Can you believe this summer is almost over? I’m sad to see summer come and go so fast, but I’m not sad to see this heat go away. This month I am excited to feature Hello Bride. Jennifer and I crossed paths through the wedding industry world and they have some great products and planning tools for brides. Not only do they offer planning services, but they have some awesome tangible goods. You know so you can actually write things down for those of you who still love writing everything in notebooks! See our interview and their products below:

How did Hello Bride start?

We started planning weddings professionally a little over 5 years ago. Our favorite brides are always the ones we work beside. We love the ladies who really want to be a part of designing an amazing and unique event. That being said, when you are doing it yourself sometimes money is tight.

We have meet with a number of brides who we love but that just could not afford quality wedding planning help. We knew we wanted to create something affordable that would show them how to start planning their wedding quickly. That is when our wedding starter kit, Three Rings and A Checklist, was born. Two years ago we changed our name to Hello Bride and began focusing on wedding planning tools exclusively. We make planning your wedding fun and simple with checklists, notepads, binders and other wedding planning goodies. We absolutely love it!

What products do you have to offer brides?

Currently there are 10+ wedding planning tools in our product line. Each one is designed with our brides in mind. Our customized wedding starter kit is our most popular wedding planning tool. It makes a great engagement gift. Since, you can add the bride and groom’s names and wedding date to the front of the binder. It has made its way across the US, Australia, Europe and even places like Greece and Andorra. Our little pad for big wedding ideas made its debut at New York Fashion Week last year. Our newest wedding tool is our I Do, To Do. Do not let its size fool you. This little guy is packed full of wedding planning greatness. It is the quintessential wedding checklist you can fit in your purse. We truly believe wedding planning should be fun and simple.

What makes your products different from other wedding planning products available to brides?

Our products stand out for a few reasons. We really know who we are and what we stand for. We love our brides! We love designing honest, accessible and creative tools that help plan their wedding day.

We strive to stay current. Some wedding books imply you must be an expert at everything to plan a wedding. We firmly believe this is not true. Which is why we do not make you read a novel before you start planning your wedding. Let’s get started. Today!

We are real and we listen. Our brides want to be able to customize and make things their own. We choose a 3 ring binder for our wedding starter kit because it allows our brides to add their own items. Our brides care about their community just as much as we do. We use recycled materials whenever possible. All but one of our products is made here in the USA and printed locally in Kansas.

What services does your company offer?

Our main focus is awesome wedding planning tools. But . . . keep your eyes peeled. We do plan to start adding in more advice later this year. We are truly excited to be reworking the Hello Bride blog. It has been great being able to shift our focus to our brides and topics they will love. We may even try out a video tutorial or two in the near future. So excited!!!

How are your brides unique?

In the past year or so there has been a shift back to the handmade and artisanal. Wedding planning has become oh so technical. Our brides are pushing back. They are the brides who have shelves filled with colored pens and washi tape. They love the real-life tangible paper, pens and pencils. They want checklists, timelines, and step-by-step instructions they can hold in their hands, and we couldn’t agree more. Sigh. Wedding planning as it should be.

Meet the Hello Bride Team!

www.hellobride.com

Being a wedding photographer is one of the greatest jobs I could ask for. There are so many challenges on a wedding day and every wedding is different. I get this question almost every wedding: “What if it rains? What if it snows? What will we do?” My answer: “Trust me, we will make it work.” You can not control the weather on your wedding day and when mother nature throws curve balls at me I make the best out of them. Adam and Christy’s wedding was a true test of how a true professional handles the task at hand. We started out with cold weather but no rain and no snow. Here is a couple behind the scenes of the first part of the day.

Everyone remember the snow blizzard we had at the end of this March? Yes, that happened on Adam and Christy’s wedding day. This whole wedding party had such a good attitude and we totally rocked this blizzard. It’s so important to have this sort of attitude on your wedding day, because you can not control the weather. There is almost always something that does not go according to plan on a wedding day. If you know that going into it, your pictures will truly show it afterwards. Thank you to Allie for capturing all these behind the scene photos.