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Things We Love |
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 Ruby Red Crystal Chandelier – Hand-cut and
polished, 100% crystal with 7 light’s each resting in a bobache,
Exclusively available for event design and personal home décor, Rrivreworks.com
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 In the words of the Brooklyn-based premier perfumer Christopher Brosius, “We live because we breathe, and with each breath we smell. This is inevitable. The sense of smell is our first and most immediate link to the world around us....
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 Red Butterfly Ornaments - Made of fabric with glitter accents, Potterybarn.com
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New York, New York... The Big Apple, The Empire City, The City That Never Sleeps, or simply, The City...there are a dozen nicknames for this great town, and below are half a dozen reasons why you want to be there.
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Skip the never-ending search for the perfect favor and head straight to the valet! Surprise your guests with an old-fashioned donut cart stationed upon the exit.
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The enchantment of the Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez regions, unfolding their miraculous natural beauty, cast their spell on Jill la Fleur, The Wedding Planner.
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YWD issue release party, part 5: Wedding Desserts! |
 A good YWD issue release party (and every wedding for that matter) should never end without some yummy yummy desserts!...
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By John Woods, Enhanced Lighting & Sound
If you’ve been in the dark about how lighting can enhance your special occasion, I invite you to share into my world.
 When enhanced lighting is used to brighten a special occasion, it also brightens the experience of the event for everyone at the wedding—just as your love lights up your life. In the same way that a photographer accentuates the bride’s beauty with lighting, you can beautify your wedding and reception with light.
Lighting is the innovative decorating device that’s converting garages into intimate jazz bar scenes and warehouse spaces into sophisticated settings. It acts as “makeup” for your venue, highlighting its strengths and downplaying any flaws, and is the single most important element for mood, atmosphere, and room transformation. Lights make the difference between a nice event and a spectacular one, but many people have yet to learn what the options are and how affordable lighting can be. The use of custom lighting at weddings and parties is on the rise, due in part to its ability to change the look and décor of any kind of room, from a drab recreation hall to the finest, most architecturally pleasing venues. Backyards become Chinese tea rooms, a town meeting room goes from a blah rectangle to a tropical paradise . . . the creative options are endless.
 Once reserved for upscale events like the Emmys, the Black and White Ball and celebrity weddings, lighting is now much more accessible for today’s bride and should therefore be an important consideration in the planning of her most important day. So what should a couple consider? Think about the flow of your event and what you want highlighted beyond your vows, the ring exchange and the kiss. Do you want a head table, and will special lighting designate it better than just placing a big rectangular table at the head of the room? Do you want your cake to be a showpiece? Spotlighting it will draw the guests’ eyes. Does your venue include something striking that you’d like noticed—or concealed? What mood do you want to set as guests enter, while they dance, as speeches are given? All these considerations can be addressed with lights. You can really design your entire event with lights, including as many features as your heart and budget will allow.
Lighting is mood-altering. “Starry, Starry Night” need not only be a Van Gogh painting; it can be the star-filled sky projected onto the ceiling of your reception ballroom. If you are having an outdoor reception, light can create the illusion of dancing in the moonlight with elegant lanterns, string lights and beautiful chandeliers. By using the architecture already present in the landscape, magical lighting can be strung above the dance floor or from the branches of trees to illuminate the gardens, and the structural design of the estate can be illuminated to beautify your outdoor setting.
Indoors, a foundation wash across the head table or a beautiful pattern projection on the dance floor lights the reception room as guests enter. Lighting can also transform tent interiors from a stark white canvas to warm and stunning visual impressions.
A simple spotlight on your cake will bring it to life, highlighting it from across a crowded room. You can also create ambience and elegance when your guests sit down to dinner, so that the bride is not the only one who’s aglow. Spotlighting your floral centerpieces will bring out their colors and cast a lovely glow around each table, as their beauty warms the hearts of your guests. Coloring the dance floor with lights will welcome everyone to dance the night away, and you can also personalize your event with custom projections such as your monogram shining onto the dance floor.
Use lighting to make your event exciting, sophisticated, and full of all the sparkle you can imagine. If you want the top of the line, consider intelligent or LED lighting. That’s right, lights with a brain! LED lighting has color-changing capabilities to let you transition from dinner to dancing with quiet drama. Light up your band to showcase them, and match the lights to their music. Watch your guests fill the floor as lights dance and color them, triggered by their movement and the beat of the band. And when you add the spark of a spotlight to the first dance, you’ll create a stunning, shimmering effect for your guests to behold that no one present will ever forget.
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# 6 RECIPES FOR FAVORS
Gather together the favorite recipes that you remember as a child. They could be special family recipes, holiday menus, etc. Have them bound in small books, affix a wedding label on the front with your monogram and date that you were married. And there you have it, a unique favor that your guests will use again and again. Also, it is a wonderful way to acknowledge grandmothers and mothers.
Melissa Lee, Events of Santa Barbara
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#31 FLORAL DECOR
No wedding is complete without flowers. Try updating the traditional
centerpiece by using masses of your favorite flowers in a variety of
complementary tones for added texture and interest. For instance, if
your bloom-of-choice is the gerbera daisy, try one centerpiece with
dozens of red gerberas, another with orange, and another with
fuchsia-colored bunches. Let your imagination run wild!
Ariel Yve, Ariel Yve Design
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#21 LA FLEUR TABLE
Cover your entire table top with a single bold color of petals. Not
just a scattering, but the entire top of the table with a thick layer
of petals! You can purchase them at a farmers market or order them
through your florist. Place your chargers, place settings, glassware
and centerpieces in a contrasting color and lots of candles directly
onto the petals for a stunning, romantic look!
Jill La Fleur, The Wedding Planner
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The neo-classical Ritz-Carlton, built in 1909 offers you a
heart-of-the-city location close to Union Square, yet a tranquil
setting, high atop Nob Hill. This hotel’s premier outdoor wedding venue is the Terrace Courtyard,
with sculpted hedges, rose gardens,...
If you’ve been in the dark about how lighting can enhance your special occasion, I invite you to share into my world...
As a born-and-raised California girl, I knew one thing for sure—when I
got married, it would be on the beach. Not next to the beach, not
overlooking the beach or on an ocean view terrace, but actually on the
sand...
For Cocoe Voci, the dream began when she was just a child. “As a very young child my imagination soared with the fantasy of the gown. At the time...
