Featuring Weekend Wedding Warrior Owner, Maggie Heely. Discussing the wedding business and how to implement boundaries to better serve your clients

Keeping your relationship strong and healthy is more important than ever. With restaurants indoor dining closed and no concerts/theater performances, you need to get creative to make sure your relationship is getting the time it needs to flourish…even in a pandemic.

1. Weightless Float Center

My husband and I recently discovered the Weightless Float Center in Louisville and have now been on 2 dates together there. The first was in a sauna for 45 minutes and the second was in a 2 person float tank for 90 minutes. In the sauna we chatted and laughed at the difference in sweat (he’s an athlete and produced buckets of sweat in the first 5 minutes and I am less of an athlete and took 13 minutes in 135 degrees to produce 1 drop of sweat). The float was a sexier experience. You can wear your swimsuit or your birthday suit. You are put in a room alone for 90+ minutes; you shower before and after your float, and in between you just relax and float in 1,000 lbs. of epsom salt water. The first 20-30 minutes you are trying to shut off your brain and get comfortable, but then you zone out. We were silent almost the whole time and my husband thinks he fell asleep for a bit.

2. Festive Light Display

There are a few different pandemic-friendly holiday light displays going on in the month of December. These would make a romantic and festive date night.

Walking:

Winter Illuminations – 1 mile loop at Beckley Creek Park https://winterilluminationsky.com/ $17.99 per person

Gardens A Glimmer – 30 min walk at Waterfront Botanical Gardens https://waterfrontgardens.org/event/gardens-aglimmer/ $7 per person

Drive Thru:

Lights Under Louisville – 30 min drive through the Louisville Mega Cavern https://lightsunderlouisville.com/ $29.99 per vehicle

Winter Woods Spectacular – in Iroquois Park benefiting the Louisville Parks Foundation https://www.winterwoodsspectacular.org/ $35 per vehicle

3. Hike & Picnic

Louisville is home to several Olmstead Parks and is a day trip away from Red River Gorge, Jefferson Memorial Forest, Bernheim Forest, and many more opportunities to get on a hiking trail. Dress in layers and fill up your water bottle. Hit a trail and get your nature on.

My husband and I find that hikes are the best time to have in-depth conversations and/or to make big decisions. #foresttherapy Our favorite is to hike through Cherokee Park and then get food delivered to a picnic table at Willow Park. We often just get Chipotle (Postmates will deliver to a park!), but if you want a major upgrade check out Bluegrass Super Club for a gourmet picnic by acclaimed local chefs Damaris Philips & Coby Ming. Trust me, the food is amazing and they will even set you up with a picnic basket, blanket, and pillows (hint hint: someone hire them for a proposal).

4. Heated Patio Cocktails

With restrictions on indoor dining, restaurants are getting creative. 8Up started the trend on their rooftop last year and driving around town I have seen the following restaurants with small “dining bubbles” outside to give diners a unique and protected experience during the pandemic:

Cultured & Le Moo

There are likely more around town that I haven’t come across!

5. Virtual Performance & Take Out

Make an intentional date to support local arts and restaurants by streaming the Louisville Ballet Nutcracker and ordering take out. You can get take out from any of your favorites, but here is a short list of mine:

Wiltshire Pantry, Bar Vetti, The Fat Lamb, Volare, El Taco Luchador, Chik ‘n and Mi

6. Virtual Cooking Class

Have you ever wanted to learn to cook like a Top Chef? Kentucky’s own Chef Sara Bradley has virtual cooking classes where you can learn her secrets to perfect biscuits, fried chicken, and more. https://www.sarabradley.com/ $35-$70 per class

7. Outside Holiday Movie

Naive is one of my favorite restaurants because I’m always trying to heal myself through food for one alignment or another. My husband and I can both agree on Naive since they have health/allergy conscious items that still taste awesome. They have a very large back yard with heaters and have been projecting holiday favorites on Saturday nights. Bundle up and order some boozy hot cocoa! There is no cost for the movie besides your meal!

So you were planning your wedding and there was a world wide pandemic that canceled everything…now what? You are scrambling to figure out what to do. Postpone? Cancel? Reduce guest count? What do all your vendor contracts say? There is so much uncertainty you don’t know which way to turn. You talk to your family, they are great, but they just don’t get it. You talk to your fiance but how much is too much? You talk to your bridesmaids…but they have their own problems right now. You join a Facebook Group, but it’s overwhelming.

I (Maggie Heely, owner of Weekend Wedding Warrior) am actually also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Masters degree from Northwestern University. Couples who are rescheduling their weddings are going through a lot of stress and grief currently. Sure there are bigger problems in the world, but this is big in your world. I want to provide a safe space for people to come together to talk about their experiences and make some friends who “get it”. Sometimes you don’t want someone to fix your problem, you just need to know someone else understands your problem and that you aren’t crazy. You aren’t crazy. This is a lot. Let’s hang out and talk about it.

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All the best,

Maggie Heely, Owner

Weekend Wedding Warrior

We are all spending lots of extra time with our significant others right now. But is it “quality time”??

Here are six fun, low-key, (mostly) at-home date activities to try out when you’re craving some intentional quality time with your partner:

• Create the ultimate movie/Netflix-binge experience. Well, let’s be real. We’ve probably all been doing our share of this lately. But think of how you could make it fun, special, or different. Maybe you make it a theme night. My family and I have being doing “Family Movie Nights” and ordering take-out that goes along with the movie and eating it picnic style on the floor of the living room. Subtract the kiddos and this would be a great date night 😉
• Give an in-depth lesson. Take turns teaching each other about one of your favorite subjects or hobbies. Keep in mind that the “learner’s” engagement is key to making this fun. Recently my husband taught me how to use a power tool to help with a backyard project.
• Have a picnic – whether it’s in your backyard or your bedroom. Cook or order in your favorite meal or build an appetizer tray from whatever is in your pantry. Make it feel special by dressing up a bit and playing some music for ambience. We love going to Cherokee park and find a spot on the lawn for picnic (just watch out for the ants)!
• Watch a sunrise or sunset. Grab some coffee or a nightcap and scope out a spot with a view (even if it’s just the bay window of your living room). Reflect on the day ahead or behind you after enjoying nature’s colorful show. Share three things you’re feeling grateful for.
• Take a hike. In most areas, outdoor activities are still encouraged as long as you practice social distancing. Scout out a park or hiking/walking trails near you and throw on your comfy shoes. Enjoy the fresh air and each other’s company. My husband and I have our best talks while we are hiking.
• Exchange gifts. This probably sounds like an odd one, especially if you don’t have a gifting occasion coming up – although do you really need one? You’re probably not going to go out shopping for one either. Here’s where the fun comes in! Create a gift out of things you already have around the house, hiding in a closet, or a box of old memorabilia in the basement. The thought- and creativity- is what really counts here.

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We have been working hard this fall to create a “How To” guide on working with Weekend Wedding Warrior. We truly see our relationships with our clients as partnerships. Our motto is, “You plan it, We make it Happen!” Without our clients’ excellent planning, we can’t make it happen perfectly. Therefore, we created a guide on how to plan your wedding and where we will fit in along the way. This extensive guide will be available to all our 2018 couples (and beyond!).

In the process, we partnered with Riley & Ko. to create this Wedding Planning Checklist to help get you started. We hope it’s helpful to know what you should expect to do when! We tried looking online for a guide that we thought was awesome, but they all fell short…so we made our own!

 

Kaleigh & David’s wedding was featured in the Voice Tribune! You can read the whole article here, https://voice-tribune.com/life-style-2/vows/kaleighn-david-labore/

Here is my favorite part 🙂

She thanks her wedding planner, Debbie Saag from Weekend Wedding Warriors, for having the day go off without a hitch. “She was absolutely 100 percent incredible, the lifesaver of the wedding,” Kaleighn says gratefully. “She’s somebody who is on the same wavelength as me, and she just made it happen.”