Become a Fan!

We finally created a Facebook Fan Page! Whether you're a past client, mother of the bride, current client, or you just love our blogs, come and join! We will love you forever....

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Testimonial from Mrs. Synder!

Sweet Jesaida recently emailed me a testimonial to add to my website:

When I started planning the wedding, I was very stressed out trying to figure out who was going to set up the reception venue. That's when we decided to start looking for a day of coordinator. When we hired Christina my stress immediately went away. She was more than a day of coordinator. She recommended our photographer, DJ, where to buy the flowers and decorations. She gave us a lot of ideas and kept everything in our budget. She's very professional and organized. Our wedding day was perfect thanks to her.

Thank you, Jazzy! It was great working with you too!

In case you don't watch The Office

How cool is it that the Office parodied a real wedding processional? I do love Jim and Pam's facial expressions.

Off to Dallas!

This weekend, I am in Dallas spending some much needed time with my parents and my sister. Unfortunately, this trip isn't much of a vacation... but more of a challenge of eating as much as I can, shop, and make some spa time.

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Uh, yes, Giraffes. People in Dallas love to do things BIG. I guess a Korean spa is not much different, although giraffes have nothing to do with spas.

King Spa: More images here http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/pt/slideshows/2009/01/king_spa/

We'll be eating at Omi Korean Grill, an all you can eat Korean BBQ place.

I'll also be visiting my mom's great soul food restaurant (Tomorrow's Seafood). One of my most common requests when in Dallas is to bring back my mom's fried chicked. I really wish I could. Even better, I wish there was a way my mom could ship it to Philadelphia. Until then, I'll keep flying out to Dallas.

Somewhere around there, we'll also be going to eat some authentic Japanese food, and hitting up some lobster and clam bake. Kudos to my sister for seeking out some quality places.

I will be back Tuesday. I'll be the one being rolled off the plane.

Angela and Matt get married at the Downtown Club!

This past weekend, I came home from a wedding with this...

Yes, that is a tree, or part of a tree, in the front passenger seat of my car. This is the "most random thing I brought home from a wedding." But we'll get to that later.

It was early 2008 that I first met Angela and Matt, who were both third year law students back then. They had just gotten engaged and were about to book a venue, and somewhere along the line, they decided they needed a wedding coordinator! Almost two years later, their wedding day finally arrived, and the day could not have gone any better.

Please do not mind my iphone images. The photographer was the great Jeremy Evans Thomas, and I will recap again once the images are processed. Until then, please try to enjoy my photos which do not do their wedding any justice whatsoever.

The ceremony took place at the Arch St Meetinghouse where Jewish wedding ceremony components were integrated into their otherwise nondenominational ceremony. Their friend, Karl, who was ordained online, was a great officiant.

Whimsical Welcomes set up the chuppah and pew flowers.

I remember as Tasha and I rolled out their aisle runner, we were caught off guard by the monogram on the aisle runner. We had no idea! It was beautiful.

The weather man promised scattered thunderstorms, and I worried that my no-rain-on-wedding-day streak would finally come to an end. But the weather gods must love cHill Weddings because it barely drizzled after the ceremony, allowing Angela and Matt to walk to their reception venue and get portraits along the way.

After the ceremony, cHill Weddings headed over to the Down Town Club, where we were greeted by Kelly and staff. What a great team of people to work with (and food was aplenty and delicious)!

So here's the beautiful tree that ended up in my car.

Whimsical Welcomes created this escort card centerpiece. It was so unique, we loved it! Their initials were carved into the tree, and adorned with two small pomanders.

Angela made these cute leaf escort cards. You can open them up, and inside was your table assignment. Guests loved them.

The escort card table also had the Adesso Photo album and two Polaroids. Bree, the intern, and I manned these and took picutres of guests as they came off the elevators. Guests loved looking at all the polaroids! And I think Angela and Matt will forever love having these cute images of all their guests. *

Angela and Matt had 4 different type of centerpieces:

It was great working with Angela and Matt. They brought me in as their Day of Coordinator, but since we met so early on, I feel like we've been working together forever! I was happy to refer them to some of my favorite vendors.

Vendor Roundup:

Day of Coordinator : Christina and Bree of cHill Weddings, LLC

Photography: Jeremy Evans Thomas

Ceremony Venue: Arch St. Meetinghouse

Reception Venue: Down Town Club

Flowers: Whimical Welcomes

DJ: 4 Most Sound
Hotel: Penns View Inn

Makeup: Bella by Design

Become a Fan!

We finally created a Facebook Fan Page! Whether you're a past client, mother of the bride, current client, or you just love our blogs, come and join! We will love you forever....

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The Birthday of the Love of My Life

Today marks the birthday of my wonderful husband. He's typically behind the scenes of this company, taking care of the legal and business side of things. He's also helped friends in the industry as well. He prefers to stay behind the scenes; doesn't "Facebook" or "MySpace" or blog (except occasionally on our personal doggie blog), but he's made some appearances on my web pages, here and there.

Well since today is his birthday, I thought I'd post some of our wedding photos featuring my handsome man.

Getting ready, putting on his silver cufflinks I got him for our anniversary.

Looking all contemplative (aka Nervous)

He shook hands with all his groomsmen once they were lined up. Totally impromptu and took the guys off guard, but it was such a nice touch. It meant a lot to have his friends up there with him.

Here he is with his beautiful sister, Jenn. She shares the same birthday month as me, and is a few days older. I'm fortunate to have married into such a loving family.

His Reservoir Dogs shot: all the guys looking extremely sexy and tough.

See that ring, ladies? He's mine!

I'm so lucky to have a husband like Chris. Not only is he supportive of everything I do, he's also there to take care of me when I'm sick, laugh at me when I'm being silly, and always there to bring me back to reality, but not afraid to let me fly when I'm dreaming.

When I told him I wanted to forget med school and start my own business, he didn't laugh at me, but helped me plan to start my company effectively. To this day, he analyzes my finances, contracts, advertising stats, and cheers me on as I leave the house for a wedding. It may seem silly, but one of the most important things he did for my company was coming up with our name! cHill Weddings. I thought it was stupid. He said, "Just try it out. Trust me." And I went to my first networking meeting, and people loved it. They can't forget it. It holds my name and also describes my working personality and the type of clients I work with.

He's smart and business savvy, and without him, my company never would exist. I never would have met the wonderful couples I work with, and I never would have met the great friends I made in the industry.

But most importantly, he completes my life: marriage, home, family.

I am so lucky to have married this man.

Happy Birthday! I love you.

All images by Chris Bickford: http://www.chrisbickford.com/