Lisa and Mike are married!

On 5/21/11, John and I had so much fun working for Lisa and Mike's wedding at the Metropolitan building in Long Island City.  The Met building couldn't have been a more suitable place for Lisa's vintage themed wedding.  Lisa also had a beautiful and colorful candy buffet table, which was a big hit for the guests.  The most popular candy was sour gummy worms; they were gone at the beginning of the party!  Nature's Petal created the gorgeous white Baby's breath centerpieces that matched the white table linens, white dining chairs and the light green back wall.  Guests enjoyed a variety of entertainment from a Jazz Band, DJ and clown.  Another interesting part of this wedding was Lisa's idea to substitute Mad Libs for the traditional guestbook.  The Mad Libs were designed for guests to give advice to the newlyweds.   I thought that was very fun part of the wedding and I am sure Lisa and Mike received a ton of interesting advice from the guests.

Vendors team included: Big Tent Jazz Band, DJ from Scratch Weddings, Coordinators from Enchanté Weddings, flowers from Nature's Petal, Ben photography, and Clown David Ellis.  I love all the vendors Lisa hired, everyone was so nice to work with.  Carols and his crew from the Metropolitan building was super nice to work with as well.  This wedding couldn't have been more interesting and fun-- it was perfect!  Lisa and Mike was one of the sweetest couples to work with.  I wish the two of you a lifetime of happiness together!

--Nellie

Happy Easter

When I think of Easter, I think of candy and eggs.  and eggs.. we can use eggs as escort cards for weddings! :) "The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out." This also symbolizes the start of a new life for the bride and groom.  Look at this picture of egg escort cards I found on Style Me Pretty.  How clever..

--Nellie

Place card holders and personalized labels

If you are looking to buy place card holders for your wedding dining tables, try Crate&Barrel.  They sell these beautiful silver memo clips 3 for $5.85, you can totally use them as place card holders.

I came across this site that does customized wedding labels, such as address labels, wedding favor bag labels, and water bottle labels.  How cute is it to order these water bottle labels and tape over the regular boring bottle labels? And you can even include a picture of the two of you.  If you need personalized labels for your wedding at low prices, check out http://www.myownlabels.com/wedding_labels

--Nellie

DIY wedding projects

If you are working on DIY wedding projects, definitely check out stores like Michaels, Party fair, Paper Presentation, Print Icon (they don't have a site, but it's next door to Paper Presentation on W18th st), and online store Etsy. Michaels and Party fair have more selections in their actual stores than online, so if you have these stores nearby, check them out!  Luckily for me, I can get to both Michaels and Party Fair easily =)

--Nellie

Customized fortune cookies

I remember watching the Bachelor show (Jake's season), and on one of  the episodes Jake took his date (Ally?) to a fortune cookie bakery and they made fortune cookies with their personalized love messages to each other.  I thought it's a wonderful idea to incorporate into a wedding.  This idea is imaginative, sweet, yet inexpensive!  How wonderful is it to include some love messages into these cookies for your guests?!

or even use this as a proposal idea

 You can get fortune cookies customized at local fortune cookie bakery or even online. E Fortune Cookie does personalized fortune cookies and ship them to you.  (note* I have never used this company, this is one of the customized fortune cookie companies I came across online.  You can certainly do more research on this company or other companies before ordering.  I just wanted to share this tip/idea with brides)

--Nellie

Origami cranes

A client of mine informed me that she wants to incorporate cranes into her wedding.  I thought it was an excellent idea, there are so many things you can do with paper cranes and it has a beautiful meaning.  

"Cranes which mate for life and symbolize peace and longevity in Asian cultures are becoming a fun trend couples are incorporating, according to Modern Bride. 'According to Japanese lore, a bride who folds 1,000 paper cranes before her wedding will have a prosperous marriage.'"

I came up with a lot of ideas, and thought that I would post the ideas here to share with everyone.  Cranes can be served as seating cards, cake toppers, or just as a decorative item hanging down from the ceiling (you can use tape to attach the cranes to the ceiling).  Here are some pictures I came across online that might be inspirational for brides.

Paper cranes act as place cards:

 picture on bottom right are place cards--just attach a little tag to paper cranes with guests names.

 

Cranes act as decorative item hanging down:

How to make cranes||cranes as cake topper:

Pictures taken from various sites:

http://blog.paper-source.com/ 

http://www.dynamiteweddings.com/

http://omiyageblogs.blogspot.com/

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/origami/

http://fareastboutique.com/origami-cranes/

http://www.getmarried.com/

http://diyweddingprojects.com/
http://www.theknot.com/

 --Nellie

The One! (dress)

Hello brides:

If you are like me, you'd love a romantic, feminine, floaty and floor-length dress for your wedding.  Look no more, try Aire Barcelona.  Their wedding dresses are stunning!  When I first came across their wedding dresses online, it was INSTANT LOVE.   

Interesting Fact:  This Spain based company is fairly new in the bridal industry (started in 2004).  Therefore, their dresses are affordable (some at $1K).  However, a lot of U.S. retailers don't offer their dresses (yet), definitely ask your local bridal shops to see if they carry this brand.

Here are some of their dazzling dresses:

 

and my favorite :)

photos taken from http://www.airebarcelona.com

As an Aire Barcelona fan, I hope they'll expand their U.S. market, so more brides in the U.S. get to wear their gorgeous (and surprisingly affordable) gowns!

--Nellie