Are you up to your neck in preparations and driving your guy crazy with details? Where is the love? Hit the road for a little relaxing couple time with the benefit of covertly knocking something off your to-do list. Incorporating local suppliers is not only great for the local economy and environment, it also showcases [...]
Archive for the ‘Wedding Reception’ Category
Romantic Pre-Wedding Washington Wine Road Trip
Posted in Do It Yourself, Green Wedding, Seattle, Wedding Budget, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, AvantBride, budget wedding wine, Forgeron wedding, Green Wedding, L'Ecole No 41 wedding wine, local wedding wine, road trip from seattle, seattle to walla walla, seattle wedding wine, walla walla wedding, washington wedding wine, washington wine, wedding wine on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
DIY Potted Plants for Centerpieces
Posted in Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged cheap wedding arrangments, Cheap Wedding Flowers, Country chic wedding, DIY flowers, Do it yourself arrangements, Do it Yourself Wedding, lakeside wedding, original flowers, Potted Centerpieces, potted flowers, unique flowers, unique ideas on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love the concept of potted flowers for weddings and rehearsal dinners! So much of weddings is for one day only, it makes me happy to know that these flowers will continue blooming all summer long. It’s also charming!
Like the napkin ring idea I wrote about earlier, if you commit to potted plant centerpieces, make [...]
DIY Summer Wedding Floral Napkin Rings
Posted in AvantBride, Do It Yourself, Wedding Budget, Wedding Crafts, Wedding Flowers, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, Country wedding, Cute wedding table, DIY Wedding, Do it Yourself Wedding, Floral Wedding Napkin Rings, Napkin Rings Creative, Summer Wedding, Unique Wedding Napkin Rings, Wedding Chic, www.AvantBride.com on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this done at a wedding I went to recently and absolutely loved the concept. The event was actually the rehearsal dinner and the theme was country chic with a pig roast. The tables were covered with checkered tablecloths and had potted flowers for centerpieces. It was beautifully put together. My favorite part, however, was [...]
Affordable Sparkling Wines for Weddings
Posted in AvantBride, Seattle, Wedding Reception, tagged affordable sparkling wines, affordable wedding, champagne, champagne toast wedding, chapagne toast seattle, cheap sparkling wines, Cheap wedding, diy wedding seattle, sparkling wine seattle, sparkling wines, thrifty wedding on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
AvantBride recently sponsored a sparkling wine tasting for brides-to-be at The Local Vine. The owner of TLV chose five wonderful bubblies that are so good no one would know that they are actually affordable! Thanks to Sarah and her team at The Local Vine. For those of you who missed the tasting here is a [...]
Valerie Heggenes Wedding Cake Toppers
Posted in Wedding Cake, Wedding Reception, tagged Artistic Wedding Cake Topper, Avant Bride, AvantBride Blog, AvantBride.com, Bride and Groom Sculpture, Cake Topper, Creative Wedding Cake, Seattle Wedding Art, Seattle Wedding Cake Topper, Valerie Heggenes, Wedding Cake Toppers, Wedding Gift on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine sent me a link to Valerie Heggenes’ Wedding Cake Toppers website last week. I immediately knew I had to write about these incredible sculptures! As with many businesses in the wedding industry, Valerie started by using her talents as a sculptor to create a wedding cake topper for her sister’s wedding, and it [...]
Wedding Guest Books Made From Pretty Paper
Posted in Wedding Crafts, Wedding Reception, tagged Bellevue guest book, Wedding Guest Books on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently at Paper Source in Bellevue and paused to look at their selection of guest books. The covers are all made out of different papers, colors and patterns. They’re unique, but also very simple and elegant. If you can’t get to a store, they show the collection on their website. They cost $42 each.
If [...]
Wedding Reception Photo Booths
Posted in Photography, Wedding Reception, tagged Avant Bride, AvantBride Party Booth, Elegant Photo Booth, Nationwide Photo Booth, Party Booths, Photo Booths, Photobooth, Reception Pictures, Seattle Photo Booth, Wedding Guest Photos, Wedding Pictures, www.AvantBride.com, www.partybooths.com on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Seattle bride was recently telling me about this photo booth service called Party Booths that she had at her wedding. It sounded fantastic! When she was planning her wedding she knew that she wanted a photo booth set up at her wedding reception for guests to take memorable pictures of themselves. After shopping around [...]
Pomegranate Bistro and Lisa Dupar Catering
Posted in Wedding Reception, tagged Delicious Catering Seattle Area, Lisa Dupar Catering, Pomegranate Bistro, Redmond Caterer, Redmond Wedding Caterer on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick Blog entry to say that I had lunch recently at the Pomegranate Bistro in Redmond and was very impressed! It’s a great space to spend the lunch hour in and they serve inspired food. It seemed to me to embody the perfection and style of France combined with the comfort of the Northwest. As [...]
Wedding Champagne Toast on a Budget
Posted in Wedding Reception, tagged Argyle Brut 2002, Budget Champagne, Cheap Champagne, Freixenet Wedding, Freixent pronouce, Good Champagne, Recommended Wedding Champagne, Veuve du Vernay, Veuve du Vernay Rose, Veuve du vernay Wedding, Wedding Champagne, Wedding Sparkling, Wedding Sparkling Wine on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am always disheartened when I look around at countless weddings and see half empty flutes of champagne left on the table. Sometimes I’m sad as I know it was good champagne wasted on non-champagne lovers, and sometimes I’m sympathetic as truly cheap, bad champagne can be hard to finish!
It’s definitely worth discussing the pros [...]
