Wedding Gifts: Parents

Giving your parents the PERFECT gift to thank them for all their love, support, guidance, and help with the wedding can become overwhelming. How can you possibly say thank you enough? Here are some wonderful ideas to say "THANKS!"

A picture frame with a picture from your engagement photo shoot, wedding date, and names.

A gift basket full of your parents' favorite snacks.

CD/DVD Leather Case or Wooden Case. Place a homemade CD of the songs played at your wedding (ex. Father/Daughter Dance, Mother/Son Dance, First Dance, Cake Cutting Song).

Wedding Gifts

This week is all about showing thanks to all the people involved in creating the beautiful masterpiece called your wedding day. Remember to thank everyone from your bridal party to your parents to your guests to your wedding day vendors. We will give you some great ideas to say THANK YOU!

Wedding Website

A great way to keep your wedding guests involved and excited about your BIG DAY, is to create a wedding website for them to visit. You can include information about your wedding day (time, date, location), lodging accommodations for your guest, engagement photos, and up to the date information that you think your readers might just love to hear about. These days there are so many amazing websites to help you create a spectacular website just for you.

Here is a great site for you to start crafting your beautiful and informative wedding website, Momentville.com. I just love this site because they have great backgrounds to match your wedding colors, you can upload photos, your website can have a playlist of your favorite songs, and it is so easy to use.

Jacksonville Wedding Hot Spots

Jen and I love planning weddings in Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville has such an amazing array of breathtaking wedding sites that it is so difficult to choose are favorite. Here are a few of our favorite wedding sites we highly suggest for you to discover:

Club Continental

This beautiful wedding site brings the romantic feel of the gardens alive.

One Ocean

This amazing site truly captures a sleek modern appeal with true elegance.

Ponte Vedra Inn and Club

This gorgeous wedding ceremony and reception site is elegance at its peak and will make every bride smile.

Omni (Downtown Jacksonville)

This beautiful wedding site has impeccable staff and is so charming dressed in hues of gold.

Welcome!!

We are so excited to welcome Jennifer & Josh to the celebrate! family!! We are planning a beach wedding in St. Augustine for this November. It is going to be a very small intimate wedding for the bride, groom, family and close friends. It is going to be a beautiful event and we are so excited to help them plan all of their wedding dreams into reality!!

What a cute couple!!!

Fun Event Foods

I feel like a lot of people forget that the look of your event food is extremely important. Presentation of everything from the appetizers to the salad to the main course must be fabulous and appealing to your guests. Afterall, the food is one of the main ways you are saying "thank you" that your guests attended your function.

You should always ask the chef at your facility or catering company if they can jazz up the look of the food. Most culinary experts would love to bring your food to the next level by adding some creative flair. Creative flair can be added by making a simple meal miniature size or adding a unique topping to jazz up ordinary food or piling the food in a unusual way, etc.

Here are some great ways various foods can be presented:

Twitter!

We have so much fun following other "tweeters" on twitter. It's a great place to get daily updates on what is going on with all of the other wedding vendors. Don't forget to follow us to keep up with all of celebrate!'s new adventures!!

You can find us at: celebrateYOU

Wedding Dress Shopping

Choosing your wedding dress is one of the most important aspects of your wedding day. Every bride wants to feel like a beautiful princess while she walks down the aisle.

Photo by: Sandy Brantley Photography

This big decision can be not only fun but stressful if you are not prepared. Here is a helpful list of things you need to bring dress shopping with you:

• Strapless Bra
• Spanx or any other under garment you may use
• Pictures of some dresses you loved while looking in magazines and online
• A camera (call the bridal salon ahead of time to make sure you can bring this) to take pictures of your different options
• Hair Ties, Clips, Booby Pins, etc. to throw your hair into a quick up-do
• Heels that have the amount of height you would like for your wedding shoes
• Pen and paper to write down the style of gowns you like and the size needed
• A group of small honest people who will tell you what you look stunning in

Photo by: Greg's Gallery

Mackenzie's 6th Birthday

Mackenzie's birthday party was a huge success and she had so much fun! We had a great turnout and the kids swam like fishes, ate yummy food, and played fun games to win prizes. I loved the fun goodie bags we gave away to all the kiddies at the end of the day....a beach tote with a pair of flip flops!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACKENZIE!!!

Bridal Show

The Ultimate Bridal Fantasy bridal show was a big success! celebrate! had a wonderful time meeting all you brides and grooms yesterday. Here are a few photos from our fall inspired booth: