Confessions of a Wedding Planner a blog by A Glass Slipper Affair Wedding Design

Beautiful!!!

2011-09-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

I was contacted by a bride last that is having her wedding and reception at Crosswater in Nocatee. I did a little research on this venue and it is absolutely gorgeous! The courtyard area is great it has plenty of space for ceremony seating and can be converted over to a spacious outdoor area for dancing and just lounging doing the reception. The inside has wonderful wood beams ( I love the endless possibilities with wood beams!!) and crisp white linens. I love the look of this venue. I can't believe I didn't research this more before! BEAUTIFUL!!!

Out with the old....In with the new

2011-05-15T16:46:00.000-07:00

2011 has been the year of changes at A Glass Slipper Affair! We are revamping our website and offering all new packages! However, our dedication to producing the wedding or event of your dreams remains the same. Our new packages offer services to a much wider range of clients. I am very excited of what this year will bring!!! The best is yet to come! Stay tuned....

Winter Brides!!!

2010-10-22T21:36:00.000-07:00

I am so looking forward to the trends of this winter! I have seen tons and tons of deep cobalt blue, teal, and plumb purple. I know the photos are going to be wonderful! I have also been in a natural branch and birch phase and with these deep colors it may one of my favorite seasons. I found this picture on an inspiration blog and I would love to see some "winter" applied to this same concept! I love this!!

Feathers feathers feathers

2010-10-18T21:35:00.000-07:00

Okay, let me start by saying I have always been very "careful" when suggesting anything other than fresh flowers for wedding bouquets. A classic rose bouquet for the bride has always been my number one choice and I suggest little crystal sprays or maybe a few feathers or little family heirloom broaches here and there to make it unique. I have recently discovered how absolutely BEAUTIFUL and wonderful feather bridal bouquets can be. I am in love with them and have decided to have them made for my wedding. They can be stunning if designed correctly. These can be a diy project if you are up for the challenge but can also be custom designed by several vendors now. Etsy.com offers a huge selection and they are very reasonably priced. I have found some for as little as $350.00 that are totally custom. These bouquets are timeless. They will never fade and change and can be preserved to prevent age from changing the color. I love love love this idea!!

Easy Summer Wedding DIY

2010-05-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

A nice summertime wedding favor for everyone to enjoy.....FLIP-FLOPS!!! Everyone enjoys letting loose and dancing a little, but it is not fun to dance in wedding shoes! There are a million fun and creative ideas that you can apply to the flip-flops for both men and women. You can find great prices on assorted sized, styles, and colors of flip flops to customize for your guests! So have fun and get creative!!!

I'm sick...AGAIN!

2009-09-28T19:21:00.000-07:00

I have been sick 3 times in the 2 months...Time to load up on the vitamin C i guess. On a brighter note an awesome new photographer found my site and I will be meeting with her in the next couple of weeks. Her website and blog are great so I will get a link up in the next few days. Time to get some rest and hopefully start feeling better.

Time for the Fall Brides!!!

2009-09-19T13:13:00.000-07:00

I can't believe we are going into the fall wedding season already! I love the flowers and colors of fall and I can't for the first October wedding. Browns and blues are taking over this season in fabric, flowers, cakes, and best of all the footwear!!!! The Manolo Blahnik something blue pump is the shoe of my choice and I am wearing them for my wedding in March! Here are a few photos to enjoy...

It's Been A Long Time.....

2009-09-12T09:34:00.000-07:00

Oh what a past month and a half it has been!!! We were in Cleveland, OH for my grandmother to have heart surgery. She had her operation at Cleveland Clinic and they were AMAZING! Thank God she pulled through surgery wonderfully and is home resting. After a busy summer I had a much needed vacation with family. It's time to gear up for the fall brides!!! Here we go!

A Surprise Party!!!!

2009-08-18T11:12:00.000-07:00

I am hosting a surprise 50th birthday party for one of our Chief Petty Officers who has been serving our country in Cuba for the past several months. He is coming home just in time for his birthday so we are giving him a surprise party with all of his family and friends there!! I can't wait to get some of the pictures up. They are a great family and I am so happy to be a part of this.

Positive Thinking!

2009-07-12T08:52:00.000-07:00

I was browsing through my emails and came across this story. It is so easy to get caught up in the struggles and craziness of life that we complain and whine about the little things. Every wedding that I have done some sort of little "problem" occurs and my answer is always don't worry I'll fix or make it better. Most of the time the bride and groom don't care that the lights are too dim or the linens aren't perfect or timelines get thrown off just a bit. i wish everyday could be like the day we get married. Everything is fine and perfect just because we are with that person. The power of positive thinking is crucial to making it through this life! I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did.
Jerry is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant.
The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.
I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gun point by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.""Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.'
I knew I needed to take action." " What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'"
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
Positive thinking the the first step towards a happy life.
Attitude is everything
If everyone applies just these, the whole world will live in happiness.

Goodbye to the King of Pop..

2009-07-08T07:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the memorial service for one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived. Despite all of the controversy and drama surrounding Michael Jackson his legacy is still unparallelled. He contributed so much to the music industry and will continue to do so even in his death. Brooke Shields really put him in a "human" light when she talked about the times they laughed and talked. I think we forget sometimes that these celebrities are people just like us. His daughter's closing comments brought a tear to every one's eye when she said I just love him so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHJyKkEOHQ
He will be greatly missed but never forgotten.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkjtctcuQ9Q

Busy, Busy, Busy

2009-06-30T18:52:00.001-07:00

Well the past two weeks have been very busy for me! My Internet was down so I am finally able to blog. I will dish about these busy times next week when I have a chance to catch my breath!

The Wood-Mehlhoff Wedding

2009-06-19T11:42:00.000-07:00

I am assisting a fellow coordinator on this wedding! She has been working on it for over a year so I can't wait to see how everything looks! The bride and groom are both artists and have had a huge part in the design of the wedding! We have rehearsal tonight and the big day is tomorrow! I will post photos as soon as I get them. Rehearsal at 6 then dinner with my grandparents!

My Wedding Cake

2009-06-16T12:45:00.000-07:00

I am having Amanda with Love at First Bite do the cake for my wedding. She is AWESOME! I gave her my "desired cake" in the form of 5 different cakes. She put them together perfectly the first time. I had to move the date of our wedding from October 2009 to March 2010 and she was fine to reschedule. Here is what our cake will look like:
I love it!!!! visit her website for more of her creations wwww.loveatfirstbitecakery.com

Isaiah 40:19-31

2009-06-15T09:37:00.000-07:00

I have had some troubling days lately. I know everything will be okay and the truth will come out. Sometimes this industry will pull down and sometimes it will lift you up. I have to remember to handle things in a respectful way and wait for things to blow over. This scripture is wonderful and I wanted to share it with everyone. It reminds me that if I stay on the right track God will fight my battles for me. Lets see what this week brings!

19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Liz's New Shop!

2009-06-10T08:59:00.000-07:00

I visited Liz Stewart's shop at Jacksonville Beach and it is FABULOUS! They moved into the new location in January and added retail space. They are in a great location and thriving in this troubled economy. Follow this link to read more about the new space http://www.lizflowers.com/studio .
They have recently had their website redone as well so browse around a bit!

Photos!

2009-06-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

Here are a few photos from the South Carolina trip.

We have a huge family!

It was wet and rainy....YUCK!

Home Sweet Home

2009-06-08T07:25:00.000-07:00

What a trip!!! South Carolina was great I got to see family that I have not seen in like two years. Now its back to home and work! Today I am going to see Liz Stewart's new place at Jax Beach!! I can't wait to see the inside I know it will be awesome. I am also going to finalize a few things with my wedding .... only 10 months away yikes!! I have some photos to post tomorrow so check back in!

Off to South Carolina!

2009-06-02T18:17:00.001-07:00

I am up to my ears in things to pack!!!! We are going to Jarrod's graduation I can't believe he is all grown up... Well this should be a fun trip but I will have limited Internet access. I plan on getting tons of pics so I will share when I get back!

It's A New Week!!

2009-06-01T07:08:00.000-07:00

The website is up....finally!!!! I am so excited about it... it has been a long time coming. Well this week will verybusy for me. I am seeing a few vendors that I have not had the chance to see in a while. I will be going to South Carolina for a graduation. Vacations are always nice in the summer! I can't wait to get a mve on everything and book some events!

Great Weekend!

2009-05-26T16:38:00.000-07:00

Well the long weekend is over... I had family over on Monday and it was wonderful! The sun was shining all day and everyone had a great time in the pool! My website is set to go live at midnight tonight!!! Yay it has been a long time coming. I am so thankful for all of the help and support I have received through this long process of starting my own company. Thank you!!!!!!! This is going to be a great summer.

Shocked!

2009-05-21T08:20:00.000-07:00

Well there isn't much to say about last night's American Idol Result Show. The show was AWESOME but Adam is clearly a more talented singer. I am so disappointed.... On a good note the rain finally stopped! Now its on to haggle the insurance company ... fun fun.

Rain Rain GO AWAY!

2009-05-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

Well I will be staying in for most of today. Time to catch up on emails and phone calls. This rain is driving me crazy! On another note I received an email from Michelle at Oeil Photography with these pictures. They are amazing! This is the link to her blog check it out http://oeilphotography.blogspot.com/ .

My website is almost finished thanks to Danielle!! I can't wait to get it up and running. The American Idol winner is crowned tonight.... 8:00 can't get here fast enough. GO ADAM!!!!

Here is his Ring of Fire performance...my favorite he is amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbvZvrjEsU

Congratulations!!

2009-05-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

Well today was a great day. I met with Jaycel from Etiquette of Chocolate and he is expanding the bakery portion of the business!! He was a joy to meet with and I can't wait until his renovation is complete. He has posted new pictures on the Etiquette of Chocolate blog so go check them out! The link is etiquetteofchocolate.com and the blog is on the site. I also got to meet with Laura from Kelley's Bloom Room on Roosevelt BLVD. They are making expansions to their space as well! They have been staying very busy with TPC and 2 weddings just last week!! Last but not least I stopped in to see Pamela at Glenn Certain's Studio in Riverside. It is always a pleasure to see all of the creativity at work! Well that does it for me today. Lets see what tomorrow brings!

Your Bridesmaids Will Thank You!

2009-05-18T12:14:00.000-07:00

I had the privilege of visiting Ashley at Bella Bridesmaid in San Marco last week. Her shop is beautiful, girly and fabulous. They offer several top designers such as: Jenny Yoo, Priscilla of Boston, Badgley Mischka, and of course, Vera Wang. Ashley is a delight and I would highly recommend scheduling an appointment if you are getting married! Tomorrow I will be going to see Glen Certain and Jaycel with Etiquette of Chocolate. Can't wait to let you know what happens!

Here We Go!!!!

2009-05-05T10:05:00.000-07:00

I have worked for an event planning company for years and I have now opened my own. Riverside Event Design served as a great stepping stool for my career. The new adventure of owning my own company has started off wonderfully! I have had lots of positive feedback and I can't wait to start creating again. I am off to work on an upcoming event for the North Florida Junior Golf League being held at TPC Sawgrass in July. So much to do and so little time!