One of our area’s few fall bridal fairs is coming up next month. Be sure to stop by our booth and chat with our event experts.
Show admission includes free dance lessons, bridal show and luncheon.
2011 Organized Bride Fall Bridal Show
Location: Ferndale Events Center
Time: 12-5 p.m. Sunday, October 16th
If you’re a visual person, you’ll love this service. We can show you 2-D and 3-D diagrams to help you come up with the perfect layout, and we can even design a plan just for your event at no charge.
You can find a few wedding with 75 guests in Bellingham. Our crew set up a 30′ x 60′ Epic canopy with French-window sidewall.
View CAD diagrams and corresponding photos from this wedding. Also see a full photo gallery with pictures by Kayla Lynn Photography.
InTents magazine (you all read this avidly, right?) features us in this month’s magazine. The article, “Fabulous Tablescapes,” includes a photo by our friends Evantide Photography.
Check it out for talk on trends and table-design tips!
Also see these posts:
Tablescapes: Q&A Four
Tablescapes: Q&A Three
Tablescapes: Q&A Two
Tablescapes: Q&A One
Here’s the wedding gallery we promised from Kayla Lynn Photography. Don’t you love the warm, inviting colors this couple chose?
Check out the complete gallery of photos from this Bellingham wedding.
Red and white check linens complement this wedding’s all-American summer feel, where the reception spread included carved watermelon baskets of fruit, jars of cookies and glass bottles of root beer.
For this event, we installed two tents:
See the rest of the wedding photos in our Galleries.
Q: Where’s the balance between blah and overdone when it comes to table decor?
A: That age-old battle of form vs. function comes into play on this one. Since most people we work with seem more concerned with function than form, we take that stance as well.
Our philosophy is that you hit the mark when the table design dovetails with the rest of the event. We’re blessed with such an abundance of breathtaking rural venues in this area. Some of the best table designs we’ve seen have played a supporting role to the event’s setting, either complementing the site with linens of blue and green or contrasting with violets and cherry red.
Kayla Lynn Photography just shared photos — including the one above — with us from a recent event for which we provided red and white check tablecloths (check back for an wedding gallery next week!). It was a humble decor choice, but the result was terrific: an all-American summer feel that complemented the couple’s reception, where they served fruit in carved watermelon baskets, jars of cookies and glass bottles of root beer. It was simple and appropriate, and to us that’s a well-designed tablescape.
Stay away from precarious towers of candles and baubles. It’s a hopeless situation for people who talk with their hands, and really, no guests can have a relaxed conversation with lit tapers tottering between them.
One way we’ve found to keep tablescapes from feeling cluttered is to keep the decorations below guests’ eating and talking spaces (or, alternately, above them).
Use beautiful linens and chargers layered under the dinnerware or on the chairs. Similarly, keep floral arrangements and favors low, or at least in scale with the table, to avoid crowding guests. Short vases stuffed with monochromatic flowers like mums work well with a modern, urban style, while keeping the scale intimate.
Photo by Kayla Lynn Photography
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