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M e e t O u r Lifestyle Advice Expert - p. 54


Christopher Macken, makeup artist, model, businessman, Atlanta Social Scene Personality, image consultant and columnist for DIY Weddings Magazine....from the beauty products he designed, and styling team he leads, to the honest answers he provides to clients in need of his chic eye for fashion, Christopher’s talents are many. A Milledgeville native, he moved to Atlanta after living and working for many years in the fast- paced entertainment and fashion industry of metropolitan Florida. He has worked to create The House of M Famous and Christopher Macken Concepts, the parent companies for Christopher Macken Cosmetics and Ask M Famous. Having trained under some of the best in the business and boasting a lustrous decade long career, Christopher continues to expand with the newest installment, MFamousAtlanta.com


Do It For Less! Wedding Experts - p. 48


A 20 year culinary veteran, Denise Vivaldo teaches seminars and workshops across the country and has trained many of the stylists working in Los Angeles today. In 1988 Denise founded Food Fanatics, a catering, recipe-development, and food-styling firm based in Los Angeles, California. Since that time she has catered more than 10,000 events. Events such as the Academy Awards Governor’s Ball, Sunset Magazine’s Taste of Sunset, and Hollywood wrap parties. She has also catered and styled food for countless local and nationally syndicated television shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Inside the Dish with Rachel Ray. Denise is also the author of How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, Do it for less! Weddings and Do it for less! Parties.


Cindie Flannigan has been styling, designing, and teaching with Food Fanatics since 2001. After 20 years of working as an art director and graphic designer, Cindie enrolled at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Cooking for family and friends had always given her such joy that she decided to make a career out of food. Cindie styles food for print and television, developing and testing recipes and materials. She is also the webmaster of www.foodfanatics.com


Wedding & Event Planning Expert - p. 12


Wayne Gurnick is the founder of Moments by Wayne Gurnick. For the past 20 years, Wayne has provided wedding and event planning services across the USA. As a personalized full service event planner, the company assists clients with every aspect of their event or celebration -- from concept to production. The company has launched The Ultimate Wedding Planning Systemtm to help the DIY bride plan her own wedding, with 24/7 access to Wayne Gurnick and his staff. Wayne is accredited by the American Institute of Floral Designers and hosts an online radio show Wedding Words of Wisdomtm.


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Wedding Planning Expert - p. 16


Emily Horak is a designer and maker of handmade goods for merry celebrations, as well as the owner of Potter+Butler Handmade. This wedding planner turned maker writes about handmade style and celebration details with soul for her blog of the shop’s name, as well as offers DIY event style consulting for celebratory creative types. If you have questions and celebration intentions of your own that you would love to see addressed in her DIY Weddings Magazine column, Handmade+Happy, or if you’d like to have Emily + her team design goods for your big day, email hello@potterandbutler.com.


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