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Like many of you, I spend an awful lot of my free time looking at wedding blogs. There’s something about those wedding photo’s and the fabulous design teams behind each of them that brings a warmth to my heart. On my personal computer, I save any photo I see that gives me that feeling. It may be a photo of a basket of cherries or a tire swing over a lake but it makes me think of the carefree summers of childhood.
Recently, I decided to sort through some of the hundreds of saved photo’s on my personal computer and categorize them. And since so many of them are of wedding details, I thought I would share some with you.
Today, I compiled some of my favourite wedding cakes. In looking at these, I realize that while each cake is different they definitely have similar characteristics. I can see that I personally like a cake that is a little bit understated, but not forgettable. I love a cake that has that fresh home baked look to it but I also like a cake that’s timeless and classic.
So here are my personal favourites!
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Kendra
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Its okay brides, you can admit it – you wish you could plan your wedding all over again!
You’re not the only one…
Firefly Occasions was created because CEO, Ciara Daykin, LOVED planning her own wedding.
After years of experience and dedication to her company, Ciara is sharing the business essentials you need to become a successful wedding planner.
You can learn about this list of MUST HAVE, Wedding Planner Business Essentials (and how much they cost) from the original Rockstar Wedding Planner herself, Ciara Daykin!
And guess what? It’s FREE!
Ciara welcomes you to join her on Tuesday June 14th from 6-9pm for a FREE, no cost seminar. In only 3 hours, you will learn what you MUST have to start, grow, and maintain a successful planning business.
And if you want to be a wedding planner, there’s no time like NOW. Ciara is on the hunt for wedding planners to join Firefly Occasions. You could be the next Firefly! She’ll give you all the details at this event.
This seminar will be in HIGH DEMAND and seats are limited.
3 hours packed of wedding knowledge and networking with Firefly Occasions CEO, Ciara Daykin for FREE? It’s a no brainer!
All we ask is that you call 1-800-791-5636 ext 701 or email katie@fireflyoccasions.com by June 10th with a credit card ready to secure your spot with a $20 no show deposit.
Don’t worry! This means that a crisp $20 dollar bill will be waiting for you upon check-in because learning Ciara’s secrets is too good to pass up!
This is a rare opportunity to learn from Ciara in person. Her current coaching programs for wedding planners are between $8,500- $50,000. But the cost of this seminar is $0!
To make this an even more exciting experience the first 10 want- to- be- planners to register will receive reserved front row seats at the event. (Reserved seats will be released 5 minutes before the seminar begins so don’t be late!)
Firefly Occasions has thoroughly enjoyed hosting the viewing of the Royal Wedding in Calgary at the Glencoe Club. As guests watched the last few minutes of the wedding, we interviewed them on their favorite parts, highlights and surprises!
As for the official viewing at the Glencoe, we had great success in Calgary. We were very happy to see many of our guests in their hats and finest attire. We would like to give a special thank you to Frocks for showcasing beautiful gowns, to the Glencoe Club for helping us host the event, to Alan Maudie Photography for taking photos, to Flower Artistry for supplying the flowers, to Plush Invitations for supplying the stationary, to XL 103.5, CTV, Metro News, Global TV and 660 News for media coverage, and most importantly, to our guests who woke up at an early hour to join us in celebrating the beautiful marriage of the royal couple.
The Royal Wedding is less than an hour away! Kendra, Kylene and CEO, Ciara Daykin, speak on what they are most excited to see as Firefly Occasions hosts the live viewing at the Glencoe in #YYC.
Firefly Occasions Inc. is an international event planning company specializing in Haute Couture Weddings and Luxurious Event Design. We have gained recognition nationwide winning awards such as the Wedding Industry of Canada’s, Best Ceremony Décor and have been published in numerous publications.
Learn from the best with internationally recognized Wedding Planning Coach, Ciara Daykin, as your CEO and mentor.
Firefly Occasions Inc. is now looking to fill our highly saught after Spring/Summer internship position within our downtown Calgary location. This internship with Firefly Occasions Inc. will run from May through July and is an unpaid position. This could be your chance at a new career with Calgary’s premiere wedding planning agency.
Please send your resume and cover letter to our Wedding Division Manager, Kendra McGillivray at kendra@fireflyoccasions.com before 6:00pm on April 20
th 2011.
You’ve been swooning about Vera Wang ever since you were a teen. Vera has dressed famous brides such as Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton. The WHITE Collection by Vera Wang is officially available since February 11, at David’s Bridal!
Ladies this means that you can now own your very own Vera! – No more dreaming!
Stores currently have sizes 0-14 and will soon have up to size 26. Lucky for your lovely ladies, bridesmaid’s dresses and shoes will also soon be available.
Pieces of the collection will range from $600 – $1,400. Don’t be fooled by the name, the wedding dresses also come in blush, and ivory and soft white. As always, the dresses are ultra feminine with luxurious layers textures, beads, tulle, organza, lace and silhouettes.
The dresses have been a long time in the making. Oprah showcased samples on her show early in September, five months before the announcement was made.
These dresses are impossibly beautiful! – But we don’t need to tell you that, check out our links below for yourself!
P.S. July and August brides! -The dresses take at least 5 months to be ordered, giving you little time to get it altered…… but wait, -“You don’t alter Vera to fit you, -you alter yourself to fit Vera.” – Kate Hudson
Take a peek at these beauties below on the David’s Bridal website:
http://www.davidsbridal.com/Browse_White-by-Vera-Wang
Firefly Occasions Inc. is an international event planning company specializing in Haute Couture Weddings and Luxurious Event Design. We have gained recognition nationwide winning awards such as the Wedding Industry of Canada’s, Best Ceremony Décor and have been published in numerous publications.
Learn from the best with internationally recognized Wedding Planning Coach, Ciara Daykin, as your CEO and mentor.
Firefly Occasions Inc. is now looking to fill our highly saught after Winter internship positions within our downtown Calgary location. Winter internships with Firefly Occasions Inc. run from mid-February through May and are unpaid positions. This could be your chance at a new career with Calgary’s premiere wedding planning agency.
Please send your resume and cover letter to our Wedding Division Manager, Kendra McGillivray at kendra@fireflyoccasions.com before 6:00pm on Wednesday February 16th 2011.
The little ring bearer won’t walk, it’s starting to rain, your bridesmaid is feeling sick, and the best man is drunk. Of course these things won’t all happen on your wedding day. Remember not to sweat the small things because little things are bound to happen. Relax and remember it’s all part of your special day. It will be a funny story. The day will go on and you will still get married. Everything will still go as planned.
Be 100 per cent present and allow yourself to foster positive thinking.
Avoid snowball thinking or what-ifs. One bad thought leads to another, leading to another until you’ve created a snowball. Stop at your first sign of stress.
Realize that not everything is an emergency and that mistakes aren’t all bad, they make life real and exciting.
I once attended a wedding where the bride slipped as she set foot on a small set of stairs immediately after her father walked her down the isle. Her fiancé was ready to take her hand. Instead, he caught her in the knick of time, saved her from falling and gently carried her in his arms all the way up the stairs to the alter. All the guests gasped and thought it was adorable. It was so precious and romantic and one of the most memorable ceremony moments!
One of our favorite way to WOW wedding guests is by the music. Music sets the mood and the overall atmosphere of the wedding. Music will determine whether or not your guests will mingle in the seating area or hit the dance floor. We love when couples play unexpected and unconventional music. Chances are, if you love the song, so will everyone else! Play a one hit wonder that was popular when you met. Play an old romantic song that your grandparents listened to. Play a top forty song to get the party going. Play a song in a different language just for fun!
A band hired to play soft jazz music during dinner is always impressive. At one Firefly Wedding we had Italian opera singers dressed as waiters. They unexpectedly started singing during dinner. They sang an old Italian folk song that the bride always heard from her grandfather as a little girl. The opera singers got a standing ovation as everyone was shocked and awed.
One of our favorite WOW factors is the excitement of dancing the night away with friends, family and of course your new husband or wife!
Firefly Occasions Inc. is an international event planning company specializing in Haute Couture Weddings and Luxurious Event Design. We have gained recognition nationwide winning awards such as the Wedding Industry of Canada’s Best Ceremony Décor. Firefly Occasions Inc. has been published in numerous bridal publications.
Learn from the best with internationally recognized Wedding Planning Coach, Ciara Daykin, as your CEO and mentor.
Firefly Occasions Inc. is now looking to fill our highly saught after winter 2011 internship positions within our
new downtown Calgary location. Winter internships with Firefly Occasions Inc. run from mid- January through April and are unpaid positions. This could be your chance at a new career with Calgary’s premiere wedding planning agency.
Please send your resume and cover letter to our Wedding Division Manager, Kendra Scott at
kendra@fireflyoccasions.com before 6:00 p.m. on Thursday January 6th 2011.
“How to always love your wedding! “
When your wedding is over it’s important to still love your wedding regardless of what other people are saying and doing for years to come.
Wedding décor, styles, and fashions will always change and more and more people will always get married.
When planning your wedding, make it personal and sentimental. You can do this and still have haute couture design. Don’t try to re-create a carbon copy of a friend’s wedding that was popular. Chose those tall tower vase centerpieces and hanging crystals because YOU love them and because they say something about your personality. Don’t choose them because they’re the signature style of 2011.
Choose wedding décor, a dress, menu items and an overall theme that speaks to you, as a couple. You won’t care if next years wedding theme is blue and silver while you chose orange and white at your wedding since orange represents the first day you and your husband met at the beach in Orange County years ago. Get the idea? Stay true to you and you will always love your wedding, as it will be dear to your heart for years to come.
Photo Credit: F8 Photography
“Remember You Once Loved Your Wedding”
Your wedding day is now but a wonderful memory of the best day of your life. You have all the photos and find yourself reminiscing over them before you fall asleep each night. Perhaps you were one of the first of your family or social group to walk down the aisle, so that means you will have many more wedding days to attend to, as a guest.
As the trends change and new ideas fly out of the box, it is a natural reaction to find yourself comparing and maybe even feeling a little jealous at all of the upcoming weddings you will attend and how they are so different (but not better) from yours.
But beautiful ladies, remember you picked everything for your wedding because it was YOUR wedding and you fell in love with all the ideas and the colors and the trends. Remember the feelings of awe and the complete high that you were on throughout your day as it was everything you could have dreamed of and more.
Instead of comparing your wedding to the others that you will attend (the good and the bad) and be courteous to the fact that there are so many factors that determine a wedding design and celebration such as budget and general taste. While you may be in awe of the wedding that you are attending after yours, engaging in negative comparison will only make you start to regret your wedding day and all the effort that you put into it.
It is easy to compare because you at one time thought that your wedding is the best of the best and that is completely true. Your wedding was a visual masterpiece of your ideas and that is all that matters. Your wedding was the one day that you got to do everything your way and you did it that way because it is truly what you wanted and felt, which is and always will be a priceless emotion.
Photo Credit: F8 Photography
“How to make the best of a bad situation so you can always love your wedding”
If you’ve listened to Ciara’s DIY Wedding Planning System you would have heard her tell a story about the horrible florist they hired for their wedding. Apparently the florist drove the whole way out to Banff without putting the flowers in water. It was a super hot day and the flowers were all completely wilting.
Most couples spend a lot of money on their flowers so it’s understandable that this would cause upset on the day of your wedding. The thing to remember is that the only thing that really matters on this day is that you are being married. You want to look back on the day with fond memories.
Ciara was able to see that and when her bridesmaids asked her if they could throw their bouquets away before the reception had even started, she told them to go down to the river and take the photographer with them so the photographer could capture them tossing their bouquets into the river. You have to admit, that’s not a photo that many brides would get to have.
As it turns out, that’s Ciara’s favourite wedding photo! So what began as a downfall to an amazing day was able to be turned into something that now will give her great pleasure for the rest of her life. Everytime she’s sees that photo she’ll always think about how much she loves it.
Photo Credit: www.fireflyoccasions.com
“What is Post Nuptial Depression?”
Postnuptial Depression is not uncommon. It is a feeling of “the blues” and let down in the months following your wedding day and the glitz and glamour of the wedding have settled and you and your new husband have re-entered your normal lives. Some brides find themselves obsessing and trying to re-live their wedding day that they will start letting their marriage suffer because they can’t step out of the “bride” and into the “wife”. Others might start to recognize that the expectations they had for one another post wedding are unrealistic which can lead to tension and regret. Realizing that there is actually a marriage after the wedding is very hard for some couples to grasp, as they get caught up in the planning of the wedding.
After the vows, to defeat the postnuptial blues you and your new hubby should take some time to wind down from the wedding day. Make sure you get adequate rest and exercise things always seem worse when you are exhausted. The key to a healthy relationship is communication so be sure to communicate constantly, especially if you have just moved in together after the wedding. Just because the wedding is over doesn’t mean that you have to enter into a boring marriage, in fact it is quite the opposite. Focus on the benefits of marriage, like having a built-in support system and start thinking about the future in terms of starting a family, building your dream home or taking that amazing vacation together. There are so many other important milestones in your life where you get to be the center of attention again, so look forward to those but for now, just enjoy being the new Mrs.
Photo Credit: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1861028,00.html
