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The below post received so much attention last year when I originally wrote it that I thought it warranted another appearance on the blog. Enjoy!

Many times brides and grooms ask about the need for a Day Of Wedding Coordinator when their wedding venue already provides a venue coordinator. The first responsibility of facility coordinators (church and reception site) is to the venue, not the bride and groom. These coordinators will only supervise vendors contracted through the facility. In most cases their responsibility ends when your event begins.

Sapphire Celebrations’ Day Of Wedding Coordination service begins upon contract signature. In addition to managing the rehearsal, ceremony, and reception, our service includes:

• Consultation in the planning process with up to three meetings. At the bride’s discretion these hours can be used in a variety of ways during the thirty days prior to the wedding.
• Understanding the couple’s wedding vision down to the smallest detail.
• Vendor confirmation seven days prior to event.
• Development and distribution of a detailed timeline for wedding party, family members, and vendors.
• Two contacts on the wedding day – one at the ceremony, a second at the reception.
• Delivery and set-up of special touches – guest book, signing mat, card box, favors, place cards, menu and escort cards, seating chart, chair covers, etc.
• Transportation of guest book, card box, etc. between ceremony and reception sites.
• Vendor supervision – caterer, florist, photographer, videographer, DJ, etc.
• Seamless resolution of issues as they arise, i.e. seating for unexpected guests.
• Cueing activities at scheduled times – wedding processional, food service, first dance, toasts, cake cutting, and bouquet and garter toss.
• Distribution of vendor payments and tips on wedding day.
• Securing card box contents (money) in a safe location.
• Emergency kit with more than 100 items – sewing kit, steamer, Band-Aids, pain reliever, nylons, smelling salts, stain remover, and repair kits for hair, makeup, and nails.

Yes, you could ask a family member or friend to take on these responsibilities. However, the individual responsible for reception site set-up will forgo witnessing your wedding vows. These responsibilities are best handled by a professional wedding coordinator.

Sapphire Celebrations will be at the bride’s disposal, at her beck and call; ensuring that her wedding day is everything she envisions. To ensure that the bride and groom, their family, and their friends enjoy every minute of this special occasion every couple should hire a day-of wedding coordinator.

Contact us today to set up time to talk about how we can help make your wedding vision a reality!

Photo by Lindsay B Photography

Creative Custom Card Boxes strives to create beautiful hand-made Card Boxes and  Cake Table Decor using beautiful embellishments to perfectly complement your wedding and party design!  Card Boxes are a wonderful way to personalize any event where gifts and cards are collected including but not limited to weddings, showers, Bar or Bat Mitzvah’s, Sweet 16’s, Quinceniearas, birthdays and more!

They believe that it should be affordable and easy to personalize your wedding or party.  By creating custom hand-painted, eco-friendly items, Creative Custom Card Boxes can help you to customize your event in your colors and theme!

Creative Custom Card Boxes was started when the owners was planning her own wedding and was frustrated with the gaudy, tacky or just plain expensive options available.  She finally created her own custom card box that was simple, elegant, and understated while still corresponding with her theme. Out of this project, Creative Custom Card Boxes was born!

Creative Custom Card Boxes applies the same amount of creative enthusiasm and attention to detail when crafting clients’ own unique card boxes, cake table letters, and Cake toppers. Whether your wedding is refined and traditional or as glam as it gets, they look forward to working with you to bring your exact vision to life.

Custom Card Boxes
www.creativecustomcardboxes.com

Now that we have the blog up I want to show you some photos from our previous weddings. What better couple to start with than Jennalyn and Kurt – who are celebrating their first anniversary today! I had a wonderful time helping them plan their Colorado destination wedding.

Event Details:
Venue and Catering: Arrowhead Golf Club
Photography: Picture the Day
Florist: Bella Fiori
Cake: Elegant Bakery

Happy First Anniversary Jennalyn and Kurt,
Angie Johnston
Colorado Wedding Planner

Colorado’s premier bridal salon, providing impeccable customer service to each and every bride, The Bridal Collection is a family owned store, owned by mother and daughter team GayLynn Rediger and Lynn Crandall. They carry attire for everyone in the wedding party – brides, grooms, mothers, bridesmaids, groomsmen, fathers, flower girls and guests.

The Bridal Collection regularly holds trunk shows where you can try on an extended collection of the designers’ best pieces, often being able to customize them to your every whim and get 10% off on top of it all! They carry bridal designers 2be Bridal, Alvina Valenta, Anne Barge, Elizabeth Darcy, Gavin Michaels, Isabella Chessari, Kathryn Elizabeth, Lazaro, Maggie Sottero, Pronovias; along with Grace Footwear, Paris accessories, Toni Federici veils and accessories and Winters & Rain veils and accessories.

The Bridal Collection is currently having a Sample Sale that you don’t want to miss! There are $2,000 dresses on sale for as low as $99! They even have a $5,535 dress on sale for $999 – a steal! The sale runs now through September 5, so don’t miss out on these great deals!

Check out their idea blog where they share tips, ideas, real weddings, inspiration boards and local vendor features!

The Bridal Collection
8101 East Belleview Ave.
Denver, CO 80237
(720) 493-9454
www.coloradobridalcollection.com

It is always gratifying to hear from past clients. I wanted to share a note I recently received from the Mother of the Bride from my October 6, 2007 wedding. Sapphire Celebrations enjoyed every moment of the planning process and event. The bride, groom, and their family and friends were delightful!

“Hi Angie,

I’m not sure if you remember us but you did our daughter’s Maria Dreiling, wedding in Oct. ’07. I just want to let you know that we have been to other weddings over the past 1 1/2 years and Steve & I agree that Maria’s was the best (no prejudice here!); the wedding was well organized, everyone knew what they were to do, everything went so smoothly and you seemed to be everywhere you were needed. So we just wanted to thank you again for the excellent job you did to make Maria & Michael’s wedding so memorable.

Have a good day.
Diann Dreiling”

As winter has decided to finally arrive here in Colorado, I started thinking of the amazing winter weddings we’ve done over the years. The white of the snow can make an amazing back drop for your wedding day.

Here are some of my favorite shots from a few of the weddings we’ve done.

Photography by Cayton Photography, Jenna Walker Photographers , and Creative Images.

If you pick up the current issue of Premier Bride magazine you will see one of our 2008 weddings in the Featured Weddings section.

I had so much fun working with Seren and Dave for their wedding. Theirs was a truly unique celebration!

Event Details
Ceremony – Cheesman Park Denver, CO
Reception – Space Gallery
Caterer – Gourmet Fine Catering
Florist – Evention Design Inc.
Photography - Meg Reul Photography

I am excited for the launch of our blog! It has been something that we’ve wanted to start for some time now.

On our blog you will see some of the great events we plan, learn about the other vendors we work with and other events going on around town. We will also share fun ideas that we have seen and other planning tips to help you along the way.

I hope that you will visit often and enjoy what we have to say!