning. This event was created because I see the struggles brides face on a daily basis and know that it doesn't have to be stressful.

Throughout my years of planning, I've seen countless brides come to me halfway through the process, having spent most of their budget and having a very long list of things still needing to be done and paid for. I've thought, "If they'd only come to me sooner!" so many times.

I started in this business when I got married 7 years ago and had the most stressful day of my life...WITH a wedding planner! I'd only hired a day-of coordinator and looking back on things, I can't really remember what she did other than direct everyone down the aisle. I felt strongly that a bride should never feel that kind of stress on her wedding day and I knew a wedding planner should be more than a traffic director. I now have this planning process down to a science. It's amazing how easy it is when you have a roadmap.

This seminar is designed to help with those situations and more. It's chock full of useful information from not only myself but all of the participating vendors as well. I've hand-picked these vendors because of their quality service and bride-focused approach to weddings. It makes such a difference!

The seminar will start with registration and introductions, during which time you'll be served lunch tastings from Sullivans-yum! Next we'll start with the basics...budgeting. We'll move on to venues and decor. We'll have some demonstrations on decor setup and offer tips and ideas you can incorporate at any point in the planning process.

We'll finish this instructional session with vendor selection and move right into the vendor mixer. This is going to be so much fun! Vendors will be assigned to a booth and brides will move from vendor to vendor "speed date" style learning tips and tricks and asking any questions about that vendor's category. For example, when you get to the makeup artist's booth, she will have some tips on how to keep your face fresh throughout the day and you can ask her what's the best foundation to use to avoid looking washed out in your pictures (or whatever subject you have questions about). You also get to kind of interview vendors without having to drive from shop to shop...all of the vendors you need will be in one convenient location. You make this session work for you!

When the mixer is over, we'll move to another room at Sullivan's and there will be a presentation on coordination while you enjoy dinner tastings. Afterwards we'll move into the Ringside lounge for an interactive fashion show. I say interactive because the presenter will make sure the focus of the show is not "Oh, look how pretty the new Vera Wang is," but rather, "This is a Vera Wang fit-and-flare. Fit-and-flare means...." We want it to be informational.

Afterglow is the last thing on the agenda and that's simply a time for brides and vendors to mix and mingle with each other and the vendors they met earlier, all while listening to a hot band and enjoying cake that they got to practice cutting. Cake cutting sounds simple but so many brides look at me with terror in their eyes when they pick the knife up to cut their own cake so I thought it would be nice to give you a trial run so you'll know what you're doing when that time arrives. Plus, who doesn't like to eat cake?!

We want this event to be informational and fun. Wedding planning can be stressful but a lot of that stress comes from uncertainty. We're firm believers in minimizing stress and not only will you have a relaxing day, you'll leave with the tools to keep your stress down from that point on!

Space is limited so be sure to register early and take advantage of pre-registration specials. Visit our table at the next Out of the Box cocktail party to sign up or register above.

Happy Planning,
Stacy