Meet Vincent & Emma @ Hodsock Priory Wedding Fayre

Image: Tracey Foster Photography

We are excited to announce that Wedding Daze is exhibiting at the Hodsock Priory wedding fayre (organised by White Media) on Sunday 3rd October 2010.

''Hodsock Priory is a family home (and has been since 1765). They have spent the past year lovingly renovating the house and now have a sensational new entertaining space available to hire for private events. Whether it’s an intimate dinner for 6, a wedding for 120 or a great big bash for 500, Hodsock welcome you. There background in hospitality, entertainment, food and wine means we are well placed to host Weddings, Family Gatherings, Anniversaries, Birthday Parties, Corporate Functions and Special Events. From the minute you sweep through the archway of the Tudor Gatehouse, you will have this peaceful, secluded corner of England to yourselves. You are free to entertain your guests in an informal environment where everyone will relax. Children can run around. The party can spill outside. They invite you to bring Hodsock to life''.

Wedding Daze is a unique husband and wife planning team who offer a variety of services to help couples plan their memorable and unique wedding day. We will be on hand to discuss our venue sourcing, supplier sourcing, guest organisation, venue decoration, wedding day co-ordination service and the latest addition to our portfolio Las Vegas & California wedding planning.

To find out more about what Hodsock Priory and Wedding Daze have to offer please come along to the wedding fayre on Sunday 3rd October 2010 : 12 till 5pm.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Vincent & Emma x

Las Vegas/California Wedding Planning

Are you looking to get married in Las Vegas/California? Want an alternative kind of wedding celebration?

In addition to our current portfolio of services, Wedding Daze are now also offering to help UK couples plan their wedding in Las Vegas and California from the UK. Wedding Daze specialise in planning Las Vegas and Californian weddings from the UK. If you have decided to get married abroad but not sure where to start, then we can help you plan the wedding of your dreams.

Further information on this new service and how to enquire can be found here http://bit.ly/8Xi4dn

Alyx and Jonny's Garden Wedding Celebration - August 2010

In August we worked with the lovely Jennie Beard from Hansley Beard Event Planning and Design. Jennie asked Emma from Wedding Daze to work with her on a garden wedding reception in York, Jennie was styling and co-ordianting this wedding celebration and on the wedding day Emma was able to provide an extra pair of hands!

Jennie's blog shows the wedding in detail, a must see! Jennie's attention to detail and her design experience makes the wedding memorable and stunningly gorgeous - see part 1 and part 2. The image above is a sneak peak of the photography from Damian J Bramley.

Congratulations to Alyx and Jonny on their recent marriage - a lovely couple, we wish you many years of happiness! We also wanted to say how lovely it was to work a fellow wedding planner like Jennie. Hopefully we will get to work together on more weddings like this one in the future x

Green Wedding Dress....

After seeing a Bride wear a stunning green wedding dress and fiery red hair at this weekend's wedding, I wanted to share some other non -traditional wedding dress colours that Brides might consider wearing.

Why not make the colour of your wedding dress the theme of your wedding and use the colour throughout your ceremony and reception venue. Your choice of colour in a wedding dress will ensure a non-traditional, unique and memorable wedding celebration for you and your guests. Stand out from the crowd... has white and ivory had it's day?

Come and meet Vincent & Emma @ Wedding Daze - Hardwick Hall

We are excited to announce that Wedding Daze is exhibiting at the Hardwick Hall wedding fayre on Saturday 4th September 2010.

Why not pop along and say hello, Hardwick Hall is a stately home on the edge of the Peak District, with its dramatic location set on the hilltop between the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border.

Hardwick Hall is a spectacular Elizabethan mansion built by ‘Bess of Hardwick’, Countess of Shrewsbury. Civil ceremonies and partnerships take place in the imposing Entrance Hall, with its grand overmantel fireplace and Elizabethan tapestries. Walled courtyards enclose fine gardens, orchards and a herb garden - an idyllic location for romantic photos and an opportunity for guests to enjoy the colourful borders with a post-ceremony drinks reception and canapés, with the option of a marquee in the grounds.

Wedding Daze is a unique husband and wife planning team who offer a variety of services to help couples plan their memorable and unique wedding day. We will be on hand to discuss our venue sourcing, supplier sourcing, wedding day co-ordination service and the latest addition to our portfolio Las Vegas & California wedding planning.

To find out more about what Hardwick Hall and Wedding Daze have to offer please come along to the wedding fayre on Saturday 4^th September 2010 - 5pm till 8pm. The first fifty brides to book will get a luxury goody bag on the night!

Look forward to seeing you there.

Vincent & Emma x

Emma & Vincent - Wedding Day Part 2

Even though we had many of our close friends and family come to Las Vegas we wanted to celebrate with the rest of our friends and family in the UK.

As wedding planners we see a lot of wedding venues, we choose Aston Hall for its quirky, modern feel to the interior and exterior. The marquee made the perfect backdrop for our casino theme wedding reception – we wanted to bring Las Vegas back to the UK!

To ensure the UK reception looked as Vegas themed as possible we want to say a big thanks to Ultimate Balloon Company for providing the chair covers, sashes, and balloons to make the venue look stunning. We had so many comment on how stunning the decor was! We also decorated the interior with a life size Elvis, Las Vegas sign and decks of cards!

A big also must be given to Jon at S6 Photography who snapped away and provide us with lots of fantastic images of our day (see above)

Wedding Daze specialise in planning Las Vegas and California weddings from the UK. If you would like to tie the knot in this area but not sure where to start then Wedding Daze can help you source venues, suppliers, officants and also advice on the legal side of getting married! Make an enquiry here.

See a selection of images from our UK wedding reception above!

Emma & Vincent - Wedding Day Part 1

Regular readers of our Facebook, Twitter and blog will know Wedding Daze is run by Emma and Vincent – a unique wedding planning duo who can plan weddings and events from both the male and female point of view. We are now very excited to announce that we too are married! Woo hoo! So Wedding Daze is now run by a husband and wife team!

Here is a little info and images about our wedding, we would like to thank all the suppliers involved – their hard work and dedication made our wedding a truly fantastic event!

After a surprise proposal on the beach in Jamaica we started to plan our wedding. We wanted to combine our wedding and honeymoon and go for a quirky alternative when we decided to tie the knot. We decided that a Californian fly drive was the ideal honeymoon for us, lots of sight-seeing, beaches and culture. Then we started to look for wedding venues around that area, and the City of Las Vegas was just too tempting! For a long time we had wanted to visit the Sin City and this opportunity was too good to resist!

After lots of researching on the Internet and reading reviews, we choose the Forever Grand Wedding Chapel at the MGM Grand Hotel. We were drawn to this chapel due to the old style 1950’s glamorous feel to it, we wanted to experience the Rat Pack era of Las Vegas – stars like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardener graced the famous Las Vegas strip.

Now the venue was booked the next thing on the agenda was the dress! Due to the hot climate I decided to go for a simple dress, thanks to the staff at Hoops-a-Daisy I choose a beautiful Amanda Wyatt gown called Bermuda. This Grecian style dress was beautiful designed, with an gorgeous band of sparkles and pearls around the waist band. The dress had a huge train and the chiffon material hung beautifully. I then met Debbie from DC Bouquets at a wedding fayre and was instantly in love with her hair accessorize – after meeting with Debbie she sourced a me a beautiful vintage brooch and added feathers, pearls and sparkles to make me the most stunning hair piece – I have had so many lovely comments on Debbie stunning work! We also got a number of our items for Next, for example my wedding shoes, clutch purse and Vincent’s suit all came from there.

So we got married on Friday 9th July 2010 at the Forever Grand Wedding Chapel, we had two reading in our ceremony by two close friends. The readings were Soulmates and Recipe for Love. We would like to say a big thanks to all those who came to Las Vegas, 19 of our close friends and family came to see us get married. Another big thanks goes out to our best man, bridesmaids and flower girl for being in our wedding party! After our wedding ceremony we want to Casa Di Amore – a beautiful old style Italian restaurant just off the Las Vegas strip – the food and service here was amazing! We also had a live singer, this singer whisked you back to the era of the 1950's singing all the old Rat Pack songs (George Bugatti). Again we wanted to thank the staff here for their communication on the lead up to the wedding! We had a wedding cake from the bakery Retro Bakery – this delicious chocolate cake was decorated in orange and ivory – the colours of our wedding!

Wedding Daze specialise in planning Las Vegas and Californian weddings, if you are thinking of getting married abroad and need guidance, please find more information on our USA wedding planning here.

Watch our for part 2 of our wedding on the Wedding Daze blog - the UK wedding reception.