Dramatic Spanish Style For Weddings

As many of our clients wish to incorporate an element of Spain into their weddings here, we are constantly looking for Spanish style inspirations to add touches of Spain's wonderful and dramatic culture into our weddings and parties. 

We love this fabulous shoot featured on Wedluxe using a stunning combination of black lace, red roses and golds, it reminds me of the beautiful churches we have here adorned with gold candelabras and candles. 

We have been working very hard here this winter and many of our weddings coming up this year have some beautifully designed styling and details. 

We have one in Sevilla that is going to be stunning and we will feature sneak peeks as we build up to the big day, our gorgeous vintage fan invitations are winging their way to London as I type :) 

We have a Sevillian orange rustic style wedding, fabulous vintage style lace weddings and the rest of our designs are currently well kept secrets as we reveal some stunning new ideas throughout 2012!

Metallic Wedding Cakes by SweetThings ByFi

We are delighted to welcome SweetThings ByFi to our blog to talk to us about the latest 2012 metallic wedding cake trends. 

Just like Wedding Trends, wedding cake designs are constantly changing.

Designs are heavily influenced by the fashion catwalk, wedding blogs and wedding magazines. Throughout 2011 there were many high profiled weddings, including the Royal weddings in the UK and Monaco, Supermodel Kate Moss, Pop singer Lily Allen and let’s not forget Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in the US. As a result, this has seen an increase in ornate piping and sugar flowers being incorporated into cake designs.

For many brides, 2012 is marking the end of the vintage trend and the beginning of glamorous decor with jewels and sparkles being incorporated into the cake designs, this is resulting in the rise of the ‘Couture’ style wedding cake.

This style of cake makes a strong statement by incorporating accents of the bride’s wedding dress, headpiece or jewellery. Our friends in the US have taken this one step further by introducing metallic wedding cakes which is taking the wedding world by storm for 2012.

We are seeing the use of shimmering tones of silver and gold’s combined with warm pastel or vibrant jewel colours.

When working with Reviva weddings, Laura and I often spend countless hours discussing the wedding designs we are working on together, and both of us are hugely excited about this trend and cannot wait for this to take off here in Spain!

Of course, it is imperative to ensure that your wedding cake design flows with the style or theme of your wedding not just the current wedding trends. For example, if you are getting married here in Spain and want a Spanish themed wedding, then perhaps you feel that a sparkling jewelled cake would not be suitable for your wedding. Thats ok! Your wedding day is one of the most special days of your life, so it is vital that your cake design is perfect for your personal taste! Try decorative lacework and textured ruffles with accents of Spanish warm colours or flowers, what is important is that your wedding cake designer designs a cake that is classic and timeless for you.

At Sweet Things, our fashion concious brides are becoming more involved in the design process to create their perfect wedding day, this is resulting in some amazing wedding cake designs which we cannot wait to create!

But for now, here are some of our favourite metallic wedding cakes!

Design Sources from Pinterest and Martha Stewart

Reviva Weddings one of the World´s Best Wedding Planners and Designers

What can I say:) I have earnt the title as the Fairy Godmother of Weddings but we are truly honoured today to be now recognised as one of the top Wedding Planners and Designers in the World by Junebug Weddings!

I started Reviva Weddings in 2007 and despite the recession, we have gone from strength to strength, but of course this has not been without my passion and dedication to truly believing that what we create is brilliant, we offer a second to none 5 star wedding planning and design service to our clients and we are fabulous at what we do.

I am lucky, my journey of dragging Spain into the world of stylish weddings has meant that
I have met and developed an amazing team of hugely creative, organised and enthusiastic individuals who all support me 100% and live, eat and dream about weddings.

Without this fabulous bunch of girls I could not offer the services that create our stunning weddings. I have to reel off Loraine our floral designer, Carla my wedding planner extraordinaire and Anoulka, my right hand wedding chick who was Kylie´s dancer and now my assistant and stationery designer. All these women are wonderful and have completely transformed my life as I hope I have done theirs, well I know I keep them busy!

We are all fabulous at what we do and we giggle about the fact that
Reviva Chicks Rock Weddings!

Our design is stylish, up to date, trend setting and creative, our planning services are difficult to beat, we are with our clients every step of the way and our dedication and complete devotion to our clients weddings is hard to match.

Due to our popularity and professional qualities we now move further afield and have organised weddings in Barcelona, Madrid and are now covering Europe and beyond. Our team will move to your location whether it be Italy, France or beyond.

Can you imagine our delight to be now listed on the fabulous Junebug Weddings within their World´s best celebrity wedding planner and designer section, we had to undergo strict tests to be accepted and are delighted to share this wonderful news with you.

We will continue to update you on our progress this winter as we are attending some amazing courses which we will also share with you, developing many contacts, ideas and more wedding decorations, including our new prop hire services.

The Royal Wedding Website

It is rather curious I think when the 'establishment', as we know it in the UK, decides to adopt modern times, and it is certainly interesting observing.

It is, of course, a very closed and controlled world, for obvious reasons, and creating this sort of PR tool gives us a glimpse into a very public wedding for a very private family and it is delightful to see the Royal family PR machine attempting to make the Royal Wedding friendly and up-to-date by embracing modern times with the launch of an official wedding website, twitter and facebook page.

This allows us to watch the details emerge that they choose to promote, as we lead up to the big day, tempting us with snippets of this very exciting and prestigious wedding.

Having been on the Twitter page tonight, I was impressed with the charities they support, definitely worth taking a look at.

This has made me put my thinking cap on, that it would be appropriate to show our support to these charities during and after this event with perhaps some fundraising events linked to the Royal Wedding whilst we all celebrate and watch this historical wedding of the UK's future king.

We are planning a 'street party', albeit that name does not quite sum it up, here in our charming corner of Elviria, in Marbella, and I would now love to combine our party/wedding watching with supporting charities the Royal Family have chosen to include for their wedding and join them in raising money for these very worthwhile causes.

A thought now in progress and I do think if anyone else, which I am sure there are, are also thinking about holding a wedding watching party, they should also consider the fact they would be able to raise money for these very worthwhile charities as well.

Royal Wedding Website

Floored yet again by Preston Bailey!

Preston Bailey has recently changed their website and now have a fantastic new blog as well, a must daily read for anyone in the event and design industry.   I was floored by this fantastic wedding, truly on an amazing scale!

To take a look check out http://www.prestonbailey.com/slideshow/bride-spotlight-tania/

I have also noticed as I browse through the most amazing venue decoration photos that lighting plays a huge key factor in all his events.

We are in the news!

A friend alerted me to this article in the local newspaper here on the Costa Del Sol about mystery orange lights in the sky. It was indeed some of our sky lanterns let off to celebrate the wedding of Leilani and Eric!

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/14868.html

Wedding Stationery

I have been looking at wedding stationery for unusual ideas, and came across this beautiful stationery which was the recent choice for Rod Stewart's wedding in Italy. State-of-the-art laser-cut designs create beautiful fairytale invitations from www.chartula.co.uk