Monograms - a great way to make your event look sophisticated!

I love the use of monograms - whether as a bright design on your dance floor - a little reminder on your cocktail napkins or even a beautiful swirly designed letters on your invitation - whatever the case may be . . . monograms are an absolutely lovely way to sophisticate your event!

One of my brides this past weekend Sonia was open minded when I suggested we have have monogram labels made to enhance her favors - she also has some on her cake topper, and her dance floor and her menu cards - all in all everthing looked well put together!

See above for the menu and below for the monogram all designed by yours truly ;-).

Don't be so afraid of a little color!

See below for some unique color pallets.When I was in India - especially when I was on a train from Delhi to Punjab I saw the most beautiful rural moments - four women walking into a water basin to clean clothes - each one wearing the most beautiful colored dupata (scarf) on her head each one in different colors. It was a beautiful sight to withhold - I realized how many colors that are unique can go together to create the most perfect event. So Don't be so Afraid of color - weddings no longer have to be white or red and Maroon, they can be fun and beautified by color!

Iphones go Weddings!

I love my Iphone - even though it runs out of batteries in three hours and sometimes goes blank for no apparent reason which scares me until I hook it up to a computer and walla it starts working again.

As in any relationship - its a bit temper metal. That being said - I just discovered that Iphone Applications have gone Weddings. One is a funny planner that predicts things for the future (hey an organizer that's also psychic- how can you go wrong ;-)).

The Second is a countdown to the wedding - you probably don't need a countdown - but it might be helpful with Anniversaries and Grooms for the future!

The Cutest Indian/Bollywood Bride Ever!

The Bollywood Bride from www.workingbrides.com


This year I have had the oportunity to work with several Wedding Planners! I love wedding planner- for the most part the mature experienced ones make a wedding detailed and organized and make sure the bride feels like she isn't working on her wedding day! (thats important)

One wedding planner I worked with a few times this year was Trisha Cranor from WorkingBrides.com. Since we have a few weddings coming up this year - I was curious to see what her website looked like - and I saw the cutest Bollywood Bride ever - absolutely adorable. Take a look above.

Arti and Gautum Wedding Update Part 3

Looks like an Old Bollywood Movie. All images are copyrighted and taken by the talented

Jenn Link (http://www.jennlinkphotography.com/)

Ok, I have seen a lot of engagement shots in the time I have been decorating for Partyland Flowers and I have to say I have never seen engagements shots that were so like the couple -


Arti and Gautum are a bollywood movie - they stroll through the side walks singing to each other in yes can you believe it - Hindi .... and have a romantic view on everything - when I saw these pictures taken by Jenn Link I was impressed - I can't imagine images that personify this couple better!

I have to say I am in love with the on a date pictures!

Arti and Gautum Wedding Part 2

As you may have read to my delight a Partyland Flowers & Event Decor kid is getting married - which also means I get to have my way in everything ;-).

Ok thats not completely true - brides will be brides even when they are related - but that being said I have been very lucky that Arti and Gautum have let me have my way in a few things.

One thing I always tell couples are to put inspiration boards together - even if we don't get everything into the board at least your designer has an idea of what your vision is - there is nothing more grand then getting your vision to become reality. Seeing little details that you love at your wedding it makes everything so much more exciting. See above and below for the inspiration colors and board I designed for the future Mrs. Anand from some of my favorite designers.

Maheens Wedding - a fairy tale come true!

all images above are copyrighted by Rahil Calcuttawala

Maheen came to me last year and honored me when she entrusted me with her wedding - it was very exciting for me to meet a bride who wanted a different kind of wedding as much as I did. So we built her a completely custom stage decor just for her wedding with pieces being made in Morocco and wholesale things being shipped from Australia - it was an exciting venture.

Maheen recently emailed me saying "You guys did a wonderful job - so much more then I could have ever imagined" with a few fun pictures below and above - Maheen made a beautiful Princess Bride - with a Handsome Prince Groom - something truely out of a fairy tale.

Traveling!

Below is an image of a zen moment for me.

Ok, I am finally back to being normal and getting my life back after one month of traveling from Paris to Delhi to Punjab back to Delhi only to go home three days later on a fourteen hour flight. The day I landed I packed up again for a week trip to Pheonix Arizona where I earned my Wedding MBA ;-), only to come back and go to VA Beach to check out a location for one of my favorite 2009 weddings! What a crazy month its been - I have to say its nice to be back home ;) completely inspired for the end of the year weddings and for one more year of amazing weddings!

Going to India is always amazing to me every year seems to be another year of traveling - the fusion of culture is so prominent - like my design style- a moment of fusion clarity was when I was each sushi on the streets of Delhi - the ironies just never end.

The Anti-Wedding Planners ;-)

One brave couple let two intrepid Washongton Post Magazine reporters plan their nuptials.

Yesterday my cousin Neha the youngest of the PF&ED kids forwarded me this Washington article about two Post Writers who set out to slay the Wedding Industrial Complex (that would include me ;-))

The article was so funny it made my sides hurt - it was a much needed laugh I needed in the middle of the busiest wedding week of the year!

I recommend every bride to read this for a few laughs when things are getting tough in wedding world.

A few of my favorite quotes are below -

"So, we run an ad in Express, the Post-owned commuter freebie, looking for couples. It begins like this:
We hate weddings. Let us plan yours (free). "

"One couple wants motorized toilet-bowl-scooter racing as reception entertainment. Our hearts race, too. But they also want to spend $20,000. They get flushed. "

"One bride-to-be is proud she has scored a $200 wedding gown. Great! But it's still . . . a gown. Next! "

For the rest read below -

The Anti-Wedding By Caitlin Gibson and Rachel Manteuffel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082901905.html?referrer=emailarticle

YAY - The PF&ED Elephant is Famous!

Oh My WOW - today I was reading one of my favorite blogs LotusHaus which I haven't had a chance to do in a few weeks . . . anyhow, low and behold the PF&ED Elephant from our Gallary was featured in the blog as a good idea for Indian Weddings!

Check it out (its at the bottom)

http://lotushaus.typepad.com/lotushaus/2008/08/globalflora-an-indian-summer-on-demand.html

Real Wedding Inspiration Board!

The Partyland Version of Mehans Wedding Below

All Images above copyrighted by Matt Mendelsohn

Mehans Inspiration Board

A few blogs ago I talked about how helpful to a decorator making an inspiration board really is.
One of my brides in particular Mehan created one expressing her vision through pictures. I really like to think we got her style down to a T and it was all because of her efforts in creating this wonderful inspiration board.
All the images above were taken by a very talented photogpraher Matt Mendelsohn (http://mattmendelsohn.com/)!

A PF&ED Kid is Getting Married Part1!

Copyright by Arti Singhal

First of all - I have been very bad when it comes to my blog - so I want to send out an apology - wedding season simply took over my life this year, I promise to try to get better at maintaining it in the future.
Second - Partyland has been in existence since I was a tiny kindergartner but I wasn't the only Partyland kid who's wedding job was to make petals (it used to take me an hour with one rose - now I'm down to 5 seconds), there are four more kids who were also involved... all of us with our own specialities. Anywho, my cousin Arti is getting married in November and yours truly has taken over the wedding decor!
Chosing colors and design and inventing a brand new mandap just for this wedding has been very enjoyable ;-). That being said - I am not the only Partylander who's grown up with a sense of design so has Arti - with her mother being an Architect and her aunt (my mom) being a florist, Arti has grown up to be an extraordinary graphic designer!
As such she has designed her own invitations that are absolutely beautiful! After her wedding she plans to design other wedding folks invites as well, and let me say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree - her talent is obvious from her designs!