Pinterest for Wedding Planner Katie Aldrich in Sarasota

Brides this is something you will love!

Pinterest is an online bulletin board for posting ideas and photos for your creative outlet.  Naomi Chokr told me about this and it is great!  http://naomichokr.com/

It is a great way to get out all of your ideas and send your boards to friends and family to comment on including wedding décor, dresses, accessories, food, cakes and more!  If you can take a photo or find a photo you can pin it!

I am making a Vintage inspired wedding décor set up to show case my design skills and I am using a pinterest board to put up some ideas.  http://pinterest.com/katiesuealdrich/vintage-wedding/

Please comment and let me know some of your ideas!  It will be fun!

Check out some of my boards:

http://pinterest.com/katiesuealdrich/cakes/

http://pinterest.com/katiesuealdrich/my-style/

I will be updating daily!  See you on Pinterest.com for inspiration!

Bridal Show!

Hey brides and grooms!

The time has finally come! What are you waiting for, get ready to go!

Where you may ask?  The best bridal show in Sarasota is happening this Sunday at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium!  Yours truly will be there with her little helpers to pass out some yummy treats and great info on the best wedding planner in your local area!  Be sure to stop by and talk with us to learn how you can relax and feel stress free on your big day.  You’re thinking not a fat chance right?  Well Blushing Brides can make that stress free wedding dream a reality!  Let us worry about everything and you can party away with your new husband, friends and family! 

Come and see what it’s all about! You know you want to!

http://www.myblushingbrides.com/index.html

http://www.nuovobride.com/

Some sneak peeks of our goodies are pictured here: 

Wedding Cakes and Toppers Too!

At your wedding you sure can

“Have your cake and eat it too!”

Wedding cake dates back to the Roman Empire where cake was made form whole wheat flower and not so sweet as we know it today.  Back then the cake was broken over the bride’s head for luck and any guests for relatives that ate the crumbs were considered to be a good omen.

In England the guests brought sweet buns to pile and stack in front of the bride and groom to have the pile as high as it could be.  The bride and groom would then attempt to kiss over the tall pile and if they were successful that would bring the bride and groom luck and many children. 

Another story surrounding the wedding cake is the bride’s cake or bride’s pie.  The baker would bake a glass ring inside and the first single female that found it at the reception would be the next to wed.  This is similar to the bouquet toss but messier. J

The cakes are white to symbolize purity, childhood innocence and the purity of the heart.  Today cakes are white or full color, it is up to the bride and groom!

The top of the cake is saved for the first year wedding anniversary of the bride and groom.  I can proudly say mine is less than a month away, November 6!

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Wedding cake toppers fist began in the late 19^th century which featured a bride and groom in traditional poses.  They were considered ornaments and were saved as treasured mementos of the wedding ceremony.  They are considered to be the symbol of the love, bond and togetherness the bride and groom share.

Wedding cake toppers have come along way since the 1890s.  In the late 1920s, Sears came out with their first line of wedding ornaments (cake toppers) in their catalog.  In the 1900s symbols such as silver bells, love birds, doves, cherubs, cupids, etc became widely acceptable as wedding cake toppers. 

Today there are more than ever to choose from and widely popular today are floral arrangements or the letter of the groom’s last name.  There are humorous ones, hobby-fied ones, sports themed, ethnic and religious themed, personalized and more!  Your only limit for your own unique cake topper is your imagination! 

www.Weddingstar.com has endless cake toppers to choose from!  Including the one from my wedding that my loving and wonderful husband bought me for Christmas a month after we got engaged!  This is truly the perfect wedding topper for us!

From my wedding:

 

To read more visit:

http://www.weddingcaketoppers.com/

http://www.streetdirectory.com/food_editorials/pastry/cakes/the_history_of_the_wedding_cake_and_cake_toppers.html

http://www.weddingstar.com/

Color Schemes

Hey brides and grooms and bloggers!

Looking for the next hot color scheme?

Here are some color schemes popping up this spring:

o       Aqua & Chartreuse

o       Sage Green & Rose

o       Black & White

Aqua & Chartreuse are great colors for beachy or a laid back themed wedding.  It gives a feel of leisure and relaxation.  You can also glam it up for a more elegant affair.  I think these colors are beautiful together.  They are unexpected to see two similar colors that you may think clash but with the right shades they make a unique and interesting pair.  Check out these wonderful photos I found for favors and cakes using these colors:

Sage Green & Rose make a lovely combination for any type of wedding.  They are soft colors that play off each other in a natural sort of way.  I absolutely love these two colors together partly because they show off the feminine side and I used these colors for my wedding.  The photo of cupcakes is the actual photo from my wedding.  Check out these wonderful photos I found for favors and cakes using these colors:

Black & White is becoming very popular for weddings.  It seems like it is for elegant and grand affairs.  Kim Kardashian used a black and white theme for her wedding.  Black and white is nice for upscale events and home town weddings.  However, I find black and white weddings are a bit boring in the color scheme area.  You should have a pop of color with black and white themes to bring a little something to it.  Red and hot pink is used a lot I find and any bright colors to add some pop to the color scheme would be great.  I love love love this wedding cake how romantic!  It reminds me so much of Audrey Hepburn in the pose and stance of the silhouette of the woman, who is my idol of course!  Check out these wonderful photos I found for favors and cakes using these colors:

Cakes VS Cupcakes

The great debate of the 21^st century is of the cake species!  What to have at a wedding or a special event: cakes or cupcakes? 

Cakes are formal, elegant and classic.  Cakes can be decorated with dazzling embellishments or left simple and classic.  Cupcakes are fun, pretty and cute.  Cupcakes are becoming more popular than ever at events.  Cupcakes are popping up because you know how many to order exactly if you are on a tight budget allowing individuals to have one cupcake.  However, in my personal experience your guests are more likely to eat more than one.  You can have them in multiple flavors and as many as you want instead of 4 layers of cake with 4 flavors.  If you have 100 cupcakes you could have 100 flavors literally! J Cupcakes are an easy more convenient type of dessert that you can dress up for any special occasion. 

I chose cupcakes for my wedding and they were made by Heavenly Cupcakes of Sarasota, Florida and they turned out beautiful and they tasted even better!  My husband and I were even able to have them bake a large cupcake so we could put our unique and personable wedding cake topper on top and cut that as husband and wife and also save it for our 1 year wedding anniversary.  Plus my own personal theory was if my loving and caring husband was going to try to smash my face with cake for our cake cutting ceremony, I was going to start throwing cupcakes one by one at him J luckily it didn’t come to that!

I love cupcakes because you can choose different frostings, flavors, colors and even individual embellishments and decorations for each cupcake.  A great idea I thought of was have the cupcakes as the wedding favors by putting the guests name on each cupcake and also have a display of cupcakes incase your guests wanted more than 1 each.  You could also have the individual cupcakes that for your favors in cute little boxes that match your theme or colors. 

I have shared some pictures form my wedding and some more from Heavenly Cupcakes website:

http://www.myheavenlycupcakes.com/Photos.html#grid