Giving Back Is Where It’s At! Dayton Ohio Wedding Planner

Have you heard about Wish Upon A Wedding?

Wish Upon a Wedding is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization that provides weddings and vow renewals to couples facing terminal illness or other serious life-altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation. Often, couples facing such situations do not have the energy, time, money, or resources needed to plan their wedding. Our organization takes care of all the details, offering couples a chance to relax and enjoy a very special day while surrounded by the love of their closest family and friends.

Recently Wish Upon A Wedding hosted an online auction where Wedding Vendors from all over the United States donated items and services for brides and couples to bid on. It felt so great to be able to donate our script calligraphy services to the Auction.

Our services were purchased by a lovely couple in California. I am working on them today and will be shipping them off very soon! Here’s a little sneak peek!

Wish Upon A Wedding is a wonderful program to get involved with. Wedding Vendors I encourage you to donate your time and special talents to this program. If you as a bride feel drawn to giving towards this program head over to their site… HERE!

Au Revoir for now!

A Scrapbook of Shoes! Dayton Ohio Wedding Planner

I promised this post last week and I’m just now getting around to it. The other day I had the “pleasure” of cleaning out everything on my closet floor for the carpet cleaners. I just kept pulling and pulling shoes out from the ginormous pile. Every time I’d pull a new shoe out I would look at it. Immediately some special event I’d worn those shoes to or some group I was involved in would come to mind.

For example, in high school I was a total Gleek. I was involved in a show choir called Octet. I wore silly costumes, danced like a fool, fell in love with the wrong boy, and wore the same shoes every time.

It’s a horrible pic but there I am in the front row. When I saw these shoes in particular I realized… these shoes are like a little scrapbook of the places I’ve been in my life.

All of the shoes in my closet were bought for a reason, had some purpose, and were usually worn for a specific event. I remember why I bought them, I remember what they were worn to, and I remember the emotions around their purpose.

I have a closet full of old shoes doesn’t sound nearly as exciting as I have a closet full of memories! Do you have a memorable pair of shoes?

SO… how does this relate to weddings?

The thing is… every time you look at the shoes you wore on your wedding day they are going to bring back memories of something. Make those memories good ones! Choose shoes that you love and are comfortable. Be sure to break them in before you wear them on the wedding day. Also, be sure you’re going to be able to wear them again.

When you pull those shoes out of your closet to go with a super chic outfit,  you’ll be wearing a little piece of your life’s history. Make it count!

Au Revoir!

Shoe Appeal Wednesday… Just on Thursday! Dayton Ohio Wedding Planner

So yesterday was my husbands 31st birthday! We are getting so old! Thankfully he’ll be older than me for a little while so I can tease him endlessly!

Since it was his birthday I was far away from my computer. We did stop in at Prime Time Party Rental for their Wine and Dine Open House. It was so fun. We were there mid afternoon and you could definitely tell it was going to be a rockin’ party later that evening. It was so nice to run into the lovely Megan and clan from Party Pleasers.   It was so nice chatting with them about all of the cool stuff up and coming for the Dayton Wedding Connection. Couples, some cool stuff is happening!!

I digress… I’m here to talk about SHOES!!! I heart shoes! So I was searching zappos the other day and do you just ever get the urge to push the little button that say highest price first? Oh I do…. but it’s a bad thing!!! Cause then you start to drool on your computer over something you KNOW you could never afford!! But that is where I found these!

Stunners from Alexander McQueen!

So I called my husband over and said… Honey I WANNNNTTT these shoes! He looks and says wow… those are amazing… what would you wear them with. My response? Everything of course! Pajamas would look stunning with these don’t ya think?

 

Hope you enjoy!

Au Revoir for now!

2012 Bridal Market - Designs That Shine –Dayton Ohio Wedding Planner

The dresses are out! This week in NYC was the infamous Bridal Market. A plethora of fashion shows introducing all of the best designers dresses for 2012. Here are my picks!

Carol Hannah

Carolina Herrera

Kenneth Pool

Claire Pettibone

Ines Di Santo… swoon!

Jasmine Couture

Romona Keveza

Marchesa

Matthew Christopher… one of my favorite designers!

Mostly I ADORE this head piece!

Monique Lhuillier

Reem Acra… OMG… just fell in love. I love the Tudors inspiration here! Def. sharing more than one!

Vera Wang

Pronovias… Several beauties here too!

Which is  your favorite!?

Au Revoir!

Prime Time Tabletop Competition- Dayton, Ohio Wedding Planner

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Prime Time Party Rentals tabletop competition. Honestly this is like putting a little kid in a candy store and saying… yeah sure… eat or take whatever you want!!  The idea is to use any of the inventory in Prime Time to create a fantastic table. 

So here is where I started. A long time ago I ran across this photo of this couture gown and fell in love. Isn’t it gorgeous!

I knew I wanted to base the concept of the table on this gown.

The original plan was to use a black satin floor length linen. With a cream overlay. There were many options available until I found the beautiful rosette table runners.

I solicited the help of the amazing Kristen Little of Five Dot Designs.  Poor girl I put her through the ringer asking for something unique and hand cut. I might add… she did a fabulous job with these gorgeous fleur de lis place card holders, custom hand cut table number, and beautiful hand cut menu cards.

 

In order to add some uniqueness to the design I chose to use 2 4 ft. tables pushed side by side to create seating for 6. This allowed me the space to add decorum via glasses and tableware.

 

A gold charger acted as the base with a glass charger of swirls set atop. Using gold rim cream colored plates I wrapped the salad plate with a black satin napkin tying them through a frame decorum.

4 crystal glasses were used to add fullness and glitz to the table while the rosette table runners were pleated and used as chair covers for gold chivari chairs.

In order to bring the final touches to the table I asked Jim Rauch of Unique Designs to help bring my vision to life. We came together and voila! Beauty!

I feel we’ve done the dress justice by creating this beautifully couture table. Thank you to the talented vendors who helped bring this table to life!

Au Revoir!

Tori and Dean Plan Weddings? Dayton Ohio Wedding Planner

Brand new show airs tonight on The Oxygen Network called sTORIbook Weddings!

Check it out on Oxygen!

Tori and Dean, movie and reality TV stars take on the world of wedding planning. Everyone know Tori likes to throw parties. But if we all remember there’s always quite a bit of disaster involved.

This should be interesting. Would be really great if Tori would bring in an actual professional but that wouldn’t make for great TV now would it?!  Have to wonder what will happen when the client asks an etiquette related question.

Will you be watching?

Au Revoir for now!