Black wedding dresses and black wedding cakes

Posted on juillet 8, 2008 by Claire

In everybody’s mind, black is forbidden for a wedding. For many reasons, black is associated with death, sadness or evil. Anyway, others are gritty or scandalous when they plan their wedding. Some brides are in the mood of black wedding dresses. Personnaly, I’ve never organised a wedding on the French Riviera like this but I admit that some black wedding dresses are dashing !

Regarding black wedding cakes, my opinion is in favor of black wedding cakes. Sometimes brides are besotted with white. Some of my clients want to put white everywhere for their weddings on the French Riviera. Black wedding cakes often look better than traditionnal white wedding cake. More over, most of the guests love chocolate !

To conclude, I would say that black can be used for a wedding if you manage to mix it with another color such as white, pink or purple. What about you, would you dare black wedding dresses ?

The most beautiful pink wedding I’ve ever seen !

Posted on juin 20, 2008 by Claire

Very often, brides and grooms want to make their wedding different from others.  But they feel puzzled regarding the best decoration for their wedding on the French Riviera or somewhere else ! So I decide to help all my readers by giving them some wedding decoration trends. The first point is to choose the main color of the wedding decoration. Once, you have decided which color you wish …I give you some ideas and wedding decoration trends. Let’s begin with a pink wedding ! 

Obviously first there is the wedding dress. When the wedding decoration is linked with the bride groom …that is perfect ! You don’t need to wear a pink wedding dress. You just need to add accessories like flowers or a specific hairstyle. When I organise a wedding on the French Riviera, I recommend that the groom has got also a colorful discreet accessory (tie or buttonhole for instance).

For the wedding ceremony, Events & Home consulting suggests to mix pink flowers with white, cream or light orange colors. White is for the romantic time, pink refers to love and orange gives light and cheerfulness. Instead of flowers, be inventive and choose stunning items like these pink sunshades !

 

In order to customize your wedding decoration, you should take care of the table decoration. Continue reading →

French honeymoons

Posted on juin 17, 2008 by Claire

When I organise a wedding party on the French Riviera or somewhere else in France or in Italy, I give attention to every detail in order to make a unique and perfect wedding. Money is not the onlything that matters. Some ideas don’t cost much but they change the mood of the wedding. I met a travel agency that works with the same spirit and we decide to set up a partnership for honeymoons.

Thus, Events & Home consulting can customize your honeymoon wherever you wish to go. Events & Home consulting is very proud of this partnership because this travel agency is exclusive. The boss know each hotel and places he recommend and he always looks for venues that are outstanding. Outstanding doesn’t mean expensive. Some of my clients are used to travel for work in many luxurious hotels. As for their weddings, as for their honeymoons, they aim at living a never be forgotten time.

Events & Home consulting is happy to offer you that possibility to customize your honeymoon with a dedicated team in which you trust.

Your wedding on a French Riviera beach

Posted on mai 13, 2008 by Claire

French Riviera is an ideal place to do a wedding party on a beach !

But be careful with the cities you select to plan your wedding party on the French Riviera. Indeed some cities have beaches but no sand. From Nice to Antibes, beaches are made with pebbles. It’s not that easy to walk on such beaches especially if you were a wedding dress. Secondly, if you are looking for an isolated beach for your wedding party on the French Riviera, forget about Cannes, Monaco  and Juan les Pins. As a matter of fact, beaches are located along the main road. You would suffer from traffic and also for tourists who are walking along the road. 

Var is definitely the best place to plan your wedding party on the French Riviera. Beaches are wider with much more beautiful sand. Road is not that closer to the beach and there are less tourists along the road. Var is an admistrative region in the French Riviera which begins at Frejus and finishes at Bandol more or less.  The most famous city is obviously Saint Tropez. Many beaches are really perfect to plan your wedding party on the French Riviera. Interior and exterior decoration are often very well customised and above all totally trendy. Continue reading →

Your wedding in a French designer house

Posted on mai 8, 2008 by Claire

If you feel living a unique wedding party, French Riviera is the perfect place to make your dreams come true. Indeed, French Riviera is full of magnificent venues where to plan an amazing wedding event. French Riviera has been attracting many artists and designers for so long! Some of them bought properties on the French Riviera. Luckily, some of these prestigious properties can be rented to celebrate a wedding party.

So, if you fancy fashion, I suggest two fabulous venues. The first one is the most stupendous property on the French Riviera. The owner is Mr Pierre Cardin, famous French fashion designer. There is no other house on earth like the one he has on the French Riviera. The name of the property is Palais Bulle. The idea is to be in a bubble everywhere in the house. Indeed, there is no corner, no angles …the whole is round in a very 1960′s spirit and attitude. Extremely well situated on the French Riviera, with an unforgettable sea view, the property has a specific area to host events. The place is dedicated to hedonism.

The second venue I recommend for a wedding event on the French Riviera is definitely different from the previous one. The property is one of the most elegant ones on the French Riviera. Continue reading →

2008 wedding trends : sample stations

Posted on mai 5, 2008 by Claire

Let’s be honest : sometimes it happens that guests are getting bored at a wedding party. Weddings are often the same with no suprise! Customised wedding decoration makes your wedding different obviously. Anyway, it’s not enough! One new trend in weddings is to set up many sample stations rather than one never ending dinner.

Every station has to be thematic. I suggest to link the keynote to the bride and the groom. For instance, if you get married on the French Riviera, a wine and a cheese station is a must have. Why don’t you hire a sommelier to provide some explanations to your guests ?

 

As humans, we’re getting bored quickly. So create an event in the event istself. You should set up some fleetingly stations. Based on the happy hour concept, you should do a « mojito time » during 30 min, following by a « champagne time ».

2008 wedding trends : how to be lush !

Posted on avril 29, 2008 by Claire

I read few posts about the 2008 wedding trends and here are some viewpoints I agree with. The first one is about a new trend in wedding decoration. Inspired by  the opulence of French history and thanks to Marie Antoinette film, luxury and lush are back in the wedding decoration.  

The wedding decoration is based on white and gold colors with a luxury of flowers, tulle, candels, brocade linens and petals. Hand painted wedding invitations are perfect for such a  wedding event. We are very far from the zen attitude.  Continue reading →

The wedding lubies

Posted on avril 23, 2008 by Claire

I read an interesting post on Forbes that dealt with the lubies of celebrities for their weddings. Oviously it was an economic viewpoint but it drew my attention to the importance of logistics in a wedding. When Madonna got married with Guy Ritchie, she spent $ 2,100,000. $ 293,000 were dedicated to champagne, $ 58,000 to flights and they needed $219,000 to rent the whole castle (and its 47 rooms). The celebrity wedding had a positive impact on the turism since then.

Catherine Zeta Jones was looking for a simply and intimate wedding party. She chose the Plaza in NYC (« down home ») and she spent $ 1,500,000 as the new Mrs Douglas. Her wedding lubies were clear : a choir of 40 members and only 20,000 creeam coloured roses. Continue reading →

How to do a green wedding?

Posted on avril 21, 2008 by Claire

When you celebrate a wedding on the French Riviera, you’re closed to nature thanks to the varierty of amazing landscapes in this area. So why don’t you celebrate a wedding on the French Riviera with a green commitment ?  

Making an earthfriendly wedding party is not a big deal! Here are some ideas to celebrate a green wedding. First, why don’t you use a recycled paper to make your wedding announcements ?  On the whole, we waste so much paper that there is no need to add more with your wedding reception. The best way to be eco-friendly is to send your wedding announcements by email. You shall create a website with all the details about your wedding party (hotels, celebration, transport…)   Continue reading →

Weddings : what do the colors mean ?

Posted on avril 17, 2008 by Claire

When you plan to organise your wedding party, you have very often colors in mind. Our unconscious mind associate colors with events. As far as I’m concerned, white is known to be the most famous color for wedding receptions. Anyway, do we know exactly what colors mean. Through history, dream language, religion and psychology, colors have symbolic meanings.   Let’s have a look to some emblems.

First of all, white means light and divinity. Egyptians used to put white shrouds on their departed relatives. Druids wore white clothes and so on. The wedding dress is white because this color represents purity, chastity and virtue. White flowers like lily or white birds like dove are emblems of peace.

Secondly, red is sometimes used in a wedding decoration because red is linked with the divine love. Red express life, optimism and sex. To a certain extend, red stands for conquest and seduction but also for power. In Peru, soldiers are in red !

What about yellow ? This equivocal color is not easy to define. Continue reading →