As the owner of two destination wedding companies, Tropical Occasions in Costa Rica and Mountain Occasions in Colorado, Aimee Monihan-Greening knows a thing or two about welcome gifts. She knows they make a great first impression, rejuvenate weary travelers and make your wedding weekend all the more memorable. Last month we featured “The Art of Welcome [...]
In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked our incredibly talented team of global wedding experts “As Wedding Professionals, how are you seeing mothers of the bride or groom getting involved in today’s modern weddings?” Here’s what they said… “For the majority of our recent weddings, the mother-of-the-bride and mother-of-the-groom, along with the bride, have taken [...]
THE ART OF { WELCOME } GIFTING By Aimee Monihan-Greening, Tropical Occasions Gift Bags for your destination wedding are a great way to welcome your guests and to show a gesture of appreciation that they have traveled to help you celebrate your big day. Gift bags, and all the lovely, informative literature that comes along [...]
It’s our extreme pleasure to introduce to you two lovely, and extremely talented, wedding planners Leena Alsulaiman and Zainab Alsalih. These two stylish dynamos (where do they get their energy?) own Carousel Girls, the leading luxury wedding planning boutique in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We thought we’d take a few moments, ask them some questions,and [...]
Our beloved Creative Partner and Celebrity Wedding Planner extraordinaire, Miss Diann Valentine, has just relaunched her website! Change is good. Change is necessary. Change is growth. Spring is in the air and Diann felt it was time for her website to get a much needed makeover. Given how much we all interact via social media, [...]
We asked our incredibly talented team of global wedding experts “What does a WEDDING PLANNER know that a bride doesn’t?” Take a look below at their insightful and inspirational responses… “Planning a wedding is like putting on a broadway production. There is a big difference between who the star’s are [the bride and groom are [...]
Has sorting through swatches of fabric to determine the most perfect shade of pink and deliberating over fonts for the escort cards and rehearsal dinner menus left you tense and overwhelmed? Yes? You are certainly not alone! Planning a wedding is exciting and wonderful…. and completely exhausting. Which is why we at The Bridal Circle [...]
It’s our absolute pleasure to introduce Mary-Frances Hurt, owner and CEO of DFW Events, one of the leading wedding planning firms in the United States. Located in Dallas, Texas, the delightfully bubbly and efficient Mary-Frances and her excellent team of event planners can customize their planning services to fit each client’s individual needs, from destination [...]
Wedding professionals are in a very unique position to educate and get to know bridal couples during one of the most transitional times in their lives. It’s no surprise, then, that professionals witness the tremendous efforts put into planning the wedding, but don’t always see as much consideration put towards planning the marriage. So, in this [...]
How exciting! Our dear friend and Creative Partner, Sarah Haywood (Britain’s acclaimed luxury wedding planner) has just launched her new book, The Wedding Bible Planner. Okay, it’s the all-new, revised and redesigned second edition of her top-selling, MUST-HAVE, companion guide to her best selling book The Wedding Bible. The Planner is a stylish, practical wedding organizer and keepsake packed with insider [...]
