Do you dream of becoming a wedding designer?

For the aspiring wedding planners, you know who you are!:) Place this game at the top of your holiday gift list. Its at the top of my Christmas list, now I just have to get my 9 year old to share his DS with me! I wish they had this game years ago!

Description: A wedding may only take a simple "I do" and a kiss to seal, but the perfect one takes a lot of planning and the guidance of an expert. In Imagine Wedding Designer the player's goal is to become just such an expert as they make their way to the top of the wedding design business. Along the way they will get hands-on experience, designing every aspect of six wedding ceremonies for six very different brides, each with their own tastes and sense of style. From invitations and venues, to flowers, makeup and dresses you will plan it all. And eventually you will even create a custom wedding experience for your own bride character. Creating that one perfect day is never easy, but its what players strive for in Imagine Wedding Designer.

Key Game Features:
Manage the weddings of 6 different brides, each with their own personality and specific tastes.
Design the wedding invitation, choose the dress, veil, bouquet, and more. You can also choose the bride's hair and makeup, the location of the ceremony, and the music.

Choose who will be in the ceremony and select the outfits that will please the bride
Live the big day. Ensure everything goes smoothly and your bride is happy. If not, you may face some unexpected events during the ceremony.

Unlock new characters, clothing, and accessories with each "perfect" wedding that you design. Exchange the unlockables with your friends via the DS' WIFI connection.

Hope Santa still has room in his sleigh for this gift for me! What do you want for the holidays?

My Destiny

I watch them. Out of the corner of my eye at the rehearsal dinner. The bride's grandparents. He looks at her adoringly, still holding out her chair for her as she sits down. She pats his hand when he talks. He visits the buffet line and brings her back a plate, knowing exactly what she wants. She feeds him a delicious piece of pastry from her fork. They pause. They kiss. I sigh.

I watch the young couple make a toast. The groom slips his hand around his fiancee's waist, she looks at him adoringly. She laughs at all his jokes. He pushes a stray hair back from her face.
Sometimes, you just know. You just know and you hope. But in this couple, I see that ease, that kindness, and I hope that in 25 years I am helping to plan their silver wedding anniversary. That years after that, they are like these grandparents. Love is enduring and kind, and a wedding is the ultimate place to see its many stages, its beauty.

Maybe this way I look at couples means it was my destiny to be a wedding planner and to celebrate such love in every bridal season. Love. The perfect touches, the sweetest gestures. A wedding and wedding planner that embraces that philosophy.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas

So maybe its just me, or maybe its all wedding planners, but I get a little carried away when decorating for the holidays. Today I wandered around the Boston Flower Mart for several hours waiting to be inspired for several upcoming events I am working on in December. Inspiration comes in many forms. For me, its means taking a piece of this, a piece of that and laying it all out and watching it come to life.

With two industrial carts full of supplies, inspired I was, in shades of chocolate, chatreuse, and crimson.

What inspires you?

J Lo made it look so easy!

In the Wedding Planner that is. Many people thank my career is glamourous and easy. But it is HARD and I mean really hard to be a wedding planner. I am not even going to try and deny that. Is it fun? Yes. I love it. I am totally addicted. I am one of those planners that eats, sleeps, and dreams, weddings. I get up up in the morning and have all sorts of new ideas to share every day.

When I talk to a bride and I say, "I am so excited!" I am not kidding- I really am. I genuinely am excited and passionate about every wedding I work on. You have to have a passion for it. A passion for planning your own wedding does not mean you will have the passion to plan 15 weddings at the same time, with 15 different personalities, mothers of the bride, tastes, and styles. So I wish that there was a wedding tv show that showed what this job is really like. I think so many people would be surprised.Is it worth it? Absolutely!

Trash the dress?

Interesting idea... but what would Vera Wang think? Trash the Dress, you say? It's exactly what it sounds like -- following the blessed event, the bride straps on that gorgeous dress once again for a final farewell photo to the gown she spent a fortune to wear for one day only. We all know our daughters won't wear our dresses, so trashing the dress sounds like a great idea to me.

These so-called Trash the Dress photos have become all the rage with brides who want to add something unconventional to their wedding albums. And unconventional they are -- particularly the photo at right in which a bride has set her wedding gown aflame, a la Joan of Arc. This shot was taken by a photographer named John Michael Cooper, who coined the phrase Trash the Dress. If you want to see more of his edgy, arty wedding photography, check out his website, which chronicles his collection of Trash the Dress wedding photos. A recent bride of mine decided to trash her dress buy jumping in the pool with her new husband. Even better than that her whole family followed suit. What did you do with your dress?

K&J- October 12, 2008-Private residence

Some pictures . . .

It's over for me!

Wedding season that is! At least for me. Yesterday was the most fabulous wedding I have ever designed, and for the most fabulous family. I love them dearly. Words cannot express the feeelings I feel for that family. Tears were shed by me many times, hence the getting of the "L"monogrammed tissues. They weren't all for you Kate!

Yesterday was the culmination of an awesome season, what better way to end the season but working with the best ofthe best. The best bride & groom, the best florist http://www.mokaraflowers.com, the best photographers, Hitched Studios, great caterer Sonoma, www.sonoma-princeton.com.

For me-highlights

• the bride, kate saying "I have never seen anything like it ever, even in a magazine"
• the bride's brother (whom I have never met) in the lounge tent-" You are so good at what you do, this is amazing"
• MOB (mother of the bride) jumping up & down, ecstatic, with the final reveal as she saw it for the first time

This wedding was not only my baby, it was my entire inspiration for the entire year. A dream wedding in the backyard, what could be better. I had a vision, ...from that first e-mail from the bride, which I saved and will treasure always "HELP!!! I want to get married at home" At home she got married, at home we created the wedding of her dreams.