Touching Client Reviews -LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team thinks The Beatles had it right. All Ya Need Is Love! It’s no secret that the last year with COVID has been tough on the wedding industry. We’ve worked with couples who canceled their wedding or postponed – some multiple times. There have been couples who resized everything, and…

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Make Your Next Event An Explosion Of Fun!

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Recently, our Special Moments Event Planning team had the opportunity to spend an afternoon at the Flutter FETTI ® Fun Factory in Largo!   What Is Flutter FETTI®? Flutter FETTI ® is an incredible line of confetti and streamer effects, all custom-made locally in Pinellas County.     They offer “Hand Flick” Confetti Launchers and…

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Catering To Your Wedding Guests

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team knows that figuring out the catering portion of your wedding can be both confusing and frustrating for many couples. There are many things to consider  – from costs to style of service to picking a menu that’ll make everyone happy can push couple’s over the edge. So, we’re going…

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Looking for More Tampa Bay Weddings?

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team LOVES sharing our blog posts with you each week. We do our best to showcase a mix of our clients’ Real Tampa Bay Weddings, planning tips, and advice, as well as places our team and our couples have been featured in the media.   More Fabulous Weddings We are…

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Lucky 13: Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Award

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team knows that many people see the number thirteen as being unlucky. For us, especially with the wedding industry’s challenges in 2020, this thirteen is a number we are happy to see.   Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Awards Wedding Wire just notified us that we won the Couples’ Choice Awards…

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Congratulations On Your Engagement!

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Congratulations on your engagement. Our Special Moments Event Planning team is so excited that you found us and are considering hiring a professional wedding planner.   Engagement Season According to the current wedding industry information, nearly 40% of all proposals happen between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day. The largest numbers happen somewhere between Christmas Eve and…

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H. O. P. E. for 2021 Weddings

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For our Special Moments Event Planning team, we have only H.O.P.E. for 2021 weddings. That means we Have Only Positive Expectations! Looking Back at 2020 Needless to say, 2020 was not the year we anticipated. We worked with countless couples to reinvision the wedding they originally had planned. From creating seating charts for wedding ceremonies,…

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MMTB Expert Advice: Planning The Perfect Proposal

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Planning the perfect proposal is a big part of the holiday season – there are thousands of proposals from Christmas through Valentine’s Day! And our Special Moments Event Planning loves hearing couples share their stories. Proposals often involve favorite activities, restaurants, and locations- which can tell us a lot about the couple. This is often…

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Unplugging, COVID-19 and FOMO

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Unplugging at weddings is nothing new for our Special Moments Event Planning team. We’ve seen national publications talking about unplugged weddings, typically ceremonies, for the last five years or so. Here’s a piece from Huffington Post from 2016: Why You Should Consider An Unplugged Wedding (And How to Tell Your Guests)   The Good and Bad…

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8 Tips To A Successful Florida Beach Wedding

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Special Moments Event Planning knows, without a doubt, that the Saint Petersburg / Clearwater Beach area is one of the best in the country for beach weddings. Born and raised here, our Lead Dream Maker, Tammy Waterman, has planned hundreds of beach weddings. Both Tampa Bay locals and couples planning destination weddings come to our…

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4 {polite} Ways To Tell Your Wedding Guests Where To Go

Our Special Moments Event Planning team knows that every once in a while, couples really want to tell a few wedding guests where they can go… but this isn’t about THAT! Wedding guests, especially when traveling for a Florida destination wedding, want to have as much information as possible and what comes next. Here are…

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How To Stop Traffic With Your Wedding!

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One of the biggest challenges our Special Moments Event Planning team hears from many couples is how to infuse their wedding day with unique, personal, memorable details; something that stops traffic. Recently one of our couples, Lari and David had the perfect idea. And this one literally stopped traffic in the middle of downtown St…

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