Weddingbee Blog

I was curious as to who TomKat’s wedding coordinator/planner was for their recent wedding, and came upon Mary Miucci - dubbed by the Hollwood Reporter as “The Epicurean Steven Spielberg.”

She’s built a high name for herself in the Hollywood event and movie industry. She planned Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s wedding, Barbara Streisand and James Brolin’s, and Sean Penn and Robin Wright’s wedding. She’s also created beautiful sets for Memoirs of a Geisha, Superman Returns, and premieres for 2 Mission Impossible movies to name a few.

Here is some of her work.

I noticed she incorporates a lot of different lighting to create a beautifully dramatic look and also adds small floral pieces to bring texture and versatility to the venue. For those brides that can’t afford large floral arrangements, try using different sizes and colors of candles, candelabras, and decorative lampshades to create a similar look.

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That’s Mr. Daisy, right? Ok, in the realm of life, yes, he’s that. But in the realm of wedding vendors, my first, my last, my everything, my port in a storm:

My wedding planner:

I didn’t exactly choose my planner in the by-the-book order. By the time I convinced my parents that a wedding planner was something I was not going to give up without a knockdown, drag out fight a good idea, we’d already booked our venue (The Metropolitan Club) and our band (Soul Connection f/k/a White Light).

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The one piece of advice that most of my married friends have given me is, “Get a ‘day-of’ coordinator.” From what I hear, their services help make the wedding day go smoothly without you even thinking about things like when to do the first dance, when to cut the cake, is the air conditioning up too high…

I mentioned the idea of getting a ‘day of’ person to my Mom a few month ago and she was less than enthused. We argued about it a bit and then I dropped it, thinking I would win her over later. Yesterday, however, the subject came up again and she was very opposed. In her head, it is a waste of money because we can do everything ourselves. True, I think we can, I just don’t want to do anything that involves coordination on my actual wedding day. What’s your take on having a wedding coordinator for the big event?

My wedding planners - Leslie and Eyal of In Any Event - were absolutely essential to the success of our wedding. (You can read my complete rave about them here). So many of our guests told us that our wedding was the best wedding they’d ever attended.

Since our wedding, Leslie and Eyal stopped offering day of coordination services, but when I spoke to Eyal last week, I told him that referrals for day of coordinators is one of the most common requests we get. He then said that they’d offer day of coordination from January - March!

I truly didn’t have to worry about a single thing with them there on my wedding day and couldn’t recommend them more highly. That kind of piece of mind - to quote Mastercard - is priceless.

Eyal Tessler & Leslie Price
In Any Event
212-472-7751
info@inanyevent.com

Oh man, I’m really starting to think I want to be a wedding planner. For real.

I have so many ideas I couldn’t possibly incorporate into my wedding (unless I wanted to go for an elegant-shabby chic-beach-rustic-glamorous-winter-spring-victorian-ultramodern theme!) and I love helping out all my fellow Xanga and Weddingbee brides!

I’m super organized and know I’d never be happy at a boring old desk job, and at the same time I like the idea of having enough flexibility to go out for lunch, or sit around in my pyjamas and work until midnight, or whatever.

I’m great at problem solving and maintaining calm under pressure, as well as being a leader and keeping others calm and organized.

Once Mr. Blueberry graduates law school, who knows where he’ll find a job? My current career aspirations are to get my Master’s degree and become a teacher, and that’s something I’m still somewhat interested in. But now I wonder if maybe this plan would be better–it definitely allows more flexibility, and even after we have kids I can be a stay-at-home mom and still have a career, taking on as many or as few clients as I feel comfortable with at any point in time.

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I may be biased, but I am pretty excited about some stuff going on at the Wedding Library…! They just launched a new newsletter and have introduced some pretty convenient services (plus, they used a bee motif-how cute?):

• THREAD bridesmaid dresses: Starting this month, the Wedding Library is exclusively doing NY sales for Thread, which is stopping sales out of its NY showroom. Since I use both Thread (for my maids dresses) and the Wedding Library (for planning), I am, especially excited to have them both under one roof.
• The Stylish Bride/ Wedding Stylist: Apparently Julie Sabatino runs the Stylish Bride and basically can be hired to help you shop for/style/coordinate your entire wedding day ensemble. Although I’m not sure I actually needed a stylist, I can imagine that, had I worked with one, I would have had a far easier veil shopping experience.
• Travel Siblings / Travel agent: This is kind of self explanatory-they do honeymoons, guest hotels, destination wedding resos, etc. Though I had my wedding planner (at the WL) help me book/block my out-of-town hotel rooms, I definitely appreciated the guidance.

And best of all-Free gift! If anyone uses the new styling, travel or bridesmaid services, they’ll get a free white wedding day umbrella. Not that any of us hope for a rainy wedding day, but you never know! (The promotion is good through the end of the year!)

And I completely admit that I get disproportionately excited when something has a “free gift.” Even if the gift is like, let’s say, return address labels with kittens on them. The whole something for nothing thing just gets me every time.

Melissa Paul

While I was doing research for my Philadelphia Wedding there was one Wedding Planner that caught my eye. She also does NY!