For many years now I have been searching for a good volunteering gig that satisfied my desire to give back to the community but was also a good fit for me. I finally found it! Yesterday, Christmas Eve, I had the pleasure of volunteering my time in the FareStart kitchen. “FareStart is a culinary job…
I recently had the opportunity to meet a unique wedding planner/designer/coordinator. Rebecca Grant with New Creations Weddings pleasantly surprised me with her background in “Asian-Pacific weddings, specifically Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian and Samoan wedding customs.” Meeting Rebecca and hearing about her services was a big plus for me because of the many Asian weddings I…
Ok, so I can already hear a big sigh of “here she goes again” from my colleagues in the wedding industry, but I’m really feeling a trend lately. That trend is creating a magical wedding day with friends and family at a rustic cabin in the woods, beach house or anywhere outdoors! I don’t mean…
Each week I will examine a wedding custom, ritual or tradition that has been passed from generation to generation. We’ll look at its origin and how it has influenced the lives of our ancestors and how it impacts us today. We’ll also look at how we create our own customs and how these new traditions…
I am so inspired by my beloved city of Seattle! I was born here, have lived here almost my entire life and can’t think of another place I would rather be. Let’s face it, we would all like to be laying on a beach in sunny Hawaii during the cold winter months. But Seattle’s climate…
Don’t forget about the wedding toasts! You don’t want to come up empty-handed and blurt out something like Steve (Will Ferrrell) in “A Night at the Roxbury” at his rehearsal dinner: So, okay, uh… I just want to say… what’s up… Grandpa, Grandma, and those other two old people. Instead, be prepared, make it short…
I recently had the pleasure of doing a wedding for a couple who chose a very unique place to get married: The Mukilteo Lighthouse! Because the groom is in the coastguard the lighthouse was available to him and his bride at no charge! Imagine that — a…
I sent along the official itinerary to Diana and William for their review the other day. I was so thrilled to be able to put together their itinerary. I met some new people (including them) along the way and am deeply intrigued by the whole destination wedding idea. Very doable on all budgets and especially…
Well, Alisha and I have been working hard on putting together this great little destination wedding package for Diana and William. We have booked a car rental, restaurants, a beautiful executive hotel room in a downtown hotel that will have an unobstructed view of the fireworks on New Year’s Eve, cake, flowers, photographer and me!…
Do you have your officiant all picked out but you still don’t have the DJ lined up? Check out the Seattle Wedding Show at the Convention Center in January. If you get buy your ticket on line now, you get VIP status, which allows you to bypass all the lines, and there are lines galore!…
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