Ran over this today. A personal trainer who specializes in personal training for brides: Jenny Didonato.  She’s a to be bride herself and her wedding is coming up in August of this Year.

She specializes in personal training and has over 35+ free very high quality episodes devoted to personal training.

She lives right here in Metro Detroit as well.

Fiance2wife.com recently posted, on June 29th, 2008, some typical questions that you should ask a photographer. I’ve probably have answered some of these already in my own posts. I’d like to build a dialog; thus i’d like to answer some questions that the blog addressed. Keep in mind their blog is local to the UK so things might be a bit different; Regardless, these are some typical questions a bride would ask.

Questions provided by fiance2wife.com. Many of these are specific to our practices. I just wanted to respond to these questions because they’re commonly asked throughout the internet and you never know who is searching for these answers on the internet.

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With my experience and contact with a handful of Brides I’ve have collected some online websites over the past year or so to help brides with planning.

The advent of ease of information it has become increasingly efficient for brides nowadays to plan their own wedding: Finding places of information for brides. Here is my list of top 10 free online websites and communities that help brides in finding and working on their perfect wedding.

1. Museweddings.com - Currently in beta, this online web application provides brides with a productivity tool and ideas for brides to set a to do list.
2. Weddingparty.com - If you want a website with less annoying banner ads, easier to find content and a less cluttered website. This is probably ideal for you. This directory is for those who are sick of “The Knot.” The directory also contains one of the best wedding photographers that you could find. The project is originally created by Marcus Sark a photographer from the Ann Arbor area.
3. Wedfog.com - This free resource provides clear answers about Wedding photography from photographers. The wealth of information is aplenty and helpful for brides answering their many common questions that brides have so your consultation with your photographer will go much less hectic and smoother as planned!
4. Yelp.com - Not commonly seen as a tool for weddings, it can be useful because it is one very popular website for rating services from restaurants to hotels to shopping in areas where you have not been. This is especially useful if you are planning a wedding from a different state or even a destination wedding in a different area of the US.
5. Weddingbee.com - This website/blog/community contains many blog posts and a wealth of information that vary from dresses. The website even features its own wikipedia that has been written and created by the community of weddingbee.com readers.
6. Flickr.com - This website is primarily a photosharing website. Recently, I have seen a trend among web-savvy brides to tell their guests to post and tag their wedding so that everyone at their wedding can see share and post other people’s images. The service is free and provided by yahoo! Users of this service have several privacy options as well
7. Myspace.com/facebook.com - For most Millenial brides this is already a given. Many brides already have profiles as well as myspace pages. But for those who are unaware of this service. It is very helpful for passing invites and informing your closest friends and network of friends about your relationship status as well as reminding others when your wedding is. This might not be helpful if you haven’t been meeting and adding friends to MySpace or Facebook. But nowadays both social networking websites are so ubiquitous the chances of your friends being online are very good. Even my friends ant farm, and pets are on MySpace. All in all Facebook / Myspace are the modern way of managing your contacts with friends / relatives / and everyone that you may come into contact with. It can also be useful for you to create guest lists and to figure out whom you might want to invite.
8. Blogger.com - Set up a blog for you and your fiance! This way you can write about your progress up to your wedding date as well as keep your friends, relatives and guests updated as well. It only takes a couple minutes to set up this blog. The blog allows you many different themes. I’m not positive but I’m pretty sure someone has probably already created a wedding related theme by now.
9. Google Calendar - If you don’t already have a google calendar this is probably the best calendar i’ve ever used. Google calendar has lots of features that lets you put important dates online and then will remind via mobile if necessary. Google calendars also allows you to share important events with others. You can even create seperate calendars for you and your fiance so that he/she can be updated with dates as well.
10. Me. Feel free to email me if you have any questions or just want to send some love to my email box. That is always great!