Invitations

It's that time of year again to be designing and creating wedding stationery. I love the fact that every bride is so different and I love being able to design something that really shows the couple's personality.

I got to make my first ever spanish invites too! Mayerly and Luke are getting married this upcoming June. Her colors are chartreuse and blue and she likes polkadots. I was thrilled with her excitement over the stationery I came up with. Mayerly translated the text to spanish for her relatives who will be getting invites in Columbia. So cool!

Christmas parties!!

This is the third year I was able to help out Kleb's Mechanical with their Christmas Party planning. We decided to go with a "Christmas Classic Movie" theme. I had 3 large screens set up in the room the middle one had a slideshow of images of the employees through out the year along with screens of Christmas movie trivia. The two side screens had black and white movies playing "It's a wonderful life" and then "Miracle on 34th street". Just the picture, no sound. Kind of like a moving backdrop. It looked great! The tables were decorated more traditional Christmas than anything. A Christmas wreath with a pillar candle in the center. We also had noisemakers set up at each place setting that the guests were supposed to use whenever the word "star" was said during the program.

We also set up a red carpet entrance to the room. I set up some old movie posters that the guests passed on their way into the party. All the employees received a gift from underneath the two Christmas trees that we set up and decorated as well.

Susan and Ted

Susan and Ted's wedding was such a great ending to a busy summer of weddings. Many details went into this wedding to make it really special for all who attended. We put together welcome totes for all of their out of town guests that were filled with goodies from local businesses along with maps and information for getting around town. Their centerpieces were a lot of fun to make. We used fall colors that complimented eachother. I love the clean lines of this arrangement. Each place setting also had a chocolate halibut or salmon made from a local chocolate company, Theobroma.
Susan and Ted love to ski and so we wanted to incorporate that into the wedding decor, somehow. Susan had several ski resorts send some of their advertising media which we then used to make our table "numbers". Each table was a different ski resort and the escort cards were lift tickets. It was a big hit with all of her guests!

Veronica and James

Veronica and James were married up at Hilltop ski Chalet. The weather was so perfect. We had sunshine for the cermony and outdoor cocktail hour and then when everyone was inside for dinner and dancing we got to see a short thunderstorm take place outside.The flower of choice was the calla lilly and the colors were green, white, and gold. We used a lot of grasses and leaves in the floral arrangements and decor. We "tied" in the grass on the tables by using a blade as a napkin ring.

We also did the stationery for this wedding as well. We went with a simple but very elegant design the also went with that grassy feel.

Meghan and Mike

Meghan and Mike were married at the Bayshore Clubhouse. My staff set up the room for a ceremony, then directly after the ceremony had all the guests go out onto the deck for a cocktail hour in which time we transformed the room for a reception. Whew! I am glad that the decorations were relatively simple so it made the transformation go smoothly.

We made the floral arrangements for this couple and their wedding party, along with the reception flowers. I loved the colors, a dark orange, red, and brown. She went with a bouquet of solid dark orange calla lillies which was stunning.

We also did all the stationery for this wedding. Invitations, programs, menu cards, etc. They wanted them to be very "Alaskan".

Katie and Shannon

This wedding had to be a groom's dream wedding. The welcome baskets were in Ammo cans, the groom came to the altar on his 4-wheeler, the groomsmen were wearing camo, etc. So many elements of this wedding screamed "sportsman" it was hard to miss! We were still able to add that elegant side, for the bride, so everyone was happy.

I particularly loved the centerpieces that we created for this wedding. We attached oasis to some uniquely shaped stones and built up the arrangements on top for a very natural look.

Abigale and Blake

Abigale and Blake were so fun to work with during the wedding planning process. Their colors were a sky blue, steely gray, and sparkle. Sparkle isn't really a color, but if you could see the way we used it in everything then you would understand. For example, on the wedding stationery we mounted white card stock on a sky blue background and accented with crystals.

We made a structure for the wedding ceremony that we draped with white fabric and tied the corners with floral arrangements and beaded crystals.

The centerpieces at the reception were draped in crystal beads as well and we did alternating strands of crystals and orchid blossoms in the windows. The sun cooperated and made everything in the room just shimmer. It was so gorgeous!

Bianca's graduation

This was a different event for me, graduation vs. a wedding, and different is always fun! The graduation was in Pedro Bay, Alaska (God's country, for real). We had to fly in all the decorations, flowers, etc. We were able to have kids from the school help decorate. The food was made by Bianca's mom and it was so fantastic. The kids loved the decorations so much we decided to keep them up into the night and the village had an impromptu dance.

The flowers were a fun project. We used

curly willow and attached dendrobium orchids to them. The end product looked like flowering branches. Very beautiful!

Kleb's Christmas Party

I have been helping Kleb's Mechanical plan their Christmas Party for the last few years and it is always fun to come up with a new Christmas theme. This last Christmas party we went with a "generations" type theme. The songs played were popular songs from the last several decades. The table decorations were toys. Each table was a different year and the toys showcased on those tables were the big sellers for those years. Very fun! My staff was there at 10am to start setting up, we were done by 4pm. Along with the decorating we ran the coat check and the employee gift table downstairs. We came up with a great time saving solution for giving employee gifts at the Christmas party. In the past it had always taken a long time to announce a name, wait for the employee to make his way to the front and claim his prize. This year we gave each employee a gift box that held a number, that number coincided with a gift on a table downstairs that my staff was tending to. The employee could turn in his/her number and take his gift. Quick, simple, and still fun!

We enjoyed playing with the toys to make them reflect who the party was for. Leggos, silly putty, alphabet blocks, g.i. joes, etc.