Getting Started Planning Your Wedding
So you just got engaged and now it’s time start planning your wedding. We bet you have questions!
Who do we call first?
What does a wedding cost?
When do we start?
Where do we begin?
How do we get started planning our wedding?
These are a lot of the questions we hear from engaged couples, whether they are calling us, sending us messages on Facebook or they see us at a wedding show. Planning a wedding can be completely overwhelming and it’s hard to even know where to begin! While we would love for each one of these couples to work with us as our clients, we know that some will never hire a planner and some will choose a date we are booked for. So, we’ve added a new info session topic to our line up:
The Keys of Wedding Planning
Like all our other sessions, this one will be free. This two hour info session will provide you all the information you need to get started, from how to create a budget, what to look for in a wedding venue to how to find the right vendors for your wedding. We’ll also cover some basics on how to navigate the guest list, mistakes commonly made by engaged couples and much more! Followed by a half hour q&a session with our certified planners, you will leave with all your questions answered!
For 2012, we’ve decided to offer our info sessions in Dallas and McKinney! Bonus! Choose the location best for you and reserve your seat today. With all the newly engaged couples from the holidays, we expect these to book up fast.
McKinney: Sponsored by the Grand Hotel, this session is on Saturday, February 18th, from 2 to 4:30pm. Visit wedplankeysmckinney.eventbrite.com to register.
Dallas: Sponsored by Edison’s, this session is on Sunday, February 19th, 2 to 4:30pm. Visit wedplankeysdallas.eventbrite.com to register.
We hope to see you there!
image by F8 Studio's Carter Rose
Check out our new look for the blog!
With the new website we created this year, we finally have a new blog style to go with it. Be sure to visit our actual blog if you are subscribing through email or through a reader so you can check it all out. We hope you like the new graphics and organization! Thanks to Doodle Dog for the graphics!
Thumbtack Elite Service Award
We were contacted recently by the staff at Thumbtack to let us know we had been awarded their Elite Service title and would be featured on their Thumbtack Spotlight blog. We were blown away and just wanted to say thank you so much! Your confidence means the world to us! To see their blog post, visit here.
In our interview, they asked about any pro-bono efforts and we let them know about a little project we did with Collin County Event Professionals last year. We’ll post more about that in another blog, but just know the picture they featured is from the free wedding giveaway we participated in with CCEP.
Our new website is live!
With all the changes 2010 held for us, we decided to change up the website to reflect more of our style and ideas. We’ve also updated the look of the blog (which yes, you should see here, unless you are using a reader). We of course kept our famous blue and green combo, but we definitely incorporated more keys (much like at our office) and hope to have streamlined it a bit. Please take a look at www.eachandeverydetail.com and let us know what you think!
We won Bride’s Choice Award from Wedding Wire!
For the third year in a row, we are honored to have received the Bride’s Choice award from brides through WeddingWire.com. Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation. From WeddingWire.com:
“We are happy to announce that Each & Every Detail is among the very best wedding planners within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee.”
We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011. We strive to provide the best in planning as well as customer service for all of our brides, grooms and families. Thank you for voting for us for the third year in a row!
Need Help Finding Your Key Vendors?
So many times the first question a bride asks us is what we think of another wedding professional. It often comes out at as, have you heard of so and so? Do you think they would be good? Can we afford them? While as wedding planners, it is our job to know these things, we realize that finding the professionals for your wedding can often feel like you are walking blind through a jungle. How do you know who to hire for your wedding team? What questions do you ask? What should the priorities be in your search? Well, we want to make this a little easier.
Each & Every Detail presents a FREE information session on the key to finding your dream wedding team. From the wedding venue to the wedding cake, you’ll find out how to attack this process, what to ask and what are the key points in any vendor interview. Hosted by TPC Craig Ranch, you will not want to miss this valuable information!
Details: February 19th, 9:30-11:30am at TPC Craig Ranch. A light breakfast will be provided and this session is free. Please register to reserve your seat.
photograph by Littrell Photography
Join us at the McKinney Bridal Show!
The McKinney Performing Arts Center is playing host to the first “A Walk Down the Aisle of History Bridal Show” showcasing Collin County wedding professionals and we’ll be there! We’re so happy McKinney is finally producing a show for the brides looking for vendors in this area. The show is tomorrow, Saturday the 22nd, from 10am to 5pm, with over 40 vendors participating. We snuck a peak at the list of door prizes, and there are some fab winnings happening there tomorrow! From dance lessons (contributed by Each & Every Detail) to free venue space for your wedding day, you will not want to miss out on these goodies!
To attend for FREE, you must register at www.walkdowntheaisleofhistory.com. You’ll also find more details and a list of vendors participating.
We hope to see you soon!
Internships Available
Could this be your desk? Well, it depends. Do you want to be an intern and learn everything you possibly can about being a wedding planner? If so, we’re now looking to fill two internship positions. These non-paid internships are for individuals seeking knowledge and experience in the wedding industry as a planner and coordinator. Our detailed and planned approach to instructing and mentoring our interns throughout the time they are with our firm will ensure that you will learn as much as you possibly can about being a planner and help you to decide if this career is for you. For more information and instructions on how to apply, please visit our Are We Hiring page. We hope to hear from you soon!
Introducing Candace – Our Newest Planner!
In case you didn’t know, we have been growing! Over the summer, we added our latest and greatest planner, Candace Williams! Candace first interned with us in 2009 and since has earned her certification and has been working as a full time wedding planner since she joined us in July. She has moved quickly, already completing 6 weddings and is dedicated to her clients. Here’s what Candace has to say about herself:
My background in social work has taught me to handle very stressful and complex situations, which as everyone knows truly applies to this industry! I am a professional wedding planner whose focus is to listen, advocate & successfully execute a creative wedding experience for my bride. I want my bride to not just feel but know that I am in her corner. Your wedding day should be your dream come true and it would be my dream to make sure that happens.
Candace is running a special for those brides finishing out their planning right now and with a wedding date in the next two months. She’s offering 10% off any wedding planning package, from our Month Of to Elite service. Give her a call today at (214) 542-1317 extension 2. Candace will make sure you not only have an amazing day, but help take the stress away while planning!
WFAA Best Wedding Planner – We need your vote!
It’s that time again! In 2009, you voted us #12 out of 45 nominees on the WFAA list of Best Wedding Planners. We want to beat that this year and hit number 1! Please go vote and send your friends too! Thank you much for all your support last year and we can’t wait to hear from you again this year!