Christmas Entertaining on a Budget

The holiday season is in full swing, and though the spirit is jolly, it certainly helps to have cost effective ways to celebrate the holidays.  Marley Majcher is The Party Goddess and she offers some fabulously creative suggestions on keeping merry while keeping green in your pocket.
9 Great Christmas Entertaining Ideas While Staying On A [...]

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Cathy & Gregg’s Ebell Wedding

When Uyen at Sassy Girl called us with a bride and groom looking for that extra “wow!” not only in the venue, but also in the cuisine, I was honored and delighted that she thought of The Ebell of Los Angeles.  We had worked with Uyen in the creation of Ursula & Mark’s wedding incorporating [...]

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Couture Bridal Workshop Tomorrow Night

Join us tomorrow night – we are going to discuss “Choosing the Perfect Wedding Venue” in addition to “Planning a Flawless Wedding” and “What is the Perfect Gown?“
Full information, address, sponsors etc. available here.
“See you there!”

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Guest Speaker at Couture Bride Workshop

This is going to be fantastic — Jeannie Ward (wedding planner extraordinaire of Wedding Jeannie) and Alina Pizzano (designer of couture wedding gowns and owner of Alina Pizzano Couture) have launched their monthly workshop series “The Couture Bride Workshop” and have asked me to be their guest at the next workshop!
We are going to discuss [...]

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Wedding Planning Workshop with Wedding Jeannie

We are very excited to hear about Wedding Planner Jeannie Ward’s newest venture.  Jeannie worked closely with the Ebell recently during KTLA & Wedding Wires “I Do Redo” Contest as well as the Your Wedding Day Magazine Issue Release & Industry Party, and we will be collaborating again in her new Couture Bride Workshops!
In conjunction [...]

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Menu cards via Amber Events

Wedding and Event Planner, Amber Gustafson of Amber Events, recently posted a fantastic (and very witty) blog post about menu cards.
Ah, menu cards.  So pretty, and yet… Well, I’ll let Amber do the talking – take a look at her post on thoughts on Menu Cards as a design element (and you’ll see my thoughts [...]

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Candles & Specialty Lighting

At The Ebell of Los Angeles, we find that candles add a romantic glow to weddings and receptions and an elegance to dinner parties and cocktail hours.  We are also a historic location, and do require the Fire Marshall to issue a permit in order to approve the use of candles.  Although it is an [...]

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Beyond Wedding Photography

I’m always delighted to see a break from the norm.  Now, “normal” certainly has its place – what are traditions if not “normal” being done over and over again to the delight and comfort of generations??  And what is a wedding without a photographer??  (begs the question “if a tree falls in the forest and [...]

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Stacey & Michael’s Wedding

I continue to be enchanted by a photographer’s ability to foresee an image.  By “foresee” I mean being able to detect (or is it calculate? Maybe its artistic instinct?  Imagination?  Maybe all of these!)  the angles/ lighting/ moments that will make for a beautiful image; being able to see something more than the rest of [...]

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Design Visage Hair Accessories

Design Visage, known throughout Southern California as the premiere providers of extraordinary hair & makeup for brides and their bridal parties, has launched Bridal Mode, wedding accessories.  The focus is on hair accents: combs, clips, tiaras, with pearls, crystals, feather…there are so many styles, got giddy just looking at ‘em!  Here are just a few [...]

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