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If you haven't already heard, we have been quite busy over at the shop making 500 cookies for Oprah!  To celebrate the new cover of the O Magazine they wanted to send Ellen something very special, SO they decided to send her 500 specialty sugar cookies with the O Magazine cover on them from Sweet & Saucy Shop.  We had 2 1/2 days to make all of the cookies and one giant cookie for Ellen!  Take a look at the video today to see our cookies on THE ELLEN SHOW!!!

This is a secret I’ve kept to myself since January when Antonia Van der Meer, editor in chief of Modern Bride magazine, called me to let me know that I was one of Modern Bride’s 2009 Trendsetters!  It was definitely one of the most exciting moments of my life!  Other trendsetters this year include event designer Colin Cowie, hair accessories guru Jennifer Behr, and jewelry designer Ivanka Trump (who is actually featured on the same page I am)!

We had an all day photo shoot to capture this shot, and I have oodles of behind the scenes pictures and details to share with you in an upcoming post.  There is even a red carpet, celebrity filled awards dinner coming up soon, and Preston Bailey (a previous trendsetter) is going to present my award. Someone please pinch me!!

I couldn’t feel more honored to be included amongst the ranks of all of these amazing trendsetters, past and present.  Thank you so much Modern Bride for making my year!

If you want to get yourself a copy, it’s the June/July issue on newsstands now!

I’ve been meaning to update our press page, so I thought I’d share the highlights of Weddingbee press to date! 

• Blogging Your Way into a Business - NY Times, 8/12/07.  This was our first mention in a major newspaper or magazine, and I was so excited!  They do a profile on me and several other bloggers who turned their blogs into businesses.
   
• Get Married, 1/16/08. A segment I taped for a special blogging episode of the television show Get Married aired on the WE network.
   
• Modern Bride Magazine - Dec/Jan Issue. Modern Bride Magazine named Weddingbee one of the 50 Best Websites to check out. 
   
• With This Dress I Thee Wed and Wed and Wed - NY Times, 1/31/09. This article focused on buying secondhand wedding dresses, and one of our users shared her experience scoring a Jim Hjelm dress for 40% off retail on the Weddingbee Classifieds.
   
• Blog Watch - Wall Street Journal 2/16/09.  Weddingbee got a little write-up in the Blog Watch section of the Journal. 
   
•  Wedding Bells’ Toll - NY Times, 3/14/09.  I was invited to attend a special wedding edition of the Martha Stewart Show, where I was introduced to the writer of this article.  I have a fun little quote about wedding gift etiquette and affordable wedding gifts. 

In our first year, I thought about working with a pr agency, but I never really pursued it.  It wasn’t in our nonexistent budget anyway.  We’ve been lucky that we’ve never done any advertising, and Weddingbee has continued to grow by word of mouth.

It’s difficult to determine how much press actually affects a business both directly and indirectly.  I can’t say that any of these mentions has had a significant impact traffic-wise, but press begets press.  As you can see most of our press mentions have been in 2009, so hopefully there are many more exciting things in store for Weddingbee this year.

Has a pr agency or a particular piece of press changed your business?

Happy March, beautiful readers! This year is off to a great start, to say the least. March is one of my favorite months of the year, due in no small part to my birthday. I'm looking forward to some lovely upcoming celebrations…

So I return bearing more good news. More accurately, I have THRILLING, fabulous, utterly fantastic news. The title says it all, but here is the full disclosure…

I am elated to announce that my mother's opulent, luxurious, detail-laden wedding was PUBLISHED! How exciting, right?? I got the news only a few days ago, and was able to pick up the magazine over the weekend. Check your local newsstand for Issue 5 (spring 2009) of Ines del Mar Weddings and turn to p.112 for four (yes, four!) pages of Trista Lerit's delicious imagery! The wedding was submitted by my fab friend in the biz, ultra-talented florist Camilla Svensson-Burns. She never heard back from the magazine but heard through the grapevine that it had made it into the issue! Crazy! The magazine showcases absolutely gorgeous events, and Mom's is the only California real wedding in the issue. Mom & Raj were so delighted! Anna & I also make an appearance on p. 11 for a cute family photo. I will try to get some scans for you later this week, but here's a pic of the cover of this issue:

If you missed the original post on my mom's wedding, you can see all the gorgeousness HERE.

Hope you all are having a fabulous week so far! xoxo, Angel

and a great big thank you to The Knot. Lindsay and Hank's Cabo San Lucas wedding is featured in the Spring/Summer edition of The Knot national magazine! This is pretty exciting news as this issue will be sold all over the country and on bookstore shelves through July. Pick one up if you have a chance!

I made a magazine bouquet last September. The magazine has been published so I can finally blab about it. These are just two of the issues.

I have a little blurb in Brides Local Magazines! I scanned the page I'm on.

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I'm a little late posting this, but so super excited about it! As most of you probably know, I've only been in this business a little over a year (feels like 5!), and I'm so excited to announce my very first publication, in the very first publication of Southern Weddings Magazine! That's my little old picture of Tiffany and Jared's fabulous rings, atop a fabulous mushroom I found growing on the patio of their hotel room (bottom left!). I suppose Jamaica's pretty far south!

Congratulations to the lovelies over at Southern Weddings Magazine! It's so exciting! And if you haven't yet, be sure to check out their blog. It's one of my most favorite wedding blogs!

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