Grooms on Weddingbee PRO

Nancy @ Nancy Liu Chin Designs, San Francisco Vendor: Florist Website: Nancy Liu Chin Designs About Me: A San Francisco native, Nancy graduated from the University of California - Berkeley's Haas Business School where she studied finance and marketing. Beyond running her floral studio, Nancy is a huge fan of Top Chef, loves to travel to exotic locations, is an avid reader of contemporary fiction and considers herself on Team Edward (Twilight fan!), entertains friends in her loft style home in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood, and can be found at SF Giant's home games. Nancy and her husband, Kevin are a dynamic pair and can be frequently seen walking their white Bichon Frisee, Chin Chin around the city and lounging at cafes sipping Italian sodas.

{Real Groom: What’s Important, What’s Not? Part One}

June 26th, 2009 @ 8:32 am by Nancy @ Nancy Liu Chin Designs

In the next post of the Real Grooms Series, I asked our resident “groom”, Danny Lai, to give his advice on what really matters most during those hectic yet important planning stages of the wedding. Danny tells me that the best advice you can get (regarding what matters most during the planning and the actual wedding) are from people who planned their own wedding. Of course, we all know that each experience is unique and different but it sure is refreshing to hear a male’s perspective. Don’t you agree? Here’s Danny answering the question - What’s important during the planning stage of a wedding?”

[A0123EDcol.JPG]

Advice will vary, depending on who is giving it, especially depending whether it’s a bride or groom. As a newlywed groom, I learned some important lessons while helping to plan my own wedding, and thought it would be useful to share. These are my opinions only, my simple thoughts on what was actually important to us.

{Real Grooms: How to Get Involved}

June 5th, 2009 @ 4:56 pm by Nancy @ Nancy Liu Chin Designs

[danny+web3.JPG]

For a while now, I’ve wanted to do a series on wedding planning from the groom’s perspective. Finding the right person to write these articles was easy because I got to work with a wonderful couple last year, Emily and Danny, on their fabulous wedding at the Ritz Carlton. During our journey together, I watched how they worked and planned their wedding together. Afterwards, I got to know Danny even better, so it wasn’t hard for me to ask him to be our honorary guest blogger. He will be gracing us with a few articles from the male perspective. Join me in welcoming Danny. :grin:

For his first article, Danny offers his advice to brides who want to get their other half involved:

A wedding is a very memorable and expensive event. For one special day, everyone important in your life will be together with you. But it only lasts a day, so every minute is precious. Every bride wants her wedding to be perfect -with no details missed or time wasted. High expectations are what make wedding planning so stressful, for the bride at least.

As a groom, you cannot change these expectations, and you should not try. The success of the wedding is a direct result of the wedding planning process and experience, and the most productive and enjoyable wedding planning experiences happen when both the bride and groom are involved. “Involved” is a tricky word, because for the groom, there’s a fine line between being helpful and just getting in the way. Here are some tips to support your bride throughout this process.