A Wedding Coordinator’s Secret Weapon for “Killing It” on Wedding Day

Meet your Wedding Party Attendant!  She’s your problem solver, hand-holder, time manager and caretaker.   She’s Inspired Occasions’ secret weapon to great day-of coordination and killing it on wedding day. Wedding days are incredibly complicated.  There are many moving parts, tasks to be completed and people going in different directions at the same time.  Although a great
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Top Ten Reasons We Make a Difference on Wedding Day

We all know that wedding day can be stressful, exciting, and overwhelming at the same time. Here are our top ten reasons the Inspired Occasions team can make a difference on your wedding day!    
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TOASTING THE HAPPY COUPLE

There are those moments during a wedding; a few times during the day that everyone’s attention is one place while something truly special is happening.  Of course, the ceremony is one of these moments, but there is another one of these moments . . .  the toasts.  In nearly a decade of planning weddings with
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Divine Design: Megan and Adam – Old Daley Inn on Crooked Lake

As a Wedding Planner, I am naturally obsessed with details.  When I meet a couple who is as detail oriented as I am, it’s a match made in heaven.  Megan and Adam were like my planning soulmates.  When they hired Inspired Occasions for full service planning of their Capital District destination wedding, their vision was
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Venue Spotlight: Mass MoCA – North Adams, Massachusetts

As professional wedding planners, our Inspired Occasions team gets work in a variety of beautiful locations each year.  It is a special treat when we get to coordinate at a venue for the first time and even more special when the venue is incredibly unique like the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art aka Mass MoCA.
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Real Wedding: Jenn & Peter – The Sagamore Resort, Bolton Landing, NY

Jenn and Peter’s spring wedding at The Sagamore Resort is one of Inspired Occasions’ greatest triumphs in event design. Jenn and Peter had a clear vision of a black tie yet all white wedding filled with dramatic design details. It was our job to understand the vision, create a design plan and find a dream
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Detail of the Day: Kim, Chris and their Caricaturist

As Planners and Coordinators, we attend a lot of weddings! However, we never fail to be delighted by the ways that our couples make their weddings unique to them. When we look back at each wedding Inspired Occasions has been lucky to be a part of, there is always one detail that stands out as
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Small Wedding, Big Venue: Creative ways to take up space

When Bride Kate contacted me six months before her wedding looking for help with planning, she had two things; a guest list and a venue.  She and her fiancé Gordon were expecting approximately 90 guests for a June wedding at The Hall of Springs in Saratoga, New York; a venue with soaring ceilings that can
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Kate & Gordon – The Hall of Springs, Saratoga Springs, NY

When looking in the Albany area there is no other choice. Bottom line. We we’re unfamiliar with vendors in the area and Taia didn’t steer us wrong once. Our wedding day was flawless, Taia even personally drove some of my family back to their hotels that missed our shuttle. Her attention to detail was superb
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Behind the Scenes in 2016 with the Staff of Inspired Occasions

Eight years ago, I planned and coordinated my very first wedding and I did it all by myself. Although that first Inspired Occasions wedding was a great success, I knew by the end of the night that the job of a Wedding Planner is not meant to be done alone. I needed help! I started building
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