Dom And Chi-Minh: The Trailer

Hi everyone,

Last week we had the great pleasure of being a part of Dominique & Chi-Minh's wedding day celebrations. I have a special place in my heart for this couple and I am SURE that we will continue to be the great friends we have become throughout this one year planning adventure! Below you will find a link to youtube that will take you to the trailer of Dom and Chip's big day. I wish nothing but the very best for both Dominique and Chih-Minh! Congratulations to the most adorable couple you will ever meet.

xoxoxoxoxooxx
your wedding planner and friend,
Azar

Here are some detail shots



Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D6lwedTePY


* Our studio is home to a few different projects. One of course as you know is the wedding design and planning by moi! (www.principalplanner.com) The other is Monique Simone Photography led by.. none other than Monique herself! (moniquephoto.com). We are pleased to announce that we are now also offering videography to all of Montreal! The video link is by our studio's new baby: LIFE LINE CINEMA. It is different than your average wedding videography.. which can be a tad tacky. Call us to book your consultation for any of the above mentioned services.

Fun Table Numbers

Hi everyone!

I love love love sitting down with my clients and bouncing ideas off to create a really personalized wedding. From ceremony til dinner and dance, your family and friends should feel you in all elements. FORGET the trends and hot colors. There is nothing worse than a really trendy looking wedding with no soul. At principal planner we get to know our clients through long meetings where we chat about everything. We never time any of these sit downs and most often forget about the time and realize at the end that hours have flown by!

By the end of the whole wedding planning process, I find myself with new friends that I will cherish for years to come and THIS is why I love what I do so much.

2009 was a great year filled with amazing couples and great reception ideas! Below you will find a wedding where we did something a little bit different for the table Names/Numbers. Guests loved this detail so much, we ended up giving away the pictures at the end of the night as an extra favour to some very insisting guests! :) Be creative and think outside the box. Personalize elements in every corner and watch your guests discover and enjoy!



* I picked up these great cork boards at Homesense! We simply printed the pictures as polaroid's and pinned them to the board. Voila.. cute boards for guests to discover at the cocktail hour.


* We framed the Pictures in 8x10 frames and placed them on each corresponding table. Guests LOVED this fun detail.

A
xoxo

Marions-Nous

Hi All,

We have been busy getting everything in order for our September/October couples and have been missing in action for a little while. This weekend was a big one for us! First we had the beautiful wedding of Natasha and Piragash at the St-Raphael Golf Course and then we were off to the Marions Nous Wedding Show for two days. Congrats to a beautiful couple with a family I will always remember. xoxo

Thanks for everyone for coming to see us at the show! We are ready and excited for the 2010 season!! Here are some pictures of our set up this year with Monique Simone who we share our office with in Montreal. For all inquiries, please email info@principalplanner.com.

A

Viviane & Hai

Hi Everyone,

One of the tough parts of this job is having to wait for pictures to come back from the photographer. It can be quite a bit of a wait and with everyone's busy schedule, you have to move on to the next event and be very patient. I just received a few pics from Viviane and Hai's wedding and I thought I'd share them with you.






Cheers!

A Groom's Gift Of Eternal Love

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of planning a wedding for 250 guests at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Montreal. Friends and family gathered to witness Viviane and Hai's special day and the evening was a great success. During the planning process I received an email from Hai asking me if I could help him surprise Viviane. His idea was to place 999 pink roses in their bridal suite! To offer 999 roses symbolizes eternal love. Due to the fact that the room had to be ready for the bride before she arrived to get into her second of 4 dresses, we had to arrange them to ensure ample space for everyone to get ready. When Viviane walked in and read the note Hai had left her, there wasn't a dry eye in the room.


Congrats Viviane & Hai!
(Wedding Pictures will be posted very soon)

Azar

Mini BRIDE IDEAS Seminars Arriving at a Studio Near You!

When you get engaged you start getting really excited about every detail of this milestone day that is really going to be all about you! You run out and grab every magazine in the pharmacy, google images until you fall asleep at the computer and start creating these enormous binders that you carry with you to every meeting you go. I love every second of experiencing those things with my clients. There are 22 000 weddings every year in beautiful Montreal and although I don’t have the honor of assisting all of you blushing brides, I’d like to do something to enjoy a bigger piece of this amazing pie so... Mini Seminars are officially born.

We will be holding mini seminar evenings at our brand new studio with themes ranging from The Ultimate Cake Tasting to DIY Floral arrangements that will leave anyone envious of your newly perfected/born talent! (Even if you won’t actually be creating these pieces...you are a bride this year and everything weddings is fun!!) So Brides, Bridesmaids, Montreal Vendors, if you are interested in our soon to be launched line up of mini seminars, send us an email and we’ll put you on the list! Although we wish our space was enormous, it just isn’t and rather than going out and renting out a big hall, we want to keep these fun nights small and intimate. Tickets will range from 10-30 dollars and will always include some Bubbly & Sweets

email: info@principalplanner.com

Thanks!!

Principal Planner Team

Invitation Nightmare!

When you're getting married, one major thing you work on with your designer is the invitations that will be sent to your guests. Obvious. Ok, next, you go over all the wording with your stationary designer. You can choose from an array of pre-written texts, go traditional, modern, draft your own... What you absolutely CANNOT do is write the following at the very bottom of the invite:

Cash Gifts Preferred...

Simply reading those three words as I was typing them made me cringe. Some of you may think, who would do that... Well ladies and gents, my mother has been invited to a wedding this summer and she wanted to show me how pretty the invitation was. As I looked over it, I thought it was very pretty... then the above mentioned nightmare occurred. I could stress the importance of leaving this information out, but I wouldn't know where to stop. So RULE: Don't mention anything about gifts, let alone, cash specific requests.

If you are getting married and would like to receive cash, the best way in my opinion is to spread the word amongst your parents, bridal party and closest family members. We all have microwaves and dishes already and you may really just want cold hard cash, however, remember that gifts should be appreciated not be expected.

*click on the title to be directed to the site where I found this great image as well as more tips on how to get those cash gifts you want. :)

Azar
xo