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The Wedding Timeline 9-12 months before the wedding

o Officially announce your engagement. o Decide who pays for what and set an overall budget. o Set a wedding date; may depend upon officiate’s o o o

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availability and venues where you book the ceremony/ reception (liability insurance necessary).

Decide what type of wedding you both want (formal, semi-formal, informal).

Hire wedding planner, if you wish.

Start first draft of guest list.

6-9 months before the wedding o Announce wedding date/send “save the date” cards o o o o o o o o o

(especially to out-of-town guests).

Start shopping for wedding dress, shoes, jewelry, etc.

Decide on bridesmaid dresses.

Decide on flowers, bouquets and decorations.

Hire catering service, photographer/videographer and DJ/band.

Discuss ceremony with officiate.

Decide where to set up wedding registries.

Reserve hotel rooms (in varying price ranges) for outof-town guests.

Have an engagement party, if you wish.

Book honeymoon.

2-4 months before the wedding o o o o o o o o o o o o o

Finalize guest list and send invitations.

Select place for rehearsal dinner and menu.

Select music for ceremony, reception, etc.

Book hairstylist and makeup artist; schedule an appointment to have hair and makeup done prior to wedding to make sure they’re done the way you want.

Confirm tuxes for groom and groomsmen have been ordered.

Organize wedding transportation for you and your guests.

Order wedding favors, if you wish.

Find gifts for each other, attendants, shower hostesses, parents, etc.

Purchase wedding accessories (candles, baskets, ring pillow, etc.).

Check registries regularly (there always should be enough options available).

Arrange joint bank accounts, insurance, merging of money.

Start honeymoon preparations.

Send invitations eight weeks prior to wedding date and include maps, itineraries and hotel information.

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Organize from 9-12 months before the wedding until the first days after the wedding. Don’t feel overwhelmed. Just pick the ones that best suit your dream wedding.

4-6 months before the wedding o Select and order wedding invitations, stationery and o o o o o o o o o o o o o

seating place cards.

Choose wedding cake.

Discuss menu with catering service.

Arrange for rental items, if necessary.

Purchase wedding rings.

Order groom’s tux and decide what groomsmen will wear.

Confirm bridesmaids have ordered their gowns and decide on accessories.

Look for wedding favors, if you wish.

Confirm bridal shower dates and bachelorette party themes.

Start registry, before sending bridal shower invitations.

Get ideas for wedding hair styles and makeup.

Organize helpers (readers, musicians, guestbook attendants, etc.).

Give guest list to shower hostess.

Decide whether you want wedding insurance.

1-2 months before the wedding o Have first bridal gown fitting. o Schedule final fitting for your gown so that it’s ready for o o o o o o o o o o

formal bridal portrait.

Finalize ceremony readings, songs, etc.

Design wedding program.

Meet with officiate to finalize ceremony.

Arrange bridesmaid luncheon and other pre-wedding parties.

Write vows.

Set appointment with photographer for formal bridal portrait.

Prepare photo and video shoot list.

Check requirements for blood test and marriage license in your state.

If leaving country for your honeymoon, get a passport or renew existing one.

Discuss and finalize details with wedding service providers.

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Arrange name change, if you wish.

Mail rehearsal dinner invitations.

Confirm hotel arrangements for out-of-town guests.

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payment. o Have final wedding gown fitting. o Finalize wedding day schedule and share with attendants, parents and all vendors. o Pick up wedding dress, make sure all accessories are together in one place. o Reconfirm ALL wedding plans (ceremony, reception site, florist, photographer/videographer, musicians, DJ, baker, honeymoon). o Give final count to caterer and reception site. o Prepare emergency kit with needle, thread, safety pins, tape, mirror, etc. o Give someone at home emergency numbers of honeymoon locations, credit card numbers, alarm and garage codes for your home, extra house and car keys. o Finalize seating plan/prepare place cards. o Prepare wedding and reception box for necessary accessories. o Prepare wedding favors for transportation, if you wish. o Confirm rental and floral delivery dates and times. o Confirm arrival times for attendants. o Pack for wedding night and honeymoon.

day before the wedding o Prepare payment envelopes, choosing who is responsible for each one. o Distribute assignment lists and checklists to ensure everyone knows their task. o Give rings to best man. o Get manicure, pedicure, massage. o Rehearse ceremony with officiate and wedding party. o Confirm flight arrangements/print boarding passes/ have passports available for honeymoon. o Compile emergency list of all wedding vendors with phone numbers and email addresses.

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Sweetened by Love Unique cakes are all the rage as wedding trends change with the times

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ong gone are the days when a wedding cake was limited to a white-tiered confection with a bride and groom on top. The types of desserts local bakeries are creating to celebrate a sweet start to marriage are often as special as the couples taking their vows.

From couples’ requests to Cleveland-area bakeries, Davis Bakery created a coconut bar wedding cake; Phyllis Lester Designs produced a “baked Alaska” cake with marshmallow meringue frosting filled with fudge and layers of ice cream; Lucy’s Sweet Surrender developed a cake buffet; The Grand Finale baked a RiceKrispies treat cake, and Luna Bakery Cafe made an animal-themed cake for a wedding at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens.

For their July 2011 wedding, Jordan and Danna Rivchun, former Beachwood residents now living in Columbus, requested that the bakers at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven recreate a “funky and non-traditional” cake the bride had set her eyes on well before the big day.

“I actually found the cake I wanted years ago in the window of a bakery in town,” says Danna Rivchun. “I ended up getting exactly what I wanted since I had taken a picture of it.”

The bakers at Landerhaven, in Mayfield Heights, recreated the purple, black and white cake of her dreams, with differently shaped tiers.

“Two of the layers were white with buttercream, and the other two were chocolate with buttercream,” Rivchun says. “I like vanilla and my husband likes chocolate. So we compromised and each got two layers of the flavor we liked.”

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Jamie Katz, of Longmont, Colo., married the woman of his dreams, Shelley Siegal, a pastry chef formerly of Fairview Park. It goes without saying they intended to treat their guests to a memorable dessert.

“I’ve had good wedding cakes before, but they’re nothing I’ve wanted to talk about after,” says Katz, formerly of Shaker Heights.

“They’re more for looks than taste. We’re both foodies, and we went based on taste more than tradition.”

The couple decided on Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson to wow their

guests at The Terrace Club at Progressive Field in June 2008. Guests could choose two flavors from myriad options: mint chocolate chip, cookie dough, chocolate with cream in the middle, almond cake with buttercream frosting, white cake with strawberry frosting, and chocolate cake with toffee.

Not only were the cupcakes a crowd-pleaser, they also were less expensive than a traditional cake, Katz says.»

Right: Cupcake display at Jamie and Shellie Katz’s wedding. Photo / Tom Feisel, New Age Foto

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Cupcakes are a hot wedding trend because of their variety and affordability.

They also are popular in the growing vegan community.

Vegans don’t eat food containing animal products, such as eggs. Vegan Sweet Tooth in Woodmere is seeing more cupcake orders than ever before.

“Our mini cupcakes have become a huge element in weddings,” says Tiffany O’Neill, co-owner of Vegan Sweet Tooth. “Some brides get a smaller cake and supplement them with cupcakes, and they rent a cupcake tree from us.”

As culinary tastes and trends change, look for new sweet creations to cap the wedding meal. JSW

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contents 18 Winter 2013

10 Timing is of the essence 14 Scrumptiousness for newlyweds

18 Keeping it in the family 22 Getaways that seal the knot 30 Venturesome venues 36 Vintage locales for fresh couples

38 The wedding must go on 42 Getting to know you 44 Trends for new couples

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46 Hybrids can work 50 Roughing it for love 52 What the modern man (may) need 56 Rings of plenty

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60 On the wedding tip 62 Gifting those essential helpmates 68 Extending your wedding brand 72 Freezing the wedding frame 76 Products: beach/rustic

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In fact, Ben Kaplan could be counted on – for appreciating wine and the details required to produce an event with happy guests.

(He manages a fine Italian restaurant in New York City.)

But that was not the main reason why Daniel Gottlieb and Rachel Kaplan asked her brother to marry them.

My “son-in-love” (as I called him before the wedding) and my daughter were not connected to any congregation while in graduate school at the University of CaliforniaDavis. Their Jewishness, they explained, was defined by their shared joy in traditional celebrations.

They envisioned a wedding

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ceremony that was less about faith and more about family. As Ben also told our guests: “For Rachel and Daniel, family and community have always been an integral factor for celebration.” And so it was.

Shortly after the proposal (which also took place in a winery), the family became engaged in creating a wedding ceremony where precious Jewish traditions would be woven into a personal story. First, Ben made sure he was “legitimized” and soon discovered just how easy that was. (Go to www. themonastery.org/ordination.)

Then we checked with the state of California (no

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problem) and sought counsel from a rabbi, who reassured that an ordained rabbi is not a wedding requirement.

The book, “The Creative Jewish Wedding” by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, proved to be a trustworthy guide in providing structure and inspiring creativity. After a quick read, the bride’s grandmother offered her own poignant contribution to the ceremony: she embroidered a tallit with the names of other grandparents who had passed away. This tallit was entwined in the chuppah, a touching reminder that ancestry and the memory of loved ones would always “be for a blessing.” The chuppah was formed from the trellis

in the vineyard, with flowers interwoven by the loving hands of a close family friend.

Ben, Rachel and Daniel worked together on selecting (and updating) the traditions most meaningful for them.

They searched the Internet and discussed their options.

Rachel explained to me that her upbringing on the non-Jewish west side of Cleveland and her supportive community at Beth IsraelThe West Temple made her comfortable in “wrestling” with Jewish text to find personal meaning in each tradition.

The couple decided to have the traditional prayers in Hebrew (Ben met with our Cleveland Rabbi Enid

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(Top) Bride Rachel Kaplan and groom Daniel Gottlieb under the chuppah with parents Eileen Korey Kaplan and Robert Kaplan, and Steve Gottlieb and Pat Hellman. Brother Ben Kaplan officiates. (Bottom left) The signing of the ketubah by officiant Ben Kaplan before the ceremony (Bottom right) The traditional chair dance at the Garre Winery Martinelli Event Center, in Livermore, Calif.

Lader for some individual counseling on chanting the Seven Blessings), and they chose English translations that would resonate with them. For example, the literal translation of the fifth blessing is: “Gladden the beloved companions as You gladdened Your creature in the garden of Eden from aforetime.” Instead, Rachel and Daniel opted for a more personal interpretation: “May you keep each other well-balanced and grounded, and may love and laughter be the force behind your enduring health and happiness.”

Perhaps the most tender moment of the ceremony (tears in the eyes of both mothers) symbolizing the importance of family and tradition was when the

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erhaps the most tender moment of the ceremony (tears in the eyes of both mothers) symbolizing the importance of family and tradition was when the couple was wrapped in the prayer shawl, yellowed with age, that belonged to Daniel’s maternal grandfather. couple was wrapped in the prayer shawl, yellowed with age, that belonged to Daniel’s maternal grandfather. Ben asked both sets of parents to hold the edges of the tallit as he explained: “Daniel’s Saba was the religious core of the Hellman family. He would wrap himself in this tallit every day as he prayed amongst nature. As he felt encompassed by the

spirituality of nature and community, so may Daniel and Rachel be encompassed by the memories of their Jewish ancestry, the love of their parents and the support of their community.”

As tradition would have it, the glass was broken. The guests cheered. And the couple walked out to the singing of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, sealed, delivered ...

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Couples exchange vows on a Caribbean beach, Jamaican cliffs, and a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea near Tel Aviv

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hen couples decide on a wedding venue, they often find ideal settings close to home. Others, unfettered by geographic boundaries, choose to exchange their vows with the roar of the ocean in the background and their feet in the sand, or travel to other countries that are close to their hearts.

For Nicole (née Passan) and Aaron Atlas, of Indianapolis, no wedding venue could beat a white, sandy beach at a romantic port during a Caribbean cruise.

“Aaron’s best friend got married in 2006 in Jamaica,” says Nicole Atlas, who grew up in Solon. “After going to that wedding, Aaron thought this was the way to do it. I always wanted to have a destination wedding, too. I had a vision of getting married barefoot in the sand.” The Atlases had enjoyed a Caribbean setting when they became engaged, Atlas reminisced.

“We ended up going on the same ship with the same itinerary for the wedding” – the Celebrity Eclipse’s

cruise from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico; St. Maarten and St. Kitts. “We really liked the ports.”The couple’s wedding took place on Feb. 29, 2012, on the beach at Banana Bay, St. Kitts, on the fifth day of the cruise. The bride wore a jersey bridesmaid’s dress that could be rolled up in a suitcase and wrapped in multiple ways. “I hadn’t figured out how I wanted to wear it,” until the day of the wedding, says Nicole Atlas, who does proofreading and editing in her home.

Nicole and Aaron Atlas get married on a beach at St. Kitts during a Caribbean cruise.

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Her husband, who is youth director at the JCC of Indianapolis, wore linen pants and a guayabera, a popular Latin American short-sleeved shirt. He also purchased guayaberas for his friends and brothers.

Eighteen people, including both sets of parents and other close family members, attended the non-denominational ceremony – “There were no Jews there,” explains Atlas, who worked with a wedding planner on the details. To the sounds of a steel drum band, she carried a seashell bouquet as she walked down the beach with her parents.

The tropical venue was perfect, says Atlas, the daughter of Debbie and Rich Passan, former Solon residents now living in Goodyear, Ariz. However, she adds, “There were some heartbreaks along the way,” in that some people

could not attend. “It might not be good for everyone.”

The couple did choose their wedding date after seeking invitee input on the best dates for the trip. They also had a Jewish wedding with a rabbi in Indianapolis a week later, creating a chupah with their fathers’ and grandfathers’ tallit.

About their tropical wedding, Atlas says, “I would do it again, absolutely.”

The reception took place at the open restaurant where the couple had become engaged. It was about a five-minute drive from the ceremony, and overlooked St. Kitts’ sister island, Nevis. “The weather was gorgeous,” Atlas recalls.

“After lunch, before dessert, a bunch of friends went for a swim in the ocean. It was very casual. It was exactly what we wanted.”

Wedding in Israel When Tal (née Sack) and Brian Rothstein, of Cleveland Heights, exchanged their vows on June 19, 2012, they were in Old Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv, in Israel.

“So much of my family is in Israel,” says Tal Rothstein, an Orange High School alumna who serves as Young Leadership Division director for the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.

“My family could be there, and it was a chance to have a smaller wedding.”

Tal Rothstein was born in Israel. Her mother, Aviv, is from Israel, and her father, Mark Sack, a Clevelander, had lived in Israel for 10 years. Two of her father’s siblings had also made aliyah and continue to live in Israel.

“We moved back to Cleveland when I was 1½. I spent my summers going to Israel to visit family,” she says.

Rothstein credits her husband, the son of Fred and Jackie Rothstein, of Gates Mills, with the idea of holding the wedding in Israel. “One of his cousins had gotten married in Mexico,” she says, so he viewed a destination wedding positively.

“Everything fell into place,” she says. “We loved the fact that it was small, and everyone who came from the States was basically on vacation.” Many guests stayed for 10-day to two-week tours of Israel.

A total of 105 people, including about half from the United States, attended the wedding at the Caliph, a former nightclub and dining club.

The ceremony took place on a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and Old Jaffa, and the reception was held in a large, open space in the building’s interior.

June 19 was on a

Tal and Brian Rothstein’s wedding ceremony takes place on a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and Old Jaffa, near Tel Aviv. (above & right) PHOTOS / ASAF SPECKTOR

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Tuesday. In the Bible, a couple married on a Tuesday is twice blessed, Rothstein explains. Her parents were married on a Tuesday in Israel 26½ years ago.

A British wedding planner who had made aliyah in Israel about eight years ago, helped Rothstein with the details. “She focuses only on events of people coming from abroad,” Rothstein says. Rabbi Yehuda Jayson, who resides on the same kibbutz as one of Tal Rothstein’s uncles, officiated.

After the wedding, the couple stayed in Tel Aviv for three days before returning home, where Brian Rothstein is a resident

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physician at University Hospitals. They followed up with a honeymoon in Paris and the south of France in September.

“I would absolutely 100 percent do the same thing again,” Rothstein says.

“Everything was perfect. I don’t think we could have asked for anything better.

Our families were there.

We were in Israel, which holds so much meaning for me personally, and now Brian, too. It was a way to get away from day-today life. And it was so meaningful to be in a place with so much history that holds a very special place in my heart.”

Jamaican wedding defies Sandy For Erika and Justin Brunwasser of New York City, the best place in the world to tie the knot was where they had become engaged in October 2011 – the Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica.

“It was a place we immediately fell in love with,” says Erika Brunwasser, a school counselor and Beachwood High School alumna. The boutique hotel offers 33 thatched-roof villas stretched along cliffs over the water’s edge, as well as award-winning restaurants.

“Justin proposed there,” says Brunwasser,

the daughter of Elana Rzepka, and Vova and Lorna Chernomorets. “As we learned a little bit more about the hotel and what they do, we decided that was the best place to get married.” In addition to its magnificent setting, the hotel has created a foundation to contribute to the education of Jamaican children.

The Brunwassers’ wedding took place on Oct. 27, 2012, just three days after Hurricane Sandy struck the island and two days before the enormous storm hit the U.S. East Coast.

The couple flew to the island on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

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would absolutely 100 percent do the same thing again. Everything was perfect. I don’t think we could have asked for anything better. – Tal Rothstein

Erika and Justin Brunwasser tie the knot in Jamaica shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the island. (above & right) PHOTOS / MICHAEL SAAB

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eople thought we were crazy for wanting to go there for our honeymoon, but it was amazing and we loved every second of it.

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Left: Sasha and Marc Rabinovich stand in front of Vatnajokull Glacier in a national park in southern Iceland. Right: Sasha and Marc dream of their honeymoon in Iceland.

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on the 24th,” Brunwasser says. Those planning their flights on that day had to reschedule.

While Negril, on the western tip of the island, was not directly affected by the hurricane, the storm surge caused 30-foot waves at the hotel – not a welcome sight for a couple planning their ceremony on one of the hotel’s cliffs.

“It was not what we had pictured,” Brunwasser says.

“All the tarps were down. We didn’t know until the day of the wedding that we could hold it at that hotel.”

“On Saturday morning, we woke up to a gorgeous, 85-degree, sunny day,” she said. The waters surrounding the hotel were calmer. With the roads cleared, Rabbi Stephen Henriques, of the one congregation in Jamaica, was able to make the drive from Kingston. Of the 87 expected guests, only five were not able to come to the wedding because of the storm.

“It was wonderful,” says Brunwasser. Among the highlights, her grandfather, Fred Rzepka, of Shaker Heights, and his brothers, Peter, of Shaker Heights, and Harry, of Gates Mills, all Holocaust survivors, did the blessing over the challah.

“The fact that they came

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from Europe to Cleveland and could be in Jamaica was very special.

“We had great food and the music of a steel drum band. A Jamaican D.J. played the hora,” she says. She and the groom, who’s a chef at Friedman’s Lunch in New York City, selected an allJamaican menu.

Brunwasser said her only regret was that people had to spend extra money to stay in Jamaica or elsewhere until they could fly back to the East Coast after the storm.

But it was still a dream come true. “It meant so much to us that all of our family was there,” Brunwasser says. “We met under the chupah with everyone we love watching us and the sun setting in the background – it was all I could ask for.”

Destination honeymoon Solon High School and Ohio State University graduates Sasha (née Shekhtman) and Marc Rabinovich were married locally on Aug. 14, 2011, at Temple Emanu El in Orange. While their wedding was at home, their trip immediately afterward was to an unusual honeymoon location: Iceland.

“People thought we were crazy for wanting to go there

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for our honeymoon, but it was amazing and we loved every second of it,” Sasha Rabinovich says.

“We went to Iceland the day after our wedding and spent eight days exploring the island and meeting the local people,” she says. “We traveled to remote villages, snorkeled in a glacial stream that was 2 degrees Celsius, rode Icelandic horses, saw puffins and geysers, climbed a glacier, and celebrated Icelandic Culture Night in the capital city of Reykjavik.

“We also learned from the locals that there are a total of 40 Jewish people on the island, and that in the past, there were shluchim (Hasidic Jews) that would come during the High Holy Days and hold services in Reykjavik.”

Summer 2011 was hot, recalls Rabinovich, whose family attends the Chabad Jewish Center of Solon.

“First we thought we should do the usual tropical thing,” she says, but the couple decided to set their sights northward. “We looked at a globe. Could we go to Antarctica? We then decided on Iceland.”

While the couple, now residing in Columbus, would savor all that Iceland offered,

they knew they were also helping tourism on the island, which went bankrupt in late 2008, and suffered a volcanic eruption in 2010, Rabinovich says.

The couple, the children of Olga and Mikhail Shekhtman and Lana and Edward Rabinovich, had fun planning a trip to a place where the temperature was in the mid50s in August. “That was OK. We packed accordingly,” she says.

While they spent each night at the Hilton in Reykjavik, the couple explored the island daily during their eight-day trip.

“There’s one big road that circles the entire island,” says Rabinovich, an emergency room nurse studying to be a nurse practitioner. “The people are extraordinarily friendly,” she adds, and they speak English.

The bride and groom, a certified public accountant, enjoyed their whirlwind adventures, from walking on lava fields, to riding the island’s small horses, and tasting Iceland’s delicious ice cream.

“We will definitely return,” Rabinovich says. “The sooner the better.

“I think honeymooners would like it,” she says.

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Sarah grew up in Solon, Scott in Beachwood. They were living in Washington, D.C., when they decided to embark on married life.

“We were living out of town. We got engaged,” Sarah says.

“I really like University Circle.”

The couple, already virtually related by very similar surnames, wanted an area “where people didn’t need a car and would have access to museums during the day, so we initially looked at the Crawford Auto Museum,”

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Sarah says. She and Scott booked the Crawford AutoAviation Museum – it, too, is in University Circle – and began to plan their betrothal.

The big day was still 10 months off.

“So I came in and my mom and I went down to the museum to look at things and our wedding was going to take place in the rotunda… and they had a new exhibit that cut the rotunda in half and it was still going to be there when I got married,” Sarah recalls.

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and decided to hold the ceremony in Severance Hall, home to the Cleveland Orchestra.

“Severance was so accommodating,” Sarah says. “I don’t have enough good things to say.”

Not to mention beautiful.

Built in 1931, the majestic structure anchors University Circle and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its art deco interior, redolent with gilt and tapestry, works in harmony with its imposing, classical exterior.

“I loved how unique it was,” Sarah says. “I loved that I could have guests come to a place that had so much history and so much character. From the floor to the ceiling, every inch of it is intricate and it was built with a lot of beauty and care.”

Besides, Severance Hall’s wedding coordinator and

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a planner from Sammy’s, a long-standing Cleveland catering concern the couple already had engaged for the Crawford, helped a lot. “What’ s nice about Severance Hall is they’re used to planning really top-notch events – and they did,” Sarah says. “They worked very closely with us to just make a great wedding, and they did take the worry out of it.”

Sarah is marketing and communications lead at Alcoa in Newburgh Heights. Scott is global media relations manager for Morpho Detection, a security equipment manufacturer. The couple was married on Sept. 12, 2009. They live in Solon.

What also helped in their arrangements was the proximity of Glidden House, where the Facter-

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Factor guests stayed.

“University Circle is just such a great area to bring non-Clevelanders for a great weekend,” Sarah says.

Glidden House, on Ford Drive a few blocks east of Severance Hall, is a 60-room hotel – and more – where Vicki List and Evan Volkman got married.

“We definitely didn’t want your conventional hotel space, so we went looking for something a little different, with a little more character,” says Vicki, an engineer who works for an environmental consulting company in New Jersey (Evan works for a small company in Manhattan).

They live in Stamford, Conn.

The couple hosted 100 guests, at least half from out-of-state, and chose Glidden House “because it’s beautiful and they have

a hotel attached,” she says. They first considered The Club at Hillbrook in Chagrin Falls but settled on Glidden House because “we thought everybody would be happier closer to downtown.”

Vicki and Evan liked many Glidden House rooms “because they have a lot of character,” and particularly enjoyed hosting a cocktail hour in a room with much original Glidden paintwork on the ceiling. Built in 1910, the Victorian facility also has a “little garden room” and a pretty lawn, Vicki says. “I was really hoping to have the ceremony outside. We did. We had good weather.

It worked out really well.”

Glidden House staff also helped with the planning and coordination.

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There was no rain, but of course it was 90 degrees when we got married.” A pool would have been nice, she said, laughing. “It was roasty, but that didn’t matter.

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The ceremony took place between teahouses in the Japanese garden. Then guests watched as Joanna and Jeremy promenaded down Birch Tree Allee (a birch tree alleyway 550 feet in length), coming to newlywed rest near a fountain at the Birch Allee Vista overlooking the lagoons. It was there that they signed their ketubah, or marriage contract.

“It just had a really nice atmosphere to it,” Jeremy says, “and the wedding planners had a really good idea of various ways we could use the grounds.”

He figured he’d go along with the idea after Joanna and her mom proposed it.

The deal was sealed when he saw Stan Hywet. “After walking the grounds,” Jeremy says, “we thought, ‘This is the place.’” JSW

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Celebrating Through Sadness

Enjoying your special day after losing a loved one

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ittle girls grow up dreaming of the perfect wedding, with all the details in place: the dress, flowers, bridesmaids, venue, almost everything chosen before the groom even enters the picture. But sometimes those dream weddings don’t entirely come true.

When Brian Knis proposed to Betsi Liston in October 2008, both knew their wedding would be missing something. Just two days later, Betsi’s father Gary passed away after a long illness.

“My father walking me down the aisle, being given away by my dad, a father/ daughter dance, him giving a speech at the reception – obviously, we couldn’t do those things,” Betsi Knis recalls. “It changed most of the traditional things people look forward to at their weddings.”

Celebrating a wedding or other special occasion while handling the loss of a loved one, whether recent or long past, can affect family members in different ways and at different times in the process.

Planning Even though he would not have helped much with the planning process, Knis noticed times when she would feel sadness at the loss of her father.

“My dad wasn’t really a planning person,” Knis explains. “You tell him where to be and what to wear, but he wouldn’t have helped with making the decisions anyway.

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Betsi Knis and her mother Susi Liston share a mother’s dance at Betsi’s wedding reception.

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pictures that was difficult to think about. Or having to tell the DJ that we’re not doing a father/daughter dance, and explaining why. That was the most difficult part.”

Planning and celebrating in the shadow of such grief are not easy, especially when the person missing is a loved one with whom you had a close relationship. But there are ways to help you adjust, says Pamela L. Gleisser, a licensed social worker.

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“Leave some time to discuss it,” adds Gleisser.

“The decisions don’t have to be made in an hour.”

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“I was happy that one tradition that we still got to do was that Brian was able to ask my dad for my hand in marriage,” says Knis.

“Having my dad know that I was going to be happy and married and taken care of was very important.”

Some brides may feel pressure to postpone their wedding following the death of a loved one. However, that is a personal decision, as all people handle grief differently.

“For some, the simcha is part of the healing process as well,” explains Rabbi Daniel Roberts, rabbi emeritus at Temple Emanu El in Orange.

Roberts is an expert in the field of bereavement.

“Life takes precedence,” says Roberts, “so if the loss occurs very close to the scheduled date of the wedding (within the week), it is preferable in Jewish tradition to celebrate the wedding before entering the period of mourning.

However, if the wedding is still a while away, you may want to consider canceling or postponing because you may not be in the mood to rejoice.”

Celebrating For many, finding a way to recognize a loved one who is no longer there during the wedding ceremony or reception is a delicate process.

Roberts recommends “inviting” the deceased to the wedding in one way or another “or they are going to crash it anyway.”

“A wedding ceremony is a significant moment and it will be obvious that they are missing,” he said.

Roberts suggests going to the cemetery to share the news, listing their name in

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the program or mentioning it during the ceremony or the speeches as a way to include them in the day.

“We included my father’s name in the program, along with my grandfather and my husband’s grandparents who had passed,” says Knis.

“We also had a moment of silence during the reception, in memory of my dad and the others who couldn’t be with us.”

Of course, there were moments that couldn’t be as perfect as she had dreamed they would be. “I walked down the aisle by myself,” says Knis. “Originally, I had considered asking my father’s brother or father to walk me down the aisle, but decided against it. It would not have been the same as having my dad there.”

However, Knis and her family still found ways to include most traditional parts of the ceremony and reception, though with a bit of a twist.

“When they asked who gave this woman to this man, my mom stood up and said ‘I do.’ She also gave a speech at the reception. We did a mother’s dance, so I danced with my mom, and my husband danced with his mom. Halfway through the song, we switched partners.”

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didn’t feel bad that I was enjoying my wedding.

Even planning it, there were times that were harder, times I was sad, but I felt it was a normal part of the grieving process, even if it was not a normal part of celebrating or planning a wedding. I was able to separate the two emotions in my head.”– Betsi Knis let other people in.”

Knis felt this warmth at her own wedding reception, when she was able to mingle with her relatives and family friends. “When I was dancing with my father’s friends, they would say ‘this is your dad’s kind of party.’”

Hearing this reinforcement from people close to her helped Knis feel more at ease with the situation.

“You have to remember that they are proud of you and would be happy for you,” she says.

When attending a wedding where the family may be grieving, offering a sympathetic ear or message of support can be a big help, explains Roberts.

“Reach out, let others know you care, offer to be of help, give them an opportunity to talk.”

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Handling Emotions

As a grief counselor, Gleisser has seen many instances in which having a strong support system can help a grieving family enjoy a special event.

“Loss is a community event so it is similar to a wedding or birth. So even if an individual feels very alone with it, the community is going to react. I try to help people realize that it is OK to

It is important to know that everyone handles grief in an individual way and will react differently according to the situation.

To those who may be having a rougher time dealing with the emotions of the day, Gleisser recommends seeing a counselor or therapist.

“Sometimes the person experiencing the loss will

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come up with something really clever, a unique way of dealing with the situation.

They just need a place to think it out.”

“How each of us copes is as different as our fingerprints,” says Roberts.

“And it doesn’t matter how many years have passed, the absence of a loved one will still be felt.

“But the greatest gift God has given to us is the ability to cope. It is the fulfillment of a dream of parents that they can teach their children to make order, to reconcile with it, and be able to pick up and go on with life.”

For Knis, the emotions were powerful, but not unexpected.

“I didn’t feel bad that I was enjoying my wedding,” she says. “Even planning it, there were times that were harder, times I was sad, but I felt it was a normal part of the grieving process, even if it was not a normal part of celebrating or planning a wedding. I was able to separate the two emotions in my head.

“It’s OK to remember that they are not there, but don’t let it affect your entire day or planning process. They would want you to enjoy your day.”

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ewlywed Sarah (née Wolf) Goldstein recalls standing in line at Trader Joe’s in Woodmere last fall. When she reached the cashier, she needed to explain that her husband, Dustin, was coming with another item, but she hadn’t quite gotten the knack of using the word “husband.”

“My (long pause) husband is just getting bread,” she remembers saying, with a chuckle. “I didn’t know what to call him.”

Dustin recalls a similar moment, when he accidentally called his wife his “woman.”

These are some of the funny memories that come to mind when the Goldsteins reminisce about their first several months of marriage.

The couple tied the knot on July 1, 2012, at the Chabad Jewish Center of Solon and

had their reception at The Club at Hillbrook in Chagrin Falls. They live in Shaker Heights.

Samantha (née Eisenstaedt) and Josh Marx, of South Euclid, recall another slip of the tongue.

“I went up to a potential employer and introduced myself as Samantha Eisenstaedt,” she says.

“I think they were a little confused. After (several) months, I haven’t had as many flubs.” And “Marx” is easier, she says. With her maiden name, she recalls, “I never pronounced it, I spelled it.”

“We all knew how to spell her name,” jokes Josh, adding

that his iPhone auto-corrected the name. “That’s how we knew it was meant to be.”

The Marxes were married Aug. 11, 2012, at the Vinoy Renaissance resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. “I’m originally from the Tampa area,” says Samantha. “We wanted the resort feel and to make it a vacation for our guests.”

It was beshert Indeed, marriage was beshert (destined) for both couples.

The Goldsteins had met at Lululemon athletic store’s grand opening in May 2011, at Eton Chagrin Boulevard in Woodmere -- Sarah as an

employee there and Dustin, a yoga teacher, attending the event. They were engaged seven months later.

While the bride and groom had grown up in the Cleveland area – Sarah in Moreland Hills and Dustin in Shaker Heights -- they went in different directions after high school. Sarah, who completed her degree at The Ohio State University, remained in Columbus as an interior designer for 11 years.

She taught English in Ashdod, Israel, just south of Tel Aviv, for several months before returning to Cleveland.

“We literally met the first month I came back,” said Sarah, who is now working for her family’s Diabetic Care Services & Pharmacy.

“We met one year to the day I moved back,” said Dustin, who attended the

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University of Vermont, lived in Colorado for several years, and returned to Cleveland in 2010.

“It was beshert,” said Sarah, the daughter of Cindy and Marc Wolf.

“Rabbi (Zushe) Greenberg said we’re each like half of a table,” recalls Dustin, the son of Susan and Peter Goldstein of Basalt, Colo. They meet together and support one another. “You have your other two legs.”

Fate also played a role in the Marxes’ union. Josh, who grew up in Pepper Pike and attended Orange High School, and Samantha met while working for the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. “We started three weeks apart from each other doing a management-in-training position,” recalls Josh.

“We met on my first day,” he said, when Samantha had just finished her third week with the company.

“Six months later, we were co-managing hotel guest services departments.

We would pass the baton between shifts.”

Samantha, the daughter of Carole and Bob Eisenstaedt, of Tampa, Fla., and Josh, the son of Liz Geller Marx and Rochelle and Joel Marx, all of Pepper Pike, had known each other for about a year when they started dating.

After two years with Hyatt, Josh decided to move back to Cleveland to join the family business, Medical Service Co. “I wasn’t going to move unless Samantha did,” he says.

The couple moved to Cleveland in 2010 and became engaged in August 2011, at Cleveland Botanical Gardens. Their wedding was a year later.

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Married Life “Married life is wonderful,” says Sarah, an Orange High alumna. “Time has flown. It’s wonderful to build our home together.

“We’ve dealt with happy and sad times,” she adds. The sad times included the death of Dustin’s grandfather in November.

Happier moments have abounded. The couple, which enjoyed a week in the rain forest in Costa Rica for their honeymoon, attended

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party started.

“He totally surprised me,” Sarah says.

“Doing things together is better married,” says Dustin, who works for family business Goldstein Properties and is a Realtor for Keller Williams Realty. For example, he’s been skiing since age 2, he says, and his wife has never skied. They’re planning a skiing trip to Colorado, where he’ll help get her started.

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“It’s wonderful to build our home together,” says Sarah Goldstein. Sarah and Dustin Goldstein PHOTO / Sue Hoffman

degrees at Case Western Reserve University. Samantha attends full-time and Josh, who works during the day, attends nights and weekends.

“We have all the same classes, and we can coach each other,” says Samantha.

“It’s fun to see all her projects with her new last name on it,” Josh says.

But the couple also appreciates the deeper meaning of being married.

“When you get married, you share everything,” Josh says. “It’s not what’s mine and what’s yours. When you’re successful, you’re – Dustin Goldstein successful for your wife, and when the wife’s successful, she is for her husband.”

30 together,” Sarah says. “It Togetherness is important was a big year for both of us.” to them, Samantha says.

Married life is fun and For Thanksgiving, her family busy for the Marxes, who came to Cleveland and her attend The Temple-Tifereth sister joined them from New Israel. Both Samantha, York City. While the couple a graduate of George had joined their separate Washington University, and families for holidays in the Josh, who went to Coastal past, “we wanted to make Carolina University, are sure everyone was together.” working toward their master JSW of business administration

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“Sarah was under the impression she would celebrate at a bar,” he says, when describing the surprise party. They stopped at a friend’s house and the friend invited them in, saying she had a gift for Sarah. Then the

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Original vows, unique ceremonies For interfaith couples, navigating traditions begins long before the wedding

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hen Lori Schumacher and David Brown were planning their May 2009 wedding at Barrington Golf Club in Aurora, “we talked about how and where we wanted to do it,” says Lori (now Brown), who was raised Catholic but does not observe that faith.

“At first we knew we didn’t want a priest or pastor, but we weren’t sure who’d do it. We didn’t want a Catholic ceremony.”

To David Brown, who celebrated his bar mitzvah and observed Jewish holidays when he was younger, it was “important to not do the religious part

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that way,” Lori says. “But he didn’t want a rabbi at that point either.”

Brown found humanist celebrant Roni Berenson through a photographer.

“It was spiritual but not religious,” she says. Her husband wrote his own vows, and she selected some from options

Berenson presented.

“His were more about what he envisioned for his life and what he envisioned his wife to be,” says Lori.

“He wondered what his wife would be and I was it.” Since her daughter Madison, whom her husband later adopted, and the couple’s son Brayden

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were among the 40 present for the “short” ceremony, “it was very familyoriented,” she says. Her husband “was thrilled about being a father.” The children walked down the aisle with David’s mother, and “the baby cried through part of it,” she says with a laugh.

Brown’s husband was close to his father, who had died the year before, so she got him locket-style

At the end of the ceremony, the couple broke glasses – or tried to.

David was “stomping the glass like crazy,” Lori says, because it wouldn’t crack.

“Everyone was cracking up,” she says. “I thought that the man just broke the glass and wasn’t expecting to.”

Lisa Vinney, who married Chad Millar in July 2011, says, “We got to put a lot

Left: David Brown, right, reads his vows to wife Lori. PHOTO / Inlux Photography This page: Chad Millar, left, and Lisa Vinney incorporated Jewish traditions in their wedding ceremony and reception. PHOTO / Michael Mowbray

didn’t want God language.

We wanted it to be about us as a couple.”

Vinney’s parents walked her down the aisle, and the couple acknowledged their surviving grandparents.

For the ceremony, they chose to incorporate Jewish elements like the chupah

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e are very different people who complement each other well.” Lisa Vinney

cufflinks with his initials engraved on them and put a photo of his father in one “to have him at the wedding,” and a photo of the two children in the other.

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of ourselves into it.” Vinney, who is “culturally Jewish,” and Millar, who occasionally attended church but wasn’t raised particularly religiously, are both “agnostic,” she says. “We

and the breaking of the glass, and used Vinney’s father’s Kiddush cups for the wine. Officiant Roberta Feinstein explained the traditions to their guests.

They also did the chair

dance and the hora and played Hava Nagila at the celebration afterward.

“Our wedding became a conglomeration,” says Vinney. Readings given by family and friends “reflected who we are and what we believe in,” and included an excerpt from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, a poem by Gerry Spence, a motto for marriage by St. Augustine, and what Buddha said about marriage more than 2,000 years ago. Seven wishes were translated from the traditional seven blessings. “There wasn’t God language, but there were spiritual undertones,” she says. “As a couple,

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we believe there’s value in everyone, and everyone’s beliefs have some merit in their own personal way.”

The couple wrote their own vows, taking turns thanking each other for something and following each statement of appreciation with a promise for their shared future. “We are very different people who complement each other well,” says Vinney.

Their phrasing included statements such as her thanking her husband for his support in her professional endeavors and his thanking her for showing him new experiences and perspectives. There also were some humorous ones, including his reference to the Green Bay Packers

losing games. The couple came up with the idea of thanking each other. “We sat down one day and came up with it,” Vinney says. “It just seemed natural for us.”

While some find planning a wedding stressful, Vinney enjoyed planning the ceremony. “I didn’t feel pressure that I had to do it a specific way,” she says.

“Sometimes families have a strong opinion about what should be included,” but her family and her husband’s were supportive.

“There are certain traditions I’d want to grow more, like celebrating Jewish holidays and lighting the menorah,” Vinney says of the couple’s future. “It’s an evolving process.” JSW

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officiant Roberta Feinstein, who is affiliated with secular humanistic Judaism, has been certified to perform marriages for 19 years. She has helped many couples create their ceremonies reflecting “the commitment they’ve made, their hope for the future and how they intend to live their lives,” and she encourages them to write their own vows.

Feinstein has officiated at “typical” interfaith weddings and intercultural weddings, including Jews marrying Asians. On one occasion, she used a Japanese tea ceremony.

“What I like to incorporate are the traditions from each culture,” she says.

Feinstein uses nonreligious explanations of traditions such as the chupah and breaking of the glass, and the sheva brachot, or seven blessings, are done as seven wishes. “There are many ways to interpret the different traditions in wedding ceremonies,” says Feinstein, “and you can find ways to do them in a nonreligious way.” For example, a Catholic tradition where the bride and groom bring flowers to a statue of Mary can be incorporated by bringing flowers to their mothers.

Feinstein does not use religious language, but couples that want to have a religious component have a reading from friend or relative, or can do that themselves.

Whether or not a couple wants to include a religious element, Feinstein begins by showing couples what others have done. “It’s helpful to see how others have created ceremonies with two traditions,” she says.

“They look at what’s meaningful to them and add their own vows.”

Scripting a ceremony that fits the couple also facilitates including family. When couples want the “seven wishes,” Feinstein suggests they choose family members to each read a wish. She encourages family to stand with the couple under the chupah and in a second marriage, always wants to include the bride and groom’s children.

“If it starts off with each having a part in the ceremony,” she says, “ it’s a good beginning because they know they’re important.”

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hile “manscaping” has become increasingly commonplace as beauty trends have evolved, the meaning of the term has expanded to include hair removal and styling, foot and nail care, skin care and other beauty services.

It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but its relative newness makes it no less awkward for guys getting these services, either. As with most things in life, the male experience tends to differ greatly from the female’s.

Shaker Heights resident Craig Duber can attest to that.

Duber, 31, has had his hair cut at a salon for the last five years. Though he frequents Ladies and Gentlemen Salon and Spa in Lyndhurst, he admits he has simple grooming needs – massages and haircuts, mostly.

“I think they’re definitely

more styled,” Duber says of his coifs. “I mean, they take longer, but I want to take as good care of my hair as I can until I lose it.”

The first few times Duber visited the salon, he brought his then-girlfriend (now wife) along to help him fit in.

“I think the first time I went there without her it was bridal party central and I couldn’t take it,” Duber says.

“It was a bit much for me. I was glad that I had my cell phone so I had something to do while I was standing there waiting.”

Duber, who sees one or

two other guys at the salon on occasion, says most men don’t see the benefit of spending extra money on a salon-quality cut.

“Any time you talk to a guy about haircuts it’s usually about how much they pay versus what the person does,” Duber says. “With women it’s more of, ‘Well, they do this, they do that, they use these products,’ all the other nonsense.

Personally I have no idea what they even put in my hair.”

Duber also keeps the chitchat to a minimum.

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“It’s odd that I go to a salon because salons are traditionally a place to chat and talk and this and that,” he says. “When I go after work, the person that washes my hair, I personally don’t even want her talking to me. I want that quiet.”

Duber said he’ll converse with his stylist, Dina Culotta, but he sees his haircut primarily as a transaction.

“I mean, I’m going to get my hair cut,” he said.

“I pay you, you cut my hair and make sure it looks professional enough for me to go to work. And for my wife to let me in the door.”

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anscaping isn’t limited to pedicures and stylish haircuts. Some men opt for massages, facials, waxes and other services. Here’s a peek at some different services offered in the Cleveland area.

Anthea Spa 27040 Cedar Road #219, Beachwood As a man, it’s difficult to imagine my face needing improvement of any kind, but I guess a European facial couldn’t hurt. The one Anthea Spa provides includes deep cleansing, eznyme treatment, extraction services, a mask customized for the client’s skin type and a hand, neck and shoulder massage. n Anthea’s European facial starts at $75 for 60 minutes. relaxing, pre-pedicure footbath with the hairraising sound of nails on a chalkboard.

Cleveland Heights resident James Eller, 42, knows proper nail care is important.

“Like most men, I neglect my feet,” says Eller, who also frequents Ladies and Gentlemen. “I’m pretty hard on my feet. It’s nice that someone else focuses their attention on them and takes care of them and kind of brings them back to at least a somewhat healthy appearance.”

Eller says his foot treatments were more occasional than regular, though he remembers expecting shifty glances from women during his first salon visit.

“I originally suspected that would be the case, that people would judge me or look at me odd,” Eller said. “‘What’s this guy doing in here? Why’s he getting his nails and his feet done?’ From the time I walked up to the reception desk they didn’t

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bat an eye. They were in their own world. By the time I walked out, I just realized it was really anticlimactic. All my worries and fears were for naught.”

Eller thinks resistance to male grooming is crumbling as beauty and fashion topple gender barriers and permeate the household.

“In some ways, because we’ve become such a global economy and global universe, fashion is brought into our home on such a frequent basis that it’s become almost commonplace,” he says.

“Maybe 10 years ago women would have raised an eyebrow like, ‘Why is a guy in here?’ But now everyone acknowledges the benefits of these services. I can honestly say I’m not the only man in my salon.”

Since male grooming isn’t raising as much suspicion from women, Eller thinks women are grateful men take time to groom themselves.

“I think both sexes appreciate it,” he says. “I

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Clockwise, from left: A male customer’s nails getting buffed, soaked and exfoliated. Left: Another male customer gets his hair washed and conditioned.

know a lot of guys and girls who appreciate a man taking care of himself, whether it’s hair removal or looking nice in terms of their nails when they go out.”

There’s one service Eller has a hard time recommending, remembering the time he waxed his entire body – “I mean everything” – just to experience what it was like.

“It wasn’t really the experience of having it done but the aftermath,” Eller says.

“The weeks after it starts to grow back. It was probably the most irritating thing that made me think, ‘Would I do this again?’ No. I would not do any of that.”

Still, Eller discovered his stomach – “surprisingly” – was the most painful area to wax.

It’s safe to say he sticks to pedicures. JSW

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Thankfully, that doesn’t happen with customized massage experiences.

The “elemental nature massage” at Ladies & Gentlemen combines different massage techniques, including relaxation, Swedish, acupressure, reflexology, deep tissue, neuromuscular and myofascial. n Elemental nature massages start at $70 for 40 minutes.

Quintana’s Barber & Dream Spa 2200 South Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights Believe it or not, an eyebrow waxing – like the one I got in undergrad – is actually a relaxing experience.

Quintana offers a smorgasbord of waxes, including eyebrow, back, chest, and a gentlemen’s Brazilian.

It’s nice to see a spa offer male and female Brazilian waxes. Finally, some gender equality. n Waxes run from $12 to $100.

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Rings of Choice Tradition rules but, blends are gaining

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alk to jewelers about trends in shopping for wedding rings and it’s clear who’s the boss. Not only are women the fairer sex, they’re the more decisive, choosier sex. And while wedding rings show the difference between men and women, in either case, tradition still seems to rule.

At the same time, change is in the air, particularly for the more adventurous couple.

The color of the stone, meanwhile, remains bright – for the most part.

Women like the micro pave, honeycomb-style setting, says Steve Greenberg, owner of IMG Jewelers in Lyndhurst. They also seem to favor a larger center stone surrounded by a “halo” of tiny white diamonds, with platinum the metal of choice. Rounds and cushions are the preferred diamond style, he says, calling the latter “a soft square that looks like a pillow.”

Where women usually like a diamond band to go next to their wedding ring, men are simpler, settling

for a wide band in either white or yellow gold for a “conservative, yet cool” look. While diamonds rule, some choose sapphire for a center stone, and those with a taste for the unusual might pick a “black diamond or a colored gemstone just to be different,” Greenberg says.

Couples on a tighter budget also consider palladium, “a white metal like platinum for a lot less money,” Greenberg says.

“In our store, we are seeing a lot of anniversary bands, diamonds set all the way around in platinum in a variety of shapes,” says Linda Silver, who owns MANN Jewelers in Beachwood Place.

“We’re seeing a lot of round brilliants, Asscher

cuts (kind of like a square emerald cut, with cropped corners) – we’re basically talking about diamonds – and emerald cuts.” Most gems are set in platinum, and while some people “are doing wedding bands in tungsten,” MANN is “very traditional…that’s not really our niche.”

Women buy anniversary bands for themselves.

“Most of the men’s bands we sell are very traditional: a milgrain, a half-round. A milgrain has a little beading on the edge.” A half-round is a skinnier, lighter ring.

Are stones getting bigger?

“Depends on your budget,” Silver says, laughing.

“Women today want bigger diamonds, bigger rings, and round brilliant diamonds are the most popular still,” says David Schreibman, who owns Alson Jewelers in Woodmere with his brother, Chad. “The cushion shape is becoming an emerging shape, gaining in popularity.

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metal of choice, or white gold. But not yellow gold, although yellow gold is making a comeback in fashion jewelry – earrings, pendants, and bracelets.”

Fancy yellow diamonds of intense color are gaining in popularity as center stones, he says. Like MANN’s Silver, he sees little appetite for metals other than platinum and gold, though Schreibman says more people are selecting a sapphire for their center stone.

What of the sexes?

The difference “is that the woman has a great idea of what she wants. She has probably been cutting out pictures in magazines for years of what she wants her ring to look like.

“The guy is not” – Schreibman pauses – “as interested. He just wants a plain, simple platinum band or white gold band. He hasn’t been thinking about it as long as she has. Many times the woman will come into the store with a good idea of what she likes, what she wants. She’s a woman.

Which is great.”

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People also come in for wedding rings with stones they want set. “We have an in-house jeweler who can design a ring around either your stone or an image,” she says. “Somebody might have something they want to go for, so we can hear what they’re thinking of and kind of cook something up together. Or someone can

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Wedding Attendant

Gift Ideas Personal attendants at a wedding handle a lot of the important tasks to make sure your wedding day runs smoothly.

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ive them the thanks they deserve with a gift they’ll enjoy. A well-planned gift can cost no more than $50 if you consider each attendant’s needs, personality and lifestyle.

Before choosing the gifts, decide how much you want to spend, which helps narrow down gift options and keeps the bride and groom on budget. Save money by carefully thinking about what to buy ahead of time; last-minute decisions can cause overspending out of desperation or because of waiting too long to order custom or monogrammed items.

Wedding attendants should be treated to gifts that suit their personality; this is not a one-size-fits-all type of gift.

Whether you provide homemade gifts or store-bought items, make sure each present says just a little bit about you and your special day. And lastly, show that you’ve put as much thought into their gifts as they have into their commitment to support you on your big day.

Winery Tour Book a tour for the entire wedding party at a local winery. It’s a great opportunity to spend time with all of the attendants in a relaxed environment and makes for a good icebreaker before the wedding if wedding party members aren’t familiar with one another. Or schedule the tour after the wedding once things calm down. Send each attendant home with individual bottles of wine to round out the gift.

Books Choose books that fit each attendant’s personality, whether it’s art, history, sports, cooking/baking, or fashion.

Write a personal note on the inside

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front cover highlighting memories of that person that you want to share with them. As an add-on, include a bookmark.

Crystal Clocks Have a message engraved incorporating words about “timeless” friendships.

Framed Poem and Picture Write a personal poem or note, have a calligrapher make it attractive and place it in one side of a two-sided picture frame. On the other side, place a picture of the bride and bridesmaid or groom and groomsman from the wedding or another time and place.

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Gift Baskets Personal attendant gift baskets make a creative presentation. Give all of the attendant’s identical gift baskets or choose a theme based on their personalities and preferences. Common themes are lotions, soap and spa products; gardening; wine and accessories; coffees and teas; candles; sports, and chocolates.

If most of the attendants are from out of town, put together gift baskets filled with local items from the area.

You don’t necessarily have to use a basket either – other options that hold multiple gift items include monogrammed tote bags, decorative buckets, sports duffle bags (males), cosmetics bags (females), or ceramic pots.

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Bridesmaid Lunch/ Charm Cake Take all of your bridesmaids out to lunch and present each of them with a charm bracelet. For dessert have a “charm cake” made with charms inside of it. Each charm can be attached to a ribbon extending from the cake so when the bridesmaids pull a ribbon they receive charms that carry different meanings (clover = good luck, wedding bells = next to get married, high chair = your life will be blessed with children). It’s a clever way to get them started, and for future occasions, family and friends can continue adding charms to their bracelet.

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Delusions of

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Dispelling the myth of the boring invitation

By Matt DeFaveri

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nvitations are central to any wedding. Ugly invitations will scare away anyone without familial obligations, but attractive ones can generate some major hype among guests and solidify your wedding’s “brand.”

Paul Tarnoff, co-founder of Iowa-based We Do Artifacts, knows about wedding branding like the back of his hand.

If there’s one thing that cuts across the wedding industry, it’s that brides always look for something new and better, Tarnoff says.

“It’s one of the unique things in this industry,” Tarnoff says. “One of the categories which have not been updated in a long time would be savethe-date cards, place cards, thank-you cards. It’s a very large market.”

Using his Cleveland

connection, event planner Phil Goldberg, Tarnoff has aimed to re-imagine the wedding card industry with custom-crafted cards that are meant to become keepsakes instead of trash can fodder.

The result is a card thicker and sturdier than one of common paper card stock. Imagine a credit card, but instead of plastic, Tarnoff’s products are made from Teslin biodegradable substrate, the same material used in passport jackets.

Also, the linen packing envelopes are made from 30-percent post-consumer

materials. While green practices are important to Tarnoff, the main focus is personalizing each card for the bride- and groom-tobe while revitalizing more traditional invitations.

Personal touch “Weddings are really special,” Tarnoff says. “So we decided everything would be done live with customers.”

Tarnoff hires artists to take each client’s images, and then prints those images using a high-quality ink.

“That’s what we call

the artifact,” he says. “It’s like a piece of art compared to something that you print. And an artifact is something that stays around for a while.”

In working with wedding planners, Tarnoff elicited valuable feedback about his branding concept using updated cards.

“The thing they liked about our cards was it was more about ‘my wedding,’” Tarnoff says. “These brides have been waiting their whole life to get married. This is a really special day. They’re thinking, ‘Everything I do, I want it for me, but at the same time I want everyone to experience it.’”

One way Tarnoff’s cards accomplish that is with the “wedding hub,” a live website upon which brides or grooms can post pictures of dress or tux shopping, link to their registry, create an event for a bachelor or bachelorette party

Custom-crafted cards from We Do Artifacts allow couples to customize invitations, save-the-date cards and placecards, and keep guests involved in the planning process with the “wedding hub,” accessed through a QR code on the back of each card (scan code on next page).

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and invite friends.

Users can access the hub through a QR code printed on the back, using a smart phone with a QR code reader app installed. The QR code can be printed on any of Tarnoff’s offerings. The site also is accessible through a standard URL. “It’s a way for a bride and groom to organize their wedding,” Tarnoff says. “It’s a way to allow everyone to participate in a wedding right from the beginning.

When you send it out on save-the-date cards, the bride may want to show the floral arrangements she picked.

You can also put in maps and addresses and even use the card as an invitation where people can RSVP right from the wedding hub.”

The combination of the card’s aesthetics with the QR code creates something “more vivid and more elegant” while remaining interactive, he says.

“These cards allow couples to look at their wedding and say, ‘That’s my brand,” Tarnoff says. “The more you get them in people’s hands, the better it is.”

Goldberg, Tarnoff’s Cleveland connection, has helped accomplish that.

Best practices “If you need a pink elephant in your driveway, I can make it happen,” says Goldberg,

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the founder of Phil Goldberg Events.

If your wedding isn’t pink elephant-themed, you might not need one in your driveway. Fortunately, Goldberg is the first event planner in Cleveland to have and offer Tarnoff’s We Do Artifacts products.

“A very good friend of mine’s sister-in-law went to school with Paul,” Goldberg says. “Paul asked if she knew anyone in Cleveland he could link to, and he and I got in touch. Jewish Trivia 101 – what can I tell you?”

While Goldberg offers specific products like Tarnoff’s cards, he’s above all familiar with the process of branding a wedding.

“You really need to listen to your own desires,” Goldberg says. “Branding your wedding is so dependent on how meticulous someone is and what that means. Some people have it in mind whether it’s casual or more formal. There are plenty of brides who really have no vision. I’ve worked with the mother of the bride and never met with the bride until the day of the wedding and vice versa.”

The most daunting element in branding a wedding is a very familiar one: budget. “‘We want a formal wedding, everything black and white, I want a filet mignon dinner and my budget is $28 a person,’” says Goldberg, conjuring a possible scenario. “How do you as a business person nicely say to that family that that’s not realistic? I just tell them, ‘I respect your budget and we will make it work in some way.’”

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Tips from a Graphic Artist

Take it from a graphic artist: branding your wedding matters.

Your save-the-date card, your invitations, your menus at the reception – if you have the same look and feel throughout your wedding, your guests will feel like they’re part of an event instead of a celebration.

Start with your color palette. After that, it’s smooth sailing.

Your palette will influence your bridesmaid dresses, flowers, invitation colors and even linens at the reception.

Once the palette has been established, you might want to consider a logo. It could be as simple as your monogrammed initials or an icon or symbol that represents you and your spouse-to-be.

You’ll want this logo on everything you send out since it helps tie everything together. Add it to your save-the-date card, invitations, direction cards, signage, menus, gifts and favors to tie your wedding’s theme together and make your special day one for the ages.

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desired branding can be accomplished are paramount.

“I did a Greek wedding recently, fairly low-budget,” Goldberg says. “The family bought a very simple cake for the cutting. All the other pastries were from their families and friends. It allowed them to stay under budget and have a hearty dessert that was fun.”

Desserts like truffles can cost upwards of $5 apiece and add up quickly.

“I don’t mind when a client comes to me and says, ‘This is my vision, can I afford it?’” Goldberg says. “At least people are coming in with an open mind. The more open to suggestion, the better off you are.” JSW

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Works of Art

Wedding photography that leaves brides and grooms feeling their pictures are worth more than a thousand words

By Michael C. Butz

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t’s often said that the only things a bride and groom will really keep from their wedding day are the photos.

Whether the happy couple places physical photographs into an album or requests digital copies for use on any number of electronic devices, it’s through those pictures that memories of the big day are preserved and shared over the years.

However, some Northeast Ohio photographers are breaking away from what might be considered traditional wedding photography and taking a more artistic approach – an approach that in some cases makes those wedding memories better suited for hanging in a gallery.

“If you look at photography, you can fit wedding, engagement and even family photography into categories: traditional, fashion, photojournalism,” explains Brett Yacovella, owner and lead photographer at Making the Moment Photography.

“I’ve discovered that our work is very different. It incorporates a lot of different pieces and parts,” he says.

“The best way to describe it: It’s art. We’re really trying to create art for them.”

At North Ridgeville-based Making the Moment, the couple is the star of the show, not Yacovella or any of his other photographers, he says.

“I see it too often in photography where the photographer’s personality tends to control the images too much,” he says. “That’s

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Left: A couple poses in a hall way at the House of Blues in Cleveland.

Top: A bridal party holds up album covers in front of their faces before a reception at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Bottom left: A couple poses in front of steel beams. PHOTOS / Making the Moment Photograpy; Bottom right: A couple that was instructed to simply enjoy each other is photographed. PHOTO / rad photographer

OK in product and fine arts photography, but when your goal as an artist is to share something about your subject and to convey a piece of them, you have to find a way to remove yourself from it and allow them to speak through the image.

“We like to allow people’s personalities to come through the images,” Yacovella says. “The way they feel and the way they interact with us comes through the images. We

just happen to be the storytellers.”

At Mentor-based rad photographer, owner and lead photographer Robert Drago also strives to highlight the couple’s character and chemistry.

“We want to bring out people’s personalities instead of molding them into another photographer’s style,” Drago says. “We want to find out a lot about them – what things they like, what style they like – and emphasize that.”

Anything but ‘shtick’ Yacovella says he rarely walks into a shoot with an image in mind, and that’s “it’s really driven in the moment.” “(Some photographers) have their 10 or 15 poses that they do, and it’s like their shtick,” Yacovella says.

“They just kind of regurgitate it over and over again for every couple, and if that works for them, that’s great – but you’re just not saying anything about the couple anymore.”

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think there’s something really magical about placing people – organic human beings – on their best day, wearing wedding dresses or suits, and you add that contrast in front of those straight line – lines that are manmade, like bricks or iron beams.”

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Sometimes that means using architecture in the photos.

“I think there’s something really magical about placing people – organic human beings – on their best day, wearing wedding dresses or suits, and you add that contrast in front of those straight line – lines that are manmade, like bricks or iron beams,” Yacovella says.

“Those ideas are so opposite, but they work together and complement each other.”

Other times, that means incorporating the location.

Margaret and Tony, whom Yacovella described as “huge music fans,” held their wedding at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

Before photos were taken, Yacovella asked his creative coordinator to stop by a record store to buy about 25 rock albums from the ’70s and ’80s.

“When we did the bridal party picture, we asked everyone to pick an album and to cover their faces with them,” he says. “It screams Rock Hall, and it really spoke to Margaret and Tony’s day.”

Drago says he likes to incorporate light and structures into this work.

“A lot of it is based on light, but there are also times when behind a bar in Akron, there’s a really nice ivy-overgrown area on the building that we’ll use,” he says. “If there’s a lot of negative space, we’ll put the emphasis on the background.”

In terms of client interaction, Drago recalls one couple that truly embodied his approach to wedding photography.

“They made it very clear that they wanted their photographs to portray real emotion,” he says. “We placed them in a scene and let them be with no direction from us other than to enjoy each other.”

On the wedding day, Drago says he takes pictures of couples with help from his own bride, who contributes to the creative process in her own right.

“We definitely try to have a different approach with our second shooter, who’s my wife, Jaclyn,” he says. “She’s getting nice, tight shots of their expressions and how they’re interacting with each other.”

Moving pictures As for recording a couple’s big day, Drago says “wedding

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PHOTOS / Making the Moment Photography

videography has turned into wedding cinematography.”

“We invest a tremendous amount of time, energy and money into equipment to produce a cinematic feel,” he says, explaining that rad photographer uses equipment like cranes, sliders and steady cams.

“The ultimate goal is to steer away from cheesy

wedding videos with slow, sappy music,” Drago says.

“It definitely complements how we shoot our photography. The end result is to create a wedding film instead of a cheesy wedding video.”

Education is key Both photographers emphasize that couples

should do their research and educate themselves before choosing a photographer, and because each of their styles is unique, they both feel that developing a good relationship with clients is especially important.

“A lot of our work is on referral,” Drago says. “People come in because they heard we did a good job, but

they may not do their due diligence to make sure our style is for them.

“What we’re looking for are open-minded, openhearted, down-to-earth people who appreciate the art of photography,” Drago says.

“If we get the sense it’s not clicking, we’ll be up front and honest with them.”

Yacovella also feels that recognizing and developing chemistry with the couple is key to the photography, and to illustrate how much impact that process can have, he said that in some cases, lasting friendships have formed.

“The relationships we build with clients not only impact the images, but they have sprung into our lives as well,” he says. “We’re friends with a lot of them.” JSW

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• Bridesmaids’ dress: They each selected their own!

• Cake: Phyllis Lester • Entertainment: Grand Avenue Band • Synagogue/Rabbi: Solon Chabad Rabbi Zushe Greenberg • Venue: The Club at Hillbrook • Wedding date: July 1, 2012 • Florist: Molly Taylor Designs • Limo: All Occasions Limo Brittany Roth & Josh Neidus September 2, 2012 • Photographer: Inlux Photgraphy • Videographer: Horizon Video • Dress: Demetrios • Hair and make-up: Hair – Nadine; Make-up - Lauren Morton • Tux: American Commodore • Bridesmaids’ dress: Demetrios • Cake: Becker’s Donuts • Entertainment: Shout; Ceremony music – Mary Beth Ions • Synagogue/Rabbi: Rabbi Joshua Skoff • Venue: The Country Club • Florist: Blooms • Event planner: Noteworthy Events/ Kim Singerman Laura Miller & Michel (Mike) Manuel Wedding Date: July 4, 2010 • Photographer: Richard A. Sostaric, Highlights Photography Ltd. (Lyndhurst, OH)

• Videographer: Lana and Paul Perhacs, Mystic Image Video (Cleveland, OH) • Dress: Brides by the Falls (Chagrin Falls, OH) – Anne Barge Ivory layered silk organza gown with beaded Chantilly lace and sweetheart neckline • Hair: Michelle Gruly Lanzara (Solon, OH) Make-up: Iryna Sawka, Christian Dior (Dillard’s) • Tux: Men’s Warehouse • Bridesmaids’ dress: Target.com • Cake: Kathy VLK, Kathy’s Cakes (Solon, OH) • Entertainment: Ted Kusek, TKO Entertainment DJ (Richfield, OH) • Synagogue/Rabbi: The Temple – Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Arianna Gordon • Venue: Chagrin Valley Athletic Club (Chagrin Falls, OH) • Florist: Sue Bernhard - Lowe’s Greenhouses, Florist & Gift Shop (Chagrin Falls, OH) • Event planner: Mother of the bride, Rhonda Miller Masada Siegel & Ari Marlar The Hyatt at Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale , Arizona Wedding Date: Oct 28, 2012

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Pinteresting

Inspiration

Social Media Tool Provides Creative ideas

By Matt DeFaveri

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nspirational” is the word for the online tack board, Pinterest. Pinterest revolves around a series of virtual tack boards that users can create, customize and digitally pin other users’ content to for any number of occasions.

The mega-trending tool can prove useful for brides- and grooms-to-be for wedding planning purposes.

Two Cleveland fiancées shared their Pinterest experience with JStyle Weddings.

Picture perfect Pinterest isn’t necessarily a one-stop shop for wedding planning, but it’s proven useful for specific details like decorations and place card holders, says Beachwood native Mark Weissman, set to wed Honduras native Nathalie Ocampo-Berlioz in May 2013.

“My aunt is a graphic designer, so she’s helping us with the decorations,” Weissman says of his aunt, Janet Voight. “She has a (Pinterest) board and Nathalie has a board that we use. We go back and forth looking at each other’s and seeing what we’re interested in.”

Once images are pinned on a board, Weissman and Ocampo-Berlioz can draw inspiration – from all or part of the image.

“We’re saying, ‘OK, we’re doing this in this picture, but we also like

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this,’” Weissman says. “We can use each with an idea that we found on another Pinterest or that we came up with by ourselves. It makes it really easy.”

Weissman notes how Pinterest has streamlined picking out decorations and other graphic elements for a wedding.

“Instead of having to take Nathalie to a wedding invitations store, she can go on her computer in her pajamas if she wants to and take a look,” he says. “At first it was more Nathalie was doing it and I wasn’t really involved. Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t even have a Pinterest. I was just looking at Nathalie’s and my aunt’s, but then I actually made an account and started pinning different things.”

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One thing that caught the attention of both was wine corks with slits down the middle for place-card holders.

“We also found some wine-related centerpieces,” says Weissman, who admitted he warmed up to Pinterest. “It hasn’t really changed the theme or the idea of what we’re doing, but it’s certainly enhanced the idea. It’s definitely given us ideas that we haven’t thought of and it’s helped tweak ideas we had for the better.”

For Weissman, having an enormous amount of content at his fingertips has been the most practical part of the experience.

“It’s cool to even spinoff what other people have done,” he says. “Not necessarily, ‘Oh, it’s a wine-themed wedding, so let’s have traditional kinds

of things.’ It’s been a lot of atypical things that we’ve found. Click on one thing and you’ll find something else off that. It takes you in many different directions just by searching for one idea.”

Invite only Picking a wedding dress can be a source of irritation for some brides, but Sharon Brzezinski, who lives with her fiancé Jeff Kutz in Twinsburg, says Pinterest helped immensely with that task.

“The only real decision that I’ve made is I already have my dress,” she says. “I was pinning tons of pictures of dresses. … I must have tried on 90 dresses before deciding. It was insane. But I found the one that I love and I feel confident that it’s the right one.”

Pinterest also helped

Brzezinski with choosing her chuppa, though she hasn’t made a final decision yet.

“You don’t really see a lot of chuppahs in wedding magazines and there aren’t that many pictures available on Pinterest,” she says. “But it did help me narrow down to show my florist what kind of idea I was looking for.”

Brzezinski, who’s also on the lookout for flower arrangements, says she takes more of an abstract approach to Pinterest’s offerings.

“I haven’t found any picture where I can say, ‘That’s what I want,’” she says. “I pin pictures of what I like and I can show my florist, ‘I love this bouquet, can we do something similar in these colors?’ Or, ‘I love how the candles look here; can we do

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that for the table settings?’”

Brzezinski admits there’s a slew of content on Pinterest, adding different categories and search terms can help filter out the noise.

“On the other hand, it’s also very overwhelming because there are so many options for everything,” she says. “You can have your colors chosen for your wedding, then you go on Pinterest and you find pictures of stuff that looks gorgeous in all wrong colors. It’s too many options sometimes.”

Occasionally, Brzezinski finds herself bogged down in different ideas that don’t mesh, simply because people pin so many varieties of styles to their boards.

Brzezinski’s found that her fiance, Kutz, the vice

president of sales at Rock the House Entertainment, didn’t need as much direction for certain aspects of the wedding.

“Since he plans parties for a living, he’s very involved in our planning,” Brzezinski says. “I think I have the only fiance who knows what kind of chairs and table settings he wants at his wedding.”

Just keep Kutz away from Pinterest boards, Brzezinski warns.

“I think when I show him

stuff on Pinterest, he doesn’t actually see it,” she says playfully. “His eyes glaze over. He has party planning overload. … I’m looking at pictures and showing him stuff he gets overwhelmed; it’s just so much wedding stuff.”

Despite the potential overload, Brzezinski said the tool is useful because “there are a lot of really creative people out there. It’s helpful because there are things that I’ve seen that I never would have thought of.” JSW

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In Tune

Bands, DJs offer different ways to provide soundtrack to your wedding

By Zach Marcus & Paul Bram

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icking a DJ or a band presents an age-old dilemma that, like most elements of a wedding, is usually resolved once a budget is laid out.

Bands are traditionally more expensive than DJs, but cost is only a small part of the equation when you factor in entertainment value and consider what fits best with the wedding’s theme and atmosphere.

Greater Cleveland party planning experts weigh the pros and cons of each choice.

Breaking the bank Sherri Foxman, founder and CEO of Party 411, cites a critical flaw in thinking about music choices.

“For some reason, guests feel the couple has ‘cheaped out’ when they get a DJ,” Foxman says. “That’s an old notion but it’s still around.”

Foxman acknowledged bands offer a bigger sound, but says DJs provide better emcee services, a wider range of cross-generational music and mingle better with requests.

Bands might be expensive, but be careful

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what services your DJ tacks on; you’ll certainly get what you pay for.

“If a DJ sets up a ‘big’ production with lights or screens, which bands do not, the cost is far more than a band,” Foxman says.

“Then again, live music is live music, and if it’s the right music, you can’t beat it.”

Whichever route you choose, make sure your contract with the music service is air-tight.

“I have gone to see bands on several occasions, chosen them with the client, and when they showed up for the event the lead singer was different or other pieces and parts had been changed,” Foxman says.

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different.”

Weddings also need music at multiple points in the evening, like the reception and the ceremony, so clients should be budgetconscious when attempting to cover their bases.

Spin doctors “Ugh. All DJs want to do is play techno music.

My wedding isn’t some dimly lit rave in Cleveland’s Warehouse District.”

Such may be among the thoughts running through a couple’s head.

“Actually, DJs provide wider versatility in music styles,” says Jeff Dick, owner of Zone Entertainment. “Bands usually have limitations on

the songs they can perform, but a DJ can play any song desired or requested at a moment’s notice. … DJs also don’t take the spotlight off the true stars of the show: the bride and groom.

Even if a live band doesn’t exaggerate their presence … guests’ attention will naturally be drawn toward their performance.”

“Yeah, well, I bet you DJs feel uncomfortable and out of place at upscale events like weddings,” the skeptical couple may think.

“The stigma of having a DJ perform for an upscale medium- or upper-class event has been all but erased in the last few years,” says Nick Borelli, marketing and communications director for Rock the House.

“The reason for this change is due to progressive brides wanting exactly what they want without compromise.

Because of this, the market

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has opened up for DJ/ emcee teams with a focus on high-end event training and a commitment to customer service.”

“Let us guess: You’re ‘not’ a one-trick pony when it comes to lighting and setup,” the couple says.

“Many couples add options in decor lighting to complete their vision of the perfect wedding,” Dick says. “These may include up-lighting in custom colors around the room, a monogram light projecting their names or initials on the dance floor or wall, or covering the floor or ceiling in thousands of tiny star points for that special effect that accomplishes their unique vision.”

“Fine, but don’t sit there and tell us you give brides

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‘exactly what they want’ for a lower cost,” the couple argues.

“You can expect a smaller price tag with the choice of a DJ at your wedding, as well,” Borelli said.

“Depending on your venue, a DJ’s smaller footprint is sometimes helpful to the design of your event space. An emcee that works alongside a DJ has a singular focus that can be very important to the flow of an event.”

“All right, all right. That all sounds pretty cool,” the couple thinks. “Your turn, band.”

Banding together The term “band” is so pedestrian, isn’t it?

Geoff Short, sales and promotions manager at

Jerry Bruno Productions, views bands differently.

“A band is a live, interactive presentation that, when presented properly, can create an exciting, special production for guests,” Short says. “It says to guests that this event is important and special enough that the entertainment is dramatic, live and responsive in real time to what’s happening on the dance floor.”

Providing that level of experience can prove challenging.

“A wedding band really has to have the flexibility and versatility to be all things to all people,” Short says. “This means being able to perform – authentically – Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga and everything

in between. The challenge is to stick to the band’s strengths. … If not, the band can quickly sink into ‘cheesiness.’”

Great wedding bands should be entertaining to watch, listen to and dance to, Short says, adding the vibe a band gives off is very hard to describe.

“There’s nothing like the thrill of the interaction between a band at the top of its game and a packed dance floor,” he says. “That energy that flows between live performers and guests becomes palpable and there really can be an unspoken partnership that takes the party to a whole other level.

It’s an energy that really can’t be found in any other form of entertainment.”

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