Monthly Archives: April 2012

Julie & Andrew’s Nob Hill Wedding

Julie and Andrew are dear friends of mine from church, and as a practicing Episcopalian I can’t really tell you how excited I was to finally get to do a wedding in Grace Cathedral (it’s one of my happy places.) Julie was an absolutely stunning bride, and Andrew didn’t look too bad either Their reception [...]

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Lisa & Jim’s Garden Wedding

Lisa’s & Jim got married at a Nursery (of the tree variety, not the baby variety), and had their reception at one of the most brilliant alternative venues I’ve seen – Serenity Stone Works, a garden accessories store with a large backyard. A great reminder to look outside the box and talk to the owners [...]

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on tipping your wedding vendors

One of the questions I’m asked most by clients is which of their wedding vendors they should tip and how much they should tip them. Now, hopefully you are paying your vendors a fair wage, and if so, tipping when it comes to weddings is most definitely optional. That said, when asked, I generally suggest [...]

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Cari & Matt’s Fort Mason Wedding

Cari & Matt got married at Fort Mason (ceremony in the chapel, reception at the conference center), one of my favorite San Francisco venues, and their wedding was a BLAST. People often asks me what makes a wedding fun, and the only answer I can come up with is “fun people.” This was a wedding [...]

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Roxy & Dave’s Tilden Park Wedding

I’m finally finishing blogging all of the weddings I worked in 2011! Look for them over the next few weeks here. Roxy & Dave’s wedding was one of most pure-fun events that I got to coordinate last year. A food truck catered picnic in a regional park, complete with popsicles and killer sunglasses. Roxy and [...]

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spring

it’s finally starting to feel like spring is here, and I am so ready for it that I can’t even stand it (although I actually only like spring because it means that summer is almost here. I live for summer, and literally start waiting for it to come back in October every year.) Spring also [...]

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