I love yellow and I cant get enough of bachelor buttons or billy balls whichever you may call them. They are so happy and cute and versatile and can be used everywhere. I want to use them in an event badly!
Inspired by bachelor buttons
4th of July Treats
Tuesday Shoesday
New Social Seating Tool
Ever go to a wedding and get stuck at a table with a bunch of people you don’t know? There is the awkward “hi, I’m so and so” as you sit down before you move into the “how do you know the bride and groom?” conversation. Social Tables, a new social seating tool based in DC, was created to alleviate that exact scenario. Social Tables is an event planning platform that helps you build an active community for your guests. The sleek, easy-to-use interface is ideal for event planners as well as regular folk planning a big or small event.
How the site works is by allowing planners, brides, whomever, to create an event, upload their guests from another site, arrange them at their tables, tag them and connect them through social networking. Now your guests can get to know one another before the event or find out who will be attending a networking function. If one doen’t wish to allow their guests to socialize before the event (because we all know nobody wants their guests complaining about where they are sitting or asking to sit somewhere specific), then the event can be shared with guests after the event. This allows guests to continue their networking or connect with that person they talked to all night through dinner. And finally, if you don’t want to connect your guests, you can skip the invitation and use the site as a seating management tool.
The best function of the site is the ability to share your seating with whomever you like. Therefore, the caterer, planner, host, florist, all the vendors who need to be can see and use the same seating chart. RSVP’s can be collected on the site and all key players will know where things stand. Oh and all of this is FREE (for now anyway).
Anyone planning an event should check out Social Tables. It will remove the stress of seating.
Check out the how-to video to learn more about this great tool! Social Tables How to
Happy Weekend
Order 3 dozen cupcakes for delivery from Sprinkles Cupcakes and get the third dozen free
Lovely Little Details has a free “Keep Calm” download.
Postcards and Pretties is giving away free save the date cards from Belletristics
Urban Chic Beth Bowley trunk show at all 3 locations June 23-25.
Sparkle & Hay is giving away a Serephine hair piece.
I want to have this right now! Sugar Crusted Vanilla French Toast
Adorable new, local cake stands
Flights of Fancy
Feathers are popping up everywhere at weddings these days. Huge ostrich feathers in centerpieces, entire peacock feather themes, small ones in boutonnieres. I love the use of them, whether it is subtle or alot of them, they are always whimsical and fun!
Baby’s Breath Bouquets
I am in love with the simplicity and airy freshness of baby’s breath! This is a beautiful, affordable and easy trend I hope sticks around! You can use it anywhere, bouquets, centerpieces, on cakes, a large amount or small, it always looks lovely!
Bestie’s Bridal Shower
This past Satruday was one of my bestie’s bridal shower! It is so fun to attend these events as a guest instead of the planner! Sarah (the bride) is the owner/chef of The Seasoned Table, an amazing personal chef service! Therefore providing our own food was not an option when the bride is a chef! However the bride loves bubbly and you can’t mess that up! The hosts chose Tallula’s wine room for the special event. Bubbles were the theme and while the champagne flowed, bubbles of the non-alcoholic variety were present as well. The bride had to chew bubble gum for every wrong answer she guessed to a quiz about her fiance and bubbles of all varieties were the door prizes for the winners of bridal bingo.
This weekend we head off for Sarah’s bachelorette party! That I will not be sharing! But stay tuned for her wedding taking place this August in Seattle, it is going to be epic!
Please forgive the non-professional pictures, I was the photographer.
How cute are the wine cork vases?!
Tuesday Shoesday
4th of July Wedding Inspiration
Many couples will be tying the knot 4th of July weekend. Some will tie the holiday into their decors and others, like my client that weekend will not. Regardless of what a couple decides or when their wedding is, red, white and blue is a fresh summer color combination I can’t resist.

























































