Oh yeah! The holidays are here, and we’re all about celebrating the joys of the past year and all the excitement to come in 2010! And in our humble opinion, what’s a party without a good cocktail? Our friends at Seattle’s ledgendary Canlis Restaurant (also an amazing wedding reception location!) have put together a collection of holiday cocktail recipes for all of us to enjoy- from super easy and booze-free to a concoction you may […]

Incredible event designers can take a vision, an idea, a tiny inspiration, and bring it to life super-sized, fully realized, and in technicolor! Today we get to see just that with the ultra-creative work of Daniela of Seattle’s Bella Signature Design. Read on to see how she worked with a wedding couple to turn their love of color and modern design into this striking concept… and into this stunning reality… Staci and Brett came to […]

Need a pretty pick-me-up this afternoon? Here you go! Take a peek at these amazing, modern, fondant wedding cakes from New York artist Liz Shim of Eat Cake Be Merry. I love her use of clean, simple lines and slightly abstract floral designs that still feel classic and serene. And with Liz’s impressive experience in culinary training, I bet you anything these wedding cakes are just as delicious as they are beautiful!

Gloria Wong, the wonderfully talented San Francisco wedding designer, is one of the fabulous new friends we made last month at the Engage09Encore wedding conference. Gloria is delightful in person, and as you’ll see from the following photos of her work, an incredible artist as well. As a designer Gloria focuses on the look and feel of a event, using ultra-creative decor design to make each wedding striking, personal and totally unique. As she says […]

Looking through the website of San Francisco floral designer Nancy Liu Chin the other day, I was totally enthralled by her portfolio of work. Not only because it’s so beautiful (which it absolutely is!) but also because she groups her portfolio galleries by wedding so you can really get a sense of the overall aesthetic of the event and the brilliant way that Nancy approaches her designs. She seems to mix, meld and layer together […]

Amy Atlas takes dessert to a whole new level with one-of-a-kind decadent displays that are as divine to behold as they are to devour! In the last few years her work has been seen in every major wedding and culinary magazine and on dozens of blogs including our own. We had the chance to see Amy’s amazing work in person at Mindy Weiss’s Most Ridiculous Wedding Event Ever (see the vibrant citrus colored dessert table […]