WEDDINGS are one occasion when the right location is a requisite. In the current event market, that often means taking the festivities out of traditional wedding locations such as hotels and private clubs. But with the move into unconventional...
JUST as with the other elements of today's totally customized weddings, reception menus reflect the bride and groom's personal style. From formal seated dinners to relaxed receptions, caterers discuss the menu trends that excite and entice modern...
Online retailer WeddingFavorites.com offers an extensive selection of wedding-related products, from save-the-date magnets and invitations to decor items and gifts for the bridal party. New products include charming candles shaped like a wedding...
FROM eye-catching, decorative banners to new takes on the classic cake table, pretty, personalized wedding products help couples celebrate their big day in style...
DOING a little digging into the tastes and backgrounds of the wedding couple is business as usual for most wedding designers. Meeting with religious leaders, consulting with university faculty and watching hours of foreign films generally are not...
WITH her background in corporate event and meeting planning, Silvia Young of San Francisco-based Dedicated to Detail says she brings a different mentality to the social event planning that is now central to her business. “If you've worked for a...
IT-GIRL planner Yifat Oren has gotten a lot of compliments in her 10 years as an event designer. But the best by far, she says, came on the heels of the four-day, 300-guest wedding she created for superstar client Kevin Costner in Aspen, Colo....
RAIN, RAIN AND more rain. February, the month that former Los Angeles Laker basketball star Derek Fisher picked to celebrate his marriage to longtime fiancée Candace Patton, fell in the soggy middle of one of L.A.'s wettest seasons on record. Good...
CHICAGO-BASED EVENT planner Audrey Gordon has been working on special events for nearly 25 years. But when it came time for the event of a lifetime — the wedding of her only daughter — Gordon turned to an event professional to create a spectacular...