by Kristin Park {her first blog post, YAY!}

For those of you who follow our blog, you know that I am newly ENGAGED!

Fortunately, as a wedding consultant I know that in planning your wedding everything revolves around the date-so one of our first steps {like yours will be too} was to pick the date…

1)      We knew that we wanted to get married in Walt Disney World-Disney certainly knows a thing or two about making dreams come true-I had already done some research and I knew that we could get married at any time of the year

2)      Since we both have teachers in our families our wedding had to be during the summer-June and July are usually busy months so August it is!

3)      This August would be too soon to put everything together with our families-2011 here we come

4)      During the end of August my family goes to Ohio for the Canfield fair-it’s tradition-therefore we needed to look at the beginning of the month

5)      We wanted to stay away from Friday, Saturday and Sunday because I knew that I wanted to have other wedding professionals at our wedding

6)      We liked the idea of having a Monday wedding so if some of our guests couldn’t take a whole vacation they could come to Disney for a long weekend

7)      That left us with 3 options: 8-1-11, 8-8-11 or 8-15-11

8)      Honestly we liked how 8-8-11 looked and sounded-but I had to make one phone call {one of my best friend’s birthday is 8-8} thankfully she was more than thrilled that she would be able to celebrate her birthday in Disney during our wedding

9)      We are getting married on 8-8-11 in Walt Disney World!

When picking your date remember that all the details of your wedding revolve around the date.

Everything from your color palette to your venue to your menu involve the date {or season}!

Be creative and take what’s important to you and your fiancé into consideration…

Do you have a must have, dream venue?

Then I suggest contacting the venue to see what their availability is-

If you know that you NEED a certain photographer {like we did ?} then check the photographer’s schedule!

GREAT POST Kristin! I’m excited to hear more about your wedding plans and things that an engaged wedding planner find interesting….

The other night my friend Alycsa sent me a picture of their thermometer reading 4 degrees…

It’s been really cold here -by Philly standards {cause I can see Amy in Minneapolis laughing}

I wanted to warm things up a bit…. this is what we were doing this weekend last year….

This time last year we were at the beautiful Moon Palace Golf Resort and Spa in sunny, warm, Cancun Mexico for the marriage of Michelle and Tony…

Thanks to Laura Eaton Photography for these amazing {warm } photographs…

And to warm us all up here’s a glimpse of their wedding by Tangerine Media Group

Congratulations on your first anniversary Tony and Michelle!

I normally don’t kiss and tell

But this is a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

And the outcome was fine…So I hope Michelle doesn’t mind.

Friday night, while rushing to get dressed for the rehearsal and catch up with family who were just arriving

And doing the multi task thing most women do so well.

Doing 15 things while putting on her MASCARA

I’ve seen you all do this

Talk on the phone, eat, dance around getting dressed and even DRIVE (?) while putting on mascara..

So the day before her wedding Michelle is multitasking and pokes herself in the eye with the mascara wand

Fast Forward: Wedding Day 6:22 AM – Ring, Ring

Michelle: hi Mark, it’s Michelle, did I wake you?

Mark: No I’m up, what’s up? (I honestly was)

Michelle: I think I need to go to the doctor!

I run for Michelle, my associate Lynda runs for the doctors office to make sure someone is in…I get Michelle there

The entire side of her face is swollen, lip, face, and eye is completely closed

Doctor checks it out seems when she poked herself in the eye, one of the bristles came out and was under her lid REALLY irritating it

Clean it out, 2 kinds of drops, antihistamine, an eye patch and a few hours sleep later we uncover it

All is well

But could you imagine this beautiful bride coming down the aisle with an eye patch or the big dark Sophia Loren sunglasses?

Moral of the story:

Take your time- on your wedding day, and on the day before  SLOW DOWN, don’t sweat the small stuff, do one thing at a time

And relax