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TIP TUESDAY: Treat Your Momma Right!

May 8, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

This Sunday may be Mother’s Day, but undoubtedly, the day the MOB is most excited about is her daughter’s wedding. Mother/Daughter relationships can range anywhere from delightful to torturous – and everything in between. Add a wedding into the mix, and well, it’s not always pretty. (Actually, one of the largest roles we play as Chicago wedding planners is mediator between the bride and her mother.) While this is your wedding, keep in mind that she has also been dreaming about this day since the day you were born. She wants the best for you – it just may not seem that way sometimes.

Bride & MOB (Photo from www.northwoodsloves.wordpress.com)

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Royal Wedding: Planner’s Perspective

April 30, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

There was so much pressure on the wedding industry last year with the news of the Royal Wedding. Since the moment Kate and William announced their engagement in November, she wearing his late mother’s stunning sapphire ring, the media was abuzz with predictions, speculation and anticipation. Everyone in the wedding industry was weighing in on an almost daily basis on anything they could possibly think of to relate to the “Wedding of the Century.” As a member of this group of wedding “experts,” I felt that I HAD to talk about the wedding constantly, lest my standing in the industry would somehow falter.

Ladies Watching Royal Wedding (Photo by Dick Blume for The Post Standard)

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TIP TUESDAY: All The Good Ones Are Taken

April 3, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

I cannot even begin to tell you the number of emails and phone calls I have received recently inquiring about my “day of” services. (As a reminder, per the Editor’s recent article, there really is no such thing as “day of.” I am using this term only because it is what brides and grooms use to describe the service they are looking for.)

Choose a Wedding Planner Early On (Photo from www.justweddings.org)

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SQN Events: Making the Most of a Bad Situation

April 1, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

One of my first weddings was also one of my most challenging. How I wish it was an April Fool’s joke. But of course, it wasn’t.

The reception was being held at a restaurant in the South Loop area on quite possibly the hottest day of the year. We’re talking at least 96 degrees (no joke). When I arrived for set up around 4:00 p.m., I thought, “Wow. It’s hot in here!” and mentioned it to the manager on duty. She said that the staff had recently arrived and the ovens had just been turned on high to get things moving. The A/C should kick in soon and we’d be fine. Sounded logical to me.

Please Work. Please Work! Please Get A/C Working Now! (Photo from www.ductcleaningfortlauderdalte.com)

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SQN Events: Celebrating More Than Spring!

March 21, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

Have you ever met anyone who doesn’t just love spring? Can anyone truly resist seeing bright pops of green grass starting to push through their lawn? Or the first buds appearing on tree branches that were recently covered in ice and snow? The bitter chill of wind being replaced by warm, fresh breezes that seem to whisper, “Hold on… I’m almost here!”

Beth & Dan with Bridal Party (Photo by Garbo Productions)

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TIP TUESDAY: Plus One

February 21, 2012 By SQN Events Leave a Comment

Short & sweet tip today: If you have to write “and guest” on the invitation to a friend or family member because either:

1) That person does not have a significant other
or
2) You have never even heard the supposed significant other’s name before (let alone met them)

do not invite them with a guest. Easiest way to cut down your guest list.

Skip The "And Guest" (Photo from www.somewhereintimecalligraphy.com)

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Our Comments on Foodie Registry Lunch Question ~ Wedding in Four Months!

February 18, 2012 By theBrideScoop Editor Leave a Comment

Time for installation #19 of Foodie Registry’s “LunchDate” blog feature, where they ask a distinguished panel of wedding experts from across the country the same wedding related question and serve up the answers for our readers in one delicious post.

You should have a wedding planner. Really, you should. The reason is because no one besides your planner tells you what sort of things you want to make sure you have done when during your wedding planning.

Time Flies (Photo from www.feathersproject.wordpress.com)

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IN THEORY: How We Remember

February 16, 2012 By SQN Events 2 Comments

I know that we usually write about all things pretty here. Pretty dresses. Pretty flowers. Pretty parties.

But what I saw Sunday night has compelled me to write about something that’s not pretty at all. Domestic abuse.

RIP Whitney Houston (Photo from AP)

Much of the talk surrounding the Grammy awards was about the surprising death of Whitney Houston, a woman whom I listened to as a teenager back in New Jersey. I belted out her songs into my hairbrush, in the shower, and in the backseats of my friends’ cars as we zipped around without a care in the world.

We all wanted to be Whitney. Or so we thought.

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Love Story: Beth & Dan

February 14, 2012 By SQN Events 2 Comments

My husband and I met on an old-fashioned blind date. A REALLY blind date. The person that set us up did not know my (now) husband personally. He had heard him on the radio, thought he was smart and funny, and decided we’d be a good match.

OK, I guess some background is necessary here…

Dan is a sports broadcaster. He currently has a sports radio talk show here in Chicago and is on the air Monday through Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Yes, it is easy for him to talk for five hours straight, every single day. He has a lot to say. About everything.)