It's a New Year!

Welcome year 2012! It always surprises me how fast a year goes by. 2011 was no different in that aspect. I only took a handful of event as I was unsure how I'd be able to handle work and being a new mom. I was thinking about taking more events this year and do some expanding as I'm more settled in my role, however the plan now is to only take 6 events. We're limiting it to sash colors that we have in stock, and we're setting a cap at 250 for the largest event we'll do. This year we also are not available for Friday events. As a new mom, I'm looking to spend more time with my family and keep the business side of my life fairly simple. I love weddings, so I think I'll be in the business for a while....but I'll likely be limiting the number of events I take on until our little one is in school. The business expansion idea has been put on the back burner for now. But who knows what the year will bring!

With that said, I have 5 more openings for the year. I tend to start booking up in the spring, so contact me as soon as possible to get your event date on the calendar.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and wish you all the best for a wonderful new year!

Event Recap & Business Update: Lincoln Country Club Reception

Another beautiful wedding reception with black sashes, this time at Lincoln Country Club on Saturday. It shouldn't surprise me, but I am still shocked at how many black sashed receptions we do. They sure do look nice though! This couple chose these gorgeous hydrangea bouquets in tall glass vases for each table. It looked so classy in there! I did get a few pictures, although they hadn't set up the napkins yet, so see below for those images. Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. S! We hope you enjoyed the reception and were pleased with how the room looked.

Looking ahead to next year, I am excited to be adding some new products to my collection. This is still very early in the planning and development, but we'll be offering a line of products that will be available for rent for receptions and parties, as well as for purchase. The items would make beautiful decorative pieces for anyone's home, which is why they'll be available to purchase too. So stay tuned for more details and photos. By early next year we should have some photos up on our website and/or blog of the goods.

Event Recap & Business Update: Beautiful Black Sashed Reception in Allendale

Before I jump to the event recap, I thought I'd update you all on our 2012 schedule. This year has been an interesting one! Last fall we were blessed with the arrival of our first baby, so we knew this year would be unique in that I'd be juggling motherhood with running CCC. Not knowing what to expect, I only took on a handful of events this year. Now that I'm settling into my new role, I am planning on taking on a few more events for 2012. I'll likely take on 6-8 next year. I would like to do more small to mid-sized events, keeping the maximum count at around 200.

On Saturday we set-up for a reception at Main Street Pub in Allendale. The first time we did a reception there I was surprised by the space. I had no idea that it was hidden there in the basement of the restaurant. It's a surprisingly nice space! There is a nice covered patio there, which is great for spring and summer weddings. The couple went with the always beautiful black organza sashes.

Congrats to Sara & Peter! Here are a few photos from the reception. Enjoy!

Event Recap: The Wave Room at Celebration Cinema in Silver

On Saturday we set-up a Silver sashed wedding reception at Celebration Cinema North's Wave Room. If you haven't been there it's a great room with lots of natural light from the large windows along one wall of the room. The staff there is great! Big thanks to April and Brad for being so accommodating. Here are a few pics of the room. (of course, I forget to take a picture of the front of the head table when we used a beautiful new style tie. You can kind of see it in the last picture. It's criss-crossed on the front. I love that look!).

Congratulations to the newlyweds, David & Jill!

Event Recap: Beautiful Reception @ Bridgewater Place

On Saturday we set-up chair covers for Emma & Brian's reception at Bridgewater Place. It was beautiful in there! They went without chair covers and brought in color with the centerpieces. I loved the gray, yellow & white color scheme. The mother of the bride was in there while we were setting up and had said that Brian proposed to Emma using the game Scrabble. So they used scrabble letter pieces to spell out the table numbers . Such a cute idea! Congrats to the bride & groom!

Here are a few photos...

2011 Season - Booking Complete

We are officially done booking events for 2011. We are now accepting event dates for 2012. We'll be accepting a very limited number of events next year, so contact us A.S.A.P. to get your event date on the calendar.

EVENT RECAP: Sunnybrook in Classic Black

We kicked off the year on the 29th at Sunnybrook Country Club. It has been quite a while since our last set-up, as I was on maternity leave. I always forget how much I like to see the end product until we complete a reception set-up. It's always so beautiful! Black seems to be a growing trend. The couple had a variety of gorgeous center pieces. There were black crystals with candles, floral in tall vases, etc. Check out a few pictures from the event: