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Lauren and John… a classic and timeless couple for a classic wedding and venue!! Lauren and John quickly picked Minikahda Club for their wedding reception after they were engaged. It was the perfect spot for their 120 guest wedding reception on a chilly November day! Lauren loved flowers and had an eye for detail. Sadie’s Couture Flowers and Events transformed the ballroom with tons of textured florals in unique lilac and greenery hues. Printerette Press tied everything together with the simple and classic wedding invitation and the whismy and unique illustration they drew for the save the date and day of stationery! One of the final details we put on decor was ordering Macaroon Favors.  LADURÉE was a favorite of the bride and grooms and the color of the macaroon perfectly matched Minikahda Club’s charger plates!

Congratulations John and Lauren and thank you for letting me be apart of your big day!!!!

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator: Lasting Impressions Weddings

Floral – Sadie’s Couture Flowers and Events

Hair and Makeup-Primped

Cake –  Farina

Ceremony and Cocktail Music-Lake String Quartet

Rental Items  – Linen Effects

Ceremony  – OUR LADY OF GRACE

Transportation – Renees Royal Valet

DJ Instant Request

Ceremony Music – Lake Strings Quartet

Photography – Amanda Marie Studio

Reception Venue – Minikahda Club

Stationery – Printerette Press

Macaroon Favors – LADURÉE

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It’s Spring and wedding season is upon us (Or hopefully coming soon!!!!) I wanted to share one of the most fun weddings I planned last year! Jennifer and Kyle’s Summer Interlachen Country Club wedding!!! Jen and Kyle started planning what would have been a pretty “traditional wedding” and then I got the call one day from Jen asking what my thoughts were on a little bit more of an unconventional wedding. She wanted to have a smaller ceremony that included just family and close friends and then she wanted to have a really fun wedding reception at Interlachen Country Club.  I loved the idea and I love the idea of doing anything different!!!

Unique elements that we included were different sized tables throughout the reception to give more of a cocktail reception flow. AMPLE food stations including a raw bar, sliders, and fries, a chef created pasta station, tons of different desserts and SO much more!!! As the guests were bouncing between stations they were entertained by Rocket Man Dueling Pianos, which was a great touch for another unique element!

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator: Lasting Impressions Weddings

Hair and Makeup-Primped

Transportation – Renees Royal Valet

Lighting – Instant Request

Photography – Amanda Nippoldt

Rental Items  – Linen Effects

Ceremony Site – Church of St. Patrick – Edina

Reception Site – Interlachen Country Club

Dueling Pianos – Rock It Man

Invitations – A Milestone Paper 

Oh I am so happy to be blogging again!! We are just wrapping up the busy wedding season and what a BEAUTIFUL wedding season it has been!! I can not wait to show you everything that we have done!!!! One of my favorites (I have so many favorites this year!!) Has to be Kaley and Matt’s Pink Ombre Wedding!! I love this wedding because Kaley was not afraid to take chances.. she put all of her trust in our team of vendors and it worked!!! It was blingy, pink and exactly Kaley (and Matt was just fine with that !)
I was So excited to work with Todd from Bungalow Six. This man is amazing.. his imagination does some pretty amazing things!!! And all of this was captured by the amazing Maribeth from Red Ribbon Studios!!! Every vendor for this wedding was amazing and helped to create a VERY memorable day!!

Vendors:
Wedding Coordination: Lasting Impressions Weddings
Invitations and all Stationary: Paperista
Ceremony and Reception Venue: Calhoun Beach Club
Photography: Red Ribbon Studio
Videography:Princess Bride
Dress: Kleinfields
Cake: Gateaux
Ceremony Music and Reception Music: Belladiva
Event Designer: Bungalow 6
Floral : Just Bloomed
Transportation: Renees Royal Valet
Photobooth: The Traveling Photobooth
Hair and Makeup: Fivetwo Six Salon

Megan and Drew ….Where do I start, I absolutely loved helping them plan their wedding!!!! First of all, look at their smiles that go EAR to EAR and you can tell that their wedding day was just one step in their adventure together!

They began planning last fall, a few moments after they were engaged! Luckily for me, I had already met Megan when I planned her cousin’s wedding years earlier and I was ecstatic to get the call from Megan to see if I was available!   Lauren and Megan were some of the most organized and stylish brides I have ever worked with, and the similarities I saw in each of them made the process so much fun!

Not only did I love that Megan was SO organized . But I also adored the way that her and Drew looked at each other and worked with each other in the planning of the wedding. They really wanted a wedding-focused around their love and the love of all of their friends and family! Additionally, they had both been in a lot of weddings, so when we were trying to find a venue for their reception we quickly narrowed down the options. Luckily for us, Loring Social had just started to book weddings for the summer and fall of 2017 and we knew immediately it would be a great fit for the wedding they were envisioning.

Loring Social’s decor is very clean and modern, so we decided to use long tables to maximize our guest count and use pops of bright colors to warm up the space. Geometric shapes played a big part of the stationery design and we wanted to include that look and feel in the centerpieces as well. The look worked great with the modern space.  There were also numerous personal touches to the wedding. Megan and her bridesmaids got ready at her grandmother’s home, which was a tradition in the family. Megan and Drew left the church in Megan’s Grandparents classic car.  And Cookies and Milk Boxes were delivered to the tables for dessert… a personal favorite of the grooms!

Congratulations Megan and Drew… Working with you was such a JOY!!

Vendors

Wedding Coordinator –  Lasting Impressions Weddings

Ceremony Site – Our Lady of Victory Chapel

Reception Site- Loring Social

Catering- Damico Catering

Photography- Matt Lien

Videography- Make Your Name

Band –Blue Water Kings

Hair and Makeup- Primped

Stationery – Paper Rock Scissors

Transportation –Renees Royal Valet

Floral- Sadie’s Couture Flowers and Events

Rental Items – Apres Party

Dress- The White Room

 

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Like so many other Minnesotan’s “Going Up North” is not just a fun summer vacation, but it is really an escape from the hustle and bustle of life. That is exactly what Erin and Ross’s wedding felt like to me! Even though out of town weddings pose a lot of additional challenges for wedding vendors, I jumped at the chance to be apart of Erin and Ross’s intimate wedding celebration at Madden’s on Gull Lake.

Erin’s family has had a cabin on Gull Lake all of her life and she really wanted to share the love of the lake with all of her guests. Erin and Ross were also traveling for this destination wedding from Texas, so most of our planning was done in marathon planning sessions and lots and lots of emails 🙂

Their wedding day was one of the most beautiful days of the summer and with the help of all of our amazing vendors that traveled many miles to help with this wedding…It was a picture perfect day on the lake!!!!

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator Lasting Impressions Weddings

Venue  – Madden’s on Gull Lake

Photography- Graddy Photography

Videography – Landon Oldenburger

DJ – Instant Request DJ

Ceremony Musicians – Billy Mclauglin

Floral – Sadie’s Couture Flowers and Events

Rental Items – Apres Party and Tent Rental

Photobooth – The Traveling Photobooth

Hair and Makeup – Brett Dorrian Artistry Studios

Stationery  – Paper Rock Scissors

Dress- l’atelier couture

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I am not sure if it is the mutual love of the lake or the fact that we are both blonde and like to talk (a lot) But from the minute I met Clare and her parents I instantly fell in love with them and I knew that the next few months planning their wedding would be a lot of fun!! Clare and Trent had been in numerous weddings while their wedding and I think that gave them a lot of ideas and direction on what vendors they liked and what decor they wanted to incorporate.

I have a lot of “favorite” parts of this wedding, but I am especially fond of the beautiful stationery products. Because the wedding venues were surrounded by Lake Minnetonka we chose to do an illustration of the lake, the Lafayette Club and the church. The illustration that was done by Cait Courneya and Paper Rock Scissors and it set the perfect tone for this wedding!

Love you lots Clare and Trent!

Vendors

Wedding Coordinator- Lasting Impressions Weddings

Ceremony Site – Wayzata Community Church

Reception Site – Lafeyette Club

Photography – Janelle Elise Photography

Videography – One:One

Band – Rock with U

Lighting – Instant Request

Floral – Sadies Floral

Rental Items – Apres Party

Hair and Makeup-Emily J

Bride Hair and Makeup – Anonby Studio – Sara Lien

Cake – Farina

Stationery – Paper Rock Scissors

Illustrations: Cait Courneya

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