New Beginnings Weddings and Events’ principal wedding planner is teaching the next 2011 Wedding Consultant Training School’s business wedding consultant certification classes June 24, 2011, and July 24, 2011 through the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute. Students are able to receive an early bird discount by registering prior to May 1, 2011 (for the June 2011 class) or by June 1, 2011 (for the July 2011 class). For more information, students may visit the website of the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute at:

www.weddingconsultantcertificationinstitute.com

Visit today! Spaces are kept to 20 in order to intensify the learning experience. Students should act quickly if they want to secure their slot. The early bird discount may expire at any time without further notice.

The location of the class will be at the following site:

June 26, 2011
Courtesy of Ms. Julia Hunt
Avondale Lake House
59 Lakeshore Drive
Avondale Estates, Georgia
www.thelakehouseatavondale.com

New Beginnings Weddings and Events’ principal wedding planner is teaching the next 2010 wedding consultant certification classes November 5, and November 20, 2010 at through the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute. Students are able to receive anywhere from 20% to 30% off tuition if registration is made between thirty (30) or forty-five (45) days prior to class dates. For more information, students may visit the website of the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute at:

www.weddingconsultantcertificationinstitute.com

Visit today! Spaces are kept limited in order to intensify the learning experience. Students should act quickly if they want to secure their slot.

New Beginnings Weddings and Events’ principal wedding planner is teaching the next 2010 wedding consultant certification classes November 5, and November 20, 2010 at through the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute. Students are able to receive anywhere from 20% to 30% off tuition if registration is made between thirty (30) or forty-five (45) days prior to class dates. For more information, students may visit the website of the Wedding Consultant Certification Institute at:

www.weddingconsultantcertificationinstitute.com

Visit today! Spaces are kept limited in order to intensify the learning experience. Students should act quickly if they want to secure their slot.

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New Beginnings Weddings and Events has partnered with GetMarried.com! Please visit our page, and to sign up for a complementary Get Married issue at:

http://www.getmarried.com/local-resources/Atlanta/Wedding_Coordinators/new-beginnings-weddings–events.htm

We want to send a very special thank you to one of our best photographers, and friends, Catherine Ritchie of My Life Photography for so graciously providing us the use of her photos of our wedding for this Get Married partnership and ad campaign, both online and in print.  Thank you, Catherine!  For a full viewing of Catherine’s incredible talents, please visit her website at:

My Life Photography

Please tell Catherine you saw her work here and mention New Beginnings Weddings.

Cheers!

New Beginnings Weddings and Events

Atlanta Wedding Planners, Atlanta Wedding Consultants

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Undoubtibly, as your wedding planning progresses, you have seen referrences to “peak” and “off-peak” wedding seasons. But what does that mean for you? And, how can it help you with your wedding planning? That is easy.

Whenever you see “peak season”, it is a period where there is a high demand for space, or services in regard to holding/having weddings. In years past, that time usually has fallen somewhere between May – October of the year. Conversely, whenever you have seen a period referred to as “off-peak”, that is considered to be a time where there is a low demand on space, or services and it generally has fallen between November – April.

Now, these times can vary dependent on variables such as regions and weather. Perform local inquiries in your wedding market area to determine what is considered peak and off peak seasons. Sometimes, there are some really good savings to be had, if you are willing to be flexible.

Happy wedding planning!

If you are planning your wedding on your own, you have no doubt read, or heard this several times by now. “You can always hire a Day Of Cordinator”. Or, DOC. But…if you do choose to travel this route, please do consider the following.

Myth:

Wedding Planners can be hired at the end of the wedding process and can just jump in and take over.

Fact:

The term “Day-Of” for wedding coordination is misleading. Professional wedding consultants do not, and cannot come in at the end of your months long wedding planning process and just jump in knowing all and ready to do all for the “Day-of” your wedding.

Myth:

Wedding Consultants do not need much in order to tie everything up. After all, you have done everything in the way of wedding planning already.

Fact:

As with any good executed plan, there must be strategic design, organization, communication, and execution. Wedding consultants who are hired at the end of the wedding planning process are forced to work harder to catch up to speed, often sacrificing much of their time to serve you well on the day. Think about this. Most weddings are planned between approximately nine and fifteen months. That is a lot of time for the hired wedding consultant to play catch up with and then, have to turn around and articulate your vision to the other wedding professionals in relation to the wedding day.

Myth:

Because you have already done all the necessary planning, you do not need to spend much on the Day of Coordinator. You are thinking somewhere around $500 or so should take care of it.

Fact:

When a Bride hires a wedding company to perform any wedding planning service, she is hiring that company primarily in the capacity of consulting/planning for the execution of her wedding plan, up to and including the wedding day. Wedding consulting/planning translates into labor. Labor equals time. Time is the main mechanism by which these wedding planning companies generate their revenue. Just like with every “service/labor” company (i.e.: attorneys, electricians, CPAs, etc.), there is an hourly service labor rate that each wedding planning company earns. Fro your edification, the service industry rate ranges from $50 – $125 per hour. In general, companies who are more seasoned and work with customers who have higher budgets do tend to cost more.

A general breakdown of a wedding planning company’s time for your “Day-of” service, irrespective of what you have done already, may resemble something like this:
A minimum of 10 Wedding planning hours to get caught up;

1 – 2 Hours to coordinate the wedding rehearsal and pick up items for wedding;
2 Hours to arrive at the ceremony site before the wedding to oversee plans;

6 – 8 Wedding and Reception Management;

Up to 1 hour clean up (i.e.: pick up favors, re-pack up items to be returned to clients, etc.);

Multiply these hours by a typical $50 an hour wedding planning labor rate and the cost of this service is easily at $1,000. (The standard service industry rates fall between $50 – $125 an hour.) That is not considering any special dynamics to be added. As you can see, the wedding consultant did not just show up and manage the “Day-of” the wedding. He, or she had to “catch up” and “organize” the details so “he, or she” along with “her team” (because no wedding planner should ever show up to a wedding alone) may effectively and efficiently manage the wedding day.

Prices will vary by company and region. Day of Wedding Coordination is much more expensive in areas such as California’s wine country, Los Angeles and surrounding areas, New York’s tri-state area, suburbia New Jersey, and Texas to name a few.

Prices are always going to vary but do a little research about what the market area is bearing in terms of cost. A professional wedding planning company who is serious about their business and your wedding is not going to be had a bargain basement price. Here is a pretty good quote from a friend who gave me permission to share with you.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a cheap price is forgotten.”

For more information regarding the cost of wedding coordinators and planners, please see what others are paying at:

The Cost of Wedding Coordinators

Cheers!

Beautiful Blushing Bride

One of our favorite, and most talented Atlanta Wedding Photographers, Catherine Ritchie of My Life Photography did an amazingly incredible job capturing the experience of our clients’ Atlanta Wedding at Chateau Elan, Braselton, Georgia.  What we had the pleasure of being a part of was so marvelous that we must simply share the blog photos with you.  Please visit:

http://www.mylifephotoblog.com

Our Bride is wearing a haute couture creation from Demetrios. Is it not absolutely fabulous! And, where would a bride be without makeup to enhance her own natural beauty? Enter, our personal friend and extraordinarily talented artist Alicia Brown of Make Up By Alicia (http://www.makeupbyalicia.com). You may remember Alicia from her work on a little known show called “the Atlanta Housewive of Atlanta” or from her talents seen on the BET Awards shows.

A big shout to Dani, our personable Sales Director at Chateau for all of her bending over backwards and the “one-on-one” personal care she took of our bride, the wedding and us.  Thank you, Dani!

For more information on Chateau Elan, please visit:

http://www.chateauelan.com

The floral arrangemets were magnificent! Heather Kovecar of Stems provided Nicole with the most freshest, vibrant and full designs we have seen in a long time. She also brought a cast iron arch for the ceremony on the Chateau Elan which gave the ceremony an unbelievably chic yet elegant look. Thank you Heather! See Heather’s work at http://www.stemsatlanta.com. Prepare to be dazzled.

No matter which top Atlanta Wedding Professional you contact, be sure and let them know that you saw their names here.
 
Cheers!

Live, Love, Laugh – A Lot!

Photo Courtesy of

My Life Photography

Check out the blog of one of my favorite Atlanta photographers, Catherine Ritchie Park.  Catherine just finished up the engagement photo of Nicole and Charles.  We are going to work together on their wedding at Chateau Elan in October of this year.  I cannot wait.  Catherine is absolute awesome!

Enjoy!  When you call Catherine, tell her I referred you.

http://www.mylifephotoblog.com

We probably all know someone who has been touched in some form or fashion by the current economic downturn.  As a matter of fact, I would venture to say that there are very few of us that have not been.

In the wedding world, this is seen through the way couples are cutting costs through performing many of the tasks themselves.  This is not a bad idea.  However, DIYing your wedding is not all good either.  The key to knowing when it is beneficial, and not, is in understanding what will happen when (and something will) you choose to do perform a wedding task yourself over hiring a professional.  Sometimes, Doing It Yourself (DIY) can actually prove detrimental to your dream wedding day.  We will talk more about examples in our Summer Series Articles/Posts.

Starting in August (we are delaying it because of the Summer) and continuing for a duration of nine weeks, we will be dedicating our 2009 fall series to showing you the good, bad and ugly between DIYing your wedding projects and hiring a reputable wedding professional to handle the same task. In addition, we will have some guest wedding industry professionals who will also be sharing their years of expertise to give you even more beneficial information.

It is our sincere objective to make this information invaluable toward your overall wedding planning and dream wedding day.

Cheers!