Get ready for an Everything Mother of the Bride Week!

My brand new book has made it to the warehouse for distribution to places like Amazon and Barnes and Noble!  I ordered a few to get them out to our favorite friends in the industry to review.  However, many of you have been wanting a signed [...]

DREADED WORD:
BUDGET
or
WHO IS PAYING FOR WHAT
The old fashioned wedding where the mother and father of the bride pay for everything and the mother gets to choose most of the things is certainly not dead but we do live in a different world now.  Sometimes the bride (or groom) has a higher income than the mother [...]

Hello everyone – long note here – but worth the read!  So get your glasses (whether reading or wine) and hunker down for this one!
A few of us here at Elegance & Simplicity, Inc. are off traveling for the holidays.  We hope to still bring you a few more posts before the end of the [...]

Hey, you love her, you aren’t going to have to live with him (hopefully) and you’ve decided to go with the flow and help her to plan and celebrate this milestone.  As hard as it is, remember to stop BEFORE something hurtful about him comes out of your mouth like:
“He’s got horrible teeth! Why hasn’t [...]

I just got the jpeg from my publisher today for my first book cover! The Everything Mother of the Bride Book, 2nd Edition!  I am thrilled to share the cover with my avid blog readers first!  Well, my publicist did tweet about it first – sorry!  She’s my publicist – what can I say?  We [...]

Announcing: The Weekly Mother-of-the-Bride (MOB) Guest Blogger!

Claudia Van Veen will be our weekly Guest Blogger!  Claudia will be giving you great Mother-of-the-Bride hints and tips every week!  If you are a mom, leave us a comment or a question! If you are a bride, tell your mom to check back every week!
My first book is [...]

Hi Mothers of the Brides (MOBS) -
I am sending out a request to all of the MOBS out there that would like to tell me what they have learned throughout the wedding planning process!
If you are at the beginning stages:

What frightens you most?
Are you wanting more or less control over the bride or grooms choices?
What [...]