#TemptationTuesday - "You've Got To Coordinate!"

 This week we're focusing our ‪#‎TemptationTuesday‬, ‪#‎ThirstyThursday‬ & ‪#‎SavvySaturday‬ attention on the gorgeously modern design of a wedding featured in WedLuxe Magazine.
 
As you know, each week on Tuesday we tempt you with a luxury design, that makes your current wedding decor look like someone raided the neighborhood hoarder's bathroom! Ouch, now that's nasty LMBO! After we tempt you with fabulous-ness, we quench your thirst to get that design with tips on Thursday. By Saturday, you're completely hooked! That's when we reel you in with savvy pricing on our rentals and service!

 

So this week, we're dangling bait from an uber modern and ultra chic wedding. Its simplicity is captivating, yet its beauty is stylishly mind blowing! Oh be still our hearts, where do we begin!

The first step in any great wedding decor design is coordination! Coordination is key to pulling off any design, because it is so important to uphold the integrity of your idea from beginning to end. All weddings should have the following coordinated: the Save the Dates, the Invitations, the Ceremony decor, the Ceremony Programs, the Cocktail Hour food & beverages has to fit the setting you've created. And then finally, the Reception is a brilliant orchestra of all of these elements coming together to take your guests' breath away.

If you didn't see our posts from Tuesday, check out the full gallery from this wedding. From the invitations to the dessert table, everything is amazingly coordinated. Check it out at http://wedluxe.com/a-modern-black-tie-wedding-from-our-cur…/

Today we're going to look at the reception decor. Let's first view how well the black, white, and gold color scheme are elegantly put together. Love the black linens! Most venues offer white or ivory linens with their standard wedding banquet packages. But it never hurts to ask the question! Inquire about black linens. If they try to charge you more for them, say "foe-geeeet-about-et" in your coolest native New Yorker accent! LMBO! Hire Simple Elegance to provide you with inexpensive black overlays for your table. Overlays are cheaper than full linens and will still provide you with the base to continue re-creating this design.

Next, we love how the designer used mirrored decor to capture the natural light of the wedding's venue, without being over the top fussy. We may not have mirrored decor, but we've got glass! Glass does the same thing! Our small square vases are perfect for the low centerpieces with white flowers illustrated in this picture. Our tealight candle holders are a perfect match to theirs! And gold chargers, yea, we got that too! We can also create this exquisite tall centerpiece using more glass vases and silk orchids. If you've been following us, you know we are advocates for cutting your floral bill down to nothing by using silks instead of live flowers. How can you go wrong? You're getting a gorgeous finished product and saving money! Talk about beauty AND brains!

We know you love this! We know you want it! So inbox us at info@mysimpleelegance.com today, and GET IT!

#TemptationTuesday - "Natural Elements"

This week's ‪#‎TemptationTuesday‬ design brings a new design feature to the table, natural elements. As you can guess, this design must have had a budget with it's own zip code! They spent a fortune on these centerpiece trees and other high end decor.

Let's bring it down to a more reasonable budget that we can work with!

For that WOW factor and natural element, use Manzanita Branches as your centerpieces. They can be purchased in bulk online, but before you put them in your shopping cart, make sure the website you're buying them from has chemically treated them for insect prevention. How horrible would that be! Alot of unwanted guests would be coming for dinner!!!

Manzanita Branches can be placed as stand alones on the table, potted, or weighed down in a vase. When I made that Wishing Tree in 2012, I potted them and weighed them down with floral styrofoam & clear marbles. If you're a DIYer, then do what's best for your budget. But why bother, hire a decorator like us to do it for you!

The rest of the design can be fulfilled with just one wave of our magic wand..making all your dreams come true! We've got Ivory chair sashes, crystal candle holders, and silver chargers! And we love to create floral arrangements and menu cards!

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#TemptationTuesday - "David Tutera"

This week's ‪#‎TemptationTuesday‬ design is from the fabulous David Tutera. We might have viewed this design briefly in the past because we absolutely adore it, but never as a #TemptationTuesday feature. So let's get to work on how you can achieve it for your wedding, at a price you can afford!

First, this design screams Simple Elegance!!! How else can all of the design elements come together fast, inexpensively, and with just one vendor???

Okay so last week we talked about the pros & cons of having a tented event. Tented weddings are always gorgeous, but come with a heavy price tag. If your venue is doing a tented wedding for you, great! If it's been a wish of yours for forever, then we know a rental company who can make a tent happen for you, and we're happy to help you plan the logistics. But if your wallet just can't hang with the big boys, then have no fear....our Arch and Fabric are here! LMBO!

First, rent our durable Ceremony Arch. We'll set it up for you, then decorate it with beautiful fabric to replicate this design. In fact, we have everything you'll need to get this design-on-a-dime!
Rent our Pillars, our small Unity Candle Table, Uplighting and Chair Sashes! Then hire us to create beautiful rose balls using amazing silk flowers that are a fraction of the cost of live flowers; but look just as fabulous!

It's just that simple! Check out our website at http://www.mysimpleelegance.com to see all we have to offer. We really are a one-stop-shop wedding service!

The Joys and Pains of Tented Weddings

Tents range in size and style; and in function. If you're planning a ceremony outside and fear the weather, tents can be erected to serve as temporary cover. They can also be used to prevent the elements from getting into the appetizers being served during your cocktail hour. And last, tents can be so large that they have to be built to house a room full of guests; dance floor included!

The pros and cons of using Tents:

Pros:
Instant allure! Your guests will be giddy from the anticipation of walking into a tent. Its a unique location usually decorated with nothing but the best. Very high class, very luxurious.
Allows you the benefit of having your wedding anywhere you want. As long as there's level ground, you can have a tent!
Its not some out of date banquet hall room. When you rent a tent, you usually have a budget that allows you the ability to bring in anything and everything you want. A tent is basically an empty canvas, awaiting your masterpiece to come alive.

Cons:
Renting tents is very expensive depending upon how large your reception is going to be. Because they range in size and style, tents could cost you anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
And after you've spent the money to rent the tent, you have to furnish it! Everything must be brought in...tables, chairs, lighting, dinnerware, generators, decorations, draping, dance floor, and even restrooms! So tented weddings are not readily affordable unless your budget is well over the $50,000 mark.
Tents take time to be installed, anywhere from a few hours for smaller set ups; to 12 plus hours for more elaborate designs! Then once installed, set aside atleast a few more hours for teardown. Crazy!!!
Extreme weather conditions also are a factor. High winds and lightning are not your best friends when it comes to tents.


So in closing, tents are crazy, sexy, cool...yet pricey, labor intensive, and potentially dangerous if not installed properly. Evaluate your budget and the type of guests that are attending. Make sure a tented wedding are right for you and them!

#TemptationTuesday - "Pretty In Pink"

Its time to quench your thirst on how to get this pretty in pink design for your wedding or next celebration.

Okay so as you all know by now, I focus on budget and design-on-a-dime tactics to maximize dollars and decor. And although the ghost chairs and table in this design are amazing....they are just not economically feasible to rent at $10.00 and up per chair, if you're on a budget! I usually try not to dowse a bride's dream, but if she's on a budget, forego the ghost chairs and tables...we can make whatever the venue has work!

On to the positive! This is what we CAN do in this design! We can ask the venue to set up in the trendy family style seating. We can recreate the acrylic box that acts as the table runner in this design. As your decorator, I would have you purchase acrylic boxes in bulk at wholesale prices or select the acrylic cube boxes that are sold at your local craft store depending upon your budget, and fill them with gemstones and LED floralytes to match your wedding colors. I would line the tables with them and surround them with our square glass vases; filled with gorgeous white silk flowers.

Then you can also rent our stemmed tealight candle holders that are an exact match to those in the design. Substitute the clear glass charger plates and rent our silver chargers, and you just scored a professional design for less than you would have expected!

Put the final touches on this design by asking your Cake Vendor to make mini naked cakes for each of your guests. Wait, haven't you heard????? Not only are mini cakes a trend, because they save on wasted cake and guests feel like you've personalized the cakes just for them; but a newer hotter trend are NAKED cakes!

Yes, naked cakes! Basically a naked cake is an unfrosted cake. The layers are put together using a little frosting, but the entire outside of the cake is left untouched. The cake topper or flowers decorate the outside for an elegant finish.

So in short, you can achieve this design by renting from Simple Elegance, and by hiring a fabulous Cake Vendor! We happen to know a few, give us a call! http://www.mysimpleelegance.com/

Design On A Dime Series - Preston Bailey #4

Next up on tweaking celebrity planner Preston Bailey's designs for a working man's budget...is this simply lovely white and gold tablescape.

Our crystal candle holders and our excellent decorating and floral arranging skills! Done!

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Design On A Dime Series - Square Vases

Our square vases, LED floralytes, and again, our work with silk flowers! What?!
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Nuff said.