Engagement Story: Martin & Sabrina

How they met...

There's a lady who teaches belly dance at a few of the recreation centers in the cities around Gilbert, and who also hosts belly dance parties at her house about twice a year. Martin had been doing middle eastern drumming for so long, teaching it weekly for the last six years, and running drum circles so often that she asks him to lead the drumming for her parties; He's done that for at least two years now.

At the November 2007 party, Martin became entranced by one of the dancers from the moment she hit the dance floor for her solo. It's been years since a dancer has thrown him off his rhythm, but later that night she did. They really connected at the party, but it took until the end of the night before Martin could work up the courage to even ask for her phone number.

How he proposed...

Their first date was just a couple days later, and they've really connected since then. Besides the obvious shared hobby of middle eastern drum and dance, they have very similar styles about the way we go about life. It's grown so much that on Valentine's Day 2008 he asked. After a brief, stunned silence she excitedly said yes, and they're engaged to be married!

The details so far...

Martin and Sabrina are getting married on All Hallows Eve at Ashley Manor. It will be a Mid-Summer Night's Dream theme wedding and all guests are encouraged to arrive in costume. We will share Martin and Sabrina's stationery choices shortly.

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Brand Identity for The Bride's Breakfast Club

We are unveiling the new logo we created for The Bride’s Breakfast Club! The new logo is the first step in creating a solid brand identity that will appeal to all types of brides.

The Bride's Breakfast Club is an organization designed to help brides and grooms save hundreds of dollars on their wedding and future purchases. Many of the exclusive discounts and special offers extend well beyond the wedding and into building a new life together!

The Bride's Breakfast Club hosts monthly breakfast meetings on the third Sunday of each month from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Held at various locations throughout Phoenix, they feature guest speakers and give the bride an opportunity to meet preferred vendors while receiving additional discounts or special offers.

“Working with The Bride’s Breakfast Club was a natural choice for us. We were able to create a logo for them that was both elegant and cutting edge at the same time. This partnership allows us to showcase our talents of marketing and design, as well as convey the quality of vendors that will be involved with the club.” (Erin Burkhard, CEO, Be In Love Designs)

For additional information on The Bride’s Breakfast Club, please visit their website at http://www.bridesbreakfastclub.com/

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Personalized Glass Favor Jars

Personalized Glass Favor Jars (Set of 12)

Just like the classic, glass canisters you'll find in a contemporary kitchen, only smaller and sweeter! Fill the jars with a tasty treat, and treat your guests to a unique, miniature marvel—from the one and only Kate Aspen.

Features and facts:
• Glass jar has white-rubber gasket and metal locking device
• Jar measures 1.75" x 2.5" including metal work
• Personalized sticker available
• Holds approximately 3.78 oz. & 40 pieces of small candy
• Sold in a set of 12

Item: KA27037NA

Price:
1 - 2 sets of 12 $23.63 each
3 - 4 sets of 12 $20.66 each
5 - 7 sets of 12 $19.80 each
8 or more sets of 12 $18.00 each

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Please visit our Favors Store for these and other favor ideas.

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Inspiration Board #2 - Black and White on a Budget

Everyone of us is on a budget in these hard times. Yet you can have an amazing wedding for little cost with the right planning. Do-It-Yourself projects and keeping things simple can bring down cost like a melting ice cream cone. A great way to do that is to have a classic black and white wedding.

The only thing that you'll be missing out on is the time-consuming search for the right color! It will be a breeze keeping the color scheme through the many different products and fabrics you'll use in your wedding. Black and white accessories, flowers, shoes, and invites are easy to find everywhere. Get inspired to turn your budget wedding into a classic, yet unforgettable one.

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As featured in Arizona Bride...

We are so very pleased to announce one of our designs has been featured in the Fall/Winter 2009 Issue of Arizona Bride Magazine. We are the FIRST invitation on the page.

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Arizona Bridal Week Partners with Get Married!

Arizona Bridal Week Partners with Get Married! (and we are apart of Bridal Week)

Phoenix, AZ—July 10, 2009— Planning a wedding in Arizona just got easier and a lot more entertaining. Arizona Bridal Week is proud to announce the recent partnership with Lifetime’s TV show Get Married. With the collaboration of the only eight-day bridal event in Arizona and the ideas from the highly resourceful wedding show “planning is a piece of cake.”

About Arizona Bridal Week

Arizona Bridal Week will debut in the Valley from September 26, 2009 to October 3, 2009. The upscale, eight-day event will not only provide brides-to-be with direct access to top local vendors, but will also benefit the Phoenix Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Arizona Bridal Week is devoted to premiering the more fashionable side of the wedding industry by featuring exciting themed events, unique venues, and a fast paced atmosphere. For more information, visit www.arizonasbridalweek.com.

About Get Married

Get Married is a national, integrated multi-media wedding planning destination, and the only resource that reaches couples through a highly synergized, tri-media platform: a TV show on Lifetime Television, a highly-trafficked website and a glossy print publication. Whether brides watch, read, or surf, Get Married is making wedding planning a piece of cake.

ON TV: Get Married’s show airs on Lifetime Television weekday mornings and streamed daily on GetMarried.com. Hosted by world-renowned wedding and event designer Colin Cowie, Get Married’s series includes interviews, ides and inspirations from the most sought-after industry experts.

ONLINE: The robust website – GetMarried.com - offers brides unique video content, image galleries, informative articles, local resources, planning tools, and interactivity with other brides and wedding professionals.

IN PRINT: Get Married magazine, the “new shopping & trend guide for the savvy bride,” will introduce and translate the latest wedding trends while offering a fresh perspective, in a new, uplifting and edgy voice for creatively-innovative and inspirationally-driven brides.

Get Married’s three-pronged wedding platform offers brides the most informative and personalized wedding planning experience.

Blogger Brides
Blogger Brides, is an online blogging community brought to you by GetMarried.com. In addition to offering brides in-depth content, ideas and resources, Get Married’s Blogger Brides provides unique digital components including the ability to post video online. Brides and wedding professionals can view video clips from Get Married’s TV show as well as video blogs from our host, renowned celebrity event designer, Colin Cowie, as well as co-host and TV star DeAnna Pappas.

From the real bride to the celebrity blogger, Get Married’s Blogger Brides community offers its bloggers an assortment of wedding insights and trends:

· Star Bloggers: Industry experts offer the latest trends and insights from high-profile – and often celebrity - weddings. Follow star bloggers including celebrity wedding experts such as: photographer Robert Evans who shot Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding, as well as Get Married’s host and co-host, wedding extraordinaire Colin Cowie and TV star DeAnna Pappas.

· Blogger Brides: Real brides discovered by Get Married who share their wedding planning process, everything from choosing the perfect dress to walking down the aisle.

·Community Bloggers: Anyone! All members can blog and share ideas, photos, videos and wedding related information with their friends and family.

For more information on Get Married, visit www.getmarried.com

For more information, interviews or photos for the Arizona Bridal Week, please contact info@arizonasbridalweek.com or visit www.arizonasbridalweek.com for more vendor / partner links.

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Arizona Bridal Week Partners with Get Married!

Arizona Bridal Week Partners with Get Married! (and we are apart of Bridal Week)

Phoenix, AZ—July 10, 2009— Planning a wedding in Arizona just got easier and a lot more entertaining. Arizona Bridal Week is proud to announce the recent partnership with Lifetime’s TV show Get Married. With the collaboration of the only eight-day bridal event in Arizona and the ideas from the highly resourceful wedding show “planning is a piece of cake.”

About Arizona Bridal Week

Arizona Bridal Week will debut in the Valley from September 26, 2009 to October 3, 2009. The upscale, eight-day event will not only provide brides-to-be with direct access to top local vendors, but will also benefit the Phoenix Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Arizona Bridal Week is devoted to premiering the more fashionable side of the wedding industry by featuring exciting themed events, unique venues, and a fast paced atmosphere. For more information, visit www.arizonasbridalweek.com.

About Get Married

Get Married is a national, integrated multi-media wedding planning destination, and the only resource that reaches couples through a highly synergized, tri-media platform: a TV show on Lifetime Television, a highly-trafficked website and a glossy print publication. Whether brides watch, read, or surf, Get Married is making wedding planning a piece of cake.

ON TV: Get Married’s show airs on Lifetime Television weekday mornings and streamed daily on GetMarried.com. Hosted by world-renowned wedding and event designer Colin Cowie, Get Married’s series includes interviews, ides and inspirations from the most sought-after industry experts.

ONLINE: The robust website – GetMarried.com - offers brides unique video content, image galleries, informative articles, local resources, planning tools, and interactivity with other brides and wedding professionals.

IN PRINT: Get Married magazine, the “new shopping & trend guide for the savvy bride,” will introduce and translate the latest wedding trends while offering a fresh perspective, in a new, uplifting and edgy voice for creatively-innovative and inspirationally-driven brides.

Get Married’s three-pronged wedding platform offers brides the most informative and personalized wedding planning experience.

Blogger Brides
Blogger Brides, is an online blogging community brought to you by GetMarried.com. In addition to offering brides in-depth content, ideas and resources, Get Married’s Blogger Brides provides unique digital components including the ability to post video online. Brides and wedding professionals can view video clips from Get Married’s TV show as well as video blogs from our host, renowned celebrity event designer, Colin Cowie, as well as co-host and TV star DeAnna Pappas.

From the real bride to the celebrity blogger, Get Married’s Blogger Brides community offers its bloggers an assortment of wedding insights and trends:

· Star Bloggers: Industry experts offer the latest trends and insights from high-profile – and often celebrity - weddings. Follow star bloggers including celebrity wedding experts such as: photographer Robert Evans who shot Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding, as well as Get Married’s host and co-host, wedding extraordinaire Colin Cowie and TV star DeAnna Pappas.

· Blogger Brides: Real brides discovered by Get Married who share their wedding planning process, everything from choosing the perfect dress to walking down the aisle.

·Community Bloggers: Anyone! All members can blog and share ideas, photos, videos and wedding related information with their friends and family.

For more information on Get Married, visit www.getmarried.com

For more information, interviews or photos for the Arizona Bridal Week, please contact info@arizonasbridalweek.com or visit www.arizonasbridalweek.com for more vendor / partner links.

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Sand and Shell Tealight Holder

This sand and shell tealight holder is a great addition to any beach event. Guests will enjoy lighting these tealight holders to enjoy memories of the shore. Each high quality, heavy glass is filled with authentic seashells and sand. The tealight is included and each sand and shell tealight holder is packaged perfectly as a gift with a rope ribbon and a beach theme hang tag that reads "Thank you for sharing this Day" Sand and Shell Tealight Holder measures 3.25" x 3.5"(0.55lb).

Price:
1 - 11 $3.25 each
12 - 23 $2.75 each
24 - 47 $2.55 each
48 or more $2.50 each

Why I like this favor?

Ahh, summer. What better way to say it's hot thank having a tropical themed wedding. It's looks like your bringing the beach to the wedding when you can't do the opposite. It's fun and whysmical, yet functional for a guest. (Could go in a bathroom or kid's room.) I also like it uses real shells.

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Turn the Fourth Into A Turquoise & Red Wedding

As the Fourth of July is upon us, I decided to look around at weddings on this summer holiday. While browsing though many websites, I saw the usual red, white and blue on everything the bride and groom could get their hands on! (Even a hideous wedding dress that was made out of a flag!)

Why not twist tradition and turn the Fourth into a turquoise and red wedding? Turquoise and red, also referred to as Tiffany blue and red, is one of this season's "it" wedding color schemes. At first we weren't to keen on the idea. (Probably because we saw a very poor designed ad that forgot about colors that "vibrate" on top of each other and make it hard to read.) But now, we are warming up to this color combo like the hot July sun.

The trick to making this color scheme work is to not forget about white. White will help balance the two colors, since they fall close to being opposites on the color wheel. Another tip is to use red as only a pop of color when you need it. A great way to achieve this is to use red flowers on a table dressed in turquoise and white, or to tie a Tiffany blue favor box with a simple red ribbon and tag for your guests.

Overall, this color scheme is a perfect choice for the cheery days of summer and even for the holiday. Happy Fourth of July weekend everyone!

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