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New styles and trends in party and event-planning deserve your attention. If you’re getting engaged, enjoy more of your pre-wedding bliss by hiring a planner. For many years, friends and family hosted the engagement party. Today’s fashion isn’t rigid. “Think of family and close friends. Those who are to be part of the wedding: this should be an intimate affair,” says Lucia M-I Cordone, CWP/CEP, Owner of Guiding Star Events, LLP. “You probably won’t have more than 50 people.”

For an engagement party at home, Cordone personalizes a planning checklist geared to event success by:

Establishing a budget: an appetizers/cocktail party may run about $25/person, or $750 guesstimate for 30

Pricing/retaining the caterer and bartender: according to your budget

Envisioning, deciding party flow: will guests sit at tables? will they “sit anywhere”?

Choosing patterns, colors, flowers, music: Modern fashion includes selecting an engagement party theme. Clients love wedding jewelry-themes. A Sound of Music theme could include edelweiss flowers, Swiss chocolates and native cheeses. If you’re planning a wedding on your boat, nautical maps and charts, along with a beach décor, announce the captain found her first mate.

Creating party favors: If planning a beach wedding, for example, Cordone suggests “sunglasses engraved with wedding date, or a pair of personalized flip flops (with tag reminder ‘bring these to the wedding, use…on the dance floor!)”

Showing convergence of separate paths: “I love photo montages and videos for this reason,” says Cordone. She works with the videographer and/or photographer to capture the bride and groom’s separate journeys to show “the beginning of life’s journey together.”

Plan your party with new styles that attract you, or work with designers to translate your idea of the perfect party. You only get married to the love of your life once!

Determining Fashion Trends

How does the average consumer determine current fashion and fashion trends? The answer is not as simple as one may think. Media sources are often the first resource as well as a major influence on the fashion industry. Which media source you turn to, will most likely depend on your age group and your social status.

Many average Americans, particularly young adult females drive the fashion industry. This particular group often looks to media sources such as fashion magazines, fashion blogs, fashion trends websites, and other social media sights to determine current fashion trends. In most cases, these trends are actually geared towards high fashion.

Moreover, as these young adult women review sources, they determine current fashion trends which in turn drive their financial purchases. This in turn influences what fashions continue to be carried at a variety of stores and prices. Thus, media influences fashion trends as well as provides the resources for many to determine current fashion trends.

Furthermore, young adult Americans also look to popular celebrities, which are often viewed as fashion role models. The current styles, colors, types of clothing, and even particular brands or designers can be influenced by celebrity endorsement or use. Some designers and celebrities have also created clothing lines that incorporate the same fashion trends as high fashion but appeal to or are designed with the average consumer in mind.

Whatever the particular source consulted, most average Americans look to media sources and celebrity sources to determine current fashion trends. These generally drive the fashion industry, thus influencing fashion trends, which eventually trickle down into fashion selections to meet everyone’s needs and to meet all budgets.

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