So Lainey’s 3rd birthday party is this Sunday and I’m excited. Even for this “nothing special” party at a local park for 25 kids and 35 adults, it’s amazing the number of lists I have going, and the amount of time I’ve spent planning instead of blogging.
Now that it’s all set, here are the details… [...]
If I were having a Quinceanera, I would want Hugo Benson of Hugo Benson Photography to be my photographer. He’s based in San Diego and doesn’t come cheap (his packages starts at $2,000), but he gives his Quinceaneras the experience of a lifetime and turns them into bona fide celebrities!
Hugo is one of the main [...]
So the invitations to my daughter’s party are out. The responses are trickling in. While my intention was to keep it small, I don’t think I’m going to be successful. Now I’m planning on about 30 kids, 45 adults. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. So for my menu…
45 inch sandwiches from Bay Cities [...]
Every time I plan a party, I’m always amazed at how many details there are and how much work the whole thing is.
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday party, my goal is to create a hip, fun, and relatively simple shindig, with low stress. A tall order, I know, but here’s how I’m thinking of doing [...]
I love this… an entire blog dedicated to people throwing Twilight-themed and New Moon-themed parties. It was started by Tara who was turning 30, wanted to throw a Twilight-themed dinner party, couldn’t find a lot of ideas on the web, so she started her own blog.
Some pictures from her Twilight-themed 30th birthday party.
And some other [...]
I was just talking to Christine Long-Plotkin, who recently added her wedding photos to our site. She got married in November 2009 in Los Angeles, and threw a $30k wedding on a budget of $13k.
How did she do it? With a “can do” spirit, by finding people who were willing to work within her [...]
So many of the parties I write about are big parties, so it was fun talking to party planner Chris Nease, owner of Celebrations at Home in Richmond, Virginia, about some of the smaller events she throws, and the creative things she comes up with to make her parties special.
She just put together a candy [...]
How many times have you looked at that bridesmaid’s dress in your closet and wondered what to do with it? It’s a little too dressy to pack in a grocery bag and send to Goodwill, but you know in your heart you’ll never wear it again (even if the bride swore on her life it’d [...]
PART 2 in my series on wedding photographers…
Yesterday I talked with Jules Bianchi, of Jules Bianchi Photography in Los Angeles, because I love her photographs and needed to understand what inspires her.
Jules, who is very close to her family (her sister, Joy, is her partner and still cries at every wedding they attend), feels that [...]
I was just talking to Sharon Chase, otherwise known as Princess Sharon. Sharon throws high-end princess, fairy, rockstar, and spa parties for girls, teens, and adults in the Boston area.
What got me interested in Sharon is how one-of-a-kind her parties are. In fact, I’ve never seen anything like it.
For her Musical Princess Tea Party, Sharon [...]
