Hi there!
If you have been following Belle over the last several months you have had an inside peek at the building of a wedding planning business, as well as the behind-the-scenes working of an event. As you may have seen, a lot can go wrong, but so much can go right!
There is much left for [...]

I came, I saw, I conquered.
To kick off the weekend, Friday night consisted of two wedding rehearsals, in towns almost two hours apart. Both weddings had very small bridal parties so that made life a little bit easier. Regardless, it was a lot of work on a warm Friday evening – and I knew it [...]

So relieved this weekend is done! Another crazy wedding in the books!!
This weekend I ran a wedding that took place in an art gallery - actually the reception was in a nearby park with the reception in the gallery. It was a beautiful and original space. For this particular wedding, I had no hand in [...]

I have said it before and I was reminded of it once again at my wedding last week - anything can happen… and oh boy it did.
First, what went wrong, went very, very wrong. The only elevator at the venue broke down. Ceremony and cocktails were to take place on the ground floor – great. [...]

It is nearly impossible for me to fathom that it is already the 24th of May, and the wedding we have been working on will be taking place in 5 days! In the world of weddings this is MAJOR crunch time. The bride and groom are typically running around doing a million  last minute things [...]

This week was hectic indeed!!
I conducted a site visit of the space so that I could become familiar with the layout, overall venue space, location and equipment available. In fact, I created and amended nine different floor plans for this wedding. We had to accommodate for last minute guest count changes, the configuration of the [...]

At this point I have created a draft time-line of the day’s events and sent it off to the couple for initial review. Once the couple has reviewed this information and bounced it back to me, I update any necessary changes they have noted. When I sent them the time-line, I also sent them a [...]

I spent this last week reviewing my notes from my meeting with the couple and putting information together. While you will of course have many opportunities to get additional information from any client you work with, it is nice to have as much of this information with you from the beginning as possible. Therefore it [...]

Meet & Greet
As planned, this past Wednesday I met with a lovely couple that has a wedding planned for late May of this year. The couple plans to have a very simple and sweet event with just under 100 guests. The ceremony and reception will both be taking place at a church that has event [...]

Hey everyone! Wow, so we are already on the 20th installment of Belle, quite fitting that it coincides with the beginning of wedding season. Of course weddings happen every month of the year, but typically in the US & especially on the east coast, May – October tend to be very “wedding heavy”.
This season I [...]