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TABLE SEATING

I love this format of seating your family and friends. It takes much less time than finding your escort card plus at the end, you have a memento of all the guests that attended you wedding. I have...

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PLANNING YOUR WEDDING

Planning your wedding should be a really fun, exciting experience, but it can also tax every nerve you have in your body.  I am always sad when a bride arrives with her things a few days prior to the...

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Christmas at Clarks Landing

Even though we are struggling to usher in spring, I am just looking at some pictures of our December weddings.  What a different vibe; the bare trees provide an aristocratic grey backdrop for the...

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ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH YOUR VENUE?

A lot of venues were disabled or destroyed in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy and left a lot of people wondering what they were going to do.  At Clarks Landing, we were able to do our three weddings...

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I was reflecting on when I began in the wedding business, I was trained at a very exclusive place, The Chanticler, in Short Hills NJ.  For dinner, everyone got one entree, prime rib, served French...

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Restore Your Shore (Wedding)

As we are getting into the wedding season, I am talking with more vendors who have mentioned how many weddings  just disappeared since Hurricane Sandy.  I realize how important and how much planning...

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Selecting Wedding Vendors-Word of Mouth is Not Enough

An interesting conflict came up this week.  One of our brides selected one of her wedding vendors based on the recommendation of several of her friends.  She even met the vendor.  But I wonder if the...

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RSVP Promptly & Honestly

I know I have mentioned this before in other social media but I just have to make mention of it again as we are in the thick of the wedding season. The bride, groom and their families have so many...

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Saying yes to the dress?

This will be a touchy subject to write about, being a guy.  I understand from thousands of weddings how important the gown is to the whole day.  I’ve watched a significant amount of “Say Yes To The...

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Are Sunday Weddings the New Return To Traditional Family Dinners?

I risk dating myself here, but I remember when Sunday was family day…stores were closed, few people worked and we spent the day visiting or hosting family dinners.  The world has sadly gotten so much...

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Sundays Will Never Be The Same!

Being present at each and every wedding has it’s advantages because I get to see it all.  And everyone knows how I love Sunday weddings.  I’ve noticed that our very considerate brides and grooms...

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Timeline Trauma

Since starting hosting weddings, I have seen a lot of changes through the years.  One major one, and I think it’s a good one, is that the bride and groom are more interactive with their reception....

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Pet-ticulars

Many of our brides and grooms have gotten pets together long before children, and long before they are married.  Many want them to be a part of their special day.  Unless you are having an outdoor...

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Marsala…to drink or to wear?

So we attended this amazing wedding conference in Washington a few weeks ago put on by the incomprable WeddingWire.com and learned that the trending color is Marsala.  Of late I seem to have seen deep...

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Cigars & Weddings…Smokin’ Hot or Better Not?

A lot of Dads and Grooms supply boxes of cigars or have a cigar roller for their weddings lately.  The idea of a celebratory cigar is not new but there is some controversy as to the execution of it.  I...

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Is Your Wedding “Wearing You?”

I’ve learned a lot from those ladies on “Say Yes To The Dress”.  They talk about the bride wearing the dress and the dress not wearing the bride.  I have been thinking about that this season as I see...

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Please Be Seated

Seating assignments or “escort cards” as they are called, seem to cause a lot of unneeded problems.  Here are a few hints… -Your guests don’t know where they are sitting, but they all know their names;...

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Wedding Killers

We’ve all seen it; both as guests and as wedding professionals.  The party is going full force…music pumping, dance floor full, lights blazing and then all of a sudden…like someone let the air out of a...

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Serene Winter Beauty at the Jersey Shore

I was looking at one of my favorite pictures of a couple in our Ballroom and realized that it was taken in February.  I could be classified as a beach bum, but I love living at the shore year round....

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My “Weekend”

So every Friday, most of America gets up with excitement because they only have one day, eight hours left until the weekend begins.  For them it might be some leisure time, time with the family,...

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