If you were in St. Louis on Saturday, July 24th and didn’t make it to Jive and Wail in Maplewood for the Cupcake and Wine Pairing class put on by STL Wine Girl and Bunny Cakes STL, I must say YOU MISSED OUT! And I’m not just saying this because cupcakes and wine happen to be two of my most favorite things in the entire wide world! I’m saying it because it’s 100% true.

Angie (STL Wine Girl) and Melissa (Bunny Cakes STL) put together five pairings of wine and cupcakes that were delicious, with flavors that complimented each other perfectly. I know I was thoroughly impressed with how separately each were great, but together they were fantastic! Check out the cupcake and wine combos below, plus some fabulous photos taken by moi!

You know what time it is, time to talk wedding guests! Everyone’s favorite subject! The reason I bring up this topic is because at some point during the preparation for your wedding, it’s pretty important to consider how many people on your list are actually coming from out of town! Now think about how many of those guests will be staying in a hotel. It’s probably a decent number right? And even though you’ve been kind enough to secure a discounted room rate at a fabulous hotel, it might also be nice to consider distributing the infamous hospitality bag!

This handy dandy hospitality bag/box is a great way to make your guests feel at right home, no matter how many miles they’ve traveled to be with you! Checking into a hotel room after a long trip and being handed a nicely made goodie bag is a great feeling!

Until a few years ago, if someone had suggested you have a photobooth at your wedding reception, you probably would have laughed right in their face. And yet here we stand just a few years later where a photobooth has actually become quite a staple for all wedding receptions. With the increase in number of companies offering the service, a slew of new ideas on props for the booths and well just a crazy amount of fun, the photobooth has started to take over the wedding reception world! If it hasn’t in your town yet…just wait, it’ll be there soon, which means you have reason to be excited!

Alright, so I haven’t done a just for fun post in quite a while, so I thought I’d do a little hunting and see what kind of unique cake topper ideas I could come up with. Of course, it didn’t take too long to find some classic, humorous and even some really odd ones to share!

The cake topper has gone from super traditional to uber creative and I always thinks it’s fun to see what people come up with. Now I’m not suggesting traditional is bad, but it definitely is nice to see what else is out there! But don’t be afraid to go either way! As usual, nothing is wrong or right, it’s just about what you feel! See below for some great ideas!

Remember that fabulous Wish Upon a Wedding Launch Party we had here in St. Louis just about a month ago!?! Well now that we’re officially launched here in town, things are only getting started! We still need everyone’s continued support to make the Wish Upon a Wedding St. Louis Chapter a success!

Right now we’re prepping for our gala, one of many Blissful Wishes Balls taking place around the nation as part of WUW’s official Month of Giving! If you haven’t already marked the date for the St. Louis Gala, it’s Sunday, November 14th!

If you live in or around the St. Louis, Missouri area (or the Midwest region in general) you know that we tend to have some vicious and unpredictable summers. If you’re planning a wedding in St. Louis, well, you know that you absolutely need to be prepared between the months of June and August for some serious heat! We’re talking 90 to 100 degree weather here!

So, if you’re thinking an outdoor wedding might be in your future, be sure to throw out some goodies or appropriate time frames to help your guests make it through the day. They’ll thank you for it, and you’ll probably thank yourself when you put on the fabulous dress, get your hair done and apply all that gorgeous make up!

To all my fellow St. Louisans, the St. Louis Wedding Planner is coming soon! It’s my new web site and it should be here by mid- July (at least that’s the plan)! In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s called the St. Louis Wedding Planner and my hope is that it will be an amazing resource for all of the brides and grooms in St. Louis Metro area looking to plan the wedding of your dreams!

The St. Louis Wedding Planner is a web site dedicated to helping brides and grooms learn more about all of the fabulous wedding ceremony and reception venues in the St. Louis area. By conducting in-person interviews and walk-throughs myself, I hope to give brides and grooms information that is more than valuable in helping them select their wedding ceremony and reception locations! And I’ll be categorizing each venue by St. Louis neighborhood for all of you interested in a particular area of the city!

I know, I know! You were probably expecting me to say something more along the lines of “planning your wedding is like running a marathon!” Well, you’re right. And if I could RUN a marathon that’s exactly what I’d compare it to. HOWEVER, right now I can run two miles (especially when there’s a 100 degree heat index outside). So yeah, for now you get the “two mile” analogy – planning a wedding is like running two miles. It takes a lot of stamina to keep you going and a lot of drive to complete it!

Everyone knows there is a lot that goes into planning a wedding, but sometimes, people forget just exactly HOW much there really is! That’s why it takes a good training strategy to make your wedding a success, and well to make it enjoyable!

Coming from my project management background, of course I would think that having a wedding plan is a definite must for your wedding day planning process. Why you ask? Because it’s an easy way to keep track of all the tasks you need to complete for your wedding day and the time frame in which you hope to complete them. I know it seems completely lame and maybe even a little redundant, but it really can help!

If you’re like me, when you have a busy day, week or even month coming up, I make a task list of every detail I need to accomplish. And I LOVE my lists, it’s quite a weird obsession actually!

Just because you been to dozens (if not hundreds) of weddings in your life, doesn’t mean your reception has to happen in the exact same way as every wedding reception you’ve ever seen! Sometimes it’s fun to think outside the box and change the order of events and surprise people! It keeps everyone on their toes, not to mention it usually means more dancing and more good times all around!

If you’re looking to change a few things up on your wedding reception, consider some of these ideas. P.S. Several of them I heard via the infamous Ali Phillips from Engaging Events by Ali, based out of Chicago, Illinois! She’s an outside-the-box thinker for sure!