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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Winter Wedding Planning Ideas ~ Katie Aldrich, Sarasota

How many winter wedding brides are getting married this year?

You will love these photos I pulled from Google. They are just breath taking. Having a winter wedding can be a lot of fun there are so many directions you could go with. You could have an elegant crystal blue and snow white wedding with soft snowflakes or a romantic white lace and soft blue wedding with beautiful white flower details or have a real Christmassy wedding with splashes of snowmen and red and green.

There are so many types of brides and so many options to create a vision all your own. Blushing Brides is the perfect wedding planner to take your winter wedding and make it unique and truly one of a kind. I love being able to take an idea and infuse it with the bride and groom’s personality and make something just for them that no one else could.

Take a look at a few photos I pulled form Google that I could personalize and make them special to you, my next bride and groom!

Little booties for the bride to go along with the winter theme

Beautiful sophisticated cake

Beautiful elegant snowflake cake

Great center piece idea with

Mistletoe

Cute snowmen favors

Elegant snowflake napkin rings

Adorable pinecone place cards

Pretty snowflake ornament place cards

Breath taking asile

Wonderful coffe idea

Cute snowmen cake topper

Elegant simple snowflake cake

Amazing reception decor

Beautiful bouquet

Adorable favors

Monday, December 12, 2011

Have Katie Aldrich excite your next big event with a dessert bar!

Something big this era!

Dessert Bars!

They are becoming ever more popular this era with new modern brides doing away with the wedding cake entirely! I have done a few blogs on wedding cakes and the modern brides having candy bars in addition to their wedding cake and even cupcakes and other cake desserts instead of a wedding cake, but no cake at all? How odd.

Found on my website, http://www.myblushingbrides.com/, I have the history and tradition of the wedding cake:

The Wedding Cake
You might find it interesting that; originally, the cake was not eaten by but thrown at the bride! It developed as one of the many fertility traditions surrounding a wedding. Wheat too, is traditionally a symbol of fruitfulness and was among the earliest grains (predating rice) to be ceremoniously showered on the bride and groom. In its earliest origins, the unmarried young women attending the wedding were expected to scramble for the grains to ensure their own betrothals, much as they do today for the bridal bouquet.

Early Roman bakers, we are told, changed the "throw it" to the "eat it" tradition. These bakers were distinguished and respected in their trades. Somewhere around 100 BCE they began taking the wedding wheat and creating small, sweet cakes with it; the cakes were eaten while the service was in progress.

So for all my modern brides out there here are some lovely, creative bite sized delicious yummies for your dessert bar!

Cannoli – an Italian favorite

Mini Cupcakes – my personal favorite

Mini Brownies

Mini Cheesecakes Bites

Meringue

Whoopie Pies – my personal favorite

Petites – my personal favorite

Rice Crispy Treats

Tiramisu – cute to pile it in a shot glass for added décor

Ice cream – also cute to pile it in a shot glass for added décor

Chocolate Covered Strawberries – my personal favorite