Your just-married friends adored the desert-meets-sea ambience of Cabo.
While the old adage that you get what you pay for is true, choosing a Caribbean destination and hotel has as much to do with taste and personality as it does with budget.
Candy, custom cookies, and wine stoppers are popular choices for wedding favors, but it’s always fun to break away from tradition. Spice it up with alcohol-infused wedding favors for your 21 and over guests so that they can continue the party after the reception ends. These mini bottles and liquor-filled chocolates will give your friends and family a treat with a kick.
Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Vodka
Mini bottles of Pearl Wedding Cake Vodka couldn’t be more perfect. The sweet liquor serves as a reminder of your wonderful wedding. Dress up the bottles with mini veils and bowties from shopluxco.com or a craft store, making a bride and groom pair for guests to take home.
Chocolate or Vanilla Cake Vodka with Personalized Labels
Hanging paper lanterns and strands of cafe lights create a warm glow in this rustic reception space.
Dessert tables are a fan fave at weddings. Guests not only get to satisfy their sweet tooth longings but they can also take delight in the visually beautiful displays and the wide variety of treats.
Here’s a nifty idea from Kelven Book, event planner at NYC-based catering company, Canard, Inc.: Instead of a separate table for your sweets, why not let your drinks bar do double-duty as your dessert table? While everyone is seated during the dinner, the bar can be re-configured to include all of the yummy desserts. When guests go back to the bar for more cocktails, they’ll be treated to a stunning display of mouth-watering sweets. Your bartenders can also offer cordials to pair with each dessert selection for an extra dose of wow.
Take a look at these amazing dessert displays from Canard, Inc.
This table features parfaits of Armagnac cheesecake mousse, lemon and blueberry compote and clove shortbread crumbs garnished with a candied lemon wheel. Other treats include dark chocolate pot de crème with whipped cream, blueberry and raspberry and lemon tartlets and miniature s’mores.
These pretty glass plates feature double fudge brownies, mini vanilla bean cupcakes with buttercream icing and mini German Chocolate cupcakes.
Bride Kathleen Baldwin tied the knot last Saturday in her ultimate fantasy gown: Vera Wang’s “Gemma” (the same style worn by actress Hilary Duff at her wedding). Wang describes this mermaid as “the perfect storm”—bands of tulle wrapped around the body like a swirling cyclone, ending in deconstructed, abstract blossoms featuring hundreds of scattered sequins. Naturally, Baldwin looked (and felt) beautiful in the dress, but as she walked down the aisle, it actually didn’t belong to her anymore.
Baldwin is part of a growing number of brides who are pre-selling their wedding gown. She sold it on PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com, a top-rated listing service that connects buyers and sellers of wedding gowns (there's over 10,500 to choose from). According to founder Josie Daga, a used gown that is less than three years old can fetch half the original retail price, but because pre-sell dresses tend to be the most desirable styles (costing $5,000+), they sell for as much as 70-80 percent.
She first noticed the trend back in 2010 with Vera Wang’s coveted “Audrey,” but now brides are putting their gowns up for sale much earlier than in the past. “A few years ago, a bride might list her gown for sale 3-4 months after the wedding. Now, we see brides who’ve got their dresses posted before they’ve even left for their honeymoon,” said Daga.
Make your centerpieces pop by choosing a contrasting color for uplighting!