Summer Wedding Inspiration

Summer Wedding Table Inspiration 

Go Naked with Your Table 

Just like spring weddings, summer weddings are a great time to go naked with your table. There's SO many beautiful wood tables for rent why cover them with full table linens. Add some color and texture with a runner, florals and candles. 

Add texture and color

When you go naked with your table pull in color and texture with your place settings and accessories. Colored napkins bring a burst of color to white plates and adding an embroidering hoop with a floral accent adds texture and interest.  Embroidery hoops are inexpensive and add interest to the place settings. 

 

Colored Candles + Florals 

Colorful candles can compliment your floral's.  Are you doing as much of your wedding as you can on your own with the help of family and friends ? Use crystal ice buckets to hold florals.   You can get flowers at farmers markets for a great price.  Ask your family if they have any candle sticks you can borrow, rent them or shop your thrift stores for some. Don't worry about them matching.  Unless it's just going to bug the heck out of you if they don't match.  Candles come in a variety of colors to match almost any wedding color scheme. 

With just a few items you can add a punch of color to your summer wedding table.  Perfect for a backyard wedding or an elopement.  For this table I rented the place settings, serving pieces, and glasses  from Power of Love Rentals.  The table runner is fabric from my local fabric store, candle sticks I purchased from thrift shops for a great deal, the crystal ice bucket was my own and the florals for this shoot are fake, I picked them up at a craft store. 

If you're hosting your own backyard wedding or elopement I'd love to help ease your stress and help you style your wedding. Contact me at Tiffany.fizzyparty@gmail.com 

Styling by Fizzy Party 

Rentals from Power of Love Rentals 

My First Bridal Show

My First Bridal Show 

What it's Really Like To Do Your First Bridal Show

This is my first year as a wedding consultant.  So when the email arrived in my inbox about the Marry Me Night Market bridal show I seriously considered signing up for a booth. Of course I wanted to do some research first because a booth at a bridal show does cost money.  I asked in a couple of Facebook wedding groups if bridal shows were worth it.   Hit or miss was the response I received.  It really depends on the show and  the couples that attend I was told.  Well that wasn't helpful.  Now when I said how much a small booth costs,  Go for it! was the answer from everyone who responded.  I signed up for a 5 foot x 5 foot space, the smallest booth I could get. 

The bridal show was originally scheduled for February but our meteorologists "threatened" snow a week in advice and the show was moved to April.  Of course it didn't snow and I knew it wouldn't but to be safe the show was moved. 

I met with Vintage Meets Modern to rent some furniture and accessories for my booth. Once I figured out what furniture would fit into my 5' x 5' booth I was ready to get creative with how I wanted it to look.  I created a secret Pinterest board of ideas to send to the vendors I'd be working with.    Letters and Dust  was creating the signs for the show and I asked her to make me some as well. I sent her a collage based off my Pinterest board and let her do her creative thing.  I also knew I wanted a cake but didn't need a real one. A faux one would do just fine. I sent  Sugarhouse Cake the same collage and told her to create one for me. She had free reign to create whatever she wanted.   All the other items I wanted for my booth I had on hand. 

Spring Wedding Inspiration

Spring Wedding Table Inspiration 

Go Naked. With your table. 

Spring weddings are a great time to go naked with your table.  Don't hide that beautiful wood table under a full table linen.   High light the wood with a colourful table linen.  I like to go with a lighter fabric for spring weddings.

Add some pattern

Looking to add some pattern onto your reception table?  Do it with the napkins.  You can go for something light like this floral pattern or go big and bold. You can even go for a lighter pattern for the table and go with something bolder for the cocktail napkins.

Add some romance with coloured place settings

Light coloured place settings add a touch of romance to your table.  If your larger rental places don't carry coloured place settings, check with the smaller rental companies.  Smaller rental companies tend to have more specialty place settings and other rental items. They might also be more willing to special order items for your wedding if it's something they think they can re-rent out to other couples.

 

Clearly I need to work on my photography skills. This ones a little fuzzy, oops! This is why you hire a professional photographer for your wedding.  Yes I know, they seem expensive but SO worth it.  Oh sure, you could save some money by having your family and friends take photo's but you could end up with fuzzy pics like mine above. This is your wedding! There's places to cut costs and places not to cut costs. And a photographer is not one of those vendors where you cut costs.

Coloured candles + Floral's 

Colourful candles can compliment your floral's.  Are you doing as much of your wedding as you can on your own with the help of family and friends ? Pick up or borrow some small glass bottles to hold your flowers.   You can get flowers at farmers markets for a great price.  Ask your family if they have any candle sticks you can borrow, rent them or shop your thrift stores for some. Don't worry about them matching.  Unless it's just going to bug the heck out of you if they don't match. 

The day I styled this table it happened to be a beautiful spring day. But if you live in Oregon an outdoor spring wedding can be tricky.   The day could be beautiful and sunny or rainy.   I highly recommend a tent.  Don't take a chance on the weather being perfect on your spring wedding day.


Styling by Fizzy Party
Place settings, candle sticks, and cutlery from Power of Love Rentals
Candles from Party Swizzle 

My Ideal Couple

My Ideal Couple 

So Exciting!! You got engaged 💍 You've been basking in that post engagement glow and now you're ready to start planning your wedding.  Which is not easy.  You've got everyone and their mother giving you their opinions.  Then there's all those ideas sucking you down the Pinterest  rabbit hole and don't even get me started on the Instagram wedding worthy overwhelm.  

Love letters from Oriental Trading.  Backyard wedding. 

You had all these plans that you were going to plan your wedding yourself but then when you really sat down to do it and all the outside influences started creeping in you were like, Dang, we need a little help.  So you search the net for a wedding planner but that's not really what you need.   A wedding planner is too full service for what you're looking for.  You just want a little help with a few things.  So you type in wedding coordinator and wedding consultant.  Ok, these services look more like what you're looking for.  But which one do you choose? You want to pick someone who matches your style and personality.  

Am I the right wedding consultant for you?

Photographer A Well Crafted Party 

Your my ideal couple if you like to have fun!  You want to plan your own wedding but dang it it's hard and you still want to have a life. You don't want wedding planning to consume all your free time and you just want a little help here and there.  Or maybe this is your second marriage or a vow renewal and you don't want the big to-do and are looking for someone to help you create a little more relaxed playful wedding.  Or maybe you don't even want a wedding, you're thinking an elopement. 

Your the type of couple that wants to get married on the beach, in a backyard, in the woods, standing in a waterfalls pool, up a mountain trail that ends in a beautiful view, in a park or even a boxing gym. You want to add some wedding elements, décor and design to these places but you don't want the big fancy pants go all out type of wedding.
 

Backyard wedding styled shoot by Fizzy Party 

You want a more causal vibe to your wedding.  No large guest counts, you want a more intimate gathering.  It's not about the numbers at your wedding. It's about sharing it with the people who have special meaning in your life.  No seating charts or 4- course meals. You want your guests to have fun and a memorable experience. Not the same type of wedding they've been to before. 

Your wedding is fun, colorful, whimsical, quirky and very personalized.

Octopus chandelier from Chandeliers by NK and part of Fizzy Party's collection

I'm that wedding consultant who will help you when that thought hits you and you're like, 'wait, how do we do this idea I just had?' Or, ' I can't figure out how to make these elements look good together.' Being creative, crafty and styling on the fly are my strong points.  I'm the stylist who the morning of a party or wedding will wake up at 5:00 a.m. and think, OOOOHHH, YES! I NEED to add this little detail.  My husband calls that stress. I call it passion. 😉

Photographer Photography Hill 

I help my couples with vendor recommendations, hiking up to your mountain view point and helping you plan out how to add some wedding flair to the spot, send you monthly checklists to keep your stress level down because you think you're forgetting something and so much more. Think of me as your wedding helper who's there for all the little bits of help you need. 

Photographer Photography Hill 

 
I can't wait to help you plan your fun, unique, whimsical, outdoor, adventurous wedding!
Let's chat- Tiffany.fizzyparty@gmail.com