The Men's Den

With many aspects of a wedding heavily favoured around the bride, todays blog is all about the groom and his groomsmen.

Cigar Bars are an absolute favourite of ours, they add a unique, classy old fashioned flair to a wedding reception and are a little something for the lads!

Bring in a cigar roller to work throughout the reception making cigars for your guests or bring in a few cigar humidors displaying a variety of different cigars, almost like you would a lolly buffet.

Add some old books and a bowl of custom made matchbooks and cigars with your names and wedding date on them along with a bottle or two of brandy or scotch with some old fashion glasses and flasks.

If you want to go all out why not create a men's lounge or even have an attendant there to assist guests in selecting and preparing the cigars.

New look Bouquets

Bouquets have taken on a whole new look. Flower bouquets have taken a back seat to lollypop, button, balloon and origami bouquets. These can range from quirky to warm and romantic and out-there appearances.

Lollypop Brides have some fun, colourful and best of edible bouquets for Brides. www.lollypopbrides.com.au.

Button bouquets are another of the up and coming bouquets helping style your special day. Liza from lillybuds has an amazing array of button bouquets at http://www.lillybuds.com/. and can post your arrangement world wide.

If you are looking for something a bit quirky. Origami and balloon bouquets are for you. These can be a fun home made project or ordered specially. Check these ones out!

As seen on the Style Me Pretty website. http://www.stylemepretty.com/

REAL WEDDINGS - Angie + Anthony

As autumn is slipping away from us I thought I would share with you Angie + Anthony’s autumn inspired wedding I planned last year.

I had so much fun planning this wedding. The theme was “Canadian Thanksgiving”. Having just returned from the States myself I was able to draw on what I had seen and experienced and incorporated this into the wedding stationary, menu, styling, florals and bon bons.

The wedding also had an international flavour to it. The bride was from Canada (hence the Canadian thanksgiving theme), the groom from Australia and they met and live in the Cayman Islands. These three distinctive cultures were also incorporated into the wedding.

Here are my favourite bits -

Bouquets

Angie’s and her bridesmaid’s bouquets were delicious! Autumn inspired florals made up their bouquets. Roses, pomponii gerbera's (the Bride’s favourite), freesia, orchids and berries in reds, oranges, browns, greens and pink tones.

Order of service booklets

The order of service booklets were very cute. These bite size booklets incorporated the same fonts, colours, look and feel as the invitations.

Pew ends

The autumn inspired pew ends were made up of orchids, berries and willow tied together with brown satin ribbon lined the latte aisle.

Table styling

The reception featured three long banquet tables covered in brown satin linen and brown tiffany chairs. An abundance of tea lights, colourful gerbera arrangements, autumn inspired blooms and wrought iron pumpkin and pear candle holders adorned the tables. The tables were styled by by W.Edding & Co.

Personalised menu/receipe book

Each guest received their own personalised menu and recipe book containing all the recipes from the Australian, Canadian and Cayman Island cuisine that was served throughout the evening.

Cake

I have saved the best for last –the cake.It was the yummiest cake I have ever tasted ...and I have tasted ALOT of wedding cake in my time. The three tier pumpkin spice (the bride’s favourite flavour) cake was covered in ivory frosting and colourful gerberas and roses. Yum yum yum!

Keeping with the autumn theme, the bon bons were Aspen leaf shaped cookies with a thank you tag attached.

Photography & filming

http://vimeo.com/11941982

These great images were taken by Vivid Photography. The day was beautifully captured by the talented team at Net Productions. This trailer gives me goose bumps every time I watch it!

PS.

The Partridges will soon hear the pitter patter of little feet. Angie and Anthony are expecting their first child later this year.