Unveiled Wedding Events Blog

The Wedding Guys® were on the Get Married show on Saturday, January 16, 2010.

Check out the video clip to see the latest tips about ruffles!

Tune in to Get Married on the WeTV channel on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:30AM CST as The Wedding Guys are featured in a segment to talk about chandeliers and their amazing use for weddings. Whether the chandeliers are used to light the aisle for your dramatic entrance or hung from a tree in the evening with a glowing warmth in the sunset, chandeliers can enhance any wedding with a bright vision. If you want to take it a step further use them on your guest tables as centerpieces….just remember the bulbs do radiate warmth not only a glow at the table.

We hope you enjoy the segment.

The Wedding Guys!

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For many brides planning their wedding, they initially think of the reception. So get ready to put it in reverse and start at the ceremony. Instead of having your guests arrive at the ceremony and quickly ushered to their seats with program in hand, design the start of your wedding with impact right from the start – ‘the ceremony’. Remember you don’t have to wait until the reception to bring in flowers and decor.

Make the start of your wedding ceremony with an impact statement sure to greet your guests and tantalize their senses.

To demonstrate the look we would envision for the entrance to a wedding ceremony, we would like to introduce Heath Alan Ray, the creative director of Jackson Durham in Atlanta, Georgia. We met Heath in Atlanta last month when we traveled to speak at The Wedding Party by Atlanta Weddings Magazine, which took place at the stunning Georgian Terrace Hotel. Heath totally rocked his studio space at the show with this stunning floral arrangement including hydrangea, roses, tea roses, tulips, and large stunning stems of Phaleanopsis orchids. A truly stunning statement! BRAVO!

This arrangement would make a stunning entrance to a wedding ceremony. You could have this arrangement displayed on a 48 inch round table with an elegant specialty linen. The guest book could also be placed here for your guests to sign and write their sentiments. To enhance the entrance area you may want to add candles to create a warm glow, select a string quartet or harpist performing, a very romantic and fresh vision.

So many people ask how we develop our creative for our national show tour ‘Unveiled’ THE Ultimate Wedding Planning Event or for our Signature Weddings we design for select clients. I will tell you a little secret; it came from something I used in journalism and creative writing classes while I attended college. It’s called ‘Branching’.

Branching is all about taking a main idea and ‘branching’ off from the main idea with supportive details for the ‘main idea’. This is also a great way to get out of a ‘writers block’ or when you need to creatively think of a way to solve a problem. It’s clearly not that difficult and it helps to make sure you are covering all the details and aspects of your design.

Branching – To branch out, write your main idea at the bottom of the page ie trunk or roots of the tree. Above it, list your sub-categories supporting the main ideas. Then, branching off to the left and right, listing details of these sub-categories. See the example below; being creative about a daisy or peacock and it’s many uses and how you can incorporate this into your creative process.

Monique Lhuillier 2010 Spring Collection Trunk Show
January 14-16, 2010

We had the distinct pleasure of not only attending the fashion show for Monique Lhuillier’s Fall 2010 Bridal Fashion Show but also a private showing in New York City. The runway fashion show was a walk in a winter wonderland with her Fall 2010 bridal collection. With dresses fit for a mystical bridal winter fantasy, the designer created a series of breathtaking silhouettes. This season Lhuillier created feminine drama with corset tops and sheer bustier, but the classic styles with stunning lush fabrics and detailing ala ‘MoniqueSophistication’ unmatched by any other designer for a truly pure bridal vision.

So now is your time for an up close and personal look at the new collection for Spring 2010 by Monique Lhuillier. We will be there to see them again! Wouldn’t miss them for anything in the world!

All ABOUT RUFFLES! – Get Married Show & The Wedding Guys®
Tune in to GET MARRIED on Saturday, January 16, 2010 as The Wedding Guys give tips on the latest craze – RUFFLES FOR WEDDINGS! Check your local cable listings for an airtime near you!

For some of us who remember the old Ruffles Potato Chip commercial, ‘Ruffles Have Ridges’, we love to see the reinvented use of the ruffle in not just wedding gowns but also in wedding decor. For brides who are planning their wedding – ruffles are one of the hottest trends and bigger than ever. Initially it was the romantic flare of the gown by adding ruffles to the skirt or a one-shoulder bodice or a way to incorporate the jacket into a frilly bolero jacket for that strapless gown. This very flirty and feminine silhouette has now inspired other aspects of the wedding from the invitation, cake and yes even chair-back covers.

At first like with many detailed aspects of the wedding a bride will want to have them everywhere. However like any good thing, too much is a bad thing. So our advice is to look at your overall wedding vision and see how you can introduce the ruffle aspect into your design but as on a gown a ruffle is best used as an enhancement not a blanket treatment. Look at each stage of the wedding and develop one area that will be strengthened by the use of ruffles, if ruffles are ‘you’ as like other things, they are not for everyone.

Ceremony:
Chair Back Covers for the parents and bride and groom’s chairs.
Chair Back Covers for the first chair in each row next to the aisle.
Chair Back Covers for every chair in the last row on each side of the aisle.
Flower Girls look adorable in ruffled dresses.
Ruffled cabbage leaf in a bouquet.

Reception:
Ruffled gift table or cake table.
Ruffled table linens.
Ruffled chair covers.
If cost is an issue reserve the ruffled chair back covers for the head table and the parents or family tables.

The ruffled chair cover image shown in the blog is from the Chameleon Chair Collection by visiting http://www.chameleonchair.com

We recently commissioned Hest and Kramer – a Minneapolis based music-production company to write a jingle for our 2010 commercials! Bob Hest and Steve Kramer have been working together in this capacity for nearly 21 years and before that were in a band together.

Hest and Kramer have written those catchy jingles for the most high profile companies. To name a few: DreamWorks, Samsung, Kohl’s, Buick, JC Penny’s, Target, MTV, Porsche, Starbucks and Toyota! Hest and Kramer are known for their creative and strategic ability to infuse brands with signature music that resonates with consumers, their work has received many honors, including induction into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

We look forward to working with Bob Hest and Steve Kramer to develop the perfect spots for Unveiled, so STAY TUNED – literally!

New York Fashion Week
It’s a city known for its fashions, designers with trend forward visions. There is a lot of hustle the bustle, bright lights, flashing cameras from the ultimate fashion magazines around the world focused on the ultimate catwalk. It’s a sea and flurry of tulle, organza, satin, taffeta, lace and crystals. Designer assistants dashing to make last minute alterations or substitutions, retouches of make-up in a cloud of hair spray. The lighting technicians are counting the minutes to go dark for the start of the show and then – 3, 2, 1 – Queue lights, stand by music, queue music, stand by model… and go –

Welcome to Fashion Week for the Couture Bridal Market in New York City!

The Wedding Guys® Matthew Trettel and Bruce Vassar had the ultimate once in a lifetime fashion experience. They produced the Wedding TrendSpot Press Fashion Show during the couture bridal market in New York City. It’s such a rush to be able to feature the up and coming wedding gown designers and have them recognized as the designers to watch by Darcy Miller, Editor of Martha Stewart Weddings and the cast of ‘Say Yes To The Dress’ at Kleinfeld Bridal Salon in Manhattan not to mention the onslaught of international media and paparazzi at the end of the runway.

Our Wedding TrendSpot Press Fashion Show was never a dull moment behind the stage as models sprinted back from the runway over and over, unzipping their dresses and diving into the next one, all while wearing 5-inch heels! Fifteen designers’ collections were showcased in the high-energy fast paced runway show. These girls rocked it!

And a huge, huge thank you to the designers:
Alisa Benay Bridal Couture, ARIA Dress, Casablanca Bridal, Toni Federici, AKAY Bridal, Pixton Couture Bridal, Katerina Bocci, Valena Valentina, AcQuachiara, Augusta Jones, Karen Hendrix Couture, Beth Elis, Jorge Manuel; shoes by Matrinez Valero and a big thank you to Debra Moreland from Debra Moreland is Paris in the finale whose accessories were featured on gowns from Edgardo Bonilla, Angel Sanchez, Ines Di Santo, Badgley Mischka, Junko Yoshioka, Amsale, Rivini, Anne Barge, Monique Lhuillier, Lela Rose, Romona Keveza and Oscar de la Renta.

A very big thank you to Paul Newland at Solvara.com for sharing some of his great show photos with us.