Happy New Year and Welcome Back!!!!

Hello Readers!!!

Bye-Bye 2011!!!! Welcome New Year, welcome new heights!!

Welcome back to our blog!! We took a break to let the holidays pass and let all of you settle in but we are back! We are ready to have an exciting and fun-filled year with you all!

Could be you!!

This is such a busy year for BCG! We have so many amazing weddings coming up including MINE! Loll! We are so eager to see how this year will unfold. We will be doing some new things with our blog this year. We will still have our Ah! Mazing Vendor and Beautiful Wedding features but we will now be sharing trends, inspiration boards, and the most EXCITING thing we are doing this year will be a FREE wedding giveaway! Yes that is right, we will be planning and designing a wedding for a deserving couple with a compelling love story to share with us!! I will have more details about that as time goes on, so stay tuned with us!


We are ALSO looking for more wedding bloggers!! If you have a passion for weddings and love to write and blog! Please contact me at bcgblogger[at]gmail[dot]com. We want you!


Stay Beautiful My Loves,
Memi

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Wedding Planning Diary Introduction!!!

Hey Guys!!

So I promised everyone that I would journal my wedding planning process. Anyone that has planned a wedding or knows someone that has planned a wedding, can tell you it has it's really good times and it has not so good times. I've only been engaged for about 5 months now and I can testify to that, lol! Planning something that means soooo much to you with so many different opinions, suggestions, and thoughts can very well be one of the hardest things a person will ever plan. I have MAD respect for those who do it all without a wedding planner, but as for me...I am lucky enough to have BCG Events (yes we plan & coordinate TOO!!) with me EVERY step of the way!

My main purpose of doing this is not to brag or "show-off" but mainly for my entries to serve as a support system for myself and other planning brides out here. I want other African brides planning African weddings using African vendors to reach out to me and let me know that I am not alone with the frustrations that come along with planning. I also want planning and future brides to use me and this blog as a resource for inspiration, advice, or just a place to vent! I'm here to listen and I hope you guys will be there for me as well!

So on that note, I will just tell you a little bit about my personal wedding style.

If you remember a post I did some time ago on How to Select Your Wedding Style. If you refer back to that post I thought I was slick by posting some of MY inspiration photos in a blog post, loll! But those first four photos actually describe my wedding style almost perfectly. I plan on adding a little more of a wispy, light, airy feel to it by using really soft colors that will set an ETHEREAL ambiance...and that is my theme! Ethereal, heavenly, soft, billowy....I basically want my guests to feel like they are being enveloped in a cloud of lavishness! If you don't get it, don't worry my duty over the next couple of months is to tell you how I plan on executing that and take you with me through the highs and lows of wedding planning. Here are more pics that kind of inspire me and made me fall in love with my theme...you may have seen me post some of these pics before because I'm obsessed but whatever, here they are again, haha! Sorry about the lack of credits...I've totally lost track due to plenty of emailing, cut and pasting...but I found MOST of them on Google.


Sidenote: The color palette that we'll be working with are a range of peaches, blush pinks, soft oranges, ivory, and gold accents :-)

Stay Beautiful My Loves,

Memi

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Hi, I'm Memi

Hello Everyone!!!

My name is Memi Daniyan and I am the new blogger for BCG Events! I am sooo excited about this opportunity, if you ask ANYone close to me what do I love the most after God and my loved ones they will definitely tell you WEDDINGS. All of my friends and family are aware of this "obsession" that consumes my extra time! Just a couple of weeks ago I was thinking to myself like there HAS to be a way I can channel this passion and lo and behold I came across a tweet from @bcgevents (Follow us on Twitter!!) mentioning they were looking for a new blogger. I immediately inquired about the opportunity and here I am! I am ready to share my passion AND be a liason between you guys and the entire BCG team to keep everyone up-to-date on what is going on with us! What can you expect from me you ask? Well we have SOO many beautiful and wonderful things in store for you, everything from beautiful real weddings, how-to guides, love stories and features on superior African vendors! I hope you all will enjoy reading as much as I will enjoy writing!

I have posted below some pretty little things that inspire me and keep this passion burning.



http://www.tacori.com/ Style #2580RD8




http://www.lovelylopez.net/




http://www.essence.com/




Annie Hosfield Photography via http://www.theknot.com/




http://waterforchocolate.tumblr.com/




http://www.digitallighting.com/




http://hauteavenueparis.tumblr.com/




http://www.digitallighting.com/





theweddingdiaries.tumblr.com

 I could go on and on with pictures of beautiful things that make my heart pitter-patter but that's why I'm here!! LOL! So every now and then I'll have posts called "Beauty Sightings" just little details whether it's a dress, a floral arrangment, a ring...just ANYthing gorgeous that I happen to stumble across that I feel you all will enjoy.

This is the part where you guys leave comments and tell me what YOU would like to see. I want this to be as interactive as possible, so let me know what YOU want to know about in regards to wedding planning, event decor, photo inspirations, etc. I'm open to ALL comments, suggestions, and even constructive criticism :-) So buckle your seatbelts as we embark upon this journey of all things BEAUTIFUL and all things LOVE!

Stay Beautiful My Loves,

Memi

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