Wedding Concierge & Dragonridge Country Club Welcome Sasha Souza June 3, 2010

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is thrilled to be the highlighted planner for this very special event and delighted to be welcoming, along with my friends at the beautiful Dragonridge Golf and Country Club, award winning Wedding Designer and Planner, Sasha Souza.

CALLING ALL BRIDES, WEDDING AND EVENT PLANNERS!!! Don't miss the Champagne Reception and Book Signing by Sasha Souza of her latest book, Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design.

***THIS EVENT IS COMPLIMENTARY AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***

Sasha Souza Events is considered among the top event design and coordination companies in the nation. She recently took on role of Founding President of Wish Upon a Wedding, the only wedding wish granting non-profit couples facing terminal illness. Sasha is also the event planner on the Style Network TV show "Whose Wedding is it Anyways?"

At this exclusive event she will be available to sign her new book; also available for purchase. For more information, visit www.sashasouzaevents.com or call DragonRidge Concierge to confirm guard gate entrance @ 702-614-4444 between 9am-5pm.

Books may be pre-purchased @ a special 20% savings for only $40.00 prior to May 15th 2010. Books purchased after May 15th will be the regular retail price of $50.00 plus tax. *No Purchase Necessary*

Thursday, June 3, 2010

5:30pm - 7:30pm

DragonRidge Country Club

552 S. Stephanie Street

Henderson, NV

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"Dream Big" & Sign up for Colin Cowie's New "Wedding Chic" Newsletter

Colin Cowie, truly a wedding and lifestyle style setting hero of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge, is launching his revamped "Wedding Chic" newsletter this summer.

Whether you are a bride, groom, industry professional or "wedding junkie" (put me down for the last 2), I am sure this newsletter is going to be fun, educational and always inspiring to read.

You can sign up for Colin's Newsletter here. I just did and then we can look forward to getting "Wedding Chic" together!

Celebrate your Day with Love, Life & Style!

*Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge receives no monetary compensation for this recommendation or limited time banner on this blog.

Wedding Concierge in New Orleans for The Special Event

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is headed to "The Big Easy", New Orleans, LA, for an exciting week to attend The Special Event Show 2010. I will be out of the office from January 11-17th.

The Special Event Show is THE world's premier conference and tradeshow for event professionals (including weddings of course) and includes the very best in educational, inspiration and networking to get the latest and greatest in the newest and exciting trends across the industry.

It's a great chance to learn and be inspired from "the best of the best" around the country and around the world!

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge will once again be attending "The Wedding Luncheon", this year featuring guest speaker Darcy Miller of Martha Stewart Weddings! There will also be incredible inspiration to "oooh & ahhh" over provided by some amazing designers including the lovely Sasha Souza in the "Wedding Gallery".

And what place could be better to throw a conference about throwing a party than a party city like New Orleans?!!! It is nice to see that this great city is getting back on it's feet after such a tough 5 years.

I am so excited as this will be my first time ever in "The Crescent City". I love the music, I love the cuisine and I am sure I am going to love it's spirit too! I was just reading the Experience New Orleans Website and it looks like I am going to have to brush up on all the local Cajun/Creole lingo though! Should be FUN, FUN!

So as they say in "The Big Easy"...."Laissez le Bon temp rouler (Lazay Lay Bon Tom Roulay)"

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!!

New "Crystal Velon" Product Rocks Your Table!!

Printed "Crystal Velon" on a "Ghost Chair"

Crystal Velon on Glass table and Ghost Chairs,

Design & Photo By Bobby Taylor of Taylor Creative, Inc.

(from Robert Fountain Blog)

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is LOVING the new "Printed Crystal Velon" product from Velon Design's Event Designer extraordinaire, Robert Fountain. This is SO GENIUS!!

I first saw this amazing product at The Special Event Show this past January in San Diego and it was one hot topic product that everyone was buzzing and "twittering" about.

This amazing product comes in rolls that can be applied directly to vases, plexi-glass or glass furniture like the plexi table & "Ghost Chairs" you see above to create dining environments (or centerpieces with a "vase wrap") that are the height of STYLE!!

This would not be your average wedding reception table my friends. I JUST LOVE IT!

"Printed Crystal Velon" is the next step in the evolution of Velon Designs. They took regular, boring tent and wall draping plastic or "convention tafetta" as it's called in the "biz" to a whole new level by printing incredible stylish designs on them allowing tents and spaces to go very affordably from just nice to FABULOUS!

Velon Designs worked with Taylor Creative Inc. to create this dining table conceptualization of how the clear printed material works.

Taylor Creative is a national event furnishings rental & design company that has some very cool products like the table & chairs you see above (the "Crystal Velon" was applied to the furniture).

Fortunately, they have a location and representative here in Las Vegas! LUCK ME & LUCKY YOU that we have such incredible access in Las Vegas with so many amazing resources and talented wedding professionals and I look forward to working with them and others to help my clients create fabulous personal spaces & environments to host their wedding celebrations with these unique and creative products.

Have a Stylish Weekend!

Your Wedding Day Magazine Party, LA-Video Party Recap

Video by Russell Fowler Studios

Last month, Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge had the pleasure of attending an amazing party in Los Angeles for the Spring 2009 Launch of Your Wedding Day Magazine at the Ebell Club, Los Angeles; a venue that is synonymous with the Hollywood Glamor era. 

It was an incredible evening with the very best of the best in the south west and California wedding industry and I was so excited to be a part of it, as well being a marketing partner with Your Wedding Day Magazine (which you must get your hands on-IT'S A GORGEOUS publication!!!)

This party was over the top with an elegant garden decor to welcome us and delicious cocktail designed by the Ebell, Los Angeles featuring my new obsession, Ventura Limoncello. 

The piece de resistance of this event, the drop dead gorgeous "Marie Antoinette Gone Modern Ball Room"  was the result of the magic spun & designed by my very good friend,  Jeannie Ward, The Wedding Jeannie. 

The other rooms, featured an opulent & sensuous "Bollywood" Room & henna plus a totally chic "Le Discotheque" room. Of course, I danced all night to the DJ-live entertainment fusion sounds of 11H Entertainment. You have to let me book these amazing people for your event & YES, they travel!

It was one of the most amazing industry events I have been to & one I will remember for a long time. I am sure Your Wedding Day will have a great time trying to outdo themselves for the parties for their upcoming issue (which will have some exciting surprises) but I'm not telling:)

Enjoy the fabulous video recap of all the party fun above and you might just see Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge and friends at the very end having some fun at the LA Photo Party Booth which is a total blast & I totally want to book them for a wedding (hope it will be YOURS)!

Check out the Your Wedding Day Blog (& you will want to stay tuned to this blog in the near future for some other exciting information regarding yours truly!) for more info, phenomenal images by CherieFoto (and decor ideas galore) of the event and links to all the great event designers and sponsors of this fabulous event. 

Colin Cowie Launches A La Carte Floral & Decor Line-LUCKY US!

Photo Courtesy of Colin Cowie Flowers (from BizBash.com)

Photo Courtesy of Colin Cowie Flowers (from Weddings Unveiled)

Photo Courtesy of Colin Cowie Flowers (from Weddings Unveiled)

Colin Cowie, one of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's favorite wedding & lifestyle heros, style trend setters and planner to countless celebrities like Oprah, has announced a new extension of his lifestyle brand to now include his brand new floral and decor services, called Colin Cowie Flowers. 

That man is amazing with all he does. I love watching him in the morning on Get Married TV.

Colin Cowie Flowers is going to set brides and wedding/event planner's hearts (mine included) aflutter by offering his gorgeous flowers and iconic style and decor designs a la carte without having to hire Colin Cowie Lifestyle to plan the event. This is to appeal to stylish couples with smaller budgets (most are smaller than the budgets Colin works with I'm sure). 

Ok, have you picked yourself up off the floor yet?:)! Can you imagine your wedding having the potential to look like some of the amazing wedding images in his Colin Cowie Wedding Chic: 1,001 Ideas for Every Moment of Your Celebration or Colin Cowie's Extraordinary Weddings: From a Glimmer of an Idea to a Legendary Event books? WOW! All it takes now is one call to your wedding planner here in Las Vegas and one little dialing finger for me to make your floral wedding come true a la Colin Cowie Style. LOVE IT!

According to an article on Biz Bash Magazine, CCF services begin at $10,000.00 and can include table rentals and other decor elements. While that is nothing to sneeze at, it is not unrealistic for a wedding strong on floral and decor to have a budget starting at this price range. 

I hope YOU will be the first one  Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is looking forward (A LOT) to collaborating on my first event with Colin Cowie Flowers to bring Your Wedding Style to life. Let's create a truly FABULOUS Las Vegas Wedding with STYLE! 

I am accepting clients for late 2009 and 2010. 

More information and images can be found at another one of my favorite blogs "Weddings Unveiled" .

Fabulous Rental Furniture Can Make Your Wedding a "Fete Accomplie"

(c) 2009 Your Wedding Day.com, Cheriefoto

(c) 2009 Your Wedding Day.com, Cheriefoto

Rental furniture for weddings to create intimate lounge environments that help make your guests feel comfortable, relaxed and add an extra layer of wow to your event is no longer a "trend", it's definitely here to stay. That is "a good thing" as Ms. Martha would say. 

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge could not agree more. And one of my absolute favorite companies in the event furnishing rental business these days is Fete Accomplie Events based in the Los Angeles, CA area. 

Fete Accomplie's line of luxury furnishings created just for events encompasses so many adjectives with all the different styles of furniture and accessories they offer it would be a very long list, but sophisticated, opulent, glamorous, sexy, stylish (you knew I was going to say that) are just some of the ones that come to mind. 

Add some of these pieces to your wedding and you will definitely make a statement. The images above are from the fabulous Spring 2009 Your Wedding Day Magazine wedding showcase at the Ebell Club, Los Angeles that I attended recently. 

These two rooms, that I spent the most time in, were furnished with furniture from Fete Accomplie Events.

The phenomenal Marie Antoinette Gone Modern dining room, designed and coordinated by my good friend Jeannie Ward, the Wedding Jeannie, really utilized their "High Style" furniture collection. It was absolutely the most stunningly beautiful space to walk into and I am so proud of my friend! I also got to meet 

For a different look, the "Deco Square Banquettes" provided modern touch of Hollywood Glamour in the Disco Room where everyone partied the night away. 

Furniture is an excellent investment in your wedding reception budget and not as costly as you think. A few well placed pieces will make any room feel like you are welcoming your guests into "your place for a special moment in time". 

You must check out the entire 3 part review of this amazing wedding industry event on the Ebell, LA's blog written by the fabulous Catering Director, Melissa Allen (who is a Vegas native by the way) AND I invite you to visit the Fete Accomplie website to see their amazing Product Showcase (I want it ALL...for my house) and Event Gallery that I know will inspire you. 

It certainly has inspired me and I think I want to live in their warehouse! It is truly a Tracey "Happy Place"!

Happy Birthday Barbie-50 Fabulous & Still a Gorgeous Bride!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBIE: BORN MARCH 9, 1959

50 & FABULOUS!!!

"Romantacist" Barbie in Vera Wang, 2008

Elvis & Pricilla Bridal Barbie Set | 2008

(Probably the most famous Wedding Vegas Couple Ever!!)

Monique Lhuillier Bride Barbie Doll | 2006

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge wishes Barbara Millicent Roberts, aka "Barbie" a very happy 50th birthday. 

Barbie is looking absolutely fabulous as she celebrates her 50th birthday today March 9, 2009.

In honor of the big day, a brand new "Barbie" doll will be unveiled today in what is the culmination of many celebrations, fashion shows (with living dolls), and new fashion lines and collectible dolls in honor of the birthday girl leading up to March 9.

Barbie is an American icon; a career girl, a cultural attache, a reincarnation of screen legends and a clothing designers ULTIMATE model with those very envious (unattainable) measurements. 

Barbie as Bride is showcased on Brides.com  in a retrospective gallery in their feature "Here Comes the Barbie" (where all images in this post were sourced). As with the everyday fashion trends she modeled and influenced through the decades, Barbie was, is and continues to be a reflection of bridal fashion trends and gown styles as famous designers from Badgley Mischka to Reem Acra to Vera Wang have sought to dress her in their most iconic styles.

Enjoy the gallery and if you are a real & true "Barbie Girl", do make sure to visit her special Barbie 50th Anniversary website where you can read all about the anniversary happenings, history, videos, new collectibles, fashions, a blog and see the new doll. 

Your not Getting Older Girlfriend, You Just Keep Getting Better!

Las Vegas Welcomes CaterSource & Event Solutions 2009

What do you get when you combine thousands of people; chefs, catering professionals, event planners, designers, entertainers, decor suppliers and more and bring them to Las Vegas?

You get an amazing 4 day event filled with education, inspiration and fun called "CaterSource/Event Solutions 2009". It's sponsored by National Association of Catering Executives (NACE), of which I am a member, Event Solutions and Catersource Magazines.

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge will be attending this conference this week. I'll be out of the office Sunday through Wednesday learning new ideas to better my business and planning, creative skills, getting inspired by professionals from all aspects of the catering and event planning business. On the trade show floor, I'll be seeing amazing new ideas in decor, tasting and experiencing great new food and beverage products and presentation ideas, checking out cool new event rentals, lighting and more and attending some cool events to see how it all amazingly comes together. 

Oh, and meeting tons of other incredibly talented, creative and dedicated wedding, food and catering & event professionals from around the country and beyond; sharing stories, ideas and more. 

Very lucky to have this opportunity on annual basis here in Las Vegas to attend for another year.  

So excited to bring back more great ideas for all of you. Have a great week!