Fall 2010 Cover of Destination I Do Magazine

Feature Las Vegas Article-Click image to Enlarge

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is honored and delighted to have a "Las Vegas Style Wedding with Style" I planned and produced a few years ago featured again in one of my favorite bridal publications; Destination I Do Magazine: The Travel Publication for Engaged Couples and Romance Travelers (I love that description!!)

I have had the pleasure of being featured in Destination I Do Magazine in the past (2006), in an article called "Vegas Baby, Vegas!". You can read that article here. I am also proud to have a long-term marketing partnership with them as well.

This Fall, 2010 issue arrives on your book or news-stand shelves on Tuesday August 31st.

Some quick details about this wedding of Leigh-Anne and Todd who are both officers in the United States Navy.

Image by Robert Valenca Photography

Location: Foundation Room, House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort.
Photography: Robert Valenca Photography (who now resides and photographs weddings in Italy by the way).
Floral and Decor: Flora Couture by Floral 2000
Cake: Freed's Bakery.

Celebrate Today and Everyday with Love, Life & Style!!
Tracey

"Stylecology"-Unique Style for Your Wedding & Your Life

3Tier Blossom Pillow, Medium $155 available in 39 colors
Exclusively at Stylecology.com

One of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's favorite wedding magazines, The Bride and Bloom has just launched an online store called Stylecology where it promotes "Living Life with Unique Style".

Well, you all know the minute I saw the word "style" I was over at their new website discovering all the unique products that offer some delightful items perfect for wedding gifts, favors and wedding decor.

I found this 3 tier blossom Silk Dupioni pillow and I would seriously love to buy a whole bunch (flower pun intended) of these beauties. They come available in 39 colors & carry more pillows in similar styles.

These would be divine decor accents for any wedding, especially in a lounge setting on some elegant sofas or chairs or as VIP bench seating at a ceremony perhaps? They also make lovely shower gifts as well.

Stylecology not only offers wedding related items but encompasses unique items for every life stage and life style;home and garden, office, food, beauty, fashion, gifts and more.

As they are just launching, they are offering "Free Shipping" on orders over $150.00.

You can also follow them on twitter: @Stylecology

Happy Shopping and live your day today with Love, Life & Style!

Wedding Concierge Makes Top 25 A-List of Destination Wedding Planners

Jan/February 2010 Issue Cover

Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine has announced their new Top 25 "A-List" of planners and I am just bursting to share the news...

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge has made the A-List!!!

I am thrilled to be amongst some VERY IMPRESSIVE COMPANY of planners within the USA and beyond including Sasha Souza from Napa, CA, Beth Helmstetter from Burbank, CA & my friend Kelly McWilliams, in Cape Coral, FL.The list includes planners in Costa Rica, Cayman Island...even in Thailand!

This honor is especially sweet as it is strictly editorial and no monetary or in-kind compensation or advertising on my part was involved; just recognition from my industry peers and I could not be prouder.

I have had the pleasure to be involved with Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine in the past, providing editorial content with respect to my specialty of Destination Las Vegas Weddings, and appearing in their 2009 Annual Worldwide Guide Issue, "Destination Weddings Made Easy" article.

"The A-List of Top 25 Planners" will be featured in the upcoming print issue of Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine on your local news stands on February 23, 2010 or you can purchase and download a digital version.

Thank you once again to everyone at DW&H for recognizing me. I will continue my passion of working with wonderful couples across the USA and around the world planning romantic, memorable and "Stylish Celebrations of Love & Life" and do your magazine proud.

Celebrate Your Day with Love, Life & Style!

Wedding Concierge is Wedding Wires' Brides Choice for 2010!

First Style Me Pretty and Now this great news today! Thank you Wedding Wire!!

Las Vegas, NV-January 19, 2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Wedding Planning/Coordination Service Category"!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

I am thrilled to announce that Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is among the very best Wedding Planners within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. I would like to thank all my wonderful past newlyweds for nominating me for the *2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today by clicking here.

*Disclosure: Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge does not pay for being listed on Wedding Wire.

About WeddingWire, Inc.

WeddingWire is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding vendors. WeddingWire enables engaged couples to search, compare and book over 100,000 reviewed wedding vendors nationwide, from wedding photography to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding vendors, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. In addition, WeddingWire has partnered with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) to provide its network of local vendors and online wedding-planning tools in the Weddings section of www.MarthaStewartWeddings.com. For additional information, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

Canada Wedding offers up a Sweet & Sparkly Stunner!

From the Pages of Ontario Summer 2009, Canada's WedLuxe Magazine

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge thinks this has to be one of the most jaw-dropping fabulous singular desert presentations I have EVER seen!! I just had to share it with you!

These incredible sparkler topped ice cream sundaes served in ice goblets created by Ice Culture in Toronto, Canada must have had every guest gasping with delight as they were brought out and placed at each setting.

This is desert and theatre all in one! Ice is an incredible medium and its capabilities are so much more interesting, as you can see, than "ice swans".

Nicole & Adam, whose incredibly stylish & memorable celebration of love was featured in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of Canada's Luxury Magazine, WedLUXE was full of incredible and delightfully wonderful surprises and gorgeous details.

The fireworks moved from the table to the sky for all to enjoy after the bride and groom's dance.

To see more of this wedding that is full of everything Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge LOVES + many other incredibly, TRUE LUXE weddings, visit the Real Wedding Section at www.WedLuxe.com. I encourage you to bookmark the site and blog and get yourself a copy of this gorgeous publication. I love Las Vegas, but as a proud Canadian, I am so happy to see the fabulous, sheer brilliant events happening back home in Toronto and across the country.

Your Wedding Day Magazine Party, LA-Video Party Recap

Video by Russell Fowler Studios

Last month, Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge had the pleasure of attending an amazing party in Los Angeles for the Spring 2009 Launch of Your Wedding Day Magazine at the Ebell Club, Los Angeles; a venue that is synonymous with the Hollywood Glamor era. 

It was an incredible evening with the very best of the best in the south west and California wedding industry and I was so excited to be a part of it, as well being a marketing partner with Your Wedding Day Magazine (which you must get your hands on-IT'S A GORGEOUS publication!!!)

This party was over the top with an elegant garden decor to welcome us and delicious cocktail designed by the Ebell, Los Angeles featuring my new obsession, Ventura Limoncello. 

The piece de resistance of this event, the drop dead gorgeous "Marie Antoinette Gone Modern Ball Room"  was the result of the magic spun & designed by my very good friend,  Jeannie Ward, The Wedding Jeannie. 

The other rooms, featured an opulent & sensuous "Bollywood" Room & henna plus a totally chic "Le Discotheque" room. Of course, I danced all night to the DJ-live entertainment fusion sounds of 11H Entertainment. You have to let me book these amazing people for your event & YES, they travel!

It was one of the most amazing industry events I have been to & one I will remember for a long time. I am sure Your Wedding Day will have a great time trying to outdo themselves for the parties for their upcoming issue (which will have some exciting surprises) but I'm not telling:)

Enjoy the fabulous video recap of all the party fun above and you might just see Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge and friends at the very end having some fun at the LA Photo Party Booth which is a total blast & I totally want to book them for a wedding (hope it will be YOURS)!

Check out the Your Wedding Day Blog (& you will want to stay tuned to this blog in the near future for some other exciting information regarding yours truly!) for more info, phenomenal images by CherieFoto (and decor ideas galore) of the event and links to all the great event designers and sponsors of this fabulous event. 

Destination Weddings Bust Recession Myth-Las Vegas Still Attracting Stylish Brides & Grooms!

Las Vegas Strip at Night | Image by LorenzFoto

Picture of Cover of Current Issue of 

Destination Weddings & Honeymoon Magazine on sale now.

Although the way that they are being planned is evolving, Destination Weddings are alive & well despite the sagging economy according to a new article and survey from Destination Weddings & Honeymoons Magazine. 

According to survey results, Las Vegas is still considered one of the most attractive wedding destinations only behind Florida for US destinations and edging out Hawaii who has been knocked off the #1 spot.  

USA and Caribbean and other destinations "closer to home" are more attractive right now to couples compared to overseas like Europe, Tahiti, Fiji, etc.  

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is, of course, very happy to hear that Destination Weddings are still thriving & certainly wants to invite all couples to consider Las Vegas as an ideal destination for your celebration. 

We have fabulous weather 350 days of the year, gorgeous resorts & venues, fabulous shopping, we are a dining, nightlife and entertainment mecca and with the wealth of talented event professionals and resources, can fulfill your wedding vision and dreams come true & beyond. 

The guest lists are a bit smaller but the budgets are a little bigger, suggesting that couples are treating themselves and carefully considering their guest list so they can have a high quality destination wedding celebration experience across the board and with those who mean the most to them and want to travel with and be with. 

Las Vegas has so many interesting venues; beautiful restaurants with private venues, club spaces not used during the day, country clubs, hotel suites and other unique spaces on and off the strip that are perfect for these smaller, intimate affairs.  

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge LOVES planning small, intimate weddings such as these and can help you create your Destination Las Vegas Wedding with style...Your Style. I am accepting late 2009 and 2010 bookings now.

Wedding Concierge Attends Your Wedding Day Magazine Event in LA on 4.22.09

Image is the home page of the Ebell Club, Los Angeles' website

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Composite of the Your Wedding Day Magazine Party Invitation

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is off to Los Angeles, CA today and Thursday to attend what I am sure will be an incredibly fabulous, stylish event celebrating the beautiful Spring 2009 issue of Your Wedding Day Magazine. 

The party will be "An Evening of Pure Imagination" held tonight at the historic Ebell Club of Los Angeles and sponsored by their Catering Director Melissa Allen (who is a Las Vegas native by the way!) and Your Wedding Day Magazine as well as many other incredibly talented wedding professionals in LA and Southern California. One of those is my good friend Jeannie Ward of Wedding Jeannie and I am so excited to be there to support her and see what magic she has created for this event.

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge has another BIG reason to be attending this fabulous event with a very special announcement of my own regarding an exciting new partnership with Your Wedding Day Magazine  so please stay tuned within the coming week. I know you are going to like this!!!

Have a Stylish Day!

Get Your Dose of Daily WEDDING Candy!

One of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's favorite daily must-read blogs is Daily Candy; a great lifestyle focused site & newsletter to find all that is new in food, fashion & fun to make your life...a little sweeter:)

They have editions for many major cities like New York, LA, Miami and an all encompassing "Everywhere" version. 

Now life got even sweeter for those planning a wedding with their launch of a new section to the site; Daily Candy Weddings!

Just like the classic "Candy"; you can select local content to get all the wedding goodness on wedding trends and news in your city or region or the scoop across the country.

Enjoy savoring the Candy!

Wedding Concierge Picks Top 10 Wedding Blogs on Blogs.com!

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is honored to be selected by Blogs.com as one of their featured "Top 10 Lists" authors. They asked for my top 10 wedding blog daily reads that every bride should go to for information, education and inspiration before your celebration! 

 "The Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's Top 10 Wedding Blogs"

The blogs are were listed in alphabetical order and you can also find them in my "Wedding Concierge Favorite Reads" links on the left sidebar of my blog! 

• Bridal Bar
  
• Brooklyn Bride
• Elizabeth Ann Designs
  
• In Style Wedding Blog
  
• It's a Jamie Thing
  
• Southern Weddings
  
• Sparkliatti
  
• Style Me Pretty
  
• Wedding Bee
  
• Wedding Chicks
  

Let me tell you that this was HARD! I have so many wonderful blogs that I read daily that inspire me but since it was directed more to what brides are reading most, I felt this was the best cross section. I look at it as my "Basics List" on iTunes. Hopefully they will have me back to share some more insightful "Next Step" and "Deep Cuts" lists-like for you like my "Top 10" wedding photo blogs, design blogs and picks for wedding professional inspiration. 

Blogs.com is a new service from blogging company Six Apart that helps you discover the best in blogs. You can quickly and easily find blogs by category and topic or read daily blog roundups of some of the best blog content around the Web. Top 10 Lists from celebrity bloggers and influencers also help you discover new blogs, and everyone is invited to create their own Top 10 Lists to share with the community.

Las Vegas Wedding Concierge Featured Again as Las Vegas Wedding Expert in Luxury "Your Wedding Day Magazine"

Your Wedding Day Magazine, Spring 2009 Issue

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is so delighted  to tell you that I am quoted as the featured Las Vegas Wedding Expert in a fabulous "Destinations" article in one of my absolute favorite luxury wedding magazines, "Your Wedding Day"!

The Spring 2009 issue has truly outdone itself and proves that you can improve on perfection. Kudos!

Our fabulous city was given the right and proper credit due as a "luxury wedding destination" in their "Destination" segment right along with Oahu, Hawaii, Riviera Maya for starters. 

"Take in a fabulous show", as I am credited as saying, at Beatle's LOVE at The Mirage, have a swank, sexy and cosmopolitan wedding at the chic Red Rock Resort on the west side of town and shop in Style at Wynn Las Vegas are among some of the hot picks the article says to experience. 

This stunning publication, based in Santa Barbara, California, is a true style setter showcasing the most fashion forward and cutting edge designs in gowns, decor and more by the country's most sought after wedding professionals and venues. The photography and creative design just makes you want to linger a little longer on each and every page.

I am honored to count myself among their carefully selected roster of "YWD Preferred Resources" of wedding and event professionals in California, in Las Vegas and across the country.

Thanks to Harmony Walton (also owner of the Bridal Bar)   for including me in this great article and showing off the sexy, savvy, "shiny" (like that one) and stylish Las Vegas that I love to brides looking for an amazing and memorable wedding weekend.

Speaking of weekends, hope yours is a Stylish one too!