Upcoming Events

Hi Everyone,

It's been just over a month since the last time I was here and I wanted to catch up with you! The great news is I am currently working on an upcoming Labor Day wedding and I may possibly end up working a destination wedding (Chicago) as well!

This past weekend we held the wedding shower for the Labor Day wedding. For the most part the bride already knew what she wanted and had many of the vendors in place - which is great because I was only told about the shower 2 weeks ago! For the shower my role involved building the timeline and assisting with the cupcake favors. I was able to locate an great online vendor who had cheap prices and quick shipping on cupcakes boxes (www.brpboxshop.com). We also made a trip to Michaels where we purchased ribbon to go around the finished product.

Regarding the timeline - this was a bit funny. I'm from the Carribbean as well as the bride (although different islands). People from the islands are known for ALWAYS being late to events! The wedding shower was supposed to start at 4:00pm. It was 4:45pm when the first guest arrived and 4:50pm when the DJ arrived! Most guests trickled in sometime between 5:30 - 6:00pm. As a planner, there is not much that you can do since you can't control what time people show up. I just made sure that guests knew where to put their gifts and told them that the bar and the buffet were open and they could help themselves. The games started at 7:00pm even though people were still trickling in (it was being held outdoors and I needed to beat the sunset). Since I know people get restless (especially since it was co-ed) I wanted to have 3 quick games so we could all get back to the festivities. Our first game was the fill in the blank version of "The Famous Couples Game", followed by "Wedding Shower Word Scramble", and then closing with "How Well Do You Know The Bride". Prizes included Yankee Candles (www.yankeecandle.com) and picture frames. One of the funnier moments at the shower was when we ended up with 8 winners for the "Wedding Shower Word Scramble". On the spot the bride's brother and I had to think of time breaker question. Since the past few weeks were consumed by TV coverage of the World Cup games, we though that that would be a good tie breaker. The question was "Who came in 3rd place?". The answer is Germany. True - it wasn't a wedding related question, but when you have 8 winners standing in front of you and only 2 prizes for this particular game (thank goodness we had bought an extra picture frame just in case) you have to think outside the box!

I also realized that most of my evening consisted of tracking down the bride who would not sit still! LOL! My biggest fear was that she would lose one of her gift envelopes. I was constantly looking for her and putting the envelopes in her bag. I would have hated if she lost one!

All in all it was a great event. In the coming weeks the bride and I will be meeting up to continue going over logistics for the wedding. We have a solid idea of what it's going to look like and now I need to do my job and make sure it happens as planned.

Next month I'll be meeting with Bride #2 for the first time. I actually already know her through a good friend of mine. She attended a Father's Day party that I threw for my dad a few years back and now she is interested in seeing how I can help her with her big day! What's interesting about this bride is that she lives in Boston, I live in New York, but the wedding is in Chicago! I'm not nervous about the wedding being in Chicago (as I did a destination wedding in Rhode Island last year - see past posts), but I'm more nervous that I won't have immediate contact/ access to the bride if needed since she's in Boston. When I did the destination wedding last year, I was able to meet up with the bride and have our "Pow Wow Sessions" as she called it on a regular basis. Oh well, I'm sure we'll manage! Until next!

Love Always,
E.Joseph