Hi Friends!  Today I wanted to talk about something that we all run across during the wedding planning process.

It is so easy to get caught up in the excitement and in the planning itself.  All of your family and friends have such great ideas for your special day.  Suddenly the guest list is growing.  You "just have to have" a 10 piece orchestra playing your favorite song during the cocktail hour.  A confetti cannon and fireworks, sure no problem...just add them.  24k gold flatware for the dinner tables becomes a "must have." 

Suddenly your wedding is a giant production.  People you don't know are being invited, your vision has been distorted. And you want to runaway and elope.  It's time to STEP AWAY from the planning.

Take a deep breath and re-evaluate.  Remember why you are getting married...Oh yeah, you are making a committment to one another.  You are celebrating your committment with your family and friends.

Stay true to who you are as invididuals and as a couple (ever notice that I repeat this one a lot?).  

Stay within your budget (a couple hundred here, a thousand there and next thing you know you are donating your plasma to help pay for the wedding).

Don't do something because Aunt Suzy offers to pay for it, if it is not what you want, or just for show, don't do it.

If you want fireworks and they are in your budget then go for it.  I am not saying don't have a luxury wedding with all the bells and whistles.

You can have the most gorgeous wedding in the world...but if you are doing it just to try to impress people or to show off, then all of the gorgeous-ness of the day is gone.  

The true-est beauty at every wedding is during those vows, when you promise to spend your life loving each other.

I know, it probably sounds weird for a wedding planner to say all of this.  But I am taking my own advice and speaking from the heart.  

Happy Planning! 

Hi everyone!  To our friends in the Northeast, we hope that things are returning to normal for you.  Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you all.  

Are you struggling with finding the right words for your ceremony or your programs or your favors?  We thought it would be fun to share some of our favorite quotes on love and marriage with all of you.  There are infinite ways to incorporate these words into your wedding.

1.  A Marriage is a gift.  It should be opened up and enjoyed.   Greg Evans

2.  If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.  Mandy Hampton

3.  Love’s pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.  Haiku Verse

4.  Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.  Henry David Thoreau

5.  Love is a frienship caught on fire.  Northern Exposure

6.  Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.  J.C. Powys

7.  Love is the seed of all hope.  It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.   Gloria Gaither

8.  As we grow older together,  As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you.  Karen Clodfelder

9.  Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.  William Shakespeare

10.  Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.   Robert Browning

11.  Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.  Friedrich Halm

12.  Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  Rose Franken

13.  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.  Germaine Greer

14.   If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.  A.A. Milne from Winnie the Pooh

15.  When you start to realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.   Nora Ephron – When Harry Met Sally

16.  I love you,

Not only for what you are,

But for what I am,

When I am with you.

I love you,

Not only for what

You have made of yourself,

But for what you are making of me.

I love you

For the part of me

That you bring out.    Roy Croft

So now my parents can feel better that my English Literature degree was not a waste.    Language is such a beautiful thing and appreciating these beautiful words gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. 

Enjoy these words of love and please share your favorite words of love and marriage in our comments section.  We love to hear from you!

Have a wonderful day.

Jen, Mandi, Amelia
www.fabuluxeevents.com
jennifer@fabuluxeevents.com
561-254-2041