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Upcoming NYC Wedding Fairs in 2011

For those who don't know, we are coming up on Wedding Fair/Bridal Expo season in NYC.  There are some great ones, and some to avoid assuming you don't think that atmospheres like Times Square during rush hour are "fun." Here are my three favorites in order of their event date: The Wedding Library Wedding Party event with Martha Stewart Weddings is fabulous.  Last year's show was also held at the Palace Hotel, and it was spread out enough to actually be able to enjoy all of the top notch vendors. And let's just say that Martha Stewart doesn't put her name on something unless it's going to be really good.

 

Wedding Crashers is a Brooklyn centric wedding fair for those looking for a more relaxed fair experience with some rather cool vendors.  This was by far the most truly fun fair I went to last year.  I could recommend this to even the most fair averse couple.  It is going to be on February 27, 2011 at the Bell House.  For more info click here.  

 

 

 

And in March you have the best NYC centered fair to look forward to, the New York Magazine Weddings Event.  If your wedding is in the NY metro area, you can come here and find all of your vendors.  Plus your admission ticket includes cocktails.  Mmmhmmm.  I only recommend the best events to you my dears.  

Baby, It's Cold Outside: Winter Wedding Inspiration

On this chilly Friday afternoon, let's enjoy some of the colors of the season: all shades of winter-white! Sticking with a neutral color palette is far from boring when you mix it up with the textures and add a little sparkle. And, when in doubt, go with my personal motto: you can't have too much glitter. Enjoy! xoxo Molly

Top Row: Glitter Chandelier, White Locus Candleholder, Silver Orbs

Second Row: Garland, Snowflake Placecards, White Feather Hairpiece

Third Row: Champagne Silver Sparkle Wreath, Real Wedding

Fourth Row: Branch Candelabra, Silver Votives, Just Married Sign

Fifth Row: Shiny Beaded Pillow, Vintage Beaded Clutch, Silver Branch

The Little Things: Card Boxes

Last week, we looked at shawl baskets as a cute reception detail. This week, we take a peek at some super cute card boxes, another opportunity to do something fun and creative! 

Personally we are loving the suitcase cardbox...

Source: Just Chic Events

Maybe with the addition of a cheeky sign...

Source: Wedding Chicks

Another approach is the classic birdcage...

Source: Style Me Pretty

Even more subtle is this super chic little vignette. Enjoy! Xoxo, Alex

Source: Style Me Pretty

 

 

Decorative Tape

How many of you caught this cute idea for decorative tape uses in Brides magazine this month?

So cute and so easy.  Decorative tape is exactly what it sounds like, pretty tape.  You can stick some pretty tape on your centerpiece vases to spice up plain glass, and you don't have to be as ambitious as the picture above to make it look fabulous.  Even just one, two or three rows done horizontally around a round vase would look great.  You can use it on candles like the example above for a very inexpensive custom look.  The candles that they are featuring I swear I have seen at Ikea and they cost $5 for a bijillion. 

Also you could use it on your paperie.  Such a cute accent to your programs, menus, escort cards, etc.  Print these items at home, add a little decorative tape, and you are good to go!  

I rounded up some sellers of these fantastic decorative tapes to make life easy for you:

This tape is from Kawaii Tape on Etsy.  Check out their shop for this plus many more styles and patterns.

Kawaii Goodies on Etsy has great Japanese Washi tape, but ALSO has fabulous fabric tape like the cute polka dots above.  Check out their shop for more selection.  

And finally there is a website called www.cutetape.com, that not surprisingly sells cute tape like the one above.

So go out and get crafty with this super easy DIY project. xoxo, Ara

Free Beauty Consult from Paul Labrecque and Merci!

Merci announced a great giveaway yesterday for a free beauty consult!  

Save the Date WINNER!

We are excited to announce that Emily, comment number 7, is the winner from our random number generator!  Emily, we will get in touch with you to make arrangements for sending them out to you.  

xoxo, Ara

Gorgeous and Affordable Wedding Invitations

Here are rest of the fabulous invitation suites that match the Save the Dates we are giving away this week!

We have a great Save the Date giveaway going on this week, and the last day to enter is TODAY!  Click here for more information and to enter.  Today we are featuring my favorites of the full invitation sets that match the adorable save the dates from Printable Press.  Molly featured her favorites, which were woodsy and natural, and are very cute, but my favorites are the glam and sophisticated ones above.   Which ones are your favorites?  Printable Press has a little bit of everything - whimsical, glamourous, cute - so definitely check them out!

I love Printable Press for so many reasons.  They have fantastic designs plus an affordable, approachable focus, allowing you to have their wedding invitations printed yourself to save a little cash.  And what is better than an affordable wedding invitation, how about a free save the date?  We are so excited to do our giveaway with them later on this evening, so make sure you have entered! xo, Ara

Weddings In the News!

Is it just us or are weddings popping up everywhere in the press lately? Of course part of the blame can be attributed to the slew of recently engaged celebs, not the least of who are this attractive royal duo:

But it's not all Kate and William! Take a look at these other recent news stories where weddings are the headliner. 

UK Brides Nervous About Prince William's Wedding

Courts Reject a Skype Wedding

Avatar Weddings in Southern China

Couple Turns Cancelled Wedding Into Fundraiser

Have you seen any great wedding or event stories in the news? Leave a link in the comments or send them our way for the next round up!  xo, Alex

Printable Press: A peek into some designs!

In honor of our AMAZING save-the-date Printable Press giveaway this week, I wanted to showcase a few of my favorite invitation suites from the designers! Hmm... where to start? They're all so adorable! 

Maybe it's this winter wind blowing through the NYC skyscrapers this week, but this suite has me thinking of the gorgeous great wide open. I love the balanced simplicity of this design- it's graphic and sweet and frames that spot-on perfect typography! As a big typography nerd, my favorite part of this suite is the modern lettering. Perfect for a mountain lodge affair or just a lover of the great outdoors.

This adorable invitation suite is particularly close to my heart. My husband proposed to me under initials we'd carved into a tree while in college and this set just reminds me of good, old-fashioned, timeless romance. Whether you're high school sweethearts or just young lovers at heart, make your first public declaration of your wedding date as sweet as this age-old symbol of the simplest kind of declaration: you + me. 

To enter our Printable Press save-the-date giveaway, be sure to head on over to our Facebook page and LIKE us! Then pop back over here and leave a comment below. We'll be choosing a random winner on Friday night, so be sure to enter before we close the contest on Friday December 10th at 8pm EST!   xo, Molly

Save the Date Give-away from Printable Press!

We are so excited to announce this FANTASTIC give-away from Printable Press!

Printable Press has partnered up with us to offer a truly fabulous give-away for FREE Save the Dates!  You get to choose your favorite from any of the five designs above, and Printable Press will customize it with your names and date.  Printable Press is a super talented design studio who creates affordable and extremely chic paperie by allowing you to print their designs yourself.  BUT for this give-away, Rock Paper Scissors Events will sweeten the deal, and we will get the Save the Dates printed for you and ship them to anywhere in the USA.  All you need to do is to pick up some envelopes, and your save the dates are completely done!

We believe in making give-aways simple and fun.  Obviously brides and grooms can enter, but this give-away is open to friends, bridal party, industry vendors, family, etc, because you can give this Save the Date as a gift!  It is the holidays, and wouldn't this make a fantastic present to someone who just got engaged?  And brides, if you really want to win, feel free to encourage others to enter as well and make this your holiday gift!

We would love to stay in touch with you to let you know about future give-aways, pop-up shops, bridal events and discounts, so all you have to do to enter our give-away is to like our Facebook page, and then write us a comment below letting us know you liked our page.  If you already like our page, that's great, and you can still enter!  Just write us a comment below letting us know that you have already liked our page, and you would like to enter.  Click here to get to our Facebook page.

Entries are open until 8pm EST (5pm PST) on Friday, December 10, 2011.  At that point, we will choose a comment at random, and make arrangements with you to get your cards in progress.  Please note that we will need 3 weeks turnaround to deliver the Save the Dates.  If you don't know your details yet, no sweat.  This give-away is good for six months after you win.

Good luck!

Ara

xoxo

 

Free Templates: Save the Date, Invitation and Signage, oh my!

Amazing resource: The Wedding Chicks.  Isn't this Save the Date the cutest ever?

Ok guys.  You may know of the Wedding Chicks because they have a great blog, but has everyone taken the time to peruse all of their awesome FREE wedding paperie templates?  We are talking the works here.  Save the date templates, bride and groom signage, monograms, even invitation suites.  They will even do slight customizations for free with your name and wedding date so that you don't have to fuss around with the templates, and they'll email you a printable jpeg so you are good to go.  

 

These are their free Mad Men Save the Dates?  Hello, cuteness.

Go and check out the Wedding Chicks for some truly great free templates.

And we have a fun surprise for you!  We have a giveaway from one of our favorites, Printable Press, coming up for you tomorrow.  

 They are giving away one of their absolutely darling Save the Date templates, customized with your personal information.  We'll announce the give-away tomorrow, and you can enter all week long until Friday at 8pm EST/5pm PST.

Douglas Hannant Trunk Show at Gabriella Bridal NYC

Ladies go check out the new Douglas Hannant collection for 2011 at Gabriella Bridal this weekend, and score a 10% discount!

Images from Douglas Hannant

Gabriella Bridal is also having a Helen Yarmuk trunk show this weekend offering 10% discounts on their line of fabulous furs and jewelry. You do need an appointment to try on the Douglas Hannant dresses, but you do not for the Helen Yarmuk accessories.  For more information go to Gabriella New York.

100 Layer Cake Site Is Up!

The "coming soon" sign has been replaced with a fully functional and totally fabulous new wedding site.

100 Layer Cake is up and running!  It has TONS of great wedding resources, like a marketplace where you can buy and sell cool items for your wedding, a great DIY resource with tons of instructions and free templates, and a vendor section where you can browse great local vendors (including us!).

Check out some of the items being sold on the site, for generally VERY good prices:

And the fabulous DIY section:

Enjoy!  Way to go 100 Layer Cake ladies!

 

Thread Bridesmaid and Wedding Dresses

New crush: Thread Design. We got a behind the scenes peak into their office right before their pop-up shop got underway.  Come on in and we'll show you around!

Go ahead and take a seat and get comfy, because there is lots to tell about Thread, and we got an all access pass. Thread dresses evoke a hip, fashionable, modern sensibility, and everything else about Thread fits right into that branding.  They turned their office into a showroom for their pop-up shop last weekend, and believe me it is a gorgeous place to work.  If they were renting out desk space, I would be the first to sign up!   The space is large and loft-like, with lovely dark stained wood floors, a gorgeous chandelier, and a full wall of windows.  Thread uses the space as their design studio, and the inspiration and mood boards that usually cover the walls were stored in their dress store room for the pop-up shop.  Thread makes their  bridesmaid and wedding dresses to order in the Fashion District in NYC, so their storage is mainly for their party line Thread Social, which is available for immediate purchase.  

First glimpse at Thread, then the view as you walk in, and finally the dresses (!) as displayed for the pop-up shop.

Melissa, one of the owners, at her desk.  LOVE the lamps they use as "desk lamps" 

There are many things that you should know about Thread Design.  First being that they have truly fashionable bridesmaids dresses, for which they built their name and notariety. They are awesome.  Second being that they have extended their bridesmaid line to include some simpler, more affordable dresses.  So your bridesmaids really have no reason to complain.  Third is that their bridesmaids dresses were so popular and chic that they created a party dress line called Thread Social.  Yes, I kid you not.  These bridesmaid dress designers were so sought after they created their party line second because so many people asked them for other dresses.  Lastly being that they have just introduced a line of elegant, chic and very simple wedding dresses, all retailing at less than $2000.  Mmmhmmm, I told you there was lots of good stuff to know about Thread!

And of course, on to the dresses.  Several of the dresses below are new and part of the less expensive bridesmaid line.

And here are two of their very simple, but very chic wedding dresses.

We loved getting a behind the scenes tour of this fabulous boutique woman owned small business.  For more information, more dresses, and for shopping information across the country, please visit their website at www.threaddesign.com.