Ideas to Personalize your Wedding from a Celebrity Planner

March 23rd, 2007 | Unique Ideas, Wedding Ideas, Wedding

Hope everyone is enjoying this series of wedding ideas from A Soolip Wedding! Today I’m going to confess a serious mistake I made. One that I will live to regret! While at A Soolip Wedding, I made it a point to attend the presentations being made by the wedding experts. The same series of presentations that I got all the great tips from Kathy Nenneker, the editor of Los Angeles Weddings magazine, that I passed on yesterday. I had a great seat in the second row, center! But one of the presentations finished about 15 minutes early. So, I thought it would be a good chance to run down to “The Green Wedding” room and get a bunch of good information to pass on to you. So I got back to the final presentation, and as you might guess, the room was jammed! I got stuck in the doorway, surrounded by a bunch of other people trying to catch some ideas from the final speaker of the day!

So you might be wondering who could be so interesting to have filled the seats, have people standing three deep around the walls and have a bunch of people sitting on the floor like it was story time at the library?

This person was listed by Vogue as “the best wedding coordinator” and has had Courtney Cox Arquette, Brook Shields, Molly Shannon, Tori Spelling, and Tim Allen as clients! It was none other than Jo Gartin, the author of “Jo Gartin’s Weddings An Inspiring Guide for the Stylish Bride.” Unfortunately I couldn’t take five pages of notes like I did for Kathy Nenneker because I could barely hear through the crowd. But I was able to pick-up a few of her great ideas on how to personalize your wedding. Here they are…

Personalize your bouquet by wrapping it in a photocopied love letter written during your courtship or a picture of a special person who couldn’t make the wedding so they can accompany you down the aisle

Include your style in the wedding by asking your florist if you can buy your own vases rather than using the standard ones they use

Offer your guests midnight snacks of donut holes and chocolate milk as they leave at the end of the night.

Jo had a bunch more wedding ideas that unfortunately I couldn’t hear! But the good news is her book is loaded with great information. How often can you get wedding planning tips from the person who plans celebrity weddings? I’m definitely going to add it to my collection! If you’d like to purchase her book, here’s the link.

Check out Jo Gartin’s website: http://www.loveluckandangels.com/

Check back tomorrow for a great idea I learned from none other than Wanda Wen, co-founder of Soolip!