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Brides to Be - See "27 Dresses" for free

We're spreading the news about an fun upcoming event for Nashville-area brides-to-be! Ashley's Bride Guide is taking 27 brides + 27 bridesmaids to see 27 Dresses, the cute new movie out starring Katherine Heigl. Simply vist her site, register for a username, and then email Ashley with your interest. You the bride, and 1 bridesmaid of your choosing, will attend the movie event on January 27! We think the interest list will be filling quickly, so sign up at her site today! :)

West End Church of Christ

There are so many beautiful churches in Nashville, which is something that brides are searching for. So many know about the Scarritt Bennett center with it's beautiful architecture and less is more need for decor. However, there are several other churches in the Nashville area who are allowing brides, non-member, to come in and have a ceremony there. Many are allowing you to bring in your own minister as well. One that the Delightful Team just loves is West End Church of Christ. It has a beautiful Southern charm to it, simplicity at its best, and simple decor opportunities for brides. The Church provides a room for both the groom and his party and the bride and her party party for them to get dressed, hang out, and relax during all preparation. So, makeup and hair can come to you if needed. The staff is incredibly helpful and make this as easy an experience as possible. I wanted to share some photos that were taken by Amber to showcase to you in case you're searching for a santuary to host your wedding ceremony.

This is a candlelit picture of the beautiful pews and the center aisle! Brides love a church with a center aisle and not many churches in Nashville have a center aisle!

Beautiful aisle shot! The aisle runner was ordered from Original Aisle Runner and was handpainted to match the monogram that was on the invitation. 

The beautiful candleabras were rentals, as well as the pew markers, from Fabu Party Rental. They have an incredible selection of unique decor items.

Please contact Erin Jones, the coordinator for West End, via email at westendweddings@yahoo.com to find out about date availability and pricing. 

California, here I come!!!!!

I am sooooo excited! I met known, successful, California wedding planner Mary Dann who is a regular on Whose Wedding is it Anyway? at my conference in Orlando this year for the association I'm a member of. I was so encouraged and enthusiated by her, that I inquired about doing a mentorship with her! I have been accepted and July 24-26th I'll be in sunny California following in her footsteps and learning how she became so successful! I don't think I've been this excited about doing something since my wedding! I've never been to California, so that will be fun as well! Here's a pic of she and I at her booth at the Convention!

Why Hire a Wedding Planner?

Why Hire a Wedding Planner? That is a good question! So many brides today are looking to planners to help them create the beautiful day that they've dreamed of their entire lives. Women today are pulled in so many different directions with careers, social lives, children sometimes, that they don't have time to pay attention to all the little details that are involved in wedding planning. But, there are many out there who are looking to wedding planning as a fun career. Wedding planning is a stressful, organized, detailed process that requires someone with experience and, not required but good, education. Why is it important to hire an experienced Wedding Planner?

• Your Wedding Planner has relationships created with vendors in your area and work with these vendors in the budget for your wedding. Sometimes, not always, vendors that the planner references many times, will offer discount to their brides because they are working with a planner. So many times I hear vendors say how much they love working with planners.
• We can help you determine how to best use your budget and maximize what you have to spend. Many times there are ways that you can cut costs, but may not realize.
• Working with a planner minimizes your stress of dealing with all the small, tedious details, and allows you to enjoy the process that many people only experience once.
• Wedding Planners do the legwork for you, the emailing and calling, so that you can continue with all the things that keep you busy.
• Find a wedding planner that has experience. Whether it is references, a portfolio, education, a membership with Event Planner Associations like ABC or ISES, these show the work that your planner has done on their own. There is a lot involved in creating a flawless wedding day and experience allows for the ability to think on your feet, learn from previous situations, and provide you with the utmost knowledge.
• We become one of your best friends! We are someone that you talk to many times, email with, and spend so much time with during a short period of time. We're here to make this an easy process and an enjoyable time for you!

Allow A Delightful Day Event Planning to show you how to enjoy this wedding planning process. Happy Planning!

Bridal Show Success

Thanks so much to so many of you for stopping by the Delightful Day booth at Weddings: The Bridal Show this past weekend! We had such a blast getting to know brides with so many different dates. Surprisingly, there were a lot of brides with Fall and Spring dates coming to the show. I would have figured a lot of Summer brides were visiting in a frenzy! Our booth was boosting with spring filled color! We had so many compliments and pictures taken! It was as very simple design with a lot of inexpensive elements. We wanted to share some pictures with you from our show booth. Hope you enjoy!

Here's a fun pic of us gals right below the brides began to arrive. We love our new shirts that are very professional looking, but we went through fire to get them. Loooonnnnnggg Story!

Our booth featured a small scale candy bar that was a fave! So many bride's were interested in the set up. A Delightful Day offers rental of the apothocary jars and authentic scoops to brides who are planning or day of clients. Our rental is much more affordable than going out and buying each individual jar and scoop, which can really rack up a bill.

Our booth featured fun, spring colors like hot pink, chartruese, purple, and orange. Our natural chivari chairs were rented from Classic rentals and the linens were provided by BBJ Linen. My fave!

Here's a close up of the tablescape with Limes and Tulips as our feature elements. A Tall arrangement highlighted with small julip cup size arrangements maximizes great space without spending a much. We used our excess limes as our place card holders which was a HUGE hit! Programs and menu design was provided by Amber Housley from her own wedding.

Our cute sign in table with our giveaways. We did a bridal magazine subscription, a bridal emergency kit for the wedding, and a thank you card gift set. Those that won will be receiving them in the mail this week.

These incredible prints were made for us by one of our favorite photographers, Dove Photography, who used details from two of our weddings to showcase what A Delightful Day does for our clients.

One more overall booth photo!

Thanks so much to those of you who stopped by the booth. Look for an email in your inbox or a phone call shortly. Remember, those who call and schedule a free consultation and sign a contract for your event by January 31st, will be receiving $100 of their package! Thanks again and Happy Planning!

A Wedding Whirlwind

  I will never forget the hurried and frantic call of a mother of the bride looking for a planner for her daughter. Tina had told me every wedding planner she had called to plan a wedding in two months, the weekend after Christmas, for her daughter had laughed at her. I said, I"m up for the challenge. So the planning whirlwind began for Tina and I as Darcie, the bride, was in the process of selling her house, making decisions for a wedding, packing her things to move to Alabama directly after the wedding for her military life she was marrying into. Darcie and Kyle were engaged and married in a 3 month span of time. Kyle is in the military studying to fly helicopters and was going to be moving to Alabama. Darcie didn't want to spend any time away from him, thus the two month wedding planning began. This proves that planning a wedding can be done in two months, even one for 190 guests! Here are some beautiful photos by Mary Claire Crow for you to enjoy!

This, among all the other incredible florals, was created by the talented and might I add savy, florist Steve McLellan with Garden Delights in Franklin. I can't say anything but good things working with Steve. This was my first time and I will be calling him many times over.

The beautiful bride posing for a picture in her dress from Faccio bridal in Cool Springs. There's nothing like ordering a wedding gown with less than 2 months to spare.

Darcie's father, Mr. Thompson, gave her such a sweet gift as she was preparing to walk down the aisle. It is always so sweet to see the father's give their daughter's, especially only daughters, a gift to remember the day by.

Darcie's something borrowed were her gorgeous shoes that were given to her to use by a close family friend. Even cuter was that they were pink!

A wonderfully unique shot by Mary Claire.

This was the moment we were telling the both of them to breathe and enjoy the moment. I have to agree with Mary Claire in her blog that I only wonder what Mr. Thompson is thinking! Right before Darcie walked down the aisle, we had a little issue with the ringbearer not wanting to walk down the aisle because his boutonniere fell off. So I had to the middle of the aisle walk down and put it back on so he would keep going without throwing a fit. Grandpa had to come and escort him the rest of the way! You never know what's going to happen with kids.

A post ceremony pic of the Newlyweds enjoying a kiss while waiting to exit the church.

The pic that Darcie requested from day one: A rose petal exit! She got what she wanted and such happiness is portrayed in this picture. They were taken away in a Classic White Jaguar provided by Matchless Limo.

The reception took place at City Hall, a music venue in the Gulch that does wedding receptions as well. It's an incredibly great space with which you have lots of decor options. The entrance was draped and drawn back like a curtain so as guests walked in they were brought in to a gorgeous reception space. The incredible draping was created by Draping Designs and lighting was by a vendor who works frequently with City Hall, TechWorks. Mary Claire said that she overheard one of the valet's that evening say that he had never seen City Hall look so beautiful! Before the guests were ushered over to City Hall to begin eating from the stations, the guests had a cocktail hour next door at BarTwenty3. The food was tremendous, provided by A Dream Come True Catering, and kudos goes to Craig Morris for a wonderfully manage catered event. The guests took part in a chef-manned Quesadilla station, Sushi, Mashed Potatoes Martini station, Jamacian station as the main course, Fondue station to have with their cake, and Espresso station. After dinner, guests had a blast taking a swing around the dance floor with music provided by Excite Party Band from Atlanta. 

Darcie and Kyle had such a fun first dance to a Garth Brooks song, one of kyle's favorites, sung by a close family friend.

The incredibly beautiful cake was created by Amy Richardson at The Bake Shoppe. It was made of 6 different flavors with white chocolate cigarettes lining the outside. Ummmm!!!

This was a beautiful photo taken while Darcie and Kyle were having a cocktail alone before they were announced.

This was a fun pic of Darcie and Kyle taking a go at the Photobooth they had set up for their guests favor. A Guestbook was created by the photos of the guests, they created a message to them next to their pictures, and then the guests took home the photos as well. The line was long all night long! It was huge hit care of Photobooth Nashville.

After a couple of cigars with his groomsmen, Darcie and Kyle caught a pic with Amber and I before departing in their limo to the Hermitage Hotel. It was such a wonderful experience creating this day for Kyle and Darcie. Best Wishes on their lives in Alabama! 

   

A Riverside Romance

Tatiana and Freddie have such a fun relationship and one that has taken a lot of care and nuturing. When you saw them together they were two peas in a pod and what Tatiana had been looking for. Their wedding was on December 21st, thankfully in between two rainy days, outside tented on their side lawn. The ceremony took place in their beautiful log cabin that backs up to the river and is quietly secluded. Tatiana and Freddie invited about 70 of their closest friends and family, many from New York and California to partake of this special occasion. I wanted to share some photos of the day with you.

The beautiful programs, in her Gold color scheme, were created by Cynthia Rheins of Invitations Galore and More.

Tatiana looked beautiful following the stairs down to the living room during her Processional in her elegant Monique Lhuillier gown "Monet" from The Bride Room. It was created with the incredible lace that Monique is known for, and tied to the side was a gold satin ribbon with a brooch to accent.

 

This is a beautiful view from the balcony overlooking the ceremony in their intimate living room. Tatiana wanted minimal decor, with using gold, red, and royal purple, to keep away from traditional Christmas colors. It had a very regal look.

Here is a photo of The Newlyweds!

In keeping with her beautiful Gold theme, the tables were decorated with Gold branches, that were strung with Crystals, and a crystal mongram "F" standing for the bride and groom's new last name together. These beautiful centerpieces were accented with white Bishon tablecloths that have a very rich look and each table was centered by a large gold chinese lantern. The incredible decor was designed by one of my favorites, Rhonda Patton Designs, who is very innovative and looks to fashion and design for her creations.

This was the adorable, creative kids table that Rhonda invented with the help of Tatiana's daughter, Arianna. It featured her favorite color, purple, which was an accent color for the wedding. Candies of all types decorated the table with chinese to go boxes for the children to fill up with treats. It was a huge hit with the kiddies!

 

This gorgeous setting was the backdrop for the entire day! Tatiana and Freddie, thanks for letting A Delightful Day be apart of a beautiful uniting. Here's to many years and blessings together!

Darcie + Kyle Sneak Peek!

We're running around getting ready for the Bridal Show this weekend, but first wanted to congratulate and give you a glimpse at the beautiful winter wedding of Darcie & Kyle from last Saturday!

More photos to come!