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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PART 1 in my series on wedding photographers….
One of the first things Kate Watson, of Kate Watson Photography in the San Francisco Bay Area, said to me was, “I shoot love.” And that’s exactly how she sees her job. Of course she cares about aesthetics and shooting beautiful pictures, but her main concern is capturing [...]
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 [...]
So here’s an interesting idea. You go to Paper & Cake, buy some inexpensive, but cool party themed design files, download them, print them (or take them to your local Kinkos or Staples and have them print them for you), cut them out, tape them together, and voila! and you’ve got professional-looking partyware at a [...]
I consider myself a mild foodie, I shop at the farmer’s market almost weekly, and I go out of my way to avoid trans fats.
However, my husband and I were recently in North Carolina visiting family and we went to a local Walmart, walked down the snack aisle and couldn’t resist the Hostess Cupcakes. [...]
I stumbled upon a link to Snap Photography, a photography company based in Calgary directed by the husband and wife team Mike and Ashley Kitchen, and fell in love with their work. I would describe their photos as having a raw emotionality mixed with a touch of off-kilter whimsy.
What I do when I’m a fan [...]
