Anyone who’s ever organised a wedding – or watched an American rom com – knows just how many things there are to plan, from the flowers to the cake to the all-important dress; but now help is at hand in the form of a new wedding planner app which allows brides-to-be to keep planning on the move.
A-list designer Amanda Wakeley has been helping women to find their perfect wedding dress for over ten years, but she found that more and more brides were seeking her advice about every other elements of their wedding too, leading her to create the Wedding Planner app.
The Wedding Planner by Amanda Wakeley offers brides the opportunity to organise everything for their wedding, from the guest list to the budget, providing practical advice and tips throughout every section.
‘The Wedding Planner is a completely comprehensive and utterly useful tool that I think will make all the difference for a busy bride organising her perfect wedding,’ says Amanda.
Brides are given Amanda’s personal recommendations for each section – such as Myla for lingerie and Smythson for those luxury invites – and each bride can then choose to follow Amanda’s advice or can add in her own categories and favourite brands to mix with the help offered.
The clever app can also make appointments, share ideas and pictures with family and friends, remind you when payments are due – the list is as long as the wedding plan itself!
?‘I am personally recommending my favourite bridal brands to the brides within the planner which I believe will help them in making some of those difficult decisions for the perfect big day,’ she said.
To complement the arrival of the app, Amanda is also launching an online bridal boutique where brides can browse through six Sposa styles and a selection of dresses from the Ready to Wear collection, as well as several collections for bridesmaids and mothers.
The app costs £2.99 and is available to all brides, not just those getting married in Amanda Wakeley dresses.
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Despite not having any industry experience in wedding planning, Khoo Kien Ling has set up such a school, relying on her strengths and love for happy endings, writes MEENA SREENIVASAN
Khoo (left) with two of her students who work with her now
SHE found the perfect career by marrying her eye for detail with her love for happy endings. Khoo Kien Ling took the bold step of setting up Adamas School of Weddings last year and has never looked back since. Prior to wedding planning, she spent almost five years in research at University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
She received her doctorate in 2003 upon completion of her PhD in Computational Modelling and Dielectric Properties of the Hollandite (a natural occurring mineral or compound in the ground).
After working as a quality management representative for three years, she decided to to pursue her passion in wedding planning.
Most might find the transition from science researcher to wedding planner odd, but Khoo says the connection between science and weddings is not all that different.
“Both have a common base and require analysis, concept, execution and action.” She sees wedding planning as understanding the couple (analysis), proposing concepts that the couple may like (concept), looking for the right vendors for the wedding within the couple’s budget (execution), and making the couple’s big day a success (action).
“It’s quite simple. You need to believe in fairy tales and dreams for them to come true,” she quips, adding that since young she has loved to plan themed birthday parties and help out at family functions and events.
Without any industry experience in wedding planning, she’s banking on her strengths such as attentiveness to build her wedding school.
“My philosophy is that to-be-wed couples should be stress-free on their big day because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.” Adamas School of Weddings is the only licensed institute in the country which offers the Weddings Beautiful Malaysia & Singapore course to produce wedding specialists. Its first intake was last November.
The course is licensed by Weddings Beautiful Worldwide, US.
Since becoming a certified wedding planner by Weddings Beautiful Worldwide two years ago, not only has she set up a school, but also currently serve as president of Weddings Beautiful Malaysia & Singapore, lecturer for Weddings Beautiful Malaysia & Singapore, International Division of Weddings Beautiful Worldwide, and community leader of The Association of Wedding Professionals International. On how her school got its name, Khoo says: “Adamas means diamond in Greek. This precious stone symbolises love between a couple. It’s hard to find a diamond with the perfect cut, making it precious, and that’s how Adamas sees weddings.” Students will be exposed to industry requirements such as fabric knowledge and whatever that’s relevant to wedding planning.
“Besides classroom learning, we believe practical lessons are important for hands-on skills and expertise. So students will undergo practical training with real clients,” says Khoo.
Conducted in English and Mandarin, the course will see students developing proposals for couples with detailed questionnaires and market pricing for wedding planner services, inculcating time-consciousness as time is vital for wedding planning, drafting and negotiating contracts with vendors and clients, and learning the protocols, customs and traditions of various cultures to provide couples with the relevant advice. Students will also learn the latest trends and styles in bridal fashion, and effective management and communication techniques. The course can be taken through a self-learning home study programme or classes at Adamas. The home study option costs RM3,000 and takes a year to complete while the school option goes for RM7,500 and includes lectures, tutorials and practical sessions with industry professionals. For further enquiries, please call 012-550 3378 or visit www.adamasweddings.com
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Frazzledbride reached out to fellow Epi members yesterday. Her wedding brunch plans have gone up in, er, tailpipe smoke now that her fiancé’s truck needs urgent, expensive repairs.
“I am planning a small family wedding (60 guests) on Sunday morning, August 29, which will be followed by a champagne brunch. My fiancé and I are both students and will be paying for the wedding ourselves. We had allowed a $2,000 budget for catering and were deciding between our two favorites when just last Friday my fiancé’s truck died and now requires $3,000 of work….So needless to say, we are now without a caterer,” she explains.
Thankfully a friend has offered to help out with the catering, but she needs ideas for a menu. “Does anyone have suggestions for some amazing brunch foods that would be good for a wedding reception? I really would like to keep this classy and elegant, and any ideas are much appreciated,” Frazzledbride adds.
We have a Wedding Planner with recipes, wine, and party-planning tips for the reception, and even a DIY wedding cake (pictured) that’s sure to impress.
Have you tips for catering your own wedding on a budget? Any easy, delicious, inexpensive recipes to share?
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Whether it’s the marriage of a dear friend or family member or someone I don’t know well at all, I’m guaranteed to cry during the ceremony when the couple exchanges vows. I’m also guaranteed to cry during any speeches or toasts at the reception. I think the only time I didn’t cry during a wedding toast was when I gave one at my sister’s wedding, and that’s only because my fear of speaking in front of a crowd was more powerful than my emotions about the moment.
In her “Wedding Book,” celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss writes that “toasts are one of the highlights of the wedding.”
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Send In Your Wedding Questions!Bride’s Guide, Day 30: Invitation Response Etiquette?Bride’s Guide, Day 29: A Wedding Planner’s Top 10 Tips The traditional best man’s toast is still the staple speech at most weddings, but these days there are usually also speeches or toasts from parents, the maid of honor and the bride and groom.
So how do you decide who should speak, and when? And should you talk to them about what they’ll say beforehand?
Weiss says that you shouldn’t have everyone in your wedding party give a toast.
“Too many can bog down a wedding,” she writes in “The Wedding Book.” “So can toasts that go on and on.”
No toast should last more than five minutes, she says.
Toast Timing
Mindy suggests having the bride’s parents welcome the guests as the first course is served and then invite up the groom’s parents if desired.
The best man, she says, should give his toast “toward the end of the first course or during the second course,” followed by the maid of honor if you choose to have her speak.
As for the bride and groom, she recommends that they speak at the cake cutting.
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More PhotosWe staked out a wedding taking place at the church where I’m getting married in less than three weeks to see how everything unfolded. Parked strategically across the street from the church, we were able to observe what time the bridal party arrived, where guests were parking, and what time the ceremony started and ended. I even snuck unobtrusively into the back of the church to take a peek at the proceedings in progress!
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Hollywood generally prefers to ignore the day-to-day expertise that goes into cleaning a room or serving an appetizer (a telling sign in “Maid in Manhattan” reads, “strive to be invisible”), but Lopez actively seeks out these moments. “The Wedding Planner,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “Shall We Dance,” and “Monster-in-Law” are a remarkably similar quartet in this respect, presenting Lopez as the rare actor who can be read as an auteur (she’s returning to the big screen this weekend with a new rom-com, “The Back-up Plan,” after a four-year absence).
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Immensely proud of her heritage, Lopez seems to explode with energy in the films set in the Latino community (the aforementioned “Selena,” “Mi Familia” and “El Cantante”), while in her mainstream Hollywood productions she becomes more withholding, mischievous and sarcastic. Perhaps fearful of falling prey to the “hot-blooded Latina” stereotype, Lopez’s romantic comedy roles present her as a series of fiercely independent loners, in love with their jobs more than the men they inevitably marry. Working well within the clichés of the genre, Lopez still manages to offer a more nuanced vision of modern womanhood than her competitors.
Katherine Heigl, the current rom-com queen, is a pleasantly stiff actress, but has never played a character that could possibly exist without a man, or even hold down a job with actual responsibility. In the workplace, which is invariably a brightly lit modernist office, Heigl or Aniston or Bullock wear titles of “editor,” “executive” or “attorney” like a designer dress, their only duty to pursue connubial bliss. In “27 Dresses,” Heigl is solely defined by her “always the bridesmaid” guilt, in love with her boss at an environmental non-profit, which apparently employs her to pine away at a lucite desk. In “The Wedding Planner,” Lopez is at the top of her field and close to making partner. She’s shown expertly corralling a drunk father-in-law, feeding a speech to a nervous best man, and composing the shots for the wedding video.
Heigl is abjectly miserable where Lopez is merely melancholy (and very busy). The plots end up in the same hetero-normative place, but the crucial difference is that Lopez’s eventual marriage is a matter of choice, whereas with Heigl (and Aniston, and Bullock, and so on), it’s posed as a metaphysical necessity. And it’s this freedom to Lopez’s characters that make her comedies so much more fun and revealing, lifting these otherwise rote genre exercises into the category of what Andrew Sarris termed “subjects for further research.” It is what makes her career worth investigating.
This freedom would mean little if Lopez was a bore on-screen, but she has a nifty comedic repertoire. She tends towards arrogance and insolence, hair pulled back and head tilted high, as she steamrolls her way through the workday, a grin creeping in through pursed lips when she lands a verbal or physical blow. When she finally cracks up, it’s with staccato monologues and impulsive bits of violence.
In her best film, “Maid in Manhattan,” she’s a harried hotel maid and single mom, cutting down Amy Sedaris after an offhand racist slur, casually smacking her with the bedspread while in the act of folding. Partly set in the Bronx, it’s an homage to the industrious spirit of her parents, a class-conscious “Cinderella” story that never patronizes its working class characters, and halfway earns the storybook ending. (Notably, in the end credit montage, she’s shown making the cover of Hotel Manager magazine with no bridal publications in sight).
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-discuss your budget with everyone who’ll be contributing to the event
-interview wedding planners, if using one
-pick the ceremony site and meet with the officiant
-work on the guest list to get a rough head count
-visit reception sites and reserve one
-shop for your gown
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Popular florists are often booked up to a year in advance, so don’t delay your search. Begin researching by checking with recently married friends for their recommendations. You might also want to ask around at reception venues for names of florists the staff has worked with who might suit your tastes.
2) ASK THE FLORIST! Once you have contenders, narrow your list by posing some questions. Has she worked at your location before? Which flowers will be in season? What does she suggest for your style and budget? The answers will help you make your decision.
3) DISCUSS YOUR IDEAS!
When you’ve hired a florist, show her magazine picture you’ve collected of arrangements you like and those you don’t, and discuss options. Give her a photo of your dress, as your gown can establish the tone for the event. Also provide swatches from your ‘maids’ dresses, so the bouquets will complement them.
4) CONSIDER COSTS!
Be honest about your budget. Your florist should be able to provide floral options within your financial limits that won’t compromise your style.
5) READ THE FINE PRINT!
Your contract should include itemized costs for flowers, plus acceptable substitutes in case the ones you want aren’t available for any reason. It should also specify when and where the flowers will arrive and who will set them up.
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