We did it again! Bride’s Choice three years in a row!

February 12th, 2012 by admin

{Salinas, CA} – February 12, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Every Last Detail Wedding & Event Coordination has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Wedding Planning!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Every Last Detail Wedding & Event Coordination was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Every Last Detail Wedding & Event Coordination is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Every Last Detail Wedding & Event Coordination for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Every Last Detail Wedding & Event Coordination is one of the very best Wedding Planners within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.  Our clients are the reason we do what we do and do it well.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/every-last-detail-wedding-event-coordination-monterey/41138190593d53c.

To learn more about the Bride’s Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

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WeddingWire™, the nation’s leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire is the only all-in-one marketing platform for businesses online and on-the-go. WeddingWire offers one simple solution to build a professional network, improve search visibility, manage social media and reach mobile consumers. Businesses that advertise with WeddingWire appear on WeddingWire.com, ProjectWedding.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), Brides.com and Weddingbee.com.

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Something old, something new, something designed for you – Wedding Symposium

February 5th, 2012 by admin

Hey there wedding friends! 

I had planned to get all of this great and inspiring information posted right after the Wedding Symposium took place on January 6th, 7th and 8th.  That was the plan anyway.  I have a great excuse though: all sorts of couples got engaged over the holidays and were very excited to get their planning started so taking care of my new couples took precedence over updating the blog.  An excellent reason, I believe.

That said, I’ve found some time to finally do what I had promised myself I would do – share some of the fabulous things I learned at the Wedding Symposium, which focused on design.  I was delighted to be in the presence of some of the industry greats including Preston Bailey, Nikki Kahn, Sasha Sousa, and Bryan Rafanelli.  It was, in a word, AMAZING! 

Ok, onto some really cool ideas: 

* Carnations are back in style!  YES!!! I love carnations.  They are so versatile, come in a variety of shades, are hardy and fill a lot of space.  Check out some of the designs below.

Ok, I know these aren’t carnations but you get the idea.

These aren’t your grandma’s carnations, don’t you agree?  I can’t WAIT to incorporate these fragrant little treasures in this years’ wedding designs.

* Paper flowers.  These are too cool and so unique. Check out these designs provided by the fine people at Hartmann Designs in the Bay Area.  Give my friend Heather Phillippe a call for more info on this concept: 510.232.5030.

Pretty awesome and unique stuff, huh?  These designed will definitely leave your guests ooo-ing and ahhh-ing.

Ok, I’m thinking this may enough awesomeness for this post but will come back with more cool stuff really soon.

Until then, let’s create magic together :o )

Patty

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Hanging with Preston Bailey

January 7th, 2012 by admin

I have the opportunity to attend the Wedding Symposium January 6-8, 2012 featuring some of the best wedding designers and planners in the business including Preston Bailey, Sasha Souza, Nikki Kahn, Philippe Lee and Bryan Rafanelli - Chelsea Clinton’s wedding planner.

About 60 of the best professionals in the area are in attendance, including yours truly, and are there to learn the newest trends in wedding design.  More on this after the conference but here’s a picture of me and my planner colleague Chanda with Preston Bailey :o )

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Wedding 101 – Shopping for your Dream Gown!

December 27th, 2011 by admin

Class is in session!

Welcome back students!  Professeur Patte’ is very excited to see that you have survived orientation and have decided to come back to learn more.

This week we are focusing on what was my absolute favorite aspect of planning my own wedding years ago – selecting the gown.  I remember walking into Lynn Taylor in Campbell with my binder of magazine clippings then leaving an hour later with the biggest smile on my face because I knew I had found the one! 

Every Bride-to-be loves playing dress up and trying on the gowns that – up to that point – have been the object of her obsession.  After countless hours of Online oogling, umpteen issues of Bride’s magazine, and the borderline stalking of the area bridal salons, your time has finally come.  

Well, I do have to say that I enjoy watching “Say Yes to the Dress”.  IMO It’s very realistic and shows the point of view of the gown consultants and the special challenges they face with each bride that strolls into their wedding gown wonderland. 

For today’s lesson, I have consulted with Cathy A. Montante, owner and bridal fashion consultant extraordinaire of Collezione Fortuna Fashion Boutique in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.    Read the rest of this entry »

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Bridal Education 101

December 12th, 2011 by admin

So, you’re newly engaged and your future’s so bright you gotta wear shades.  But the road to get from “Ms” to “Mrs.” can be a long and confusing one if you don’t have some idea what you’re doing. 

Well, Professeur Patte’ is at the dry erase board and I’m here to drop some knowledge on you because, unless you’re J Lo or Larry King, you probably don’t have a solid grasp on how all this wedding planning stuff works.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Oh No You Didn’t!

December 5th, 2011 by admin

When it comes to planning the most important (and expensive) day of your adult life, there is a never-ending list of things to research, decisions to be made and etiquette to follow. 

Still, you are bound to see and hear of wedding horror stories either from friends, in the media or you may have already had your own personal experience.

That said, here are some examples I’d like to share and some ways to avoid having a horror story of your own… Read the rest of this entry »

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A Year of Wedding Magic

December 1st, 2011 by admin

As I write this, I can’t help but reflect on the weddings my team and I were honored to be an important part of this past year. 

One of my favorite things:  I love delving into my Bride and Groom’s brains (flashback  zombie movie) in order to get a good sense of their personalities as individuals, as well as a couple.  From these discoveries, we come up with fun and unique ways to create a wedding that’s a reflection of who they are. 

I’ve been planning for over 15 years and am always amazed with the creativity of the wonderful couples we work with.  The quirkier, the better.  I tell my couples that the sky is the limit, as long as it’s not offensive, immoral or illegal then let’s go for it!

Some of the coolest personal touches we saw this year were:

Jessica & Jonathan: They were total foodies and had a love for all things caliente’!  so we had Chef Todd of www.ChefToddFisher.comcatering create the best salsa bar I’d ever see.  From mild to “melt your face off” hot.  I suggested an accompanying Pepto Bismo bar but we decided to let the guests take their chances.  This idea carried through to the favors which were tiny bottles of Tabasco sauce and fit in perfectly with the Old California ambiance that La Mirada www.montereyart.org provides.

They also love riding around Monterey on their tandem bike so we incorporated that by dressing up and displaying their bicycle-built-for-two at the reception as well as using that motif on their escort cards.

Emily & Ryan: Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a HUGE animal lover so when Emily and Ryan decided to give a wag to their own 4-legged fur-baby Charlie, you just know I’d be excited as well.  With the magnificent Naval Postgraduate School www.nps.edu/Services/MWR/Services/DiningServices/ClubDelMonte.html as their venue, they displayed an engagement photo showing  just their hands and a whole lotta Charlie’s head.  Under that was a silver bowl containing “doggiebags” with Milk Bone dog biscuits for guests to take home to their own Fido.  On the tuxedo folded napkin at each place setting, each guest found a homemade shortbread cookie in the shape of a dog bone as well as a card indicating that a donation had been made to the ASPCA so that other “Charlie’s” could find their forever home.  How awesome is that!?!

Joy & John: It was all about the spirit of Aloha and Ohana when they celebrated their reception at the Cocoanut Grove at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk http://www.cocoanutgrovesantacruz.com/weddings.  Special touches included displaying one of John’s surfboards to be used as their “guest book”, offering baskets of “slippa’s” so that guests would be encouraged to kick off their shoes and dance the night away, as well as a super-cool Groom’s cake by www.butterybakery.com depicting replicas of John and Joy’s own surfboards. 

Surfboard grooms cake

There are many more examples I can give but these ones definitely stand out as personal favorites.

Chances are your guests will attend more than one wedding this year.  Which aspects of your personalities do you plan to share with them to make your wedding day stand out?

Give me a call.  I’d be happy to pick at your brain (here we go with the zombie reference again!)

Wishing you magic!

Patty

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Hello world!

February 4th, 2011 by admin

Well Hello Wedding World!

The New and Greatly Improved www.eldweddings.com is finally here.  It was a labor of love by myself and my awesome web creation team but it’s finally here and is chalked full of information for all of the Brides and Grooms who are starting their journey toward their dream wedding day.

I look forward to sharing all sorts of great and innovative information with you and always welcome relevant feedback, suggestions and comments at Patty@eldweddings.com.

That said, check back often for updates and to follow us through Wedding Season 2011.  It’s been a great ride so far so hop on board.

Cheers!

Patty

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