Inspired by This Blog

Inspired by These Clients Featured in Ceremony, Bride and Bloom and Brides Magazine!

Leila — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:13:10 +0000

I have heard the phrase, “and the hits just keep on coming” uttered by those who have hit a streak of bad luck but for us the saying is true and only positive! So excited to share that inspiredbythis.com is now available on KINDLE. You can add it here!

I am also proud to share that our clients Carissa of JL Designs, Carolyn Chen of The Special Day, Kristy Rice of Momental Designs, Laura Reoch from Forget Me Not Design, Alisa Benay as well as Kathy Mazza and Susan White of Bella Weddings and Events all have beautiful features currently on the stands.

JL Designs Featured in Bride’s Southern California

In this issue of Brides Southern California not only was Carissa and her husband Brian’s wedding featured (see more here or stay tuned for our Real Wedding Wednesday) but she also landed a feature in a story about wedding experts and their own wedding planning process.

Bride and Bloom is currently chalk full of Be Inspired PR clientsMy Video My Voice was featured in the Letter from the Editor

Laura Reoch’s custom eco wedding album can be seen in the section on Green Wedding Products

Alisa Benay had a beautiful full page spread of her current collection of dresses

Kristy Rice of Momental Designs was involved in a lovely collaboration with Janie from The Brides Cafe and Elizabeth Messina

A few of Carissa’s bouquets were featured in this issue

Sylvie and Stan’s wedding planned by Carolyn Chen received multi-page coverage

Bella Weddings and Events featured in Ceremony Magazine

Vineyard wedding planned by Kathy and Susan (The Bella Girls)

Inspired by These Brides, Grooms and Bicycles!

Leila — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:59:49 +0000

Last year we saw many cute trends, I have loved all of the props that couples have been using both on the wedding day, in their engagement sessions and incorporated into the styling of their event. Bicycles have been a personal favorite. They add such a youthful spirit and the couples truly look like they are having a blast. Whether the couples are avid cyclist or just enjoy a leisurely ride I am a fan of their presence in the wedding day!

Soon to be Brides and Grooms

Image by Melissa Brandman

Image by Gabriel Ryan Photographers

Brides and GroomsPhoto by Our Labor of Love

Found on 100 Layer Cake

Photo by Jesse Leake

Photo by Kate Headley

Photo by Jose Villa

Photo by Kortnee Kate

Photo by Tec Petaja

Photos by Travis Hoehne Found on Manolo for Brides

Photo by Chris and Lynn

Photos by Boutwell Studio

Photo by Smitten Photography

Photo by Jagger Photography

Photo by Oh, Darling!

Inspired by Pinkberry- Now Caters Weddings

Leila — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:38:10 +0000

Breaking news for pinkberry lovers…Pinkberry is now doing wedding catering! To find out if they are doing it in your area, contact your local store. If you are getting married in the South Bay area, you are in luck as the Hermosa Beach store is ready to make your event extra cool-get it fro yo? cool? Contact Ray the manager to get you set up. The event minimum is 25 orders which comes with transportation, set up, team to serve, breakdown and cleanup as well as all the serving bowls and utensils. Seriously loving this idea!! They are offering 6 delicious flavors: chocolate, coconut, pomegranate, passion fruit, original and green tea. They also bring all of their toppings! To get more information contact your local Pinkberry.

Images by Caroline Tran

Some of the Yummy flavors

The Toppings-So many to choose from!

Inspired by This Real Wedding-Bright and Bold Lime Green and Burgandy themed Malibu Wedding

beinspiredpr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:00:06 +0000

In October Rachel and Charles got married in a beautiful private residence in Malibu, CA. The fabrics were light and breezy and the setting…amazing! Huge thanks to Laura Grier from Beautiful Day Photography for sending over all of the stunning images.

Inspired by New Year Wedding Vendor Features!

Leila — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:18:06 +0000

I am so excited by the great features hitting stands right now and rolling out soon! Last year we ended on a great note with Alisa Benay’s feature in the Los Angeles Times. Where she was quoted along some industry greats like Vera Wang and Claire Pettibone. We are so excited for Alisa! I am so proud of my clients and so grateful that I get to work with them.

Alisa’s dress is featured top right

The first of 16 local issues of Brides with Laura from Forget Me Not design’s album included is now available. We are thrilled that the story will be running in all of the issues Laura’s album is the second from the left on the top

Kristy Rice of Momental Designs and her beautiful hand painted snowflake wedding invitation was included in the Winter issue of Inside Weddings. Both the issue and the feature are gorgeous!

Lastly, the Inspiration Team ( aka myself, Kellee, Brittany, Lauren, Oliver and our twitterless staff) at Be Inspired PR is looking to be totally inspired by all of you for 2010. We are looking for your favorite blogs to read and stay in touch with this year. Click here to comment. We will pick one lucky commenter for a special surprise! May the best blogs be listed…

Best of Be Inspired: Favorite Wedding Trends of 2009 and New blog inspiration for 2010

Leila — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:59:26 +0000

I am so excited to see what kinds of trends emerge in 2010. Some of which I hope to create with my own wedding! As an event professional you might find a few humorous and some very true trends we experienced in this business by seeing them here.

This year things went very vintage, backyard chic, fun and colorful…I can only image what we will soon start seeing. There are a few trends I am very ready to leave in 2009 i.e. the fake mustache, bride clinging to grooms leg in engagement sessions and candy stations amongst many others. I am sure you creative minds out there will come up with all new twists! So here are a few trends we featured on our blog and enjoyed in 2009.

Lastly, the Inspiration Team ( aka myself, Kellee, Brittany, Lauren, Oliver and our twitterless staff) at Be Inspired PR is looking to be totally inspired by all of you for 2010. We are looking for your favorite blogs to read and stay in touch with this year. Please list below your favorite wedding and event industry must reads with us. We will pick one lucky commenter for a special surprise! May the best blogs be listed…

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Top row:Tanja Lippert, Row 2 :Shanni Weilert, Row 3: Clayton Austin, Row 4:Martha Stewart, Shanni Weilert for center and right

Hot Air BalloonsRows 1 and 2: Jessica Claire Row 3: Maemae Paperie, Row 4 and 5: Brandon Kidd Photography

PropsTop row: Sarah Rhoads Row 2: Steven Meyers Photography Row 3: Kayleen T Photography Row 4: Amelia Lyon Row 5: Onelove Photography

Best of Be Inspired: Break out Wedding Vendors and Those Tried and True

Leila — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:58:51 +0000

This year I had the pleasure of meeting, working with and bettering friendships with so many amazing vendors. There are those that have been around for years and a group of up and comings, both of which I just love!! Here is a toast to some of my 2009 favorites! **Disclaimer-obviously my clients are amongst my very favs but I want to give a shout out to a few others!

Break out Greats

Lollipop Event Design and Coordination

Photo of the girls by Jessica Clair, others by Justin Lee

Stephanie Williams Photography

Joy Thigpen Design

Tried and True

Nancy Liu Chin Floral Design

Elizabeth Messina Photography

Jose Villa Photography

http://www.ilovelollipops.com/

Best of Be Inspired: A Few Favorite Real Weddings of 2009 on Inspired By This

Leila — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:59:56 +0000

I have loved too many weddings that we have posted this year and am so grateful for the talented photographers who sent them our way. Here are a few of my very favorites! It will be of no surprise who captured these stunning weddings.

Wedding at San Ysidro Ranch Photographed by Elizabeth Messina

New York wedding by Shira Weinberger

Planned by Duet Weddings and Photographed By Jose Villa

Best of Be Inspired: Readers Favorite Tuesday Tips from Inspired By This

Leila — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:24:10 +0000

Its New Year’s resolution time and although not all of these tips are going to make it everyone’s list they were our reader favs and just might help you get a jump on the 2010 competition or help you to be the best version of yourself you can be!

Please Hire a wedding planner

For some reason I think its common knowledge… I mean haven’t we all heard from someone, stories at some point of things that didn’t go right at a wedding. They happen at every single wedding no matter who is in charge. I know brides are working with a budget- especially these days but everyone seems to think they can save on costs by “doing it themselves”. I have an idea… Lets invest in a great photographer to capture the moments and the details, lets hire a floral designer to make everything look pretty, lets spend money on linens, favors, and a dessert bar but when it comes to getting a professional wedding coordinator to pull together all the details I just mentioned so all of them work in harmony.. lets skimp on that? Lets invest all of that but then on the wedding day as a bride you can worry or pawn it off on an aunt, mom, or wedding party member (which lets be quite frank-they will be way more frazzled than you). Just to be clear.. I am not saying I am against DIY. I’m not! I like that style BUT I am a huge advocate of bringing someone on board who knows what they are doing to put things at ease no matter the scale of the wedding.After being in the wedding industry and planning or attending as many weddings as I have, I’ve seen it first hand time and time again. However, the experience I had several weeks ago at a friend’s wedding was so unbelievable. To read the rest, click here!

Being You is your Best Bet!

Too often do people fall in love with an industry or job yet lack a clear vision and voice. So they do what’s easiest and emulate their peers. They take on the attitude of: Let’s not do the work, lets just copy everyone else and try to do things the way they do. I put these people in the “I don’t know who I am so I’ll try being you” category. People who just got married and think they are qualified to be wedding planners off the bat- are not. Just because someone has a website or blog claiming they are a photographer but haven’t ever shot a real wedding doesn’t make them legitimate. Social media gurus keep popping up as do wedding marketing and PR experts and wedding planners who can coach and teach. What about you makes you qualified to do what you do? How long have you been at your craft claiming that you are a leader and teacher? Do you have the experience to back it up? To read the rest, click here!

What is Public Relations and How is it Relevant for You

When approaching this topic, two things come to mind: The emails I receive from people who say they just need help getting press and the Samantha Jones from Sex and The City and her famous tag-line, “Samantha Jones, Public relations.” To many people, public relations is somewhat of a nebulous thing floating between marketing and advertising or they think it is a compilation of the two, while others think it is just getting into magazines and on Television. Here is the text book explanation of what it really is as explained by PR News online, “Public relations is the management function which evaluates public attitude, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or an organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn public understanding and patience.” The Leila definition is a little more simple and states, “Public relations is the management function which evaluates one’s actual and perceived value, and creates and implements a plan to enhance and maintain both.” To read the rest, click here!

Making a Shift in Your Business-Being Open to Change

I usually do my tips on Tuesdays but I decided to “change things around” which is fitting for the post today. Two weeks ago today, I spoke at the Reframe conference in San Francisco. What an amazing group of videographers and film makers who came together to share, learn, grow and sharpen their craft. I was asked to present my Wedding PR 101 seminar and to teach how to enhance marketing efforts to vendors, media and brides. I received an overwhelming response. I thought the challenge would be how I was going to communicate to a group of techies the importance of the five components of PR and making the shifts in how they do business. However, since then I’ve been amazed by the tweets and emails with feedback. This group of very talented people really proved a huge point that I’d like to share with many of you. You have to be open to change in order to evolve and achieve success! Just because you have been doing this for 5 or 15 years doesn’t mean you don’t need a new website or a new way to network yourselves. You need to be Open to change. We all need to stay relevant now a days. What are you doing to accomplish that? Get out of your home office or studio and talk to people, see who you can help and co-promote with. How are you presenting yourselves to potential clients and people you may work with? To read the rest, click here!

Invest in Yourself if You Expect Others to Invest in You

New Year coming means a New look at yourself and your business. As I talk to PR clients and many of my coaching clients about their 2010 goals: its a time to revise, refresh, rebuild and renew! So much is changing in the wedding industry. Online outlets are becoming more relevant then they were before and print publications are doing what they need to do to stay on top of their game (as some have sadly not been able to stay afloat). What actions are you taking to be the best You? If the phone isn’t ringing like it used to and sales and wedding bookings aren’t where you had hoped- what are you going to do about it? You can choose to not spend a dollar and keep a closed fist with change OR you can choose to invest in yourself in 2010. Finding the right outlets to do so will help launch your business to new heights. How can you expect others to trust you and invest in you and your services if you can’t even invest in yourself?

Invest in yourself if you expect Others to invest in YOU!Inved

Best of Be Inspired: Favorite Images from 2009 blog posts

Leila — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:04:57 +0000

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Since this is the last week of 2009 I thought I would do a little re-cap of some of the people, images and things I have blogged about and been most inspired by. Today, some of my favorite images! Please do share yours back!

Braedon Photography

Bouquet by JM Flora and Photo by Open Air

Alisha Hurt

Gabriel Ryan Photography

Tec Petaja Photography

Simply Bloom

Amelia Lyon

Image found on Martha Stewart

Cameron Ingalls

Beautiful Day Photography

Gabriel Ryan Photography

Jose Villa

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