Marriage Proposal Mobbed Style

The Fox’s new reality television show Mobbed aired its 1^st episode on March 30 2011. The purpose of this episode was to create a flash mob to help Niklki’s boyfriend propose to her. I enjoyed watching this clip because this was a very fun and creative way of how to propose to your significant other. Nikki was so surprised and didn’t know what was going on at all. Watch the clip and see for yourself how special this proposal was.

How would you like to be proposed too?


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There’s an App for that: Wedding Style!

Downloading Applications on any Smartphone is the new craze. Wedding Apps are now available for use right on your handheld device. The wedding apps range from wedding planning, look books, deciding on a wedding song, counting down to your special day, and budgeting. These apps can come into handy when planning a wedding yourself, and organizing in a simplistic form, while maintaining a budget.
Below are just a few (screen shots) of many apps, you can obtain on your iPhone, iTouch, or iPad:










iWedding: plan every little detail about your wedding with iWedding. Track what you need to do to throw a dream wedding event. Manage your guest lists and wedding activities like a pro.

Wedding Bridal Binder: a powerful wedding planner that helps you stay on top of things, take notes, select vendors, stay on budget and much more.

iBride: Wedding directory and planner.  The wedding directory is divided in 13 categories and covers 50 cities in Canada and the US.

WeddingScan: a powerful wedding registry application for couples to register all kinds of stores at stores and have them uploaded to their online account.

Do you use apps for your wedding planning?  Which one is your favorite?  Does it help?

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Forever Ever?

Ruben Studdard Files for Divorce

Another celebrity marriage takes a hit.  In addition to Kim Kardashian, Ruben Studdard has just filed for divorce from his wife of 4 years.  While many would say “Wow they made it 4 years!  Hey its better than 72 days!”   We somehow miss the mark that marriage is for better, for worse AND FOR KEEPS!!!

Celebrity marriages seem to water down the institution of marriage, changing the nature and definition of the vows from “till death do us part” to “till you get on my nerves OR the publicity dies down from our wedding”. 

As wedding planners, even though we care about the aesthetics of the wedding day, a marriage is more than the flowers and white dress, we plan your special day because you have found the one person that you have committed to spend the rest of your life with…..forever…. THIS IS WHY WE CELEBRATE!!

The celebrity lifestyle is idolized by many, the glitz, the glam….the fairytale wedding! So many are misled in thinking, if the fairy tale wedding doesn’t have a happy ending, how can any ordinary marriage have a chance of success? 
Too many celebrities deceive onlookers to believe in the world wind romance….love at first sight, marriage in 3 months or 3 days.  There is more time spent planning the wedding than working on the relationship. 

I have witnessed my own parents’ marriage of 36 years, and trust me, it’s more than overcoming being bashful about using the bathroom in front of each other!!! It takes WORK, SWEAT, TEARS, STICKING IT OUT IN SICKNESS & HEALTH, FORGIVENESS and LOTS MORE.

At Events by MOJA we encourage our clients and say BEFORE YOU PLAN YOUR WEDDING…PLAN YOUR MARRIAGE.  We also have suggestions of counselors and books available.

I came across a book I would recommend to those in marriages and those contemplating marriage called Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married  By: Dr. Gary Chapman (Author of the 5 Love Languages) Purchase Here


The book centers around love, romance, conflict resolution, forgiveness, and sexual fulfillment within marriage. Included are insightful questions, suggestions, and exercises.  Here are some of the chapters:

I wish I had known:

Chapter 1. That being in love is not an adequate foundation for building a successful marriage
Chapter 2. That romantic love has two stages
Chapter 5.That apologizing is a sign of strength
Chapter 6. That Toilets are not self cleaning
Chapter 9. That mutual sexual fulfillment is not automatic

Something needs to be done to uphold the institution of marriage. 

What pre-marriage counseling or books did you read / are you reading?? 

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By Invitation Only

Every aspect of the wedding preparation plays an important role in the build up and ANTICIPATION of your day. I stumbled across IJORERE The Invitation.

         Architect by day, Invitation Extraordinaire by night, IJORERE The Invitation is one of many expressions of Ola-Tokunbo’s creativity & appreciation for what she views as Art. With her production team passionately working on beautifully hand-made earth-friendly specialties, her contemporary invitations celebrate a new innovative culture of inter-diversity with influences of her Nigerian-American background.

         Her most celebrated design & accomplishments includes her IJORERE Signature wooden box© enclosures and her upcoming posh baby papery, IJOBABY. IJORERE renews the appreciation of receiving “The Invitation” and continuously create exquisite Innovative designs guests will rave about for years to come.

         Pronounced E-Jaw-Ray-Ray and derived from a Yoruba-Nigerian meaning, Ijo Rere is actually two words made one. ‘Ijo’ means Day and ‘Rere’ means Grand. Ijorere sums up how your special occasion should be…A day that is Grand.

Imagine getting one of these invites in the mail!!

 

 

For more information on IJORERE The Invitation, visit www.ijorere.com

 

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Be Inspired

As an entrepreneur I’m always looking for inspirational stories of other bold and aspiring business owners.  This story spoke to me because Jacqueline Nwobu, along with her husband Chike Nwobu started, Munaluchi Bridal a magazine for BRIDES of color.

 

The bi-annual luxury magazine is carried in the United States, Nigeria and The United Kingdom and is sold in all Target stores – quite a feat for a publication that launched only a year and a half ago.

 

Watch below as Jacqueline talks about starting her business and the many challenges she overcame.

 

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are too busy living our fears”

~Les Brown

 

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Best Proposal Ever?!

The hardest thing about proposals is trying to come up with the best way to let your girlfriend know how much you really want to marry her.  There is so much pressure for the guys, considering the fact that you will be telling this story over and over to friends, coworkers and strangers!!
Well I just viewed what I would consider one of the most CREATIVE wedding proposals EVER!!!

Matt proposed to his girlfriend, Ginny this past weekend by sneaking a special trailer in before a screening of "Fast Five".

I'd say he did a pretty good job...what do you guys think??  Do you prefer a public or a private proposal?? Share your proposal story here!! 

Stay tuned....in our next post we will give you the 20 Most Romantic Ways to Propose!!

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Always A Bridesmaid

Before becoming a bride, I’m sure most, if not ALL of us have been bridesmaids!!!  With that said, I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see this movie!!  It comes out today!!!

 

BRIDESMAIDS….the trailer is hilarious!!  Finally a movie for the chosen women in a brides life who really want to be there for their bestfriend but would rather not deal with the expenses, matching hairstyles, matching dresses and matching shoes, drama, catfights,  and feelings of “when will it be my turn?”

I want to call up my fellow bridemaids (from all the weddings I’ve been in), tell them to put on the craziest bridesmaids dress they’ve ever had to wear and let's all go to movies!!!!  LOLOL!! : )


Brides, why not take your Ladies of Honor for a girls night out and have some laughs!!
Bridesmaids what’s the most dramatic experience you’ve had as a bridesmaid? 


Come back and tell me if you enjoyed the movie!!

P.S...If you don't want to get caught up in the shower/bachelorette planning...Events by MOJA does that too!!!

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Ain’t Nothing Like the Royal Thing…

I can't lie, I've been watching every show on WEDD Central and TLC about the royal couple.

Every bride dreams of being a princess on her wedding day and as the wedding coordinator, that’s our goal…..

We are a couple hours away from the wedding of the century. Prince William and Kate Middleton will exchange vows on Friday April 29, 2011.  I can’t help but wonder what is going through Kate’s mind as we speak….is she experiencing the typical Bride’s anxieties (multiplied by a million due to the hosts of people that will be watching)??



This wedding as all the social media components:

· Facebook www.facebook.com/TheBritishMonarchy will provide followers with reliable and up-to-date information about the Royal Wedding, and will be updated hourly on the day.
· www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel From 10am until 2pm there is a Live stream on The Royal Channel
· www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy Photographs related to the Royal Wedding will be released
· www.officialroyalwedding2011.org Official Royal Wedding website
· The @ClarenceHouse Twitter account will provide live updates on the day of the wedding

So will you tune in?
Do you think Will and Kate’s wedding will affect the wedding industry?

Stay Tuned!!



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Take A Second Look!!

Hi EbMers

Our first destination bride has sent out her invitations!!!!  Woooohooo!!!

Take a look:



Wait……did you see that????  Let me zoom in:


Events by MOJA makes its debut on its first wedding invitation!!!! 

That’s right,  in a few months Events by MOJA will be headed to the beautiful island of Jamaica to coordinate our first Destination Wedding!!!  We are so excited!!!  The bride is greaat, I love working with her!!!  

Oh and between us….there might be some celebrities in attendance.....Future EbM clientele???? (insert excited squeal here)!!!!   

We will definitely keep you updated!!

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Pop Quiz

Can you guess my favorite part of  a wedding?

a.   the bride

b.  the ceremony

c.   the groom 

d.  the flowers

e.   all of the above

 

Answer  c.  My favorite part is when the doors open, and the groom takes his first look at his bride as she begins her walk down the aisle. At that moment, I’m on my tippy toes looking over the guests (who are focused on the bride) and I’m staring at groom…tissue in hand….reading the emotions on his face that he thought he could hide.  Here are a view shots of the groom (hey…it’s their day too)!!   What do you think?  What’s your favorite part of a wedding??

 

 

 

 

 

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TAKE 2

WHOA! I can’t believe my last post was in August ‘10 and its now APRIL ‘11  soooo much has happened!!! I guess when you start a business you have to  endure a few bumps as you begin your ascension….Trivia Fact…did you know that American Apparel started their business like 10 times….and look at them now!!!….have you seen their shopping bag…a store in almost every big city around the world.  Symbolic!!!
So watch out world…EVENTS BY MOJA  is back…better than ever and soon to be in a city near you . Please check out the relaunch of our website….so savvy…compliments of DeboMedia….(best web designer ever) I just love it!!!  EBMer’s ...stay tuned as we highlight our successes, and of course share thoughts, and tidbits about weddings and event planning…strap in for the journey of Events by MOJA!!

♫ I get knocked down…But I get up again…You're never going to keep me down ♪

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