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Weddings are an affirmation of love, caring, family, friends and hope for the future.   They are the perfect opportunity to show a couples love, affection and gratitude by giving their friends and family a day they will never forget.  It is a compliment to everyone who attends your wedding and reception to plan out a beautiful, fun, interesting event.  Attention to the details will make the difference.  Remember it is the little details that create the biggest impression.  Start by collecting ideas that capture the mood, feel and style you want to convey.  Pictures from magazines, scraps of fabric, paint samples from your local hardware store, colored ribbons, maybe even a poem, single words or phrases.  Anything that gives you inspriation to leads you to sum up the look and mood of your special day.  Having a clear sence of what you want to achieve before you start will help you with the hundreds of decisions you will need to make when planning your wedding.

The journey toward any celebration can be overwhelming by the huge number of planning and design decisions that must be made.  Then, once the design concept has been chosen you have the task of pulling everything together to make it work.  There are some basic rules that I want to share with you.  They will help you with making these decisions.

1. Don’t worry about “Trendy” The most successful events focus on basic classic details not the latest fad.  Classic is always beautiful.

2. Simple details are not the same as cheap details.  Simple does not need to be minimal.  You can make a simple design by limiting the types of materials but giving an abundant effect by repeating the design many times.

3. Focus on the event environment and design the elements of the event to suit the setting.  Your design for a garden party will need to fit the garden concept while a roof top terrace will lend itself to an entirely different design vision.

4. Design your event to make your guests comfortable.  Never sacrifice the comfort of your friends and family just to highlight a design element. 

5. Limit your design elements to three choices.

6. Know what is important to you when designing your event, then stick to your priorities.  If your priority is fun and dancing then put your efforts towards finding the best dance floor and band you can afford

7.  Worry about providing a gracious, comfortable event rather than making a huge impression and you’ll find the results worth the effort.

8.  Your guests will never notice that you used five flowers in your arrangement instead of three.  What they will always notice is if you skimp on service.  This is part of making the event comfortable.  If your guests are well taken care of they will have a great time