Wedding Planners vs. DIY

Many people ask me why I decided to go with a wedding planner? My answer is always, "because I want everything done FOR ME on my wedding day". I've been to many weddings where I see the beautiful bride still "conducting" the wedding from behind that lovely veil. I really do not want to do that, I want to walk down the aisle and see everything in place, perfect, while my gushing groom is admiring how beautiful his wedding day is. I have been meeting with my wedding planner monthly and going over little details, talking about venues, developing how we want the menu, how many people we want in our wedding party and how many guests we will be inviting. I sure do not want to be the one doing all of the legwork, getting on the phone, leaving numerous voicemails, haggling prices, etc. I just want to help her see my vision, give her ideas and let her do what she does best... EVENT PLANNING! She's wonderful at what she does and I trust her with my special day 100%!

Here's too the wedding of our dreams!

Events By Renee

Events by Renee Blog

Our Wedding, 2013...

Let me welcome you into my world. Hi, my name is Amber and I'm layers apon layers of quirky, loyal, loving and unintentional crazy. My day to day consists of being a mommy and being a fiance. I've embarked on a journey recently called, "let's plan a wedding". I've never been on a journey like this before, even though I have been married in the past. But before I was just a stupid teen who got herself into a wee bit of adulthood before she was ready for it. Now, after an 8 year courtship and a 3 year long engagement I'm ready to embark on this thing called marriage!

We've hired a fabulous wedding planner from a business called "Events by Renee" (you can follow her on twitter https://twitter.com/EventsRenee) and I picked out a theme to go along with our home city of Palm Springs. I like to call it "Desert Chic". I'm fully embracing the true desert of Palm Springs without the many golf courses and resort hotels. I want to do things in the midst of nature. Yep, I want to brave the strong winds out here and the grueling heat that we can encounter! I want the backdrop to be mountains, blue skies, joshua trees, sand and windmills. I cannot wait to see how it all turns out in the end! Our budget would be: $0 but since we are dedicated to making this happen we will be cutting corners and digging deep into our pockets to find the money that we need to have our special day!

We plan to fund some of our wedding by the earnnings collected from our Scentsy Business: www.scentsy.us/madypie. The other way will be from our PTO, Tax refunds and selling home made bows and tutu's, etc. (I'm quite a crafty person). Come join us on our adventure, the planning, the stress, the heartache, the joy, the learning lessons and the "Happy Ending"! If you want to see my ideas, I've joined pinterest and started collecting some ideas of what I'd love my dream wedding to include. Please follow this link in order to follow me on my board! Have a  great Monday! xoxox ~A

http://pinterest.com/madypie/wedding/