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 [...]

Because we’re so excited about our site, Catch My Party, we wanted to share some of that excitement with you.  So to 1 of the next 100 new users who add their party photos to our site, we’re giving away a new iPod Nano.   Yup, it’s the one with the built-in video camera, the cool [...]

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 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 [...]

I was talking to LA based party planner, Suzanne Carvlin, also known as Suzanne The Party Girl.  She specializes in throwing parties that are a little less conventional than your typical hotel ballroom wedding with rubber chicken.
So I asked her some questions to get her expert advice on how to approach throwing a [...]

I think I’m in a nostalgic mood.  Today, my two-year-old daughter, pretending to be a doctor, gave me a shot, then offered me a pretend lollipop to make me feel better.  Remember when all it took to make you feel better was a lollipop?
Well, I found this cool site called the Sweet Lollipop Shop that [...]

I was just speaking to Keaton Koechli, VP of Operations at a company called Hoopnotica, which sells hula hoops and hula hoop related products for exercise, dance, and fun.
Keaton told me that for her wedding, she had her company make custom hula hoops in her wedding colors, then put them out for her friends and [...]

Again I wanted to blog about Liz Coopersmith, my friend and LA party planner, because she’s leading monthly workshops in LA, called the Recession Bride’s Workshop, to help brides and grooms save money while throwing their dream weddings.
So I posed her some questions to get the skinny on what really matters and what doesn’t, and [...]