Posts in Confessions of an engaged
A Wedding Planner's French-Inspired Engagement Brunch in Toronto's Distillery District

As we’re still at the height of engagement season, it’s about time I shared all the details from our own engagement party!

Pretty much as soon as we were engaged, I had this idea in my head for a toile inspired design as the pattern influenced a lot of our home details and is a favourite of mine. This was such a beautiful and special day to plan, and I hope it can give you some inspiration to make your own special day feel and look like YOU and nothing else.

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An Engaged Wedding Planner’s Guide to Save-the-Dates

If you’re like me, small details, especially stationery, make your heart skip a beat. I LOVE getting mail, and I knew I wanted our stationery to reflect the tone we are designing for our big day.

Because I wanted the save-the-dates to complement the overall invitation and day-of stationery design, I needed to think about all of this early on. As we envisioned the flowers and tablescape, the stationery naturally came together. From there, we were able to combine our favourite elements to be reflected in the invitation suite.

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Breaking down the wedding registry & a planner’s experience with MyRegistry.com

Ever since “27 Dresses” and the amazing registry scanner scene I’ve been looking forward to creating a registry pretty much solely because I wanted to walk around the store with that super fun scanner and BEEP BEEP add items to our list. More practically, Nick and I were not living together and while our house has been under renovation we have been slowly buying furniture and small things as we go, but there are a lot of things we do need. I also wanted to use this opportunity to test out various registries and see what some pros and cons are so I can confidently answer my clients’ questions when they come to me. Here’s what I found!

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Tips for Navigating the First Few Months of your Engagement

We’re coming up to about a month of being engaged and although it’s super fun to be in the bridal position now, I’m here to tell you that yes, wedding planners, with all of our education, preparation and experience, still get overwhelmed with planning our own weddings just as you do!

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10 Things That Happen in the First Week of Being Engaged

It’s been one week since we got engaged and what a week it was!

As a wedding planner, the most common thing I always tell engaged couples is to take it slow and take it all in before jumping into planning as eager and excited as everyone can be. I thought it would be great to dive into some of the feelings, experiences and yes, planning that happened in this first week!

Here are 10 things that happened in our first week of being engaged!

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