Blanca and Eric Wedding Favors

Before I forget!!!

I put favor tags on over 220 favors for Blanca and Eric's wedding, as well as assembled their invites. Its always nice to work on a client's invites and their favors and then to work with them personally on the day of their wedding. It really pays off in the end. :) 

I loved the elegance and sophistication of the simple black and white designs! Great job Monica! And well, M&Ms too! hahaha.

-xo

Eric and Blanca Wedding September 25th

So this wedding was by far the biggest job for me to date. Trini had another event to be at so she asked if I was comfortable enough to take charge of the wedding reception after the Grand Entrance of the Bride and Groom. Of course, I felt like I was able to take on said task and I did. I was even able to bring a friend along so I asked my friend Stephanie, whom everyone calls by her last name Belen, to assist me at the reception.  I was sooooo glad that she was able to come all the way from Corona to help keep me sane. There is definitely a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes of a wedding reception that the guests never really see because they aren't supposed to see it. And I was left to handle all the vendors and the bride and groom throughout the night. And there was a live band....so needless to say my voice is still recovering from yelling while trying to communicate with the photographer, videographer, and DJs. haha. Blanca looked beautiful and Eric looked so handsome. They were definitely a great couple to work with on my first solo event. They made my job that much easier, as well as the best man! He was very helpful that night. It was definitely a great group of people to work for during my first event alone. Trini was constantly checking in which was nice. And Belen was there for me to constantly explain things to which helped. Having me repeat the time line and keeping to it, and even having to push things back by minutes stressed me out. But I made it work and by the end of the night I was so proud of myself!

The wedding was at the Renaissance Hotel on East Ocean Blvd in Long Beach. I love that venue because it's right across the street from the studio and there's no way for me to get lost! haha :)

My day started off at Deanne's house to make the ceremony pieces 

and center pieces for the reception

I, personally, made all of the ceremony pieces

I always wondered how florists made those pretty

flower balls that hang from ribbons...now I know :)

  

I made 11, 10 for the Church, and 1 for the flower girl

The Bride's bouquet

The Bridesmaids bouquets

 The ballroom for the reception

The Placecard table tree

 The band was setting up

Take a look!

 Behind the Sweetheart Table

The Sweetheart Table

 The Toss Bouquet

 The Cake was beautiful!

 The ceremony pieces I made were MIA for a while

but showed up just in time for the reception!

This was definitely an event to remember for me. I enjoyed every minute of that night. And even though I was nervous, no one seemed to notice...and that's how I know I did a great job! haha. I'm definitely looking forward to the day I get to do an entire wedding by myself....until then, I'm perfectly okay with assisting, learning, and absorbing!

-xo!

Learning, learning, learning!

So Trini decided to give me more of a responsibility at weddings from now on. Which on September 18th's wedding meant I was told to line up the bridal party before they walked out to the ceremony. :) Needless to say I was pretty excited about it. Trini mentioned that we need those two way secret service walkie talkies for when we do weddings so it's easier to communicate. That would be pretty awesome, our neighbor, Henry Chen, has some. Maybe we'll test his out in the studio and see how that goes haha.


Anyways! Finally, here are the photo's from the Meza Wedding at Hotel Maya :) It was definitely a long hard day of work! But so worth it in the end. It was beautiful!

The Ceremony Area next to the waterfall

Before

The Bride made all of her own table numbers and escort

 cards with one of these craft  machines!!

After

This is the gift card cage that the Bride put all the escort cards in temporarily

But she didn't give us the key to unlock it! haha Bobby pin to the rescue!

So cute!

The Groomsmen all wore beige suits, looked classy.

The 2 flower girls had custom made dresses

to match the color theme of the wedding :)

And they carried these green umbrella-like flower arrangements

The Bridesmaids carried different colored bouquets

and the Bride's bouquet had all the colors mixed together

The cake had some flaws...but we had the bakery people 

come fix it :) I thought the cake was different, cute.

All-in-all, this was definitely a good learning experience for me at a wedding that I've worked. I was more hands on and communicated a lot more with the vendors. I'm definitely looking forward to September 25th's wedding when Trini will leave me to handle the later half of the reception on my own. I'm also looking forward to it because the reception is at the Renaissance Hotel across the street from the studio and I've done a few weddings there already and I'm familiar with a lot of the faces that work there. Until next time!

-xo