Wedding Window: Preview to Kate and Jared's Wedding

This week has been a flurry of activity with all things Kate Gissy and Jared Saft...

I have been so fortunate to work with Kate for the past year with the intricate details of what will be a most glorious, visually stunning and fun-filled wedding day at the exquisite Portofino Bay Hotel.

It is such a feeling of calm and peace when I wake up on a Saturday morning to check on my bride and I am welcomed with a bubbly "Good Morning!" on the other end of the line.

She and I feel so confident that with the benefit of such a confident and capable team of wedding professionals and the leadership of Bonnie Garfield with The Portofino; we humbly acknowledge we are on "auto-pilot!"

Here, you see this fantastic couple during their engagement shoot with Damon Tucci.

Just wait...their wedding images will be equally as gorgeous!

Wedding & Event Planner = *Mompreneurs??*

I had the loveliest surprise this past Sunday, Mother's Day, from my beautiful, talented and smart daughters Sara and Carolina.

Mother's Day is infinitely more special than any other day of the year for us mothers the very moment we open our eyes that morning for some reason...

As I was greeted by my bubbling beauties, I was presented the annual homemade cards and crafts, {my favorite!} and the newest copy {and my very first glimpse} of an article written and dedicated to *Mompreneurs,* "mommies who mean business" expertly and carefully written by Amy K.D. Tobik for "Moms Like Me" magazine.

In the article she interviewed 5 mommies who have all started, sustained and thrive in their own, respective businesses. I was in the great company of a boutique owner, beauty salon owner, restaurant owner, and dentist.

If you know anything about me, then you know my favorite subjects: Sara and Carolina! Being interviewed about my *second* passion which is my business, I couldn't find a better way to express my priorities, sensibilities hopes and aspirations.

The most vital and important lesson we can teach to our daughters-our children- is to lead by a fine and exemplary example. I have learned these so well from my very own mother and hope to pass it along to my young ladies with as much grace as she did.

I'd be so delighted to hear from fellow *Mompreneurs," and invite you to contact me. Balance, I realize, can be trying as well as life's ups, downs, twists and turns. I assure you I have experienced and continue to experience these regularly, but find strength in 2 precious faces, their eyes, their smiles and their hearts.


"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."
~Clementine Paddleford

Wedding Music No-No's from Music Expert, DJ Carl

Have you ever heard inappropriate music played at a wedding reception? Perhaps a great tune without profanity removed or malapropos lyrics?? The horror...!!
This month, DJ Carl has shared his insight on sending the suitable message about your love during your wedding reception:

"One of the biggest variables that separates excellent and mediocre entertainers is paying attention to the details. There are many songs with nice melodies or catchy hooks that we may like when heard on the radio, however, the most important detail for positive wedding memories is the selection of your wedding music. Do not ruin the message for your love to one another with lyrics in songs that will embarrass you, your family and friends. Your music's tone will start the wedding with a foundation of lifetime happiness, so avoid these popular hits from rock to hip hop, which depict violence, stalking, infidelity and divorce being played on your special day."

This month's music mix,as prepared by DJ Carl:

(1) You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Joni
(2) Every Breath You Take by Police
(3) So What by Pink
(4) Hot N Cold by Katy Perry
(5) Creep by TLC
(6) Down Low by 69 Boyz
(7) I Don't Wanna Know by Mario Winans f. Diddy
(8) Gold Digger by Kanye West f. Jamie Foxx

2009 Greetings!

2008 was a momentous year for so many reasons...

E Events had another year of highly styled, gracious and loving weddings that we had the great fortune to produce, we brought our baby, "Down the Aisle" to Denver, Colorado, nurtured our satellite office in Sarasota and relocated our office to our swank boutique studio in Winter Park, Fl.

2009 already boasts the same great fortune and we have some special plans on the back-burner. Down the Aisle will continue to travel and grow, we have weddings that will take us out of the US and a new "baby" will be born...{Literally and figuratively!} A new, special project for Lisa and for Brittany...

You can all expect a beautiful baby for her and Sam!!! I know that all of you who know Brittany, realizes she will be the most chic, pregnant woman we have ever seen, and I can't wait to see her working those weddings with the baby-belly! Selfishly, I am eagerly awaiting a bundle of joy to hold, snuggle and love...

Jessy continues to augment her creativity and aptitude. She has been such an incredible blessing and enhancement to our tight-knit family, and I feel extremely fortunate to have her on board.

Running the show in Sarasota and Southwest Florida is Nancy who never fails to deliver. She has forged incredible professional relationships out there, manages her weddings and STILL comes to Orlando when we just can't do it without her. {That's pretty often!} Nancy has been right next to me since the day I started E Events and none of our overall prosperity would ever be possible without her--

A lover of quotes, I would like to share a profound one that resonates with me:

William Ellery Channing
I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, and act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.

Likewise, I love to laugh...{Remember to ALWAYS laugh!}

Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.

Nancy, Brittany, Jessy and I wish you the most fun and love-filled, prosperous and "swell" 2009!