A Personal Wedding Assistant for Your Leading Man

{Photo: Muhammad Siddiqu}

I enjoyed watching the Oscars last night.  All the clothes, mostly good this year, are always the highlight of the night for me.  I was especially looking forward to seeing the men's formalwear this year since we're so excited to announce that we are launching the Groom's Experience as an addition to our traditional wedding services.  

We work with our clients to assist them on all levels of the wedding and there are a lot of moving parts.  Design and decor, invitations, vendor selection, tastings, and deadline tracking just to list a few.  While we incorporate the groom in all of our meetings and correspondence some of the services that are typically offered to our brides the groom does't always get to benefit from. 

Our grooms can now have the option of having our personal shopper assist with curating a look for them and their groomsmen including suiting, custom ties, and accessories.  We can take the stress out of shopping for groomsmen’s gifts and handle the shopping, wrapping and delivery of meaningful presents for his closest friends and have an on-site attendant on wedding day to assist with getting ready, styling, pressing, tying bow ties, running errands and keeping everyone on schedule. 

Why a Consultant Hired a Consultant

{Photo of the Met Gala from Vogue}

I'm always so excited when we take on a new client.  Meeting them for the first time, hearing all about their plans, pouring through ideas and inspiration.  Hearing them breathe a literal sigh of relief after handing over the organization, the tracking of details, the coordination of all of the vendors, permits and timing so they can enjoy the fun parts like cocktail and food tastings.  It's been a pleasure all these years to be a part of our client's successes and to see what a difference we make in planning a wedding or designing a fundraising event.  

This year I had a chance to experience it from the other side and I'm so happy to let a professional take the reigns!  I hired a college consultant for my high school senior to help us through the process.  I'm obviously organized, love a spreadsheet as much as any planner and am at my happiest when checking off my to do boxes but the idea of sifting through some 5,300 colleges and universities in the middle of a busy event season started to seem like not so much fun.  During our initial conversation she shed more light on college admissions in five minutes than I could have sussed out in probably two months of constant research on my own.

A few reasons why consultants are the best:

1.  Expertise - a consultant has a specialized skill set and the experience of years of projects like yours under their belt to give guidance every step of the way.

2.  Support - in addition to organization and design skills one of the biggest things our social clients appreciate is having a support structure in place when planning such an important event in their lives.  Having a friend, confidant, tie-breaker, sounding board, and general back-up is just as valuable.

3.  Time Saver - a consultant can accomplish in a very short time what may take others hours or days to finish.  Delegating some of all project aspects to a consultant saves you time to focus on other work and life responsibilities. 

4.  Problem Solvers - we've kind of seen it all, if we haven't we're accustomed to thinking on our feet and quickly.  There hasn't been a problem yet that we haven't found a solution to.

5.  Fresh Set of Eyes - someone looking in from the outside can often see what others have missed or look at processes in an organization from another perspective. 

Happy New Year! 2017

Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year!  We are so thankful for all of our clients and supportive partners.  Cheers to a brilliantly creative and prosperous 2017!

Sarah and Evan's Gorgeous Garden Wedding

Photography by: John DeFiora Photography

Sarah and Evan's June wedding was a true collaboration.  We enjoyed every minute from the days and days spent on the hunt for the perfect pinks to the signature drink tastings and tree pruning consults.  A year of fun details all led up to a perfect day at Sarah's childhood home in New Jersey surrounded by her parents fanciful perennial garden, brother Brandon doing the ceremonial honors.  We had an amazing team throughout!  Special thanks to Dahlia Florals for all the extras :-) Gary Giberson at Sustainable Fare, our caterer who almost never does a private event unless it's really special, Sperry Tents New Jersey who stayed on call the whole week, John DeFiora who kept us all laughing and camera ready, Eddie Bruce Orchestra who kept the the dance floor full

 Wildflour Bakery for all the gluten-free treats, Little Black Dress Paperie for every custom piece of paper we dreamed up, Lucid Lens Films, and Cosmo Bleu

here is the rest of this gorgeous day

Late Summer Wedding

One of our favorite weddings with Kiss the Bride Films.  We looked for those yellow and white ties forever!  Lovely day with Meg and Jon.