Table 6 Productions Blog

What a week! This past weekend, we were lucky enough to have one of our weddings chosen to be featured on Platinum Weddings on WE TV! We aren’t sure when it will air yet, but we can’t wait. The wedding was unbelievable. Our best yet! Of course, having a budget of $300,000+ always helps too! It was on the water at a beautiful estate owned by the Bride’s family friend. The theme was that of “South Beach” meets “P-Diddy Bling”. The Production crew arrived on Tuesday and was there to shoot every element through Saturday. Their was a lot for them to cover as the wedding was basically built from the ground up. An 8,000 square foot white peaked tent was used. Add a Black Sub-floor, Custom Silver Diamond Hologram-ed dance floor, Custom Plexi/Crystal Chandeliers, Uplighting that changed colors throughout the night, Breakaways on the tents ceiling, Pin-Spotting on the $1,500.00 Centerpieces, Modern White Stretch Walls, Lounge Areas, as well as Contemporary Jetson Style Floor to Ceiling Statuettes . The ceremony was at Sunset just steps from the water and incorporated florals, crystals, and more crystals. Even the programs were held down by large faux diamonds. But the best part of all was when the ring bearer drove down the aisle in a 300SL Silver Motorized Convertible Mercedes. People were definitely blown away. The atmosphere for the evening was so fluid as people enjoyed a Cocktail made of Champagne and White Grape Juice with a Crystal Sugar Rim and the Food Stations ranged from Fresh Cut Sushi and Shrimp to Gourmet Pasta and a Banana’s Foster Station with Homemade Waffle Cone Bowls. This was right next to the 5 tier $3,000 Wedding Cake Covered in White & Silver accents with again, more BLING! It was positioned on a large Clear, Plexi-Glass cube that had crystals and orchids suspended inside of it. And, what made this “traditional” cake cutting moment even better was that when the Bride & Groom fed each other, then kissed, a 3-minute fireworks display started out in the water for the guests to enjoy! The guests also enjoyed the Photo Booth as it was brimming with people all night. Certainly no detail was spared in this “Platinum Wedding” and the Color Palette of Black, Silver and White with Crystal and Diamond accents EVERYWHERE certainly made you think you might have been in South Beach. Stay Tuned for the date and time of the episode to air. We would like to thank all of the vendors that were involved in this affair, but MAJOR Kudos go out to CONCEPT BAIT. The best Floral and Decor Company in Florida….and beyond!

Its the quintessential Chinese wedding tradition: the tea ceremony.  This time-honored exchange was created to show respect for the family.  Historically the tea ceremonies took place at different times, the bride’s family in the morning before the nuptials and the groom’s side was during the ceremony after the vows.  But we decide to shake it up “table 6″ style and put our own twist on it!  This tea ceremony took place on the back patio of the historic Powel Crosley Estate on a fabulous February afternoon in sunny Florida.  As the servers dressed in all black with red ties, the color of the red bean which was symbolic and appeared in the decor and the details, they served organic green tea with lotus seeds in authentic Chinese tea cups made in china.  The family of the bride, eldest to youngest, was served first following the groom’s side in the same order.  Each family member came up to the front, took a designated seat and shared tea with bride and groom. While handing them an envelope filled with money, they wished the couple happiness as they sipped the tea together.  Traditionally, microphones are not used to insure the privacy of the people to whom the bride and groom are sipping tea with.  Once the family shared their wishes, spoke words of wisdom, and gave advice, the bride and goom turned to the guests and invited the guests to drink the tea with them.  The florals that adorned the famous stair well were created to resemble the bride and grooms personal taste.  Just think elegant low square dishes with burnt red interiors and antique gold exterior, seeded eucalyptus and moss artfully wrapped lush red roses, then encircling a cluster of  equisetum jetting upward.  After the guests were more educated and cultured from the traditions of the Chinese tea ceremony, they danced the night away to swanky band, called the Venturas, under a cluster of unique shaped silk lanterns staggard from the ceiling inside a tent.  The food was amazing!  Just imagine chef attended stations serving up your favorite Chinese delectables, such as Seared Tuna on a Crispy Wonton, Iced Sake, Ginger Marinated Beef Tenderloin, Jasmine Thai crab cakes,  Fried Rice, and Vegetable Tempura.  While the guests cocktail-ed around the tent,  they enjoyed the unique table decorations, colors, and detailed decor.  Before exiting for the night the guests could “make a wish” and/or “take a wish” which was displayed in 2 separate apothecary jars.  By making a wish, each guests signed a wish card and hung it on, what we referred to as, the “Wishing Tree”.  This 10′ wrought iron structure provided a blank canvas for us to get creative by hanging over 3 dozen tea lights, adorning it with lush garlands of fresh greenery and orchid blossoms in butterscotch, burnt orange, and red.  After each guest “made a wish”, they were humoured by the “take a wish”. These ancient Chinese fortune sticks left guests questioning their futures by pulling more than one wish out of the jar hoping for more positive wishes.  Next time I will be sure to check the fortunes so we don’t have anyone thinking they due for some bad luck!

Sweets continue to become a focal point at all our events - from mini-blueberry cobblers and donut holes with shots of milk - brides are continuing to get more and more creative beyond the wedding cake. We recently found this great site called the Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory…YUM! Especially for your Florida brides, what could be better then offering your guests Frozen Key Lime Pie on a stick dipped in CHOCOLATE. Yum! They are worth every delectable calorie…check them out!

http://www.blondgiraffe.com/piepop.htm

If you know us by now, you also know that their are only a few guest favors out there that we are big fans of - things you can eat and things you can drink. Things you can wear would be nice too but we havent met a bride yet who can afford to give her guests monogrammed cashmere throws…so back to eating and drinking! We aren’t into “trinkets” and dont like to watch our brides waste their money on things guests will leave behind. We always love the “favor buffet” but recently ran across a site that does fabulous “personalized” cookies beyond the Choco Chip. Think Whoopie Pies! And the packagining is adorable! And the cost is very reasonable - about $6/person. Check these girls out!

http://www.onegirlcookies.com/favors.php#

Well, we think our portfolio may just be complete after this lastest experience.  While we were in ATL for the Special Events Trade Show, we had the opportunity to tape a few televion segments for a show called GET MARRIED, which airs on Lifetime at 7:30 a.m. every morning, and hosted by celebrity planner, David Tutera.  We taped an “Ask the Experts” segment, a decor corner segment focused on creative place card displays, and a second decor corner that will feature creative ways to name or number your tables.  We prepared for weeks and our ideas outweighed the amount of time we actually got to tape (only 2 minutes per segment) This was an amazing opportunity for us and we really enjoyed ourselves. We are hoping that they ask us back! We have been fortunate enough to have had a lot of magazine coverage featuring our weddings and ideas but this was our first televised presentation and we hope this is just the beginning for us…stay tuned…we will post the dates and times each of these segments will air.

Well we were fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Hilary Hopkins Photography for 3 fabulous events in a row!  We love her and love her style…to view the weddings she shot you can check out our gallery!  And to check her out visit www.HilaryHopkins.com. 

We would also like to thank Concept Bait, for all their hard work and fabulous decor they provide.  What would we do with out you guys!  www.Conceptbait.com.

Well happy new year to all our bloggers and visitors!  We are back and in full force planning more fabulous weddings, then ever!  We had an insane November with 5 weddings between the 2 of us, holidays, etc., it was insane!  But with a new year, in our world, comes new trends, fresh new color palettes and a whole lotta crazy ideas.  We were fortunate to attend the Special Events Trade Show that was hosted in Atlanta Georgia in January 2008.  We met so many new vendors, including linen companies, rental companies, and decor companies, that allows us to have the confidence we need in order to maintain our reputation of throwing most fabulous events in our areas!  With brand new ideas comes brand new situations and with more vendors under our belt, we can now tackle any task.  Stay tuned….

So, this may not be so much crazy as it is straying away from the norm…and totally changing the "chemistry" of a wedding. But, we got to thinking. Wouldnt it be cool and different to arrive to a wedding at the pre-determined time only to be met by servers with fun food fare and yummy cocktail libations. Get it - you have the cocktail party BEFORE the ceremony! This is GREAT for a couple that sees each other BEFORE the wedding.

While you are off photoging yourselves to death, your guests can be enjoying some nibbles and a champagne cocktail or three. Then, the ceremony starts a half hour or so after the "initial’ WELCOME cocktail party. Think how much more interesting your ceremony will seem after a few drinks…no late guests, no empty stomachs, no shakes (because you need a drink). Then, after the ceremony, you can take a few more photos, then have another 30 - 45 minutes to greet your guests and thank them for coming while they enjoy a few tunes and a glass of wine. Then off to DINNER and DANCING….It’s called "Let’s get this party started"….

We hope to try this sometime and see how it flows…we will let you know!

We havent had as much time this past few weeks to shop around for our new fave links, but we have run across a few that you might like!

Wedding Graffiti - this is the coolest stuff ever. When you get a chance, really look around on their website. They have some cool stuff! At one of our weddings this month, we ordered monogram letters to put on all the glasses for the bar - particularly the Champagne…how cool is that? Also, we ordered some "graffiti" for the wall that is going to have their wedding "tag line" of LIVE WELL, LAUGH OFTEN, LOVE MUCH….it is going to be on a blank wall with uplighting in the reception. Ever seen that before? Didn’t think so….But honestly, what will they think of next?

Graffiti Wedding Website

Another super cool company we ran across at a NACE event recently is called: ICE CATERS

They make everything you can imagine out of ice. We saw some cool "ice" buckets that chilled various Vodkas. They also have Ice "Balls" for fab drinks and can make the ice any color you want. What’s even cooler (no pun intended) they can ship it to you overnight…FROZEN!

We got to thinking for our NO BUDGET bride (we havent met her yet) it would be cool to do mini ice carvings for each person that holds shrimp cocktail. For a FL event, it could be a mini palm tree ice  carving holding Oysters on the Half Shell…for a CO wedding, it could be a mini cowboy boot ice sculpture holding your own shrimp cocktail. You could serve chilled soup in an ICE BOWL or even serve a Martini in an ICE GLASS shaped like a martini glass….SO COOL! Even cooler than the jello mold flowers that we recently heard about (sorry: but dont think we will be purchasing those any time soon)

Ice Caters Website

And lastly, even though the Sparkler thing has been around forever, we still LOVE IT! The "exit" photo it produces just can’t be matched by anything else….unless you can afford to take off in a Hot Air Balloon or something cool like that. We ran across a simple, but cute website called SPARKLE where you can buy our fave 3 foot sparklers for a GREAT price. We have bought them other places before but we like this girl…and her cute family!

Sparklers Online Website 

Because it has been a few weeks since we have Blogged (SORRY!), we are calling this our fave vendors of the MONTH instead of the WEEK.

First we want to thank the fabulous photographers we have worked with this month. The infamous:

TRAVIS BROXTON (the fabulous)

Travis Broxton Photography

PHILLIP LLOYD (this guy is ALWAYS doing us favors)

Phillip Lloyd Photography Website

LAURA HANNAH (she is one of the calmest, easy going  photographers we have ever worked with)

Hannah Photography Website

PAIGE EDEN (we LOVE this girl and are SOOOO GLAD she is moving back to Denver - it is as if she never left anyways - her photos are truly one of a kind)

Paige Eden Photography Website

We would also like to recognize our FABE’ decor, lighting, floral and super uber creative partners and friends….

The Perfect Petal (they went way above and beyond for our Fall wedding..and always do - smashing florals - as they would say!!!)

Perfect Petal Website

Concept Bait (dont you just dig that name - amazing LIGHTING and DECOR)

Concept Bait Website

Indigo Sky (formerly Gary Gavito Designs - these guys continue to ROCK!) And are so YIN and YANG!

*Website coming soon!!!

LMD Productions (sweetest guy on the planet  and amazing with lighting!)

LMD Productions Website

And lastly, we have to recognize the newest, most fun and fabulous band in DENVER

HOMESLICE - what a BLAST!

Homeslice Band Website

Ok - that is enough butt kissing for now!

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of planning something other than a wedding. YEE - HAW. We LOVE weddings, but we are also up for the challenge of a good party, Mitzvah and other celebration. This particular event took place at the Phipps Mansion and was a launch party for a new Bridal Magazine in town - PREMIER BRIDE MAGAZINE. We were lucky enough to be chosen to plan the event and had a great turn out of about 200 wedding related vendors. Everyone involved donated their time and resources and we cant thank them enough!

The event was that of  a "PREMIER" featuring red carpet, paparazzi, and the whole shabang. A Rolls Royce and Bentley were parked at the entry way as you entered and walked the red carpet (provided by EXCURSIONS) and the paparazzi were all fabulous…snapping away. France Marron, from Frances Photography, Travis Broxton from Broxton Art, Charles Brinton from Brinton Studios, Katie Thurmes from Jenna Walker Photography, and James Christianson from James Christianson Photography. A truly STELLAR group. Some of the best photogs in Denver.

Their was a very popular Caramel Apple Martini Luge provided by DAZZLING ICE SCULPTURES, great music (band) provided by ALIVE ON ARRIVAL (AOA), DJ and Acousttical Guitarist provided by A MUSIC PLUS, Harpist from HAPR BY JANE, Magic and Illisionist - THE RICH MAGIC - and much much more.

The event featured the following Caterers - Phipps Catering, SODEXHO, GreensPoint, Fancy to Fantasy, Footers and Catering by Design. Each caterer came up with their own creative ideas for food station, buffet displays, passed hors d’oeuvres, etc….it was all amazing!

Some of our fave florists sponsored a table design and lay-out…and they were gorgeous. They were provided by THE PERFECT PETAL, BELLA FIORI, DELILAH’S OF DENVER, and T’DA (pronounced TAH-DAH!!! Get it) Anyway, they were all so different and unique in their own way and really reflected the great floral and design work we have in this town. Look in the photo albums for pictures. The invites and site maps were designed by Julie from JS Designs and their were fabulous prizes - especially the 3 day trip to the Ritz Carlton in Bachelor’s Gulch….We also had an espresso cart set up by ESPRESSO AFFAIR and fabulous desserts provided by ELEGANT BAKERY, ICED DREAMS, and THE MAKERY. Yum……….

It was a great success and a good chance to get all of our peers in one room "mansion" together to hob nob. Ooh - and models and fabulous dresses there girls! Check them out - provided by ANNA Be’…and the decor and lighting really set the stage - provided by INDIGO SKY and LMD PRODUCTIONS…..

Thanks to everyone who participated. Look in the Photo Album for pictures.