Thursday, February 11, 2010

Destination weddings.


As a person who is looking at wedding planning as a career, the concept of destination weddings
sounds like fun. I recently spoke with a couple of planners who specialize in this field and anyone
looking to plan a southern jaunt should certainly look at http://www.weddinginthetropics.com/


As well, brides should carefully scour TripAdvisor for wedding stories of which there are plenty
on both sides of the spectrum. Take a lot of the negative reviews with a grain of sand (pun) because some of the bridezillas are really laughable. One I can recount was from a bride in
a Mexican resort who complained of those little one inch lizards running around the patio.
Hey babe, they were there first.


Saturday, February 6, 2010

Wedding Venues in Ottawa

Choosing a wedding venue is a mix of location, staff and food. What most people use as a guide
to whether a venue has good food is simply recommendations. BUT, and a really big BUT, just
because your Mom had her wedding at the Delta 20 years ago does not mean its still great. Chefs, for example move around every couple of years (they can be a tempramental lot) and
standards can slip rapidly.
Now you have a tool to help you out. Oh my god, our tax dollars finally being used for something helpful.
http://ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/search/inspections/q.pl?ss=home_en&qt=fsi_en

Its kinda shocking what you get to see behind the curtain. Many local caterers just don`t seem to understand food safety. Ok, a leaky faucet is no biggie, but check out Eggspectations, a spot that
has been touted recently in the Wedding Bells forum as the hottest caterers. Anyone with half a
brain in the kitchen knows that the easiest way to get food poisoning is with eggs, yet look at this.


http://ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/search/inspections/q.pl?ss=details_en&sq_fs_fdid=B837F7B5-936D-4400-B6BE-DCAF86CCEC9A

As for me, I`m checking out everone on this list before I put a single bite in my mouth I didn`t cook!!!!!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Shopping for your wedding on Kijiji

I buy and sell quite a lot of stuff on Kijiji. Someone paid me $100 dollars for my old G3 and we
both walked away happy.
Buying wedding services there, no way. Now every now and then you can find a used McCaffrey dress that's a steal. Services however, no deal. Every now and then someone posts a horror story of some part time florist or DJ they hired on Kijiji and to their surprise, it was a fail.

Gosh, what a surprise. C`mon ladies how can a video guy charge you a hundred dollars for a days
work? Stick with the pros, the more established the better.

Don`t make me say I told ya so.