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Goutal Petite Cherie Eau de Toilette - For the 10th Anniversary, the classic
ribbed bottle is frosted in a soft, celadon green. Petite Cherie is a
fresh combination of fruity and floral ingredients including peach, musk
rose, pear, fresh cut grass and vanilla, Bloomingdales.com,
Retail $115
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Orange County, California has a great array of choices when it comes to wedding venues and romantic, ocean-view experiences. Your Southern Californian wedding is bound to be wrapped in beauty and attentive service.
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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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SANTA BARBARA has been called the American Riviera, and it only takes one drive through this stunning intimate city nestled between gentle cascading hills and the deep blue Pacific...
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Northern California’s wine region is ranked as one of the nation’s top five destination wedding locations. Robbin Montero unites the wedding, wine, and tourism industry of Northern Califorina.
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 Art of Shaving
Generates a rich lather for the classic wet shaving experience
with a shaving brush – close yet comfortable. Formulated with glycerin and coconut oil. In an elegant teakwood bowl.
~ $45 Fred Segal Beauty, shop.fredsegalbeauty.com,
310.451.5155
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Event Sucess & Weddings in Woodinville |
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 Event Success designed an amazing table, had fabulous food, string
quartet, top vendors and a roaring fireplace. No detail was spared and
the results were spectacular!...
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Firestone Vineyard, Los Olivos, CA
This is Santa Barbara County’s original estate winery, and the views of the picturesque vineyards and mountains are exquisite. There are several wedding venues, and one of the most popular for receptions is The Barrel Room. Here, you and your guests are seated between banks of oak wine casks at one long “feasting table,” under the amber glow of wrought iron chandeliers. The adjacent Barrel Deck, with hundreds of smaller oak barrels, has a redwood tasting bar. The Tasting Room, another indoor venue features redwood interior, Spanish tile floors, wrought iron sconces, and several tasting bars making the site ideal for wine and hors d’oeuvres.
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Outdoor venues include the mesa-top Terrace, offering views of the
vineyards, rolling oak-studded hills, and mountain peaks; The Garden,
an intimate site for cocktails between ceremony and reception; and The
Courtyard, with up-lit oaks is enclosed by the winery’s granite walls
and massive wooden doors.
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Foley Estates Winery, Solvang, CA
The Foley Estates Winery is situated in the Santa Rita Hills at the base of 240 acres of coastal oak-dotted hillside vineyards. This was once used for thoroughbred horses, and the former stable has classic California architecture and elegant, graceful lines. The renovated stalls now house gleaming stainless steel tanks and rows of oak barrels.
Wedding sites include the Barrel Room, with beamed wooden ceilings, that fills with the aroma of over 1,000 French oak barrels and fine aging wine. The Archway, with twelve-foot wooden doors opening out to vineyard vistas, makes an exquisite frame for your ceremony.
The Tasting Room, offers a 3,500 square foot space next to the iconic winery building, and the adjacent Great Lawn, with tenting required, provides you an additional expansive, lushly-landscaped space.
(805) 688-8554, foleyestates.com .
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Lincourt Vineyards, Santa Ynez Valley, CA
This 30-acre Santa Ynez Valley estate and winery was once a dairy farm, and the old buildings have been put to excellent use. The former farmhouse, a 1926 Sears Craftsman kit house, is now a tasting room, and the barns are now cellars and barrel rooms.
There are several wedding venues, including the North Lawn with its array of colorful flowers and coastal oaks, overlooking Lincourt’s Alamo Pintado Vineyard. The Verandah and Verandah Garden, under flowing California pepper trees, overlook the vineyard, with Santa Ynez mountain views. This area is popular for cocktail receptions, dancing, or small receptions.
The Barrel Room, once the cattle barn, is lined with French oak barrels and has antique chandeliers. This intimate space is ideal for a dinner party or for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The Barrel Staging Area is an exquisite site for dinning and dancing under stars.
(805) 688-8554, lincourtwines.com
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CHATEAU ELAN, Atlanta GA
Envision yourself in a 16th century-style French Chateau surrounded by a 75-acre vineyard. Then, call Chateau Elan, to make you wedding vision real.
Wedding and reception venues at this resort, with its Chateau, winery, golf and tennis sites, restaurants, and health spa, include the Elan Ballroom, designed to reflect the luxury of 16th century France. The larger Debussy Ballroom, for up to 360, was inspired by the music of French composer, Claude DeBussy. The Cannes Art Gallery offers a soft, romantic setting for smaller affairs.
For outdoor weddings, the Chateau Lawn provides views of the Chateau’s architectural grace and lush vineyards, and the very private Matisse Terrace & Lawn overlooking emerald fairways and woodlands, serene for up to 120 guests.
In the Winery, itself, venues include the Caskroom, where oaken barrels and displays of vintage wines surround you, and the Winery Pavilion is an indoor-to-outdoor space with dance floor.
Georgia, or France’s Loire Valley? Chateau Elan is so authentic, you’ll forget where you are.
1 (800) 233-9463, chateauelan.com
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 Harvest Inn, St. Helena, CA
The Harvest Inn, heart of the Napa Valley, borders the luscious Whitehall Lane Winery vineyard. The Inn features wine country architecture and hand-crafting, earning it the reputation of a true Napa Valley ‘experience.’
Wedding venues include the Vineyard View Terrace, ideal for ceremony and reception with its lush lawns and gardens, whimsical fountain, draping wisteria, and lavender and roses. For the smaller wedding choose the Vin Rose Lawn and white rose garden.
Indoor venues include the Vineyard View Room overlooking the Vineyard View Terrace, spacious with stone fireplace, beamed ceilings, and oak plank flooring.
For cocktails Harvest Inn offers you the Manor House Lawn, among the redwoods, hydrangeas, and roses and the Fountain Terrace patio, with tiered fountain, redwoods, and garden backdrop. Adjacent is the Fountain View Room, an elegant ballroom with chandeliers, handcrafted stone fireplace, and French doors opening onto the Fountain View Terrace.
All areas create an exquisite photo backdrop for those fond memories of your own Napa Valley experience.
(707) 963-9463, harvestinn.com
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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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# 1 - LOUNGING ANYWHERE
Wonder what to do to a resort ballroom to make it more interesting and intimate? You can create individual lounge areas by renting tents of sheer flowing fabric and adding sofas and coffee tables with lots of candlelight in them. You’ve suddenly created that romantic lounge atmosphere in a standard ballroom and given it more intimacy. Your guests can move to different “rooms” during the cocktails hour or or they can dance the night away. Jill La Fleur, The Wedding Planner
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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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To begin the plan for her event design creation, Camilla Svensson Burns
pulled out her dictionary to explore the meaning of the word
“sensual”—Your Wedding Day’s theme for this issue.
Despite limitation of resources during World War II and its aftermath,
the women of the 1940s were determined to be glamorous, and they
succeeded in creating an era of high fashion...
To inspire and ignite your imagination, photographer Norma Molina uses shadow and light, inspired by the artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, to capture these work-of-art-bouquets...
