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Melody Brandon, Long Beach, CA Vendor: Baker Website: Sweet and Saucy Shop About Me: Sweet & Saucy Shop is a dessert studio that specializes in cakes, cookies, and cupcakes, as well as many other goodies that taste as good as they look. Our new bakery storefront will be up and running within the next two months!

Wedding Reception Photos

July 21st, 2009 @ 10:35 am by Melody @ Sweet and Saucy Shop

I catered a wedding for 200 people. I didn't do the full meal, but rather the appetizers and the cake…which was definitely enough for me. The bride and groom's colors were dark chocolate brown and turquoise. They wanted a chocolate ganache covered cake with chocolate cake inside and chocolate ganache filling and fresh strawberries -can you say yummy! They also wanted to cut the cost a little so we did a smaller size wedding cake with two other kinds of sheet cakes. The other two kinds of cake were almond cake with lemon cream and fresh raspberry filling and lemon cream cheese frosting and hazelnut cake with raspberry cream cheese frosting with fresh raspberries and raspberry buttercream. So without further ado here are some photos of the cake.

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Kate Parker, New Hampshire Vendor: Wedding Planner Website: Kate Parker Weddings About Me: Kate Parker is the owner of Kate Parker Weddings, a wedding planning and floral and event design studio located on the Seacoast of NH. KPW specializes in simple and sophisticated weddings throughout New England and New York and also provides lighting services, paper products, custom out of town welcome baskets and music entertainment. Kate loves to work with as many details as possible- ribbon banding, monograms, favor tags etc to make each wedding unique and fabulous! She lives in Somersworth, NH with her husband Ryan, son Zachary, and chihuahua Lola. Although she doesn't have much free time, Kate loves to travel, read a good book, and entertain for close friends.

What You Need to Know About a Tented Reception

May 14th, 2009 @ 8:31 am by Kate Parker @ Kate Parker Weddings

Every once in a while I get a request from a bride about an outdoor wedding, and she says she doesn't like or want a tent. My first response is usually “are you from the West Coast?” as many weddings happen successfully without tents in California, where the weather is much more predictable. This got me thinking about tents in general, so I thought I would share some of our favorite tent photos as well as some insight into tents.

In no particular order…

1. If you’re having an outdoor wedding, you always need a tent, no matter what time of year you're getting married.

2. You should plan on getting the next size up in your tent if you are planning for an outside ceremony or cocktail hour. If it starts to rain, you can always have the ceremony in one section of the tent and wall off the reception area with some fabric. This is a very cost effective way to ensure a rain plan.

3. If you can afford it, floor your tent. There's nothing worse than a guest ruining their shoes in the grass, or dealing with uneven surfaces to place your tables. Not only will your guests appreciate sitting or standing on an even surface, but your florist will love you even more because they'll be placing centerpieces on level tables. There's nothing quite like a tall centerpiece leaning to one side filled with water and flowers….yikes.

4. A tent is a completely blank canvas, so you can add design elements as you please, without worrying about the space dictating your color scheme. There are lots of design elements that will add to a tent, such as:

uplighting and washing the ceiling with LEDs
addition of a fabric liner or chiffon panels to soften the ceiling and make the space more intimate
chiffon side tent panels to soften the perimeter of the tent
addition of lights to the poles in a number of different ways

Photos by KPW
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