Wedding Wednesdays: the kiss!

Your wedding day will be full of kisses and hopefully your fabulous photographer will capture some of them perfectly so that you can treasure those moments forever. Here are some of my personal faves:

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new website launch giveaway winner!

Congrats to samjm who is the winner of the jessica laine celebrations prize pack! Sam, I hope you enjoy the wedding swag and I look forward to seeing you at Mix, Mingle, Marry!. Thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks for checking out the new jessicalaine.com.

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New website launch giveaway!

Hello all! Has everyone been over to jessicalaine.com to check out the new site? To celebrate the launch, I have a jessica laine celebrations swag bag to give away.

The bag includes:

• An issue of Weddingbells magazine
• An issue of Imagine Your Wedding magazine
• An issue of Wedding Essentials magazine
• A jessica laine celebrations sticky note pad & pen [to mark off all of the pages with ideas that you like in the magazines!]
• A copy of Bartlett's 'Words for the Wedding', which is a great book to help you get started with your ceremony or keep you grounded if wedding planning gets a little stressful!
• A copy of my report '7 Questions you Must Ask a Wedding Professional Before Booking Them', a wonderful jumping-off point for vendor interviews
• 2 tickets to Mix, Mingle, Marry! Toronto's first boutique bridal showcase event taking place January 16th 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Queen West.
• All packed in a canvas jessica laine celebrations tote bag.

Please enter by commenting on this post and leaving me your name + email address or phone number! The contest will close Monday October 18th and is open to all Canadian residents over the age of 19.

And if you don't win, don't fret! You can purchase your tickets to Mix, Mingle, Marry! here.

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Big announcement on the horizon!

Tune in Monday for a huge wedding-related announcement for all you chic, hip Toronto brides! Here's a clue...

Have a great end to your week and happy Thanksgiving!

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Ultimate Bridal Show Navy, Gold + Magenta

Today on the Martha Stewart Weddings blog, The Brides Guide, Britney Peterson offers a look at the wedding colour palette of navy and pink. Well, what a coincidence! At the Ultimate Bridal Show yesterday in Mississauga, my tables were inspired by a similar palette of navy, deep magenta and shimmery gold. Take a look at the Martha inspiration board, then scroll down for some shots of my table set up and dessert table!

Photo Credit: The Bride's Guide

I arranged the flowers myself! Go me! The table runner I also handmade.

 

My booth was beside fellow wedding planner Stephanie Thompson Wedding Design.

You can see my inspiration board there in the background. The title of this was "Royal Whimsy"

My chiavaris and candelabra were graciously lent to me by Will at Chiavari Chair Rental

GORGEOUS cookie tree custom made by the very talented Angela of The Cookie Queen.

What do you think? My tables were well received at the show, and I really was pleased with how they turned out.

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Ultra-glam Dessert Table

Here are some shots of a girls-night dessert and candy table I styled. I used lots of pink, silver and black to achieve a glitz and glam feeling, while juxtaposing that with sweet flowers to keep it from being too haute to touch.

I took the outer wrapper off of some Mentos and piled them loosely on the table. They sort of look like glamorous pink cigars!

Pretty mineral water bottles.

Giant martini glasses held different types of candy.

I  draped and weaved long ribbons into the chandelier and let them trail down at differing heights.

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finding inspiration: Cake Stands

I am obsessed with finding perfectly adorable vessels and props for my dessert tables, especially cake stands. They have to be the cutest and easiest way to pretty up a simple cake display and they are extremely versatile. Don't agree with me that they are the best thing to happen to cakes since... well, cakes? Try typing in 'cake stands' into Google Images and see if you don't change your mind. Better yet, type in any colour before 'cake stands' [eg. green cake stands] and you will see that the possibilities are endless.

Today I bought this beauty from Write Impressions in Waterloo [my old stomping grounds in my Uni days] after a wedding consultation. I am such a sucker for this store, they stock the most beautiful things, and their set-ups are just as beautiful as the products themselves. I can't wait to use this in my dessert tables! It will go perfectly with the Sugar and Spice table I have coming up, and I may even try to make it work for my ultra-glam totally girly table as well.

Do you use cake stands to display your wares? What other props or vessels do you use?

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Wedding Wednesdays: Crystal and Nathan

Here are some shots from a wedding I coordinated a few weeks back for a wonderful couple, Crystal and Nathan.

The wedding took place at the Northridge Public Golf Course in Brantford, Ontario which was a beautiful backdrop for their simple celebration.

 I love this picture of Nathan beaming at his bride during their handfasting ceremony.

 Crystal used scrapbook pages as the guestbook so that she could slot them into a scrapbook after the wedding!

 The Maid of Honour downs a giant Pixi Stik

 Can you believe only one single male in the whole place!

 The cake, dreamed up by Crystal after she saw a similar design as a cell phone background, was brought to life by the talented Jo-Anne of Divalicious Cakes in Paris.

 These two were AMAZING dancers, I love that the photographer snapped a pic of them in action!

All photos by Dwayne Doucette [please email me for contact info for this Brantford, ON based photographer!]

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Veggie Buffet Table

This Christmas my sister had a pot-luck with a bunch of her girlfriends and she decided that her offering was going to be fresh raw veggies. She wanted to put a funky spin on the concept, since veggies are pretty boring, and she asked me for ideas. I thought it might be cool to try a veggie buffet table and set it up like a candy display like those I create for other events. The result was pretty cool!

The girls demolished the table in no time, partly due to the fact that the veggies were presented like treats! Might be a good trick for a children's party!
Have you ever tried to put a new spin on a candy table?

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Contest Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered my first anniversary candy buffet giveaway! The winners were chosen randomly using Random.org and they are Colleen and Karen!


Ladies, please check your email inboxes for an email from me to confirm your event details.

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Giveaway: Free Candy Buffet!

If you have ever been to an event planned by my company jessica laine celebrations, you will know that candy buffets and dessert tables are always a main feature and are in high demand! A candy buffet will certainly get your guests talking and will keep your party at the top of their mind for months. So to celebrate our first anniversary this February [the month of celebrations! Groundhog day, Olympics, Valentine's Day, Family Day, Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, Black History Month, Ash Wednesday, President's Day, Chinese New Year, etc.] I will be giving away 2 custom candy buffet/dessert tables to 2 lucky winners! Please post a comment below with your name and email address and the city your party is in by Sunday February 14th to be entered.

Good Luck!

Rules


Winners must live within the Greater Toronto Area or be hosting their event within the GTA. The event must be taking place in 2010. The event will have no more than 50 guests and the candy buffet/dessert table will offer no more than 8 different items. jessica laine celebrations is under no obligation to provide any other services besides providing buffet items, linens, table decor for candy table only, candy containers, and set up and tear down. Winners will be selected at random after 11:59 pm ET on Sunday February 14 2010.

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