Showing posts with label Food Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Love. Show all posts

Monday

What are we up to this week?


Dec 30 | Ushering out the Old and bringing in the New  | by Cynthia
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We are just hours away from the New Year!  We thought that we would take today to reflect on the 2013 year and all its fabulousness!  Here are some of our favorite weddings and pictures from each of our companies that we love from this soon-to-be gone year.

1. We love Flowers and had so much fun creating fresh blooms for each of our clients.


 
2. Our Rental Company, www.vintageloverentals.com took off in a way that
even we didn't imagine! It keeps our hearts in love to see couples
using our vintage "goodies" in creative ways for their events!
 

 
  
 3. Our wedding planning company, Special Events, LLC helped to plan
hundreds of weddings in 2013. We confess that we think we have the
greatest brides in the world and love their styles!
 
 
 
 
 
4.  Our sister company, Food Love made its debut this year.  They style
fabulous dessert buffets, late night snacks and social hour nibbles all
while using creative furniture and food choices.
 








5.  UBetts Rental and Design is a full service rental company renting everything from tables and chairs to tents and lighting.
 
 
 
6. The Preferred Bridal Shows keep us in the know across the state, meeting talented vendors and excited Brides & Grooms looking for help planning their weddings.
 
 
7.  WeddingsinIowa.com is Iowa's most trusted online wedding resource.  The Preferred Wedding Book has over 14,000 unique visitors a month, using the site to search for professional service providers who understand their wedding style.  We work with amazingly talented people who love the business and the work that they do.
8.  Happily Accepts is our newest endeavor.  We are super excited about our
launching this creative business: RSVP's and personalized Stationery. 
From Escort Cards to Menus, to Programs, Napkins Bands, Favors, Invitations
and more, we are excited to be working with brides in helping them find
that just-right-style to express their individuality.
 

 
 
As we look forward to another new beginning, we have much to be thankful for.  Our sweet, excited clients; loyal, valuable vendors and most of all my staff that works tirelessly day to day to create wonderful events.  They keep me going, bring me coffee when I don't think I can keep my eyes open, make me laugh, cry, re-imagine when I don't have any brain power left, and remind me above all that I do what I love to do every single day!  It doesn't get much better than that.
 
Good Bye, 2013- we will miss you!
Happy New Year, 2014 - Watch out for us, we are doing great things!   
 

Thursday

Jasper Winery Photo Shoot

We LOVE weddings!  Plain and simple. But what are designers to do when they have lots of ideas running around in their heads and no wedding to decorate for with those ideas?  Why....you style a Photo Shoot which is exactly what we did at Jasper Winery last month.  We had so much fun with talented Aaron Thomas - our photographer, Pure Bridal - our wonderful fashion expert and Peri Baldwin Strong - our own expert photo shoot stylist who put it all together.
Barring the sun setting in the wrong place [how dare it!],  long shadows getting in the way, the wind blowing feathers to who knows where, running here and there to make sure the details were perfect, we think that the afternoon went by way too fast - that happens when you are having fun!

We have lots of pictures and don't want to spoil you all at once, so we will tease you with these. We are absolutely in love with the plaid and pheasant feather theme!






 
 
Meet our talented team members .....
 
Photographer | Photos By Aaron Thomas
Venue | Jasper Winery
Bridal Gowns & Accessories | Pure Bridal
Desserts | Scratch Cupcakery
Dessert Display Setup | Food Love  
Stationary | Happily Accepts 
Design | Peri Baldwin Strong & Cynthia Betts – design stylists for Special Events, LLC and Weddings In Iowa -  Peri@weddingsiniowa.com
 


 

Tuesday

Wedding Inspirations | S'mores Bar

With the Jasper Winery Preferred Bridal Show coming up in just a few short days, we can't stop thinking about all the yummy sweets that will be there! Scratch will of course be bringing a delicious selection of their mouth-watering cupcakes and there will also be hot chocolate and wine tastings from Jasper Winery. Food Love will be helping us set up a gourmet s'mores bar that we couldn't be more ecstatic about! 

Today, we will leave with you a little s'mores bar inspiration. We hope you will join us at the show to see and enjoy our very own gourmet s'mores bar! We think you're going to love it!

The Preferred Bridal Show at Jasper Winery will be from 12-3 this Sunday, October 27. There will be some amazing vendors to help you plan big day, prizes every half hour, look books, tons of wedding inspiration and so much more! We do hope you will be joining us for a fabulous afternoon! Find more details and a complete vendor list here and to click here to pre-register for the show. 


xoxo,
Ashley

Monday

Bridal Show Happenings | Jasper Winery

If you are in the Des Moines area this Sunday, we would love for you to join us at The Preferred Bridal Show at Jasper Winery from noon to 3pm. We have a lot of wonderful things planned for this show including goodie bags for the first 50 brides, prizes every 1/2 hour, a grand prize giveaway, amazing vendors, look books to inspire and so much more! Jasper Winery will be providing wine tastings while Food Love is setting up a delicious gourmet s'mores bar with hot apple cider. As always, Scratch Cupcakery will be bringing an assortment of scrumptious cupcakes for you to enjoy! We are so, so, so excited for this show!

Click here to pre-register for the show. If you don't already, follow The Preferred Bridal Show on Facebook!


Show Sponsors Include:

Happily Accepts
Food Love

Participating Vendors Include:


Jasper Winery

xoxo,
Ashley






Preferred Bridal Shows | Ames

Yesterday was The Preferred Bridal Show in Ames at the Quality Inn & Suites. We had an amazing time with over 350 attendees that braved the chilly weather, some of Iowa's most talented vendors, and gorgeous decor provided by Special Events, LLC and cynwhd b. designs.  Everyone was treated to sinful desserts and beverages from Scratch CupcakeryDutch Oven Bakery and  Food Love, Iowa's newest Foodie Company.
Pure Bridal treated us to a gorgeous fashion show.  They even gave one lucky lady a free wedding gown! We are so excited for her and know she will look fabulous on her wedding day!
A big thank you goes out to all of the wonderful vendors [click here to see who came] and brides that came out to the show!

Our next Preferred Bridal Show will be at Jasper Winery on Sunday, October 27 from 12-3. You may find more information and details here! We hope you will join us!


















 xoxo,
Ashley