wedding

Making Sense of Scents At Your Wedding

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What should your wedding smell like? Designers sometimes sell clients on setting the mood with scent. I remember a demonstration by a company that made diffusers giant enough to fill a sound stage with one of their pre-packaged concoctions: cotton candy for circus themed event, and – heaven help us- they even tried to recreate florals.  The air at the premiere party of “The Last Samurai” was supposed to be tinged with a hint of cherry blossoms.  Instead, guests kept asking “what’s that terrible smell?”  The planner needed no coaxing to shut off the machine.

Sakura of Fukushima-e (福島江のサクラ)Long story short?  Don’t let your details get so detailed they pull focus from the reason why everyone’s there.  That’s to see you get married!

 

Live well, and love well.

 

-Dinah

Champagne Saberers and Other Ways to Give Your Wedding Venue A Heart Attack

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Ever seen a champagne saberer? That’s someone who opens bottle of champagne dramatically – with a sword.  I thought that sounded like the coolest thing ever.  Why not create the bubbly, exploding high point at a wedding? Get six of them for an exciting lead-in to some adventurous bride’s champagne toast.  Greg, always the cool-headed event professional threw a champagne bucket on my head.

“I have one word for you:  LIABILITY.”

There’s a reason you can’t do whatever you want at your wedding.  Someone, be it a professional wedding venue or your lovely aunt who’s loaning you her backyard, is legally responsible for what occurs on their property.  You also, as the person giving the party, can also be held responsible. It’s best to avoid dangerous activities (like ones that say, that cause flying bits of glass in the air near your guests.)

I am not a lawyer.  I cannot say whether you will give your venue’s coordinator a heart attack when you show up with your pet python as a ringbearer.  The key here is to ask – and to stay one step ahead of plans.  Cheers to planning!  Champagne, anyone?

Be well, and love well.

-Dinah

NEW VIDEO! REAL WEDDING! MY LITTLE FLOWER SHOP!

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We love this newly compiled video! The pics may look familiar, by the lovely wedding photographer Jessica Fajardo, but they are all fancy in this video put together via a tool on WeddingWire, a site we partner with.  We aren’t being shy – we need WeddingWire reviews from brides – to write up your adventures in wedding flowers with My Little Flower shop, please click here. We also can get review for special events! If we’ve done an event for you, please take a moment and click here to write it up!  And we’ll make a cool video of your pix too – let us at ’em! Thanks so much. Enjoy the video.