Teal is in!

With Christmas decorations and colors abound, one color that is standing out everywhere is this teal/ aqua/ blue color. I found some awesome pictures for inspiration below. The hanging ceilings are so popular at these wonderful events! I love that teal is in along with peacock feathers since this is a huge theme of the upcoming wedding of BETHANY! It is so exciting to explore many themes and easy to want to have several themes. This is totally possible by incorporating colors/ overall themes/ and side themes.

Looks like my search for teal winter weddings turned into peacock teal weddings!

In love with this cake

This ring is one that we actually got for about $10.00 for the peacock wedding!

Magnetstreet and Zazzle

These places are a must use for Save the Dates or invitations for any occasion. For my peacock themed wedding I used Magnetstreet.com for the Save the Dates and Zazzle.com for my invitations. It was easy to customize the invitations to match themes and colors and also choose between many different ranges of price and designs. I am pretty eccentric and picky so being able to please me with price, convenience, and perfection of design is a tough task. Both websites exceeded my expectations and left me with a feeling of confidence that I had made a wise choice.

* Below are the pictures of my Save the Dates and Invitations*

Inspiration, ideas and original details for weddings, grooms and brides as gifts, jewelry and accessories, dresses and suits, stationery and decoration

Inspiration, ideas and original details for weddings, grooms and brides as gifts, jewelry and accessories, dresses and suits, stationery and decoration

Wedding MUSIC

I was browsing all my wedding planning websites today and while looking at them and became inspired and got happy visions from the songs I heard that were definitely appropriate for a wedding/ pre-wedding event. I also have to share what my husband and I had originally planned to have our "entrance to the reception" song to be, but because of a crap DJ lots of my music didn't happen the way I wanted it to. Here goes...


Dan and my planned entrance song... (Turn it way up in the beginning it's quiet at first) We probably would've played just the first parts and then just turned it down to change to the regular dinner music. At this point the "Emcee or DJ" should have been in control and introduced the bridal party and invited everyone to dinner.
http://grooveshark.com/s/Don+Felder/31OHxs?src=5 




I think this song is perfect for a first dance, last dance, walking down the aisle song, or good at almost any time at the wedding too. This is Good Life, by OneRepublic, and reminds you of the Good Life you are getting ready to have!!!

Find more OneRepublic songs at Myspace Music

This song is just about a happy ending and always makes me smile. Perfect for last dance or nearing end of the night. I posted the video because I like it too! Little bit of love! 
THIS SONG is going to be a super cute song at Bethany's wedding because everyone is going to start dancing and it's going to be awesome! Will we choreograph? Who knows? ... :P



Hope you all enjoy... and much more to come :)

The FOOD!

If food is the main event of your wedding like many, then the caterer will be a huge choice. Some questions you want to remember to ask yourself before even contacting a caterer are

1. What's your food budget?
2. How many guests are you expecting? 
3. Is there a caterer on site or will someone need to travel to you?
4. Remember to communicate details to your caterer, and I would not advise using a caterer without a tasting.

Here is a sample email that you could use to send a caterer, just fill in your own wedding details.

To whom it may concern, 

I am interested in your wedding services for my sister in law bride to be's wedding event on Month, Date, Year.

Are you available this day?

What do your services include?

Do you provide a complimentary tasting?

Is there a deposit required to reserve the date?

Do you provide tables/ chairs/ linens/ set-up?

Bartender services?

Flexibility in your menus?

As far as food we have a sample menu that includes hors'deouvres (something bacon wrapped), fruit display+fondue?, salad, mixed vegetables, pasta-(carbonara), (meat- salmon or chicken)entree, and dessert table (cupcakes). 

Thank you for your time. I am available anytime by email (YourEmail) and evenings by phone (YourPhone)

 We will be available (YourDate) in the afternoon for a tasting, please let us know if that date works for you.

-(YourName)

Wedding Info.

Name of Groom/Bride

Date of Wedding

Location of Event

Address of Event

Phone of Event

Time of Event

Hopefully that helps with the catering anxiety that comes. Now it's just up to you or your planner to set up the meetings and decide what you like and what can fit in the budget. Last minute changes are not a good idea here since the caterer may order supplies as soon as the menu is in place. Think about

• Appetizers (and how to spell hor' deouvres)
• Do you want there to be a cocktail hour?
• Do you want to have only appetizers and no main course?
• Main Course of Dinner- Buffet or plated?
• Meat (1 or 2 choices)
• Salad (1 or 2)
• Pasta/ Rice
• Veggies
• Dessert
• Do you want a cake?
• Do you want other desserts than your cake?
• Cupcakes
• Brownies
• Cookies
• Colored Candies of your theme
• Kisses
• Fondue with fruit

September planning for June Wedding

• This weekend we studied invitations and finally are finding that simple is good. Got some free samples from www.invitationsbydawn.com and more.

 
• Dessert table idea: Having a cupcake display with a giant cupcake for the bride and groom, and several small bowls of candies including pink sour patch watermelons, snickerdoodles/ pb cookies, brownies, white chocolate fondue and fruits, and hersheys kisses with stickers on the bottom "Kevin and Bethany 6-9-12.
• Got them from a great site on etsy.-> http://www.etsy.com/shop/LabelsRus?ref=seller_info 

• Currently looking for a good cake/cupcake place!

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• Working on trivia questions to go on napkins at the engagement party and at the wedding.

1. High School they went to?
2. First move in the relationship?
3. How long did they date before getting engaged?
4. What was their first date?
5. How far apart are their birthdays?
6. How many cats do they have?
7. What was their first vacation together?
8. Where will they honeymoon?

• Making directional signs to the reception location.

• We met our photographer! Great nice guy, can't wait to see his work at Bethany's wedding. Larry Wells of Imagemasters Photography. Here's his site. www.imagemasterphotography.org He has done about 50+ weddings, can do photo editing, in about 8 hours will take appx. 400-500 photos, and is very happy accommodating all special portraits.

• Finally, the highlight of one of the fun parts of wedding planning- the food!!! We will be visiting 3-4 cateries in the area to see what we like. Vendors will include Hanford's Catering, California Catering Company, Hannibal's, and Kat's. 

Thank you Martha!

What an amazing blog from my friend, Martha! credit for photos goes to www.kiralaurenphoto.com

This reminds me of Grass Valley! What a gorgeous day!

Look at her veil! How beautiful!

All you need is love.

This cupcake table is cute. I am a fan of regular sized layered cakes because you can do so much with them, plus "cutting the cake" is a really classic, fun part of a wedding. These cupcakes are cute though!

Love those scrapbook pages for guests to write messages!

Love the Paper Lanterns and the light placement.

These are some of the coolest photos- most of my inspiration is from thinking of Bethany's wedding coming summer 2012

.Kira Lauren Photo