Tag Archives: Sierra Madre

Well-loved wedding vendors

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A friend I met through my friend Belinda got married on July 4 in a cloud of hot pink flowers and decorations, and when I mentioned I’d love to do a blog post on her wedding, she sent me a huge list of testimonials for her wedding vendors. LOL. If only all brides were so enthusiastic!

Villa del Sol D’Oro in Sierra Madre, gussied up for a wedding

Susie and Chris had a beautiful, all-in-one location wedding in Sierra Madre. Most of the pictures I will include here will be from my friend Belinda, but I did lift one from Susie’s Facebook page, which features her (now) husband. After the jump, the following is all Susie, with a few formatting and copy editing changes from me.

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Guest table centerpieces from real weddings

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One of the things I think sets this blog apart from other wedding sites and definitely from wedding magazines and those oh-so-addictive wedding shows is that I like to show pictures of real people’s weddings. A lot of the photos I’ve shown have been from weddings I’ve decorated myself, while others have been pictures I’ve found on Flickr or have picked up from friends. It’s sort of like attending a bunch of weddings in one blog post.

Photo by Belinda Long Ivey

This wedding was attended on July 4th by my houseguest and friend, Belinda, at Villa Del Sol d’Oro in Sierra Madre. (They have a terrible website.) Susie, the bride, adores pink so all the decorating touches had touches of hot pink. The cute little centerpieces by Casa Blanca Flower Shop were bowl vases, holding what appears to be hot pink, blooming Colombian roses, which have huge blooms. You don’t have to use roses for this kind of centerpiece, of course — gerber daisies, lisianthus, peonies (which can be more expensive than roses, depending on the season), ranunculus, and, what I would use — stargazer lilies — would totally work. But they wouldn’t be fully pink, but still gorgeous.

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