A Fabulous Wedding at the Marbella Club

At the end of last year we met with the delightful Alexandra and Kevin who were visiting Marbella as they were interviewing a few wedding planners in order to establish who they felt would deliver an excellent service and help them plan, coordinate and style their special day and they decided to hire us :)

Alexandra and Kevin had already booked the prestigious Villa Del Mar at the Marbella Club Hotel as the venue for their wedding and a handful of suppliers.

What they required was a professional team behind them to manage and coordinate all their wedding day details, add in the suppliers that were missing and oversee their celebrations.

Carla put together their wedding schedule, budget sheet and organised the rest of the suppliers and details needed and the end result was a beautifully organised and planned wedding ceremony held in the stunning gardens of the Villa Del Mar.

The delightful ceremony was followed by a fantastic dinner reception in the idyllic gardens overlooking the Mediterranean sea and and some real show stopping entertainment provided by Larry Jazz and Yanela Brooks.  Yanela had us boogingy away when she was rehearsing, so I can imagine how fabulous her night time show was!

Although we do create flowers we do feel it is fair as planners to offer a variety of suppliers so our clients can make choices, including florists.

 We do not like our couples to feel they have to use us for everything, so on this occasion the gorgeous flowers were provided by Virginia including the very stylish decoration of the wedding canopy, the divine bridal flowers and the tall table arrangements which consisted of large floral balls sat on tall glassware using white hydrangeas, roses and gypsophelia. 

We had fun creating and styling the rest of this gorgeous day :)

 We provided white chill out bracelets for their pre wedding party at Los Monteros Hotel.

The table seating plan was hand written on a shabby chic style white mirror and the fan shaped table names and placecards created by Anoulka were gorgeous with tiny pearl details. The placecards were tied to the napkins with ribbons and the tables were scattered with pearls to finish the overall look of the tables and the very yummy cake was provided by the Marbella Club Hotel.  We dressed the chairs with white organza ribbons and placed white pashminas on all the ladies chairs.

Our lanterns, candles and fairy lights lit up the gardens and provided a gorgeous, twinkly  and very romantic seaside back drop :)

Our thanks to David Toms for this selection of wonderful photos from this delightful wedding, and to see more of this very romantic day we have a short video to share with you from BodaKids.

Here is our lovely testimonial for Carla and her superb wedding planner skills

from Alexandra and Kevin, thankfully she has not been shoved into a suitcase and is still with us!

"When we decided upon Marbella as a location for our wedding the one concern was the weather (given the venue was outside) and the second was organization, given the Spanish are not know for their skills in this department! (I can say that because by mother is Spanish).

You could say it was love at first sight.

The first time we met Carla we knew she was the one.

Personable, organized and full of suggestions she filled us with confidence and that confidence was well placed as she enabled us to have the most magical wedding.

She was always on call, responsive and even reminded us of our own timeline.

We could not have organized such a special day without her. She is one in a million.

We wish you could have become back with us in our suitcase.

Thank you

Alexandra and Kevin"

Our congratulations to Alexandra and Kevin and our huge thanks to the Marbella Club and all the suppliers whom without their dedication, professionalism and devotion we could not do our job!

Sneak Peek A Grande Affaire from Paris

We cannot wait to share this gorgeous wedding extravaganza with you next week, but here is a sneak peek as the photos keep rolling in from Nani de Perez.

We came recommended to this delightful family, from Paris, for our highly professional wedding planning services and met with them earlier this year to help them organise a

3 day event here in Marbella for 300 guests.

Carla has a good level of French and this combined with their good level of English resulted in a most extraordinary affair hosted here in Marbella for the delightful Carole and Warren.

The details of this fabulous event involved an amazing beach party for over 200 people at the stunning Puro Beach including belly dancers and a pre wedding henna ceremony in a gorgeously decorated marquee using pinks and oranges as the colour scheme with a modern Moroccan twist.

This fabulous beach party was followed by the most extraordinary wedding at the Villa Padierna hotel with a gorgeous chuppah, beautiful flowers by Virginia, details and styling by us and lots of entertainment bought in from France.

The whole event was meticuously planned by Carla and Paloma and we will elaborate on this wedding with many more photos soon.  We, at Reviva Weddings, certainly excelled ourselves and here is our testimonial from our father of the bride in Paris :)!

I wanted to tell you, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for everything you did for us.

It was a big pleasure to work with you and it was a wonderful wedding.

On gardera un exellent souvenir, MUCHISSIMO GRACIAS PARA TODO.

Take care of you all and best regards to Laura and Paloma

Kind regards

John Benattar and family

A Stunning Wedding in Seville

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I am not sure where to begin to be honest, it is difficult sometimes to describe the emotions we have when we are designing, planning and organising our weddings, but Vee and Charlie´s wedding I think sums it up for me.  

I have been feeling slightly tearful tonight as I load up our gorgeous photos of this fantastic and stylish wedding we planned and designed in El Esparragal in Seville as I have such lovely memories of creating such a fantastic weekend.

I understand the journey sometimes it takes to get to a day like this and for some it is quite a journey, Vee and Charlie are no exception and such a wonderful couple that we fell in love with instantly, they are so perfectly suited and we were delighted to share their very special wedding day.

Did we love it, yes we did!

There were so many details, Carla was brilliant and amazing as  usual, as until the beginning of this year the whole wedding was planned at a completely different venue.

The original venue, I guess due to the recession decided not to reopen in April which was rather sad, so a complete rethink, searching for a new venue and another flying visit with Vee and Charlie resulted in hosting their gorgeous wedding at El Esparragal. 

I have to admit I personally was rather pleased as it was a much nicer venue so hats off to Carla :)

We had such fun designing and creating this wedding, there were so many lovely details.  The Sevillian theme was fun and Victoria and Charles were so up for it, really we had a free reign. 

Anoulka and I were off on design mode, with Anoulka creating some fabulous stationery, the fan shaped order of service and fan table seating plan that we placed on a small tree, our Andalucian black bulls as place cards and table names.  We had miniature Osborne Sherries with the black bull on as favours.

Red, white and black polka dot fans, red rice butterfly confetti mixed with red rose petals and gorgeous red rose and ivory rose bouquets with a red rose buttonhole for Charlie and ivory for the rest of the men.

The Sevillian theme was not complete without the elegant Andalucian dancing horse with the flamenco dancer during the cocktail, it was amazing and bought us all to a standstill.  I know a few of the girls were tearful, Izzi and Paloma!

The evening kicked off with style thanks to Rob Rocks the House as the DJ, Fi from Sweet Things By Fi providing the very yummy and die for cakes, our silver, white and red chill out created with hay bales provided by the venue, our fancy dressing up box along with Anna´s photo booth and last but not least our famous twinkly lights and lanterns!

A fantastic weekend for everyone involved, Carla and Paloma worked hard all weekend to host the pre wedding reception at the EME in Seville and I had decided to stay close to Seville for 2 nights and chosen the beautiful town of Carmona to hang out in which is truly amazing and is host to a stunning Parador.  

All I can say about the whole weekend was it was a wonderful, happy and charming experience and one to be repeated, albeit slightly hot!  45 degrees in the shade ;)!

Our thanks to Anna Gazda, who without these photos we could not share our weddings with you, to Fi for making such gorgeous cakes, to Georgina and Barbara for their amazing hair and make up and to Rob who always Rocks the House  and is now known as the rising sun?!

Different Descriptions of Wedding Colours

Tonight I have been working on one of my weddings and created a starting colour board really just to gauge the actual wedding colour combination to get the tones and style right before we move onto the details.

This inspiration board has been created with the bridesmaid dress colour,

the swatch at the top in the middle, and using some of the images our client has sent us, along with an image of Candy Bianca roses combined with Honeymoon roses and some other colour ideas we have found to set the scene.

Now the reason I am posting this is I am intrigued and wish to have a survey with all our readers as to how you would describe this wedding colour? 

So many couples use different words to describe their wedding colours especially when trying to portray their wedding style to their planner, florist or stylist.

So, if you have the time, hop over to our facebook page and leave us a comment as to which words and colours you would use to describe this colour combination for our client´s wedding.

I am sure the results will be quite intriguing!