Archive for the ‘Wedding planning’ Category
Financing for Weddings
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Scott Almeida
Wedding Payment Plan Founder: Scott Almeida
A wedding is one of the most important days of your life. It can also be one of the most expensive, running $28,000 on average, according to some estimates. For those who don’t have that much, there’s a new company out of Norwell, Mass., that could help: Wedding Payment Plan will finance your wedding.
Scott Almeida, 35, says he got the idea from watching a family friend succeed at financing orthodontia and Lasik eye and cosmetic surgery. “My first thought wasn’t weddings; it was funerals,” he laughs. “But weddings are a lot more fun.” He wrote up a business plan as a nighttime MBA student at Babson College and began raising money from family and friends. He also tapped $100,000 from an account that he and nine former classmates had set up to back whoever came up with the best startup idea.
In 2007, he left his day job as a venture capitalist to work full-time on Wedding Payment Plan. The average loan runs about $10,000 with a fixed 9.9% interest rate paid back over five years. The company hasn’t yet financed 500 weddings, but in the last year applications have jumped 333%. Almeida is raising $500,000 to go national and says the lending venture could turn profitable as early as mid-2009.
Russell Brand and Katy Perry’s Wedding to Be Clothing Optional
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Katy Perry and Russell Brand
FROM Peoplestylewatch.com
By Tim Nudd and Alexis Chiu
Russell Brand has absolutely no secrets to divulge about his upcoming wedding to Katy Perry. Well, maybe he can share a minor detail about the dress code.
“We are going to do the wedding naked! All the families will be naked!” Brand joked to PEOPLE at Sunday’s 2010 Grammy Awards.
He’s kidding. “We’re still deciding what to do,” he says. “There’s no juicy details yet.”
But actually, a naked ceremony is one of the less quirky visions Brand has had for the wedding day.
“All my dream weddings don’t make sense,” he says. That’s probably because his dreams – the literal, nighttime kind – can be a bit hallucinatory.
“The vicar will start melting,” he says. “The people in the front row will turn into people from my school. And then everyone will only say the word ‘potato.’ ”
But in all seriousness, Brand, 34 – who recently threw an engagement party in Beverly Hills with his fiancée, 25 – says life is firing on all cylinders.
“I’m getting married to a beautiful woman,” he says. “I’m enjoying my work.”
What could be better? “Nothing,” he says.”
Carrie Underwood Already Has Her Wedding Look Planned Out
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Carrie Underwood
FROM TotalBeauty.com
Sounds like a great idea to us! However, Carrie Underwood added that her hockey-playing beau, Mike Fisher of the Ottawa Senators, will be helping her work out the rest of the wedding details.
Underwood told the news source that Fisher was at first apathetic towards planning the big day, but lately he has become more invested in the decisions.
“He’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t care. Just whatever you want!’ “Underwood said. “But then I go and ask him, ‘What do you think about this?’ and he’ll go ‘Oh, no,’ and he’ll weigh in.”
We’re glad that Fisher is stepping up to the plate, because the blonde bombshell seems to be one busy lady! It was recently announced that the singer will be performing in the Michael Jackson Tribute at this year’s Grammy Awards.
IVANKA TRUMP – NEWLYWED TRUMP TURNS PROPOSAL PLANNER
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Ivanka Trump-Kushner
From ContactMusic.com
Newlywed IVANKA TRUMP is sharing her wedding expertise – by launching a custom service to help nervous men plan their engagements.
The business-minded daughter of real estate mogul Donald Trump is offering the New York Proposal Package to clients purchasing diamond engagement rings from Trump’s Bridal Bar in her Manhattan boutique.
The deal includes a complimentary stay in a romantic suite, outfitted with champagne and roses, in Manhattan’s Trump International Hotel & Tower.
Trump says, “We understand how challenging it can be for men to not only shop for a ring, but plan the perfect way to pop the question. We will plan everything: all he has to do is ask!”
The 28 year old exchanged vows with businessman Jared Kushner in a traditional Orthodox Jewish ceremony at her dad’s golf club in New Jersey in October (09).