Your I Do Crew: A Wedding Planning Podcast

089: We found our shining Starr! Travel expert Starr Wlodarski has been planning international travel and cruise trips for years. She brings an extraordinary level of experience and expertise to the table, and has a number of tricks up her sleeve! She talks all about planning a "Buddymoon", or figuring out how to plan and execute a "bucket-list" trip, and finding one-of-a-kind and behind-the-scenes for her clients! 

For more info, contact Starr at 419-874-4222 or email [email protected] 

or visit 

https://www.uniquefamilyadventures.com and https://www.facebook.com/CruisePlanners.Starr

Lindsay has a horror story to share this week that will have you cringing so hard you'll laugh! She's talking about a wedding that she was shooting, where the groom and groomsmen arrived at the venue with lots of time to spare, so they started 'pregaming' with shots before the ceremony - and, well... let's just say that this is a prime example of why you need to know your limits! Listen in 

086: Our photography MASTER, Lindsay Rozelle, drops a knowledge bomb today with a step-by-step process to planning your wedding day photo timeline! Lindsday has photographed HUNDREDS of weddings, and she has the timeline planning process down to a science (I'm not kidding - you should see her spreadsheets)! And because the timeline is down to a science, she is able to use her creativity and her incredible eye for photographer to create absolute works of art.  Listen to her talk about how to hack your wedding day schedule, to get the best results with your photographer, and have the least stress while you're doing it!

085: Wedding Horror Story! When you're planning your wedding, you expect that the vendors you hire will perform the job. You even place a certain amount of trust in them, that they will be able to fulfill the services that they agree to provide. But what happens when one of the vendors completely fails to do what you've hired them for? And then who does that responsibility fall on? Lindsay shares a story this week of a wedding she was photographing, where this situation happened, and she had to step in to save the day! 

084: We had an amazing time talking to certified wedding and event coordinator Shandra Cornelia, owner of Eventique Events in the Dutch ABC Islands (that's in the Caribbean!)

Shandra has years of experience in destination wedding planning, because she LIVES in a wedding destination! We talk about how destination planning differs from the usual wedding planning process, how to research if it's right for you, how to pick a destination, where to go to begin the process, and more - including a fascinating conversation about how things have changed in the Caribbean to make them now much more friendly and welcoming for LGBT destination weddings! Also, she has THE BEST ACCENT EVER! We love it! 😍

https://www.facebook.com/eventique.weddings

https://eventique.events

https://www.instagram.com/eventique.weddings

[email protected] 

082: We visited with another of our great local vendors! Liz Thees is the Director of Sales at The Pinnacle, a fantastic wedding and event venue in Toledo, OH. Liz and her husband have been wedding industry pros for more than 35 years, and have owned the Pinnacle for the last 20! She gave us a lot of history of the venue, as well as some of the wedding industry trends she's seen come and go over her time. Liz brings a genuine joy and passion to the table when she works with couples, and it shows!

https://thepinnacletoledo.com

https://www.instagram.com/thepinnacletoledo

https://www.facebook.com/ThePinnacleToledo

Lindsay tells a horror story about a wedding reception she was photographing, where one of the vendors decided to do their own thing. They didn't communicate with anyone else, and decided to spontaneously modify the reception timeline, and then began directing the guests!  Needless to say, it caused more than a few frustrations for the other vendors! This is the horror story that Lindsay says "this was the worst!"

#weddinghorrorstory #liveband #weddingfail

080: Wow! We got the amazing opportunity to interview Amy Shey Jacobs. Amy is the founder and creative director of Chandelier Events, a NYC-based boutique planning and production design firm for weddings, mitzvahs, milestone events, and corporate events. Amy has an INCREDIBLE wealth of knowledge to share - not only from her capacity at Chandelier Events, but as wellf from her former position as the Director of PR for a little company called... The Knot! In that capacity, she contributed to the planning of hundreds of live televised wedding events on OPRAH, ABC's "The View", "Live! With Kelly", "NBCs TODAY," E!, MTV, VH1, CBS and more.  Chandelier Events is rated an editors' pick in The Knot's Best of Weddings and is listed in Style Me Pretty's prestigious Little Black Book, CeciStyle Magazine's A-List, and has received press coverage in PEOPLE, Martha Stewart Weddings, Us Weekly, Weddingchannel.com, and more.  Amy is an amazing resource, and you can find more of her great information here:

https://www.chandeliereventsny.com 

https://www.instagram.com/chandelierevent  

https://www.facebook.com/Chandelierevent 

https://www.pinterest.com/chandelierevent