Category — expert advice

Your budget is small, your wedding desires are large, so where do you draw the line when it comes to your paper products? Most wedding related expenses are necessary: the invitations, dress, photographer; these all play a major role in the celebration of a lifetime. To help you decide what paper products are a must at your wedding, lets take a look at some of the options.

Invitations

There’s no way around this one. If you don’t send an invitation to your wedding, no one will be there! At Zenadia Design, we like to think of your invitation as a piece of history for you and your family. Our company tag line is Zenadia Design: Creating history just for you.™ Therefore, we make sure your invitation reflects who you are and is completely personal. After all, when all is said and done, the only things you will have left from your day are the pictures, the video, your dress and the invitation. Make sure its something meaningful and special.

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We are so pleased to welcome the girls from Louella Court to EAD today for our next Advice From the Pros segment!  Louella Press and Two Paperdolls are sister companies specializing in retail stationery and custom designs, respectively.  They are based just outside Philadelphia.

EAD: What is the single best piece of advice you can give to brides and grooms as they begin to plan their event?

LC: whether you’ve got big plans or small ones for your wedding, give yourself until the week before the big day to get everything done. At that point, let go of any details that you didn’t have time for and let yourself relax. For lots of you, friends and family will be in town, so make plans to be with them or spend some solo time soaking it all in. When the time comes to walk down the aisle you’ll feel stress-free (or at least less stressed) and over time those moments will be more memorable than any wedding day details you might have planned.

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In keeping with our beauty theme this week, we have an Advice From the Pros interview with Laura from the awesome Lo and Co. website and blog.  The Lo & Co. artists offer personal makeup services in the New York City metro area. 

We asked Laura to put together some tips for us on bridal make-up trials!

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This week’s Advice From the Pros segment features one of the best photography duos on the planet, the fabulous Our Labor of Love.

Whitney and Jesse are two of the coolest people we know, and their amazing photography reflects their fun personalities. So we were very excited to interview them to hear what they had to say about weddings!

EAD: If budget is limited and there was one item that you advise splurging on, what would that be?

OLOL: Well, we will sound biased when we say photography, but from the benefit of our own, firsthand experience, we honestly mean it. When Whitney and I were having our own wedding, we thought, “Oh, we have so many amazing photographer friends that will document it for us that we won’t have to spend money there.” When we say “photographer friends,” we mean a friend who works at the NY Times, a stepmom who shoots for print magazines as well as weddings and a bunch of NY “kids” that graduated from Pratt–a good balance of folks to document everything from the traditional to the SX-70 Polariods. We thought we had it covered, but we were wrong, and it is the biggest (and, really, the only) regret we have. But we were also very picky, and the only photographer we wanted was 3,000 miles away and would have cost us $15,000. So, we have the half full and half empty ways of looking at this experience. On the half-empty side, we realize almost better than anyone that photos are the best way to remember the stuff you don’t want to forget and realized only too late that our friends were there to enjoy the wedding with us and not to work. But, on the half-full side, we understood from hindsight what shots we would have liked to have walked away with, and because we are photographers, we have gained from this experience an appreciation of each wedding as if it were our own, and we make sure to capture all that we missed from ours. (Oh, and we did have the Smilebooth set up which was AMAZING. My family is still ordering prints years later!)

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We have a new feature here on EAD - a little thing we like to call “Advice From the Pros”. Each week, we’ll be featuring one of the greats of the wedding industry and they will answer some of your most burning questions!

Our first pro is the incomparable Sasha Souza, owner of Sasha Souza Events, writer of the Sparkliatti blog, fire fighter, therapist, accountant, and all-around amazing event planner! Sasha is located in Napa and Beverly Hills, CA but has planned events everywhere from Tokyo to the Bahamas. She has been honored as one of the top three event designers in the country by Modern Bride magazine and has been featured on television shows and segments such as “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?”, Eye on LA, and the CBS Evening News. We are so thrilled to have her stop by Elizabeth Anne Designs today!

EAD: What is the single best piece of advice you can give to brides and grooms as they begin to plan their event?

SS: There’s a lot of pressure with reading all the blogs, magazines, books and talking to friends. Just remember that a wedding is a very fluid and the planning won’t last forever. Things change – styles, guest counts, size & shape of bridesmaids…try to take everything in stride because you can make yourself crazy pretty quickly. The more flexible you are the more you’ll take everything in stride and enjoy your wedding planning.

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