Reviva Weddings are featured in WeddingBells, Canada

 We are delighted that one of our beautiful weddings, from last year, has been featured, across the waters, in the Canadian Weddingbells Magazine so we thought we would share this moment with you! 

According to Joee Wong, the fantastic photographer that Kelly and Wil bought with them all the way from Toronto, the article looks even better in real life.

Kelly and Wil contacted us, not long before their wedding date, and needed help to finalise all the details of their wedding day and someone to style, decorate and oversee their stunning wedding at the Puente Romano Hotel.

It was a challenge, as despite booking the venue, Kelly and Wil had actually not been here, although we then found out Kelly had visited as a child and decided she wanted to get married here :)  Having been together for 7 years and saved up for this special day, we were very excited and honoured to be involved. 

Carla set to and finalised all the suppliers, arranged the last few details and organised everything so it all came together and I worked with Kelly to design and style her

wedding day.

The end result was stunning, it was a beautifully hot September day and the emotional ceremony conducted by the delightful Natasha was held on the beach at Puente Romano Hotel followed by a reception at the hotel´s Suite Del Mar. 

 

 

Kathryn Parr made everyone look gorgeous with her amazing hair and make up talents and Mark at Cake Marbella did us proud with his cupcakes (still have to have words with him about supplying extra though!)

We are featured on Preston Bailey´s brides blog!

I am a huge fan of Preston Bailey and his extraordinary fairytale events he creates.

Preston Bailey is every event designer´s aspiration, to think outside the box and create sublime decoration experiences using lighting, props and of course gorgeous florals.

Every day I avidly follow the Preston Bailey blog, which recently has become a brilliant tool offering advice, business insights and of course inspirations.

Can you imagine my delight when scanning Facebook last night I realised my blog was featured on his yesterday, I nearly fell off my chair and was almost hyperventilating :)

I just had to share this with you and then will get back to work!

Reviva are having an Interview on TRE Radio

Last week, I have to confess, I dipped my toe in the water of talking live on the Radio!

I had absolutely no idea what I was in for but was volunteered by Charlotte to appear on the women's talk hour, a bit like loose women I suppose. So having received a phone call from the wonderful presenter Hannah Murray, off I drove, on a very wet afternoon, to the studios in San Pedro really not knowing what I was in for!

I had been told I was to be part of a chat show for an hour with two other women talking about general subjects that were in the news that week.

What fun I had, once I had worked out how to eat carrot cake, adjust the microphone and speak at all the same time :) I suppose us women call this multi tasking but it was not hard work at all.

Having completed my first round I was thrilled and have since been told I was a natural, all lies of course, I have been invited back to TRE next week to talk about a subject close to my heart and I can imagine you are all guessing what this is!

Wedding world of course, I will be chatting to the lovely Hannah about how I started up Reviva, our journey, wedding world in general and I also hope to start to promote the Butterfly Ball that we are sponsoring here on the 11th June at the Puente Romano hotel for the Rhys Daniels Trust.

We have decorated this event for the past 3 years and this is now a charity very close to my heart that I will continue to support.

It is of course born out of a tragedy suffered by parents, that I cannot even begin to comprehend, that has resulted in doing good as they raise money to provide people, with very ill children, accommodation in rent free homes near the hospitals so that they can move in and lead as normal as lives as possible whilst their children are being treated, quite often far away from home, in London or one of the major cities.

The Daniel Rhys Trust buy properties and adapt them into comfortable rent free homes to support and house families going through traumatic times and take away that stress allowing them to concentrate on their terribly sick children.

There are so many heart stopping stories that I could not even begin to describe them, they, to be honest, reduce me to tears, and I am very adamant that this is such a worthwhile charity that I will continue to support them and do the best I can to make the Butterfly Ball a success here in Marbella.

The Butterfly Ball is now in it's 11th year and is supported by many celebrities such as Max Clifford and the event consists of a golfing tournament and the Ball.

I have some very spooky stories that surround this charity, last year I had Patti, the organiser, in our shop discussing the details of the event and a butterfly flew into the shop, fluttered around us and we were left silent, Patti then told me many other stories about this happening when she was organising the Butterfly events, it made me shiver actually.

We have never had a butterfly in our shop before or since!?

We have the unenviable task of creating 400 goody bags for this event, but having started early we are actually doing very well:)

If anyone would like to sponsor us with a charity prize or something for our goody bags then please do get in touch, the sooner the better as you will be featured in the publicity and the literature for this event which attracts many hi profile clients from Marbella, London and beyond.

I will be on the radio next week on TRE at 2pm on the 23rd March so please do tune in to hear me talk about wedding world and our latest campaign for the Butterfly Ball.

If you would like to sponsor us with a charity prize or fill our goody bags then please do email me at laura@reviva-weddings.com

Reviva Weddings Latest Press on Facebook

We are delighted to work with some fabulous publications here on the Costa del Sol.

The now well established Confeti Magazine which is embarking on it's second year here on the Costa Del Sol and has quickly become a must have bible for any couple planning a wedding in Spain or Gibraltar with many of the talented suppliers here advertising and producing editorials for this beautifully produced magazine.

Confeti are also heading over to the National Wedding Show in London's Olympia on the 18th to the 20th February and you can find them on stand B63.

We were also featured this week in the Olive Press, a fabulous newspaper here again covering the Costa Del Sol and what I love about this particular paper is the fact it covers the more rural Andalucia rather than just the coast.

Both these press features can be found on our Facebook page

Confeti Winter 2010 is out now

We are delighted the new Confeti Winter 2010 magazine is now out.

Enjoy an exclusive interview with celebrity milliner Philip Treacy, an old school Hollywood glamour fashion shoot, winter wedding trends and fashion for the little ones. The latest features include a Nerja special, same sex wedding in Spain, the Confeti team at the National Wedding Shows and honeymooning in the Maldives.

Read features about Reviva in the Sparkly Shabby Chic in Marbella with Michelle and Harry's wedding at the Cortijo de la Perdiz and one of our weddings planned by Carla of Julia and Jaime March in Frigiliana and the Cortijo Bravo in Velez-Malaga.

A Spanish version of this beautifully produced magazine will be out next week.

Confeti will also be at the Celebra Wedding Show in Malaga on the 26th-28th November on Stand H4.

To view this fabulous magazine online visit www.confetimagazine.com

The Fairy Godmother of the Costa Del Sol!

We were delighted last week to be featured in hugely popular Sur in English newspaper as one of the most innovative and progressive businesses being set up here on the Costa Del Sol in a recession.

Read all about us on this link and I love the description of me as the Fairy Godmother of the Costa Del Sol, Cinderella was always one of my favourite films! Turn the page 7 times and you will find us under the heading 'starting up in a downturn'

http://services.surinenglish.com/virtual/20100423/

Wedding World update in Marbella!

It is always refreshing to see new and existing businesses expand, particularly with that 'recession' word hanging above our heads.

But alongside our recent shop launch, there have been some other businesses we work alongside that have also kick started 2010 off with a bang.

We are delighted that Jeremy Standley has now moved premises and has his photography studio up and running. These fabulous shots of one of our spring bouquets were taken in Jeremy's new studio and we are thrilled with the results. We took little Twinkle to Jeremy's new studio last week for photographs and we are dying to see the results and by the way Jeremy does a fab cappucino! We have yet to sample the cava :)

The photos of our spring bouquet were taken for inclusion in the extremely well produced new Confeti Magazine.

The Confeti magazine has taken the wedding world here in Southern Spain by storm, it is beautifully produced and well worth any potential brides snatching their coveted copy!

It is full of the latest wedding fashions, professionals tips, plus a huge amount of valuable information for any brides to be, particularly if you are getting married here in Marbella and beyond. The second quarterly issue has just come out this week and again is buzzing weddings.

Heather at Fiestasol has now launched her fabulous new website, full of ideas for weddings in private villas and her wonderful catering business. Having sampled quite a few of Heather and Alex's canapes and chocolate cake recently I can certainly vouch for yummy food!

As we all look forward to our summer wedding season, we are delighted to showcase Spain as one of the top wedding destination areas and despite the doom and gloom we are busily working away here to create many more fabulous, beautiful weddings for our clients and are all excited about our coming year ahead.

Confeti Magazine

We are delighted to be involved in the launch issue of a specialist, long awaited, wedding magazine that is the perfect wedding guide featuring advice, tips, ideas and suggestions to help arrange your wedding in Spain.

We were thrilled with the quality of this magazine, it is beautifully produced with trend setting features on couture and jewellery, beauty tips, select venues, novel gift ideas and all the information and advice you need to make your wedding day here in Spain a special one.

Confeti's targeted distribution and mailing will include a presence at the leading Spanish, Irish and English Wedding fairs and also offer you the opportunity of having your wedding featured in the society section.

The mystery unfolds!?

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/14969.html

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