Fall In Love With: Marry Me Productions

If you are getting married in Ottawa, chances are you have heard about wedding planner Stacey Price of Marry Me Productions, whose work has been featured in Wedlux,Style Me Pretty, Ottawa Wedding Magazine, Rich Bride Poor Bride and more. We have had the opportunity to ask Marry Me Productions a few questions and are pleased to be featuring them today for our vendor review…

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Fall In Love With: Brittany Knapp Floral and Event Design

As most of you have heard, we announced recently that Brittany Knapp of Brittany Knapp Floral and Event Design has joined the Satin & Snowflakes team as an Editorial Partner. We are thrilled to have her talent and expertise on the team and we will be working together to introduce some amazing new concepts to the site. One of the major concentrations of Satin & Snowflakes is to feature local Ottawa vendors in a way that will give our brides some insight about who they are, what they do, and why we love them. Brittany is a very talented Florist here in Ottawa and is also an event planner, and as part of her introduction to Satin & Snowflakes and our readers, we wanted to showcase her company. Brittany, welcome to Satin & Snowflakes!…

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The Truth About Wedding Planners, by Shannon Kennedy of Kennedy Event Planning

Brides, let me tell you a little secret. Hiring a wedding planner isn’t a luxury expense for couples with big budgets - they will SAVE you money! Yes, you heard me right. Changing the misconception that wedding planners are meant for couples with big budgets is one of the major challenges the industry faces, and I want to help. Satin & Snowflakes is very pleased to be featuring our favorite wedding planner in the city,Shannon Kennedy of Kennedy Event Planning (on the right next to one of her beautiful designs for an Ottawa wedding show). I’ve already featured a wedding that she planned here, and can’t wait to share with you what she has in store for 2012.

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Fall In Love With: The Cupcake Lounge

We are very pleased to be featuring The Cupcake Lounge, located in the Byward Market. With ingredients like Argentinian dulce de leche, Madagascar bourbon vanilla cake, and spiced chai tea cakes, these cupcakes are truly unique. They are unlike anything you’ve ever had before. They sell over 40 different flavours of cupcakes throughout the retail year and 12 different flavours every day, ad they are the best cupcakes I’ve ever had! They have many favourites including: Chocolate Chocolate; Key Lime, Lemon Coconut, Red Velvet; Strawberry, and Vanilla Vanilla. Claudia, the baker, is originally from Mexico and incorporates her experiences into her cupcakes, and her husband tells us more here…

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Fall In Love With: myWedding RSVP

We have fallen in love with myWedding RSVP, a creative and modern alternative to traditional paper-based RSVP services. Husband and wife team Lisa & Ryan Johnson, Ottawa-based web designers, tell us about the benefits of online RSVP’s and why they work for every bride. I am personally a huge fan of Lisa & Ryan’s site – it makes the RSVP process simplistic, inexpensive, accesible, easy on your guests, environmentally friendly, and honestly it’s really  convenient. I think it’s much more practical than the traditional RSVP, and it’s so pretty! Lisa tells us about her experience planning her own wedding and the complications that she had with RSVP’s, and her awesome resolution.

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Wed By Hand: Ottawa’s Indie Wedding Show

Having previously attended a number of wedding shows in Ottawa, I have found that they are generally of the same mould.  This wedding show was different. They had entirely unique vendors with incredible visions. Each vendor was an inspiration for me, and showed me that Ottawa has some incredibletalent and vision. “Wed By Hand is Ottawa’s DIY, handmade and eco-friendly wedding show. We’re your one stop shop for discovering unique wedding vendors, learning how to DIY your wedding and to sample tasty treats from small-batch food producers”. (see part 2 of the article here)…

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Food for Though: Tulips & Maple’s Spring “Catertaining” Event

I received an invitation last month to Tulips & Maple‘s Spring “Catertaining” Event – a showcase of the Ottawa catering company’s latest and greatest and an opportunity for them to get feedback from those of us in the industry. With my man in tow, we made our way to their facilities on Merivale Road, which is actually a very chic reception venue, and had our fingers crossed! Let me tell you, I’ve never seen anything like it before.  (Make sure you check out part 2 to this article here - Blair Gable’s photography is much better than mine).