25 Jul
2008

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By CandicecloseAuthor: Candice Name: Candice Coppola
Email: candice@eventjubilee.com
Site: http://www.eventjubilee.com
About: I am the owner and creative director of Jubilee Events-- an event planning boutique located in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a newly wed, residing locally with my amazingly handy husband, Mike. Aside from planning and designing beautiful events, I love art, wine, and delicious food! xoSee Authors Posts (469)    3 Comments

Miniscape: Romantic Wine Mock-up

Rainy days are great for putting time aside to create mock ups. Can I just say that I love designing mock ups? It always brings out my inner MacGyver as I scramble around and improvise a table setting with a hair scrunchie and a can of spray paint. I have an ’09 bride who is having her destination wedding here in Connecticut, and based on some of her ideas, we decided to develop some centerpiece templates to discuss with the florist. We’re doing a romantic wine theme with pinks, merlot, silvers, caramel browns, and the color of cork. To die for. All we need are some crystal embellishments to reflect candle light and add some glamour to our tablescape. Since she is so far away I emailed her a miniscape of what I think we can do, pulling together the elements I had available.

Enter — one in-need-of-polishing silver vase and one round traditional vase, one mini vase, 2 dozen cottage roses in a beautiful pink, wine corks, two silver candle holders, two taper candles, and three tea lights. The result?

Ah, I love it! What do you think? I would also like to use wine bottles in varying heights and colors with a view peonies or hydrangeas tucked in to bring some height to the table. I love the look of wine bottle vases / centerpeices!

More planning ideas to come from this uber special event..

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15 Jul
2008

Posted in: Decor & Design, DIY & Templates
By CandicecloseAuthor: Candice Name: Candice Coppola
Email: candice@eventjubilee.com
Site: http://www.eventjubilee.com
About: I am the owner and creative director of Jubilee Events-- an event planning boutique located in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a newly wed, residing locally with my amazingly handy husband, Mike. Aside from planning and designing beautiful events, I love art, wine, and delicious food! xoSee Authors Posts (469)    No Comments

Brown & Green Bridal Shower: The Nitty Gritty

I love weddings and I equally love to plan smaller, more casual and intimate affairs. When our clients approached us with their décor ideas for a brown and green shower, we ran with it and really made every penny go as far as we could. With a little preparation, creativity, and persistence, you can come up with equally beautiful and affordable tablescapes for your next event. I wanted to share with you where we purchased all of our vases, crafting items & supplies. I also wanted to give you a step-by-step tutorial on how we pulled all these small details together which I’ll follow up with tomorrow.

But first, our shopping list:

8 chunky square votive candle holders
$1.97 ea, Wal-Mart

5 Tall, thin vases
$1 ea, The Dollar Store

3 Tall and chunky mosaic vases
$1 ea, The Dollar Store

4 round, traditional vases (not pictured)
1 ea, The Dollar Store

4 packages (two per pack) of 7 inch & 9 inch tissue “bells” (for the kitschy factor!)
$1 ea, The Dollar Store

6 packages of tissue paper in brown, green & hot pink (8 sheets per pack)
$2.29, Wal-Mart

3 packages of stick-on crystal embellishments
$2.29 ea, Martha Stewart Crafts

3 Rolls of ribbon (thick brown, brown/white polka dot, thin green)
$2.97 ea, Wal-Mart

1 Roll of cooking twine
Free, because we don’t cook!

80 stems of fresh assorted mini gerbera daisies
$79.80 (with overnight international shipping!) farmstogo.com

Grand Total: $135 (give or take some cents)

Items used but already owned by us:
Stampin’ Up! Engagement Stamp Set with rubber stamps and ink pads
Cardstock for tags
Hole puncher
Floral wire
Wire Cutter
Circular paper cutter
Fabric glue
Tealights

Not bad, right? The key to beautiful and affordable décor is to shop around for the best bargain. I recommend looking in the stores we’ve mentioned, plus places like Home Goods, The Christmas Tree Shops, Ocean State Job Lot, Big Lots, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Target, Michaels, Joann Fabrics, and your local discount store. These are all wonderful resources and you can sometimes find the “find of a lifetime!”

Shopping for discounted flowers can also be really difficult. To be sure that you order the correct amount of flowers, do a trial run of your centerpiece beforehand. It’s always good to have some extra blooms on hand, as the shipping process tends to eliminate a few beauties from the bunch. Also, if you are ordering the flowers yourself, make sure they are delivered no more than two days before your event (unless otherwise specified by the floral company). You want to make sure that the flowers you’ve chosen are at the peak of their blooming cycle and are as fresh as can be (no one likes half-dead flowers!) If your floral budget is limited you can do what we did – tie the blooms together to mimic a bouquet. I think it’s just as elegant as a lush and full arrangement.

Tomorrow I’ll provide you with some tutorials on how to take all the ingredients we’ve purchased and turn them into our décor!

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14 Jul
2008

Posted in: Decor & Design, DIY & Templates, Parties & Celebrations
By CandicecloseAuthor: Candice Name: Candice Coppola
Email: candice@eventjubilee.com
Site: http://www.eventjubilee.com
About: I am the owner and creative director of Jubilee Events-- an event planning boutique located in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a newly wed, residing locally with my amazingly handy husband, Mike. Aside from planning and designing beautiful events, I love art, wine, and delicious food! xoSee Authors Posts (469)    3 Comments

Brown & Green Bridal Shower

This weekend I was super busy with an awesome event, where I got to really exercise my creativity and frugality for a relaxed and casual bridal shower. It was a lot of fun and we were able to do ALL the décor for under $200! Tomorrow I’ll give you the details on how we kept costs so low, and where you can get all these amazing items. Check out our pictures below, and be sure to click on the thumbnails for a larger version!

  

All the tables were adorned with a variety of chunky vases filled with white and yellow Gerbera Daisies that we hand wrapped in twine to give an elegant bouquet effect.

The yard was adorned with tissue paper “pom-poms” (or tissue flowers, if you prefer) that we hand made. They were all jeweled with small crystals for an added bit of bling, which ended up looking like dew on the petals! All the vessels were wrapped in ribbon in brown, brown & white polka dot, and green. We also made the brides monogram and incorperated it into the tablescapes with some twine and ribbon. I especially love the “mr. & mrs.” we created out of card stock and stamps from Stampin’ Up!

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31 May
2008

Posted in: Decor & Design, favors
By CandicecloseAuthor: Candice Name: Candice Coppola
Email: candice@eventjubilee.com
Site: http://www.eventjubilee.com
About: I am the owner and creative director of Jubilee Events-- an event planning boutique located in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a newly wed, residing locally with my amazingly handy husband, Mike. Aside from planning and designing beautiful events, I love art, wine, and delicious food! xoSee Authors Posts (469)    3 Comments

Dressing Up a Table

I love designing table scapes, especially for intimate dinners and parties. I’m always looking to acquire unique and beautiful vases, pitchers, and other containers to use on the table and as interactive pieces for dinner (I love best when things serve a multipurpose!). I have a closet full of greatly shaped containers in a variety of different textures. While surfing the ‘net this afternoon, I came across this darling website called Three Potato Four. They are based out of Virginia where they run their self-proclaimed “mom and pop shop.” What I love most, besides almost every single item they sell on their website, is that they’ve taken the leg work out of finding unique vintage pieces. They have a wealth of items to browse, but my favorite was their array of unique, delectable and colorful pitchers, containers, vases, whatever!

I first fell in love with this milk bottle carafe that looks so beautiful with a single flower, a bouquet, or just filled with your mornings orange juice. I love the shape of it and the thickness of the glass. It is a unique piece that I can’t wait to use!

Of similar ilk is this vintage water bottle that also looks wonderful with just a single bloom. My mom use to have these types of vintage pieces that she would occasionally pick up at tag sales or estate sales. She especially loves medicine bottles.

My most favorite item is their alphabet gift tags. I’ve emailed them about personalizing the order to just include a set amount of one letter. I doubt it is possible unless they are vintage inspired pieces, but if they can offer that option, these would be wonderful as favor tags and in other elements of a weddings design. And because they are black and white they can appeal to a variety of different decor palettes. Either way, I’m ordering myself a set. For $8.oo, how can you go wrong?

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