my Kate Parker Wedding Blog Moves!

Don't forget that the my Kate Parker Wedding blog has moved to Wordpress! Be sure to check it out at www.mykateparkerwedding.com.

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myKPW Site Reveal - A Bride's Budget

A bride's budget is always an influential part of the planning process and a component that is often revisited. For this reason, we felt it's super important to create a resource for a bride to easily track and visualize her expenses with the use of charting--but nothing too complicated. For each service, brides will be able to view the Industry Standard (based on her budget) compared to what she is actually spending. Check out a screen shot of the Budget page available to brides on myKPW:

my Kate Parker Wedding is a new online wedding resource guide launching in January 2010 geared toward directing brides to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

myKPW Site Reveal - A Bride's To Do List

A To Do List is an essential item to guide brides through the planning process of their wedding. While other bridal resources provide To Do Lists, many of them can be a little daunting with all of the items they list. Our idea is to simplify and give the bride the ability to customize the list to fit her wedding details.

Also, other resources tend to be generated by one voice. With myKPW, we want to reach out to all myKPW vendors for thoughtful advice that can be incorporated into the list, linking each vendor to their vendor page.

Below are screenshots of the To Do List and some details as to how a bride is able to personalize her list to fit her wedding:

- In the left-hand column, the bride can reorder her list either by renumbering her list or by using the up and down arrows.

- The bride can sort her list either by chronological order or she can sort by vendor category so she can easily anticipate upcoming tasks.

- Personal notes can be added, whether she wants to put in a meeting time and date or a phone number to call a vendor, she can add in tasks that are for HER wedding. Furthermore, the bride can expand the note to include a more detailed reminder or thought.

- For each To Do task, the bride can expand the task to read in more detail as to what the task might entail or require.

- With the check boxes on the right, a bride can select if the task is "Done" or "Remove" in case the task does not pertain to her wedding. She can also select "Add" to place a new line item into her list. For example, if she wants to add in that she's taking Dance Lessons, a new task will appear.

my Kate Parker Wedding is a new online wedding resource guide launching in January 2010 geared toward directing brides to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

myKPW Site Reveal - Creating a Featured Wedding

Creating a Featured Wedding on myKPW is super easy and we just wanted to show vendors how quick it really is. Check out the snapshots below to get an idea of how setting up a Featured Wedding works on myKPW.

(And we just wanted to note that the example photos below are of a wedding this past summer, captured by Liesl at Claris Photography)

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On the Featured Weddings page, you will have a blank template to begin your setup. Open the toggle photo tray to display all photos that you loaded to your vendor page.

Once you've decided which photos you want to use in your Featured Wedding, all you need to do is drag the image to the desired spot.

And there you go! Easy as that. Once you've filled in all spot with the photos you want to use, now you're ready to give your Featured Wedding it's details.

In the Featured Wedding view, at the top of the page select "Edit Wedding Text".

Here, you can enter in a title and the colors scheme of the wedding.

The color options are simply a drop down menu which displays a wide range of color options.

Then you can identify the style, season, date of the wedding, and any sort of description that you'd like to include.

And there you go!

Now, just one more step...adding in all of the Vendors who were a part of the wedding. So back up at the top of the page, select "Edit Vendors". Each field will auto load the myKPW vendors so that each one will not have to be typed out in full.

And you're done! All of the Vendors appear on the right side of the page and are linkable.

Why should a bride visit MY Kate Parker Wedding?

Good Question.  There are plenty of resources out there today, both in print and on-line.  One of my pet peeves about wedding resources is brides are given TOO many options when looking through countless advertisements.  Anyone with a checkbook can take an ad out regardless of their quality.  Not only that, the more money you spend, the bigger the ad, the better you look.  I think brides deserve to see a limited number of HIGH QUALITY vendors in order to make an educated decision.  At MY KPW we are limiting the number of vendors in each category, hand-selecting each company based on their quality, level of customer service, style and sophistication.  We will be featuring our MY KPW vendors throughout this website, with interviews, news and events, and photos.  We guarantee we will only be featuring the best of the best in each state and each price point.  

REVOLUTIONIZING HOW WEDDINGS ARE PLANNED

Welcome to the MY Kate Parker Wedding blog!

Welcome to the MY KPW family!  This blog will be used to introduce you to the incredible vendors we have selected to be a part of MY KPW.  We will be showing you photos, editorial coverage, and lots of great advice from these fantastic people.  They are the best in their respective fields and we're so excited and grateful for their support!  We will also be revealing news and updates about the programming of MY KPW so stay tuned and come back often to see what's going on!

- Kate