{Wedding Design} - Casual Sophistication Wedding Theme

I love how summery our Casual Sophistication table turned out...a bit contemporary, and super fun!

Each of our display vignettes at the Bridal Festival show had the dress that matched the theme (super sleek in this case) and a matching bouquet. 

 

Our centerpiece was in a long mirrored container, with moss, green cymbidium orchids, silver mesh balls, and candles wrapped in leaves.

Polka dot cupcakes greet each guest at their seat....

The bride's cymbidium orchid bouquet.
 

{Wedding Design}- Modern Museum Wedding

This Inspiration Gallery table was based on the Pantone Color Report of hot colors for the year....royal blue and a bright yellow.  We pictured this for a modern museum wedding reception.  I love the ghost chairs!

For the brides bouquet we created a very simple yellow, calla lily bouquet.  

Adding in colored glassware is a fun touch.

 

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The menu card and sign for our love drops favor in the martini glasses were provided by Laney at Authored Events/Platypus Papers.  Love how it matches our linen exactly!

{Wedding Design}-All the Glitters is Gold Theme

Here's our glittering, gold themed table from our Inspiration Gallery at the last Bridal Festivals.  I think this was my favorite of all that we did!

The vignette included a replica of the royal wedding gown, a lovely bouquet, and of a fabulous guest table!

I  L-O-V-E this table, we had three different linens, and so many textures, it was my my absolute favorite!

 

We included a lot of gilded leaf details in this table, including on the chair decor.

 

 

 Round menu cards sat on the plate.  Just a bit of glitz and glam in the rhinestone napkin ring.

 

I loved this romantic bride's bouquet.....soft ivory and a hint of blush tones, along with our gold gilded leaves, it was gorgeous!

{Wedding Design} - Rocky Mountain High Wedding

From our recent bridal show inspiration gallery, we did several tables including a Rocky Mountain High Sweetheart Table.  This one we tried to keep very simple.....

The wildflower bouquet...

{Wedding Design} - Love In Bloom, Candy Display

Candy and dessert stations are still so popular at wedding receptions, make sure that you're ties in to your wedding theme.   Here's our Love In Bloom candy station display from our recent Bridal Festivals Inspiration Gallery.  Think Monet Garden wedding theme, very romantic!
We did a whole vignette, complete with a gown style that matched the theme, the candy display, and a bouquet.

 

 

Most of the candy stations we do include fabulous cupcakes, we love to display them on picture frames.

There are so many things out there that can be containers for candy stations, get creative!  This a a small garden themed box that we got at Michael's craft store.

We poured a bag of sugar in the jar to keep the rock candy sticks standing. I loved the adorable paper signs and flowers designed by Laney at Platypus Papers/Authored Events.

{Wedding Design} Cotton Candy Wedding Accents

I did a post the other day about using cotton candy at our bridal show table. It got me thinking about what other fun ways could you use cotton candy at your wedding?   I think it would be great to use the cotton candy set at your placesetting, displayed in a bowl, and then have the staff come and pour a soup course in the glass and the cotton candy melts, adding to the flavor.  Ok, before you say “eewww grosss”! Keep in mind there are tons of flavors of cotton candy including bacon & jalapeno.   Check out Tasty Clouds for a ton of flavors!
So that may be an option for you foodies…for those not quite as adventurous….you could just top your champagne glass with a tuft of your favorite flavor….strawberry maybe. 

Well I searched to see how others are using this sweet treat, and here are just a few:

Candy Stations
Using it as a backdrop and to add height.  
Hanging from a tree for guests to take home. 
Little balls of cotton candy in cupcake holders.
 
 
 


Cake Decor
It would make lovely décor item around your cake, very ethereal!
 


Champagne Garnish
Pick your favorite flavor or wedding colors.

 

Signature Drinks
The most popular seems to be as a signature drink, either as a garnish or as part of the drink recipe.

 

 

 


 
Catering Enhancement
I think it would be cool to work with your caterer on a flavor mixture and create your own unique cotton candy course.  It would be memorable!   

 

Pumpkin Soup with cotton candy garnish

Garnish for late night snack

 Appetizer
Your caterer could make a food flavored cotton candy and you could have it as an appetizer or dessert station.  Your caterer could pass out sticks of a spun bacon flavored cotton candy, or mango flavored…yes this actually exists!!  I had the mango flavored one, and it was delish!

Bacon Flavored cotton candy

Bacon Flavored Cotton Candy served on Bacon

Shrimp covered in cotton candy

What ideas can you think of for adding cotton candy to your day?

{Wedding Design} Love is In the Air Design Table

We just did the bridal show at the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek.   

Here’s a few pictures of our all white, Love is In the Air themed table.

Amy from the Flower House and I really wanted to do a glass table where the centerpiece appeared to go right through the glass, and get a great floating feeling.  I love how Amy added the pussywillows which just softened it enough, and made it look like they were holding up the table.

Anna Be Bridal Salon added a beautiful gown to our vignette and totally captured the airy feel.

We also wanted to use cotton candy to add that fluffy cloud feel....the staff could come and pour your signature drink over the cloudy poof and the cotton candy would melt...quite a first course!  

Happy Spring……Love is in the Air!

Wedding Design Workshop

I was on cloud nine during our first wedding design workshop…I had the best time presenting our award winning design secrets, and helping the brides discover their own personal wedding style through a series of exercises.   We even had grooms attend...and they even loved it!   

We did a short presentation and then the brides were off to the hands on portion of the workshop where they used what they had learned about their style and our design library to create their wedding inspiration board.

 

We had vendors on hand that worked with them to talk about flowers that were in season, how they can pull their ideas in to their paper items (menus, programs, etc), and of course we pulled out linens and set up tables so they could get really get a feel for their look.

"I highly recommend this workshop to any and all planning on getting married. I left with more knowledge, ideas, pointers than any website or magazine could ever offer. The flow of the seminar made it fun. The wedding board is such a great way to communicate with vendors. Thanks for giving me the tools I need to make my day extra special" - Kristy A.

We met with each bride to give suggestions for ideas they may want to pull in and make sure they had a clear picture of their direction…I was in wedding design heaven!

One bride told me she really didn’t know what she was getting in to when she came, she thought it would be just like doing it on Pinterest, but once she was done she was shocked that it was so different, and that her vision was so much clearer than anything she had shared with her vendors from Pinterest.

I love Pinterest as much as the next person and it is a great tool, but unless you know how to pull all those ideas together in to a cohesive look you’re going to struggle with finding your wedding style!

"The Wedding Design Workshop was so helpful. I had no clue what I was going to choose for my colors, let alone my theme. By the end of the class my board was full of ideas on flowers, linens, style, and organization. Thanks!" - Martha A.

Our next Wedding Design Workshop is on Saturday, April 14^th, you can click the link below for more information and to register.  The last one sold out, so don't wait!

 http://weddingdesignworkshops.eventbrite.com/

The actual Rabbi and also the Hippo: Generate an income Officiated the Multicultural Interfaith Wedding within Thailand

Along with visitors through Sydney, Portugal, Indonesia, Italia, Spain, Thailand and also the OUGH. UTES. existing, Nad as well as Alex's wedding had been very easily probably the most multicultural I'd actually officiated. Having a pretty conventional comprehensive Judaism wedding ceremony, bookended through Thai traditions, it had been certainly probably the most intercultural. Toss within the truth that WE had been upstaged through a good hippo, and also you possess the background for any excellent tale!


Whilst 1 may believe that the actual coupling of the Euro Jew along with a Thai Buddhist may be challenging, this particular wedding couple demonstrated it do not need to end up being therefore. This particular might be since the bride-to-be, Nad (short with regard to Nadusa), and also the bridegroom, Alex, that reside in Sydney, tend to be accurate people from the globe. Nad was created within Thailand, however was raised primarily within Sydney as well as European countries, because of the woman's dad's work with Regal Thai Breathing passages. Your woman had been trained within an worldwide college within London, and it is fluent within (standard United states accented) British, France, German born as well as Thai. Alex was created within Spain, as well as he or she was raised presently there as well as (from grow older 15) within the OUGH. UTES. He or she educated like a radiologist from Harvard, as well as methods a particular kind of medication which embodies the actual worldwide town all of us reside in. Should you ever come with an x-ray carried out in the center of the night time, you might question exactly where on the planet these people look for a radiologist to see this. Nicely, about the base the main planet, that's exactly where! It might, actually, end up being Alex, the "nighthawk" radiologist, that through advantage to be in an exceedingly various period area, may, throughout what's day time with regard to him or her, obtain a statement to your own stateside physician. Nad additionally (naturally) functions to have an worldwide company.


The actual few displays the multicultural existence not just within their upbringing, their own expert life as well as their own individual daily life, but additionally within their viewpoint associated with residing. They're each really happy with their own social heritages, however when it comes to real spiritual values tend to be a lot more humanistic within their leanings. These people desired their own wedding ceremony in order to reveal this particular, as well as their own concept of exactly how it might had been to possess a pretty conventional, whilst comprehensive, Judaism wedding ceremony, along with Thai traditions prior to as well as following this. For that area, these people selected Koh Samui, a little attractive isle within the the southern area of a part of Thailand.



Their own thrilling beachside wedding ceremony started using the seem from the defeating of the gong as well as percussion as well as males we're able to not really however observe, yelling within Thai, "Here all of us arrive, we're right here, inch because they came nearer. The very first thing all of us after that noticed had been 4 ornately as well as typically outfitted youthful Thai ladies, swaying gradually because they prepared. All of us after that noticed the actual males we'd noticed prior to, then the actual "guest associated with honor" -- an infant hippo! The actual hippo had been embellished along with elaborate jewellery as well as had been dance as well. These people introduced the actual bridegroom, as well as sitting him or her alongside the actual bride-to-be. Among the males after that setup the xylophone, and also the 4 ladies danced in order to it's songs a more sophisticated synchronized dancing while watching wedding couple. These people finished through distributing prior to all of them the mattress associated with flower petals within ideal synchronization.


When i officiated the actual Judaism part of the actual wedding ceremony below an attractive chuppah (Jewish wedding canopy) about the seaside. These people changed sincere vows as well as bands, as well as discussed the mug associated with wines. These people authorized a stylish ketubah (ceremonial Judaism relationship contract) created within Hebrew, British as well as Thai. (Nad's mother, an expert translator, contributed to the actual interpretation. ) When i fortunate all of them using the Priestly Benefit, that is probably the most historic duplicate associated with bible archeologists have discovered within Israel. WE described exactly how the ancestors and forefathers, people who offered all of us the actual Torah, thought my personal mythological ancestor, the very first higher clergyman, Aaron, sibling associated with Moses, benefit the kids associated with Israel with one of these really phrases. I really like reciting this particular benefit inside a 3rd vocabulary (aside through Hebrew as well as English) whenever suitable. Actually, I've fortunate partners within The spanish language (I perform reside in Tejas, following all), France, Persia as well as Bulgarian. This time around WE utilized 4 'languages', when i fortunate Nad as well as Alex using the phrases associated with my personal excellent ancestor as well as their own within Hebrew, British, Euro as well as Thai.


Following the Judaism part of the actual wedding ceremony, all of us noticed much more Thai traditions. All of us reached give food to the infant hippo. This particular "baby" consumed entire groupings associated with plums as well as melon groups. The actual hippo additionally danced more whilst actively playing the actual harmonica. (Seriously. ) Within Thai lifestyle the actual hippo may be the image from the full, and for that reason inside a wider feeling can be used in order to represent the country and it is joy. Nad as well as Alex after that grown a little "love tree" collectively, as well as elevated the "marriage flag" on the high personnel. The ultimate Thai customized had been most fascinating. Visitors had been asked in order to gentle little paper-covered lanterns. As soon as lighted, through the advantage from the heat within, these types of flower much to the atmosphere, until these people appeared as if far superstars. Every visitor had been urged to create a desire on these types of superstars for that chance from the wedding couple.


Within my individual comments, WE discussed such a fantastic training the actual wedding couple trained all of us, within getting all of us collectively upon which enchanting isle. These people demonstrated all of us that individuals through various nations, ethnicities as well as beliefs may come collectively, appreciate every other peoples organization as well as ethnicities, as well as get this to appear easy. Ideally, WE stated, the world may discover Nad as well as Alex's training as well. As well as, when they require a good hippo to make this particular occur, contemplate it carried out...