Here’s a little eye candy for you this afternoon. Check out this vineyard wedding on the Style Me Pretty bridal blog.
Sometimes all it takes are white floor-length linens for elegant, understated guest tables. To add a little luxury that won’t break your budget, choose Watermelon Satin napkins.
Note this wedding’s unusual color scheme – watermelon pink, ochre and red. The natural wood chairs are the perfect choice for this palette.
› Visit Style Me Pretty’s blog post for the complete gallery.
For an overview of online wedding tools, check out the post How to Plan a Wedding on the Web from blogging giant Mashable.
Perhaps just as helpful are the additional links submitted in the comments, like the link to the lush online magazine Utterly Engaged. Talk about eye candy!
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Food stations, a modular variation on the buffet, are a hip way to encourage mingling. They’re especially well suited to large weddings and corporate events, where you’d like guests to meet and get to know each other, because they offer more opportunities for interaction than a buffet or plated dinner. They also help prevent long buffet lines, an important issue to address at large parties.
You can offer guests an entire meal through food stations, with different entrees available at each table, or serve hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. Alternatively, consider following a plated dinner with dessert stations (cupcakes, pies, candy, crepes, mmm…) and a coffee bar.
Food stations are the perfect opportunity for featuring foods and drinks that are important to the event’s host company or guests of honor. For a multinational or multicultural wedding, they provide a special way to recognize the heritage of both families.
If you need ideas for what to serve, take a look at the list “Food Stations: 18 Exciting Ideas to Make Your Mouth Water” from IntimateWeddings.com. Scroll down to the very bottom for my personal favorite: the espresso bar. There is a great local provider for this type of station, V.I.P. Espresso Catering (photo at right) out of Burlington, WA.
Whatever foods you serve, get creative with the presentation. Use tables in a variety of shapes and sizes, such as cocktail tables, serpentine tables, round tables and rectangular tables. Top them with standard white linens or colorful tablecloths to complement the food. We also offer several products for beverage service stations, including coolers, beverage bars and our new Fill ‘N’ Chill tables that hold ice and bottled drinks (photo at left).
Offering your guests chocolate-dipped spoons to go with their after-dinner coffee is a sweet touch. But it takes a little work ahead of time to pull off this tasty treat.
If you need spoons in advance for chocolate dipping or you would like extra time for folding napkins, just ask us! In some situations, you may be able to pick up a few of the items from your order a day before delivery at no extra charge.
Because we offer 1- to 3-day rentals — rather than charging by the day or even by the hour (eek!) — we can be flexible with you. So fill us in on your plans, and we’ll do our best to make them happen.
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(For chocolate spoon directions, visit Martha Stewart Weddings.)