Preservation Week: Preserving Your Wedding Cake

So you just couldn't get enough of your wedding cake on your wedding day and now it is your one year anniversary, the anticipation of pulling your wedding cake out of the freezer to have a tantalizing slice is just about to drive you insane. You pull it out of the freezer and it looks a little strange but you figure "oh what the heck, I bet it is still so delicious"....that is until your husband and you actually take a bite and realize it's FREEZER BURNT.


Today is all about how to keep your wedding cake as well preserved as possible up until your one year anniversary. Here are some helpful tips:


1. Remove all adornments such as flowers, sugar pieces, cake toppers, etc.

2. Make sure to chill your cake first in the refrigerator. This way the icing hardens and it will not stick to the plastic wrap when you begin wrapping it.

3. Wrap the cake in plastic wrap NOT FOIL. The aluminum foil is what causes the awful freezer-burn.

4. Place the wrapper cake in a freezer safe airtight bag and then place it in your freezer.



A great tip too is just to order a replica wedding cake on your anniversary to ensure the freshness. Many bakeries are now offering this services along with your wedding cake so that you can relive every experience on your wedding. Talk with your cake baker today about this possibility, most will give you a voucher to bring in.



Here are some great cake professionals I love:
DAYTONA BEACH AREA:
http://www.paradisecheesecakes.com/
http://www.thepastrystudio.com/

JACKSONVILLE/PONTE VEDRA AREA:
http://www.classiccakes.com/
http://www.thecakeshop.com/

ORLANDO/CENTRAL FLORIDA AREA:
http://www.bakemeacake.com/
http://www.orlandocustomcakes.com/

WEST PALM AREA:
http://www.thesugarmonkey.com/

Preservation Week: Preserving Your Bouquet

Did you just absolutely love your wedding bouquet? Do you wish you could cherish it forever?? The great news is that you can. There are many methods on how to preserve your wedding bouquet. You can take it to a professional and have them either freeze-dry or press them or your can preserve it at home by using sand, silica gel, or borax. Read below for some helpful tips.

Tips:
1. Make sure to start the preservation process within 1-4 days days after your wedding
2. If you want your bouquet to look as realistic as possible have a professional freeze-dry it. The bouquet will be taken apart, freeze-dried, and then the flowers will be put back in place. This entire process can take a few weeks.
3. If you want your bouquet pressed and framed make sure to bring it to a professional. The bouquet will be separated, pressed down, and rearranged in a frame to make a keepsake for you.
4. If you choose to preserve your bouquet at home by yourself use a sand, silica gel, or borax. Read tips online at great wedding websites like theknot.com under DIY sections.

Great vendors that can preserve your wedding flowers:
http://www.keepsakefloral.com/
http://www.bridalgownpreservation.com/
http://www.timelessflowers.net/

Preservation Week: Preserving Wedding Gowns

So you wore the most AMAZING WEDDING GOWN when you said "I DO." You had searched long and hard for the most perfect gown, wore it, and now want to make sure it stays safe until you one day can maybe pass it along to one of your daughters.

Here are some great tips on preserving your wedding gown:

1. Find a cleaners who specializes in wedding gown preservation. Make sure to check that they use another solvent besides the standard kind because it would be to harsh to keep your gown together.

2. Ask the cleaners if you can see your dress after it is cleaned prior to them packing it up. You want to make sure all the stains came out and it was cleaned properly.

3. Make sure your gown is stuffed with acid-free tissue. This acid-free tissue should be placed between the layers of your dress and stuffed in the bodice to ensure no permanent wrinkles.

Vendors specializing in cleaning and packaging wedding gowns:

DAYTONA BEACH AREA-Caring Cleaners

1500 Beville Road, Daytona Beach, FL

386.253.8848

JACKSONVILLE-The Cleaners

1519 Penman Road, Jacksonville Beach, FL

904.246.1705

ORLANDO-Bridal Gown Preservations

3588 Avalon Park Blvd E, Orlando, FL

407.277.3335

Preservation Week

This week we are going to focus on PRESERVATION....preserving your wedding dress, bouquet, photos, wedding cake, etc. Since your wedding day is strictly that a DAY you will want to cherish and keep whatever you possibly can to remember that special day.

Each day this week we will look into preserving something from your wedding from your wedding dress to the top tier of your wedding cake. We will give you helpful suggestions and vendor recommendations.

Stay tuned...it is going to be a FUN week..

Wedding Essentials

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"Wedding Essentials" is a TV show designed to take local brides and their families and friends through the entire wedding planning process. Interviews with service providers as well as timely product information will be a main focus of each episode. Other segments included on each show include:


"Trends and Traditions" which gives viewers historical information of wedding nuances.


"Ask the Consultant" where our experienced wedding planners answer questions from viewers.


The pilot has been filmed for "Wedding Essentials - Central Florida Edition," featuring as the Lead Host: Professional Wedding Planner Marcy Rodriquez of Ormond Beach, accompanied by Certified Wedding Planners: Jenna Jones, also of Ormond Beach and Kerline Docteur of Orange Park as her co-hosts...

Rachel and Tyler

Jen and I had such an amazing time coordinating Rachel and Tyler's breathtaking July wedding a couple weekends ago. The entire day and night was filled with so much love, happiness, and pure joy. The beautiful couple was married at the Mori Hosseini Center on the Daytona State College campus and was followed by a fun-filled reception at the ICI Center on the Embry Riddle Campus. It was amazing to see how Rachel and her mom, Vicki, transformed the ICI Center into an amazing black, white, and silver affair.

Thank you, Rachel and Tyler, for letting celebrate!LLC be part of your special day. We wish you the best.

A speical thanks to Rachel and Tyler's wedding vendors:

Planners: celebrate!LLC, Jen and Jenna

Ceremony Site: Mori Hosseini Center, Lynn Johnson

Reception Site: ICI Center

Caterer: Sodexo

Photographer: Jessica Lorren Photography

Videographer: Creative Wedding Resources

Florals: Simply Roses Florist, Ashlee Nolan

Cake: Paradise Cheesecakes

Reception Entertainment: 5th Avenue (Band)

Transportation: Crown Limos


Photos by: www.JessicaLorren.com

New Wedding Colors for Summer!!

Looking for the perfect colors to enhance your wedding day? Do you know what the newest, brightest "IN" wedding colors are for this summer? Tired of guessing??

A vibrant mixture of Pewter, Blush, Scarlet and Saffron!!! Basically an array of shades of pinks and reds mixed with a bright yellow and a more subtle color, pewter. The mix of the brighther colors keeps it summery and fun. Once you add the color pewter to the color scheme, the event is broughy to a more classy and upscale level.

The colors are beauitful together and add lots of depth to your design. Check out this color board that demonstrates how well these color all blend. Don't you just love it?!

Post-Wedding Thank You Notes

As your wedding day comes to a close, your life starts to get back into order. As you get back on track at work, get all of your errands ran that haven't been done in months, clean up your house and organize all of your wedding odds and ends, you can finally take a breather! As your life slows down, don't forget about all of your friends and family members that helped make your wedding happen as well as the ones that gave you a wonderful gift on your wedding day. Although, many think thank you cards are a thing of the past, they are by far the most endearing way to express how grateful you are for everyone that was involved in the process.

A few things to remember when writing your thank you cards:

1. Always personally write your thank you cards. It always mean so much more and comes from the heart when you hand write a thank you.

2. Make it a TEAM effort. You are married and your wedding day was a day of unity to bring you together as a family. Share the tasks of writing your thank-you cards and allow both yourself and your husband to put some thought into them.

3. If you like the gift, express that you will treasure or use it for years to come.

4. If you don't like the gift, express how "thoughtful" it was for them to

5. If you received money, let them know what your goal is with the money you recieved on your wedding day, whether it be towards a new house or a project you will be working on.

Most importantly, write from your heart. Let everyone know how happy you are and how important is what for you to have them all there to celebrate your special day!!

Dramatic Wedding Shoes

Just like every other girl in the world, I LOVE SHOES!!! I can never have enough shoes, there is always a reason to buy a shoe..."for work," "to wear with my skinny jeans," "for girls night out," "to make my co-worker jealous," "don't have this shade of black yet..." oh the excuses us girls can come up with.

Shoes are a fabulous way to add a fun accent to your wedding attire. Here are some of my favorite "not-ordinary" wedding shoes:

www.dillards.com

http://www.eluxury.com/

http://www.freyarose.co.uk/

Funky Cake Toppers

I love wedding cake, even after all my years in the business devouring numerous slices of chocolate, vanilla, almond, raspberry, etc. cakes I still enjoy every single bite of a delicious slice of wedding cake. We all know cake bakers are amazing and can come up with over-top designs to set your wedding cake apart from all others. But what if you still want more....add an amazing component to your wedding cake by choosing a funky cake topper. Check these ones out:

Get these snazzy birds at: www.bridalpartytees.com

Get these funky colored, designed monogram at: www.etsy.com

Get a clay figure that looks just like you at: www.clayfigurines.com

Get these fun photo topper at: Fairytale Weddings