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...“Without question, the most important element at a wedding is the bar,” says wedding planner Mark Niemierko, who has organised receptions from Kensington Palace to the British Museum....
...“You’ll get the best photos with an open-top car option,” says leading New York-based wedding planner Augusta Cole....
...The wedding planners he hired six weeks before his daughter Nicola’s wedding to Beckham Jr and let go nine days later dubbed him a “bully billionaire” in a lawsuit. “A what billionaire?”...
...“Weddings are becoming less formulaic,” says New York-based wedding planner Jove Meyer, pointing to a recent “gay Great Gatsby” event with a cake inspired by Gilded Age architecture....
...It brings a whole new meaning to 15-minute cities – and not exactly the one urban planners might endorse....
...Among the best wedding favours I’ve seen was a surprise fleet of cars to take everyone home....
...Brides and event planners are asking for organically grown stems and natural-looking arrangements....
...It’s Franck Eggelhoffer, the eccentrically accented wedding planner played by Martin Short in Father of the Bride, wriggling into a white tux....
...(New Yorker) — Lab rats are getting smarter (ScienceDirect) — Wedding planners on their biggest scams (Vox)...
...But, for an urban planner concerned with reversing the dominance of suburbs, Miami offered a fresh canvas. Unlike New York or Chicago, it was not already built....
...Its store snakes around an angular corner to create a black tunnel filled with books focusing on contemporary Italian designers, artisan jewellery by the likes of Lunante and Altrosguardo, daily planners...
...A huge American wedding party was pouring down the road; event planners wearing badges with the bride and groom’s initials on them were vigorously sidelining traffic to make way for the couple....
...“We just see [politicians] at weddings and funerals....
...There is an unlikely winner from the recent slowdown in the US market for initial public offerings: New York wedding planners....
...It can happen if you are saving up for a wedding or your next car....
...Wedding industry “people are hustling” to a new degree, said wedding planner Joy Locke....
...There’s a whole diatribe about them at the start of Xochitl Gonzalez’s tale of a testy wedding planner struggling to reconcile her Puerto Rican roots with her job servicing the wealthy white elite of Manhattan...
...I was very impressed by “Accrual Intentions” from financial planner Charlene Young. However, financial planner Steve Buttercase was crowned the winner with his entry “Commission Impossible”....
...Sarah Haywood, a wedding planner who represents the taskforce, said that around five wedding businesses, from bridal wear shops to photographers and barns that host events, have gone out of business each...
...Wedding planner Sarah Haywood complained the industry had not been kept informed and had learned of the move “not by being offered the information but by analysing the small print and repeatedly seeking...
...At the Playa Grande Surf Camp on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, visitors — who include New York bankers and Australian wedding planners along with a smattering of the young backpackers you might more readily...
...Perhaps the wedding planners can live with the insistence on face masks indoors. It does, after all, offer the opportunity for themed face coverings, perhaps with a picture of the happy couple....
...When they spoke last October, her small business was reeling from the impact of coronavirus and cancelled weddings....
...(Yes, our wedding cake was 747-shaped.)...
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