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Pink, Gold, Black & White

One of my favorite clients is working on a birthday party for her little girl. She told me the colors and the theme– Pink Power Ranger. I need to do some research on this character, but I was so inspired by the color scheme of pink, gold, black and white that I started with a mood board. I’m still working on adding in the Power Ranger, but this inspiration was too pretty not to share. 

Wouldn’t these polka dots be a great backdrop for food?

I love the pale pink candy bar here with black accents.

More polka dots, and color appropriate cakesters.

Hot pink and gold wrapping.

Gold Stars!

I love how the runner here matches the Power Range belt. With black chevron? Get out of here!

Cute black and white straws.

Awesome striped table cloths. Oh yeah.

I love these invites— and the gold and pink tinsel back drop. I’d love to see some ninja poses in front of that!

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Modern Black & White Dinner Party

We had some friends over for dinner this past weekend, so I decided to flex my creative muscle a bit. What do you think?

I used washi tape down the table to create a runner, and printed out this arrow paper for the flower and tags on the drinks. My husband made an amazing dinner with an amuse bouche of butternut squash soup with blts, which might have been my favorite part. For dessert, we added vodka and sparkling wine to the sorbet to make a little cocktail, and added the b&w straws. Our guests appreciated our effort and it was a great nite. Yea for friends! xox0

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Modern Trend: Baby’s Breath

One of the bride’s I am working with for her October wedding booked a gorgeous modern space with views of Manhattan. She wants to add some vintage touches, and I think baby’s breath could be the way to go. Before you judge, take a look– used in large quantities and in modern shapes, it looks almost sparkly {like  stars} but still give an unpretentious, comfortable feeling.

Did I change your mind about baby’s breath? xoxo

{Image Source: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5/ 6, Picture 7, Picture 8, Picture 9}

 

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Indulge Me

I think I am getting a bit sentimental with all of the weddings– between my bride getting married a few weeks ago (more to come, I promise!), this wedding that reminds me of my own, and the two weddings I have on my mind, I’ve been thinking about my own wedding, 2.5 years ago. I shared bits and pieces when I first started this blog, but not in it’s entirety. In fact, I haven’t even looked at them recently, so I’m a bit curious to how well the style aged–if it did. Will you join me in a little reminiscing?

Somehow we didn’t get any shots of our invitations. My husband is a computer guy, and eco-conscious, so we did an email save-the-date and self printed our invites with soy and vegetable based inks. The RSVP card was a pull off post-card or they could go online. Not shown here are the yellow mum liners.

Now that I have started my blog, and discovered I love paper, would I have made the same choice? Hmm, I don’t know. It did make my husband happy though, so maybe. It is funny to see our old names now.

We were married March 15th, 2009 (the ides of March!) at the Davis Island Garden Club. I wanted to be near the water, but not a beach wedding (I didn’t want to be barefoot), so the Garden Club was the perfect location, on an island  in downtown Tampa. It was also in a central location between my family, part of my husband’s family and many of our friends. Not to mention the grounds are beautiful and required little decoration.

We held our ceremony in the round, and Jen was our awesome day of coordinator (I got to return the favor for her wedding!). One of the best parts of the day was my step-dad officiated the ceremony. He’s an awesome orator, and it made it that much more special.

Here’s our first look –I now love that it is so candid. That table in the corner?  That was our refreshment table. It was 80 degrees in FL (perfect for me, not for everyone),  so we offered guests drinks and fans prior to the ceremony. The programs were also on this table. While I really liked  our photographer, there are a few details that I wish we had documented. This table {and programs and invitations} are some of them. Examples of things that important to the bride (as I spent hours on these details) that I should have communicated to the photographer. oops. Something I do for my brides now.

{Side note: While watching reruns of Mad About You Jamie was also disappointed not to have every picture. Maybe every bride feels this way?}

Isn’t our bridal party fun? Just married:

 

Come back tomorrow for dinner, dancing and our surprise fireworks! xoxo

{Photos by Ben Sasso}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dinner Party at Casa Madera

Has September been as busy for you as it has been for us? In a good way, of course! We started salsa dancing classes, been to a baseball game, went to a documentary viewing, book signings and had different groups of people over to our little apartment. And that is just the last week!

Even though it is officially fall this week, I am not feeling it. I am still in summer mode, and mourning the loss of the closing of the pool for the season. So I wasn’t into the pumpkin and fall colored decorations that were available for decorating our dinner party. I left it simple, white and a little bit of yellow, and let the food to do talking.

I got these funky flowers (official name, naturally) at the supermarket and arranged the vases (left over from our wedding, from IKEA) in a serpentine lay out.

A little yellow from the napkins as well…

My husband made the most amazing chicken. OMG– just looking at these pictures makes me salivate! Here’s the recipe.

With rice and beans, of course.

Our guests brought a great carrot salad with cilantro to add to the mix. So good.

For dessert, my man made baked churros, with dark chocolate dipping sauce. I didn’t want to deal with the smoke and smell of frying and this was a good alternative.  (I changed the napkins out too, of course).

All and all, a great meal with great friends. xoxo

Don’t forget to enter my give away for flowers!

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Daisy Bridal Shower

A, my best client, decided on a bridal shower theme for her sister-in-law’s wedding shower (check out the board I originally did for her here). She wants to do a daisy theme shower in a restaurant (since she will be planning long distance).  In order to make a big impact in a restaurant space (or any space), these bold colors– black, white and yellow– with a modern edge, will go far.

For invites, these printables are fun and decently priced (and I bet the colors could be tweaked to be a bit brighter).

Black and white fabric or paper in a geometric print will work as a backdrop or runner down the table.

And I love that this table used not only daisies, as well as other yellow flowers in small vases.

Some adorable paper straws with flags will add some punch (and these come in a mixed bag of yellow and black & white).

These favor boxes or seating cards would fit in great.

Maybe filled with these adorable cookies, or lemon candies.

What do you think? Anything else that will make a big impact in a busy restaurant?