Picking Your Wedding Colors

One of the first things you will want to do after you have selected your venues is to decide on your wedding colors.

Flowers and table decor by Beautiful Details

Bring color to your reception by throwing on a bold color table linen. There’s no need to go with white linens anymore with all the wonderful color choices available.

Flowers and table decor by Beautiful Details

You could also go with a linen with texture like a pintuck or embroidered linen. For a beach wedding you can never go wrong with turquoise.

Pick three colors for your wedding palette. Your favorite color should make the statement reflecting your personalities whereas the other two colors should be more subtle and add depth and texture to your décor.

Take a look at a color wheel. Pick out your favorite color, then look directly across the color wheel and use that color as your secondary color. They compliment each other. Turquoise and red is one of my favorite new combinations. Another lovely combination is turquoise and fuchsia. For a garden wedding, try apple green (or lime green) with your favorite shade of pink. Most of all let the season and your surroundings help you decide on how bold or soft your color palette should be.

Real Beach Wedding: Kristy & Andrew

We would like to say a special thank you and congratulations to Kristy and Andrew for letting us be part of their special day. They were married on the beach in Emerald Isle, NC on Thursday, September 24, 2009. Kristy planned her special day and we were there to assist on the day of.

They wanted a small intimate wedding on the beach so they rented the Villa Mare, a private four-story rental house. They invited 40 of their closest friends and family and had a pool-side reception on a beautiful warm fall day.

The wedding was officiated by Rev. Penelope Morningstar and the beautiful cake was supplied by American Dream Cakes of Jacksonville, NC.

Congratulations Kristy and Andrew and best wishes for a wonderful life together.

Destination Wedding Seminar

Just last weekend I attended the Association of Bridal Consultants NC State Meeting in New Bern, NC. The meeting was loaded with great information. Lisa Light of DestinationBride.com was there and gave a great talk on her experiences as a destination wedding planner. She has planned and created incredible weddings for destination brides all over the world. Lisa had her most recent book with her and many of us bought copies which she also autographed.

Also at the meeting was Mary Kurek, visibility consultant and author of "Who's Hiding In Your Address Book?" She has lots of information on how to grow your network. She also talked about social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

Eric Hause, publisher of the many NC/SC destination bride magazines spoke to the group (Crystal Coast Bride). Eric had lots of helpful information for us on positioning our websites to promote our business. He also spoke about the benefits of social media.

And last but not least, Joan Rodriquez from Sandals was there to tell us all about the incredible Sandals Honeymoons!

If you missed this seminar, you missed out on a lot of information. It was a day full of networking and information overload! That's a good thing.

Have Your Guests Bird Watching at Your Wedding

Have your guests bird watching when your bridesmaids walk down the isle with these adorable bird charms by Judy Tanner of Artsyclay. The charms are handmade by Judy using polymer clay. She can create them in custom colors to match your wedding colors.

Tufted Titmouse on a burnt orange background.

I know many of you are bird lovers in one way or another. Wouldn't this be lovely at a fall outdoor or indoor wedding?

Female Cardinal on a light gray background.

Judy can create these charms for you in almost any color and any bird you need. You can also chose from silver plated to gold plated bails. Browse around her shop on Etsy.com and let her know exactly what you need for your wedding. She happily takes custom orders!

Wedding Card Boxes

Ok, this is one area that I often see overlooked at weddings. Either a bride get so involved in the other details of her wedding and never buys a card box and ends up borrowing one or they use the venue's card box that has been used hundreds of times over and looks like it has. Why have a cheap looking box when you can have this lovely card box that looks like a three tiered wedding cake! How special is that?

Mackensley Designs makes these incredible boxes. She is a Houston-based Etsy seller who creates a range of beautiful wedding items such as pomanders for flowers girls, ring bearer pillows, card boxes, and also eremony and reception items. Her hand crafted items have also been featured on Bride.com!


Visit MacKensley Designs shop on Etsy.com and make your wedding extra special with hand crafted items.

Beautiful items for a fall wedding on Etsy.com

Beautiful items for a fall wedding, originally uploaded by Beautiful Details.

Take a look at these beautiful items. They all came from Etsy.com. There are so many talented people on Etsy.com that it is mind boggling. Here are just a few of my favorites.

First row, left is a lovely wedding cake topper created by RedLightStudio. She will custom design these in your likeness.

First row, right is a beautiful pomander by MackensleyDesigns. This golden silk mum is perfect for the flower girl in a fall wedding.

Second row, left is a fall flowers wedding invitation created by BGDesignstudio. These ladies are moms and BFFs and will customize your invitations if you wish.

Second row, right is a beautiful personalized cake stand by vesselsandwares. How special will these cake stands be for years to come!!??

Third row, left are a set of three pretty autumn harvest hair pins created by Nomsa. These would be beautiful on the bridesmaids.

Last but not least, bottom right is an incredible card box that was created by MackensleyDesigns. I know I already added another one of her items, but I just couldn't leave out either.

I hope you will find some of these items useful for your fall wedding. And feel free to email me at anytime if you need help planning or with your day of services. We would love to be a part of your special day.

Congratulations to Nichole & Brad

We recently assisted with the wedding and reception of Nichole and Brad on August 29, 2009. The day started early with rehearsal at 8:30 am followed by a breakfast for all rehearsing. The wedding was held at the Shepherd of the Sea Lutheran Church on Atlantic Beach, NC.

The reception followed with a buffet dinner for the guests. The reception site was beautifully decorated with light blue linens. The tables were lite by a cluster of candles. At each place setting was a beautiful poem that the bride and groom chose to share with their guests. Beautiful favor boxes were placed at each place setting for the guests as well.

They had a lovely cupcake tree supplied by Your Perfect Cake. Stunning cupcakes and oh so yummy.

Congratulations Nicole & Brad!

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