Lessons Learned: Buffet dinner plates
When you have a buffet meal at your wedding, you need to order 125-150% of your guest count for dinner plates. Otherwise you caterer be washing plates in the middle of dinner and guests will be annoyed. Photo by Michelle Lindsay Lessons […]
Lessons Learned: Pinspot lighting
Just because a venue has directional lighting doesn’t mean it will have the same effect as professional pinspot lighting. Investigate this ahead of time before being disappointed on the day of the event when all your gorgeous centerpieces are in […]
Lessons Learned: Generator fuel
When you are running a generator to power your band and the lighting in your wedding tent, put a line item in the timeline to refill the gas tank in the generator. Depending on the size of the tank, plan […]
Lessons Learned: DAR Wedding flow
I recently had a couple get married at DAR. We had the ceremony outside on the Portico, the cocktail hour in the O’Byrne Gallery, dinner in the Library, and then dancing back in O’Byrne. While overall the wedding was absolutely […]
Bellwether Events Reflects on 2023 Weddings
This annual reflection of all our 2023 real weddings via data is here, and it is basically on time. Please clap. We ate. Corey Torpie Brittany Dunbar 2023 Real Wedding Data: How Many In 2023, we had fifteen weddings, a […]
Bellwether Events Reflects on 2021 Weddings
This annual recap of all our 2021 real weddings is months overdue. But I am still writing it because I love writing these round-up posts. Why I decided to do this as I launch a stretch of 7 weddings in […]
Happy TENTH Wedding Anniversary K & C!
Big news today! Today, May 26, 2017, Bellwether Events celebrates the TENTH wedding anniversary of our first ever clients – K & C! They were referred to me by Cara Berger, and they knew that I was leaving the catering world […]
Real advice most appreciate by my real clients – a video!
I’m taking a break today from the Palm Springs photo shoots to share with you this video, made by Bowen Films, in conjunction with The Dandelion Patch. In it I talk about what my past clients felt was the best […]
DC Museum Wedding Costs – A Sample Budget
Washington DC has so many amazing wedding venues. Included in the plethora of options are many different kinds of museums. When comparing them, it can be hard to know what other costs might be incurred with a museum wedding. So […]
How to Plan a Wedding in Six Months
I’m not going to make you scroll past 3000 words to learn how to plan a wedding in six months. Here is your road map: Now for the 3000-word essay on how to plan a wedding in six months. (Fret […]
