Happy New Year!

Well it is a new year and we already have a beautiful new wedding to show you! Thursday night, we had the pleasure of ringing in the new year with one of the most adorable and gracious couples we've ever had the honor or working with, Marissa and Marcus! This couple was super fun and trusted us 100% to make their black and white New Year's Eve vision come to life. Over a year ago, we presented them with the idea of black and white damask....a year later it started popping up everywhere so we tried hard to really make the design stand out and used fun and non floral props like lamps (I mean literally from Homegoods people!) and lots of damask fabric in our design. We turned up the color with pops or red/burgundy/hot pink ONLY in the flowers and room lighting. The big fun surprise of the night was a custom cigar heated cigar lounge we put outside that Marissa surprised Marcus with after midnight. He went absolutely nuts and so did the guests. I have never seen so many people enjoying cigars as I did this night! Such a great way to ring in the new year!

A very special big oh so fab thank you to:

The Estate at Florentine Gardens, Noelle, Sal, Patrick, Denise and all your amazing staff, thanks for making us feel like a part of the family! Cakes By Stef!, Laura Hooper Calligraphy, EventLights, Cloth Connection, Something Different Party Rentals, Photography By Rebecca, Darling Occassions (for the amazing custom damask pillows, cake stand, and so many other cool details) Tony Santana Cigar Company, Valley Tent Rentals, Toppers With Glitz, Signature Event Rentals, Creations Music (Kim Sozzi you ROCK) and to Alison who was on top of it all night long, and to our three great interns, Jenny, Glenda and our "little Sarah" Leann! Thanks for really bringing this very hectic night together.

I wanted to give a special shout out to Mary Mazzone, cousin of our bride and her company Ciao Bella Floral Design....she gave Marissa the most amazing gift of her time and skills as an amazing floral designer and she worked up until about 1 hour before the reception started as her florist and then changed her clothes and returned as her cousin to the wedding! Mary I hope this is the start of something huge for you, you are very talented and your work is amazing, it was such a pleasure collaborating with you on this fun venture!! xoxoxo

This wedding was filmed for a great new Knot show called "My Real Wedding" which will air sometime this Spring/Summer we will keep you posted! Thanks to Anne and Jodi and Crew for the hard work in making the show really showcase all the wonderful elements of the event that we worked so hard on for months!