With back to back weddings coming up for Kevion & Antoinette and Angie & Okwui I had been working on a drink menu design for their weddings. They both have chocolate as a base color so I used the same menu and just changed the accent colors for each couple:
Kevion & Antoinette's
Angie & Okuwi's
One of the things that I do with clients is go shopping with them for supplies for their wedding and for the hand made designs they have ordered from me. The advantage of shopping clients gives me a chance to get to know them better and to make additinal suggestions on the design and decor of their wedding. Two of my favorite places to shop with my clients are AC Moore and Walmart. With only a month left until their BIG DAY, I recently went shopping with Kevion & Antoinette and we got a lot accomplished. We bought all of their jars for their Candy Bar, the centerpieces for their cocktail hour, tulling for the church and the supplies I needed to design their aisle runner, pew cones and their unity candle.
As I have been gearing up for Angie and Okwui's Puerto Rican & Nigerian Wedding, they asked me to come up with a design idea for their Table Numbers. I decided design table numbers that incorporate both of their heritages. I designed the numbers using Spanish and Yoruba one of the languages spoken in Nigeria. I can't believe how fast time is flying! There are only 2 months left until their BIG DAy!
Want a unique alternative for a fun and economic favor at your wedding? Why not try a Popcorn Bar. With a little imgaination you can create a great Popcorn Bar for your guests that comes in all different types of flavors. With so many people doing Candy Bars at their wedding receptions these days, this is a unique idea!
Of course Popcorn comes in so may different flaovrs from trasitional butter, to cheeses to the sweet taste of caramel. Here are some cool recipes from Recipe Tips to create some unique Popcorn flavors for your Popcorn Bar:
Chile Popcorn
16 cups popped corn
3 small dried red Chile peppers
7 tablespoon margarine
1/4 tablespoon garlic salt
Peanuts (optional)
If popcorn is cold, heat in oven. Over low heat, melt margarine. Add Chile peppers to margarine and cook for 5 minutes. Remove Chile's and pour butter over heated popcorn. Season with garlic salt, add peanuts if desired.
Game Day Popcorn
16 cups popped corn
2 cups sharp Cheddar cheese (shredded)
¼ cup butter
3 teaspoons lemon pepper
1/4 teaspoons Cayenne pepper
3 teaspoons Chile powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
Peanuts (optional)
Granola (optional)
In a large bowl, combine popcorn, peanuts (optional), granola (optional), and shredded cheese. On medium heat, melt butter. Add spices to melted butter and stir well. Pour butter and spice mixture over popcorn mixture and toss.
Garlic-Cheese Popcorn
½ cup butter
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon Cheddar cheese flavored salt
½ teaspoon garlic powder
12 cups popped corn (hot)
Over low heat, melt butter. Add seasonings and pour over hot popped corn. Best when served warm.
Italian Style Corn
½ cup oil (preferably olive oil)
2-8 oz. packages of Italian dressing
2 tablespoons of lemon juice (optional)
16 cups of popped corn
Bring oil to a boil in small sauce pan. Add lemon juice and Italian dressing packets, stirring constantly. Pour over popcorn and toss. Best when served warm.
Want something different and unique as the sweet focal point at your Wedding Reception? Well then, try a Wedding Cheesecake. Wedding Cheescakes can made with whipped icing and custom designed to any shape, theme or idea you have in mind. Not only that, if you hav eever been to the Cheesecake Factory Restaurant you know that Cheescakes come in a huge variety of flavors and filling.
Wedding Cheesecake from Heavenly Cheescakes:
Singer Toni Braxton's infamous Tiffany Box Wedding Cheesecake:
Our client Rochelle is having an elegant wedding on the West Coast incorporating the colors of apple green, pink and silver. For her wedding she is infusing chandeliers and crystals for a classic yet elegant theme. I designed these Bling Table Numbers for her to use as a focal point on the tablescapes at her wedding reception.
Have a great MLK Holiday everyone...
Our client Sonya is a sweetheart and is planning an uber FAB tiffany blue, silver and black wedding in the Queen City of Charlotte, North Carolina. This modern and chic wedding will take place in the summer of 2009 and her theme will also feature crystals and some hints of black and white damask! One of several items that Sonya contracted us to do for her was a Swarvorski Crystal Cake Topper. For her topper, I wanted to use all of the colors in her color scheme and I love how the black makes her topper go POP:
Sonya has this uber FAB Blog where she writes about her wedding planning experince. You click here to visit her Bridal Bliss Blog.
Sonya thank you for letting us be a part of your special day and I know your theme is going to be spectacular!
We love Independence Day! It's a time for relaxtion, barbeques, hanging with family and friends and good old fashion fun. What has become paramount at the end of every Fourth of July are fireworks and for those of us who were not legally allowed to buy our own fireworks because of state laws, we got the next best thing, SPARKLERS! Fun with Sparklers somehow transitioned into the wedding world as more and more couples are having a Sparkler Sendoff as they leave their Wedding Reception. There is so much buzz about Sparkler Send Offs, because they can add a nice touch to the end of your reception and make for unique photographs. We love the photograph of this Sparkler Send Off courtesy of Michael Caswell Photography.A couple of weeks ago we blogged about our client Kay who is in need of dinner menus for Simone and James' Wedding coming up in September. Their colors are red and silver and we wanted to incorporate those colors in our first mock up design for the menus. The silver trim will be the backing and the red stripe will be ribbon. We plan to add crystals to the swirls. Kay we hope you like this first mock-up! 
