Over the last few weeks Cindy has been doing some research and found what I think is the best notification system for readers of our blog. If you would like to be informed by email every time we make an entry scroll down under the archives section on the right hand column and "Enter your Email Address" in the box and hit subscribe. They will send you an email you have to click the confirm option and you are set.

if you know of someone else who is planning their wedding and might find some of our advice helpful please send them this link!

We are all so excited about this new option and hope that you find it to be a helpful tool. please leave a comment if you have any thoughts on the service!

I am going to try my best to make entries into the blog once a week with helpful hints that brides might be able to use to make their wedding more fun, affordable, beautiful and interesting.

Every year around this time I troll the alleys of Livingston and gather large bouquets of lilacs. If I were to get married again I would plan my wedding during the early spring so I could have lilacs and lily of the valley as my flowers. I come from a family of do it yourselfers (is that a word?) and sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. For my wedding, 17 years ago, I bought my own flowers the day before my wedding at the market in LA and arranged the flowers myself the morning of my wedding. I have to say I wouldn't recommend the latter part of that plan. My bouquet was too large and it didn't have a 'style' to it. If you do want to save some money in regards to flowers you can choose flowers that are in season because they are more affordable during that time of the year. I would definitely recommend hiring a professional florist for this. You can choose the style of your flowers and not have to worry about the details on your wedding day. I always recommend that my clients choose vendors who's work they love and who they feel will take care of all of their needs on the wedding day. After all of the hours of planning your wedding celebration you should be able to relax and celebrate all day long!

If you have something that learned from your wedding day please leave a comment for others to see.....

I'll write about my photographer next time.....
Melanie

Hi my name is Melanie Nashan, I am the owner of montanaweddingguide.com (Montana Wedding Guide) and Nashan Photographers. I have been shooting weddings in Montana since 1991 and love my job and living in this gorgeous state. Over the years we have worked with hundreds of brides who have been married in Montana, most of them are planning their first wedding, some brides live in state and others who are planning a destination wedding, and find the process overwhelming. I try to always offer my advice and recommend vendors because I know how many decisions have to be made in order to plan a beautiful wedding and empathize with the idea of doing it for the first time.

So last year I started thinking of creating a wedding planning site. Over the last year everyone in my office at Nashan Photographers has been talking about the idea to create an online Montana wedding guide that would help make planning a wedding easier for Montana brides. In our minds we wanted a site that would offer the following services:

• a variety of links to various vendors that work with brides in Montana




• their expert advice that would make planning a Montana wedding easy




• photographs of weddings in Montana that give the feeling of our beautiful state




• ideas of wedding details that a bride planning a wedding in Montana might want to use




• a web page that is contemporary and pretty to be on




• a blog that would be updated often that would give an insight into the various experiences we have had at our Montana weddings

So at the beginning of May montanaweddingguide.com went live. It has been a large undertaking and has required countless hours of work by Cindy, Chieko, Carrie and myself. I am very excited about the prospects of our site growing and becoming an integral part of any bride planning a wedding in Montana.

If you are a bride or a vendor and have any questions or suggestions please leave a comment on the blog. I am always open to new ideas and trying to make the page more useful to everyone involved.

Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to create the site and to my friends and vendors who have agreed to advertise on montanaweddingguide.com (Montana Wedding Guide) during it's infancy. Your support is greatly appreciated!!!!