tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43253536070334164562024-03-12T19:40:30.729-07:00A Savvy Event~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-68478876468080050732010-10-25T15:28:00.000-07:002010-10-25T15:36:33.905-07:00WE'VE MOVED!A Savvy Event has moved to a new location! Please update your feeds and readers with our new URL: http://www.asavvyevent.com/blog~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-24539360699988856882010-08-10T11:40:00.001-07:002010-08-10T11:53:19.629-07:00A Fall Wedding at ViansaVendors:Venue: Viansa/Laura FraizeWedding Planner: Emarie of A Savvy EventPhotographer: Jen GoodLighting: Twilight DesignFlowers: FleuressenceCake: Inticing CreationsWedding Stationary: Card GirlBand: FundamentalsCaterer: Sage Catering for ViansaLinens: La TavolaRentals: Classic Party Rentals Napa~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-53471053638957309642010-03-05T08:22:00.000-08:002010-03-05T08:33:33.302-08:00Martha Stewart ShowWe are so excited to announce that our cake designer Kelly Zubal of Inticing Creationswill have her cake featured on the Martha Stewart Show Monday, March 8, 2010! Darcy Miller will be placing a cake topper on top of her cake!Kelly was also recently featured in the Spring Edition issue of Martha Stewart Magazine for the wedding cake she did for the Hello Lucky Wedding of Eunice and Daniel. Here ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-37731321898098055682010-03-01T09:23:00.000-08:002010-03-01T10:01:13.238-08:00Wish Upon A WeddingWish Upon A Wedding was founded in San Francisco, CA, in January of 2010, by a group of wedding and business entrepreneurs and is America’s FIRST nonprofit wedding wish granting organization, producing weddings and civil union ceremonies at destinations across the United States for individuals facing terminal illness, regardless of sexual orientation.Chapters:Wish Upon A Wedding is now boasting ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-90225413785024341782010-02-16T10:22:00.000-08:002010-02-16T10:25:13.374-08:00Outdoor CeremoniesWe just love these! These are perfect for all the outdoor Wine Country Weddings! A lot of our brides are worried about sinking in the grass during their ceremony or tripping and this is a great invention to help keep you on your feet and keep your wedding shoes in tact!If you want to purchase them go HERE.Happy Planning!~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-65762233549187612472010-01-28T08:10:00.001-08:002010-01-28T08:14:41.157-08:00Shout Out to Kathryn Kalabokes of Dream A Little Dream EventsI had to share this link to Kathryn Kalabokes wedding planning blog as we also have received so many leads with regards to "day of" wedding planning. We too do not offer day of but "month of" services! There is a reason why it cost a little more and why we come in 30 days prior to your event then just showing up the "day of". Wedding planning is usually a year process and to walk in the day of ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-25327364858860955582009-07-31T18:00:00.000-07:002009-07-31T18:03:48.448-07:00What We Have Been Up To...Sorry for the lack of blog post lately but we have been really busy this season with our weddings! We are excited to start posting some of them on here! Some of the great spots we have worked this year already are:Cornerstone GardensNicholson Ranch WineryThe Fairmont Sonoma Mission InnB.R. Cohn WineryBungalows 313The Mark Hopkins, San FranciscoMiraval, Glen EllenWe are really excited about all of~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-90283597010868971112009-07-30T17:46:00.000-07:002009-07-31T17:53:00.620-07:00A Great Find....So every day we have our blog roll that we read and while reading Blue Orchid Designs Wedding Blog we came across this free online Wedding Vendor Hiring Guide! It is fabulous and if you are getting married you should take a look! The fabulous Laura Hooper did all the graphics for the book and we are just in love with her work! We refer her to all our clients!! We just love her!So Click Here to ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-48840938018253962332009-07-29T17:41:00.000-07:002009-07-31T17:52:43.541-07:00A Post We Just Loved!We came across this blog post on Marcy Blum's new blog Adventures of Wedhead! It is a fantastic blog and this post made us laugh out loud! I hope you enjoy it too!!!Over and Out…….Posted on | July 28, 2009 |So rumor has it that at Engage 09, the luxury wedding symposium in the Cayman Islands, a very vociferous planner in the audience attempted to bully the very elegant and very ladylike Darcy ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-70051589893984766872009-07-13T13:24:00.000-07:002009-07-13T17:33:48.234-07:00SARAH+TAYLOR-Nicholson Ranch-07.11.09photo by Jen Good PhotographyThis weekend we did a gorgeous wedding at the Mission San Francisco Solano and Nicholson Ranch Winery.Here is one photo from the event and we are so excited to get the rest!We worked with some fabulous vendors on this event and we just want to take the time to THANK all of them.Congratulations to Sarah Hemmer & Taylor Holve! We wish you both the very best in life ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-24264426300743894672009-07-02T18:33:00.000-07:002009-07-02T18:59:47.454-07:00An Evening with Alice Waters......A Savvy Event had the opportunity to work with the Center for Land Based Learning on an event with Alice Waters. The evening started at the McNamara Organic Farm with a Q&A with Alice Waters and delicious food from the Buckhorn Restaurant and Local Winters Wineries. After the Q&A 45 invited guest had a private dinner catered by Nugget Market's Head Chef Rachael Levine in the Backyard of ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-90802027942543674742009-07-01T14:11:00.001-07:002009-07-01T14:23:29.497-07:00Engagement Session by BLR Life Photography-Lauren & JasonWe are so excited to be working with BLR Life Photography and the fabulous Brittany who is the lady behind the camera! Our couple Lauren and Jason who are getting married in October at The Sonoma Golf Club just had their engagement session and the photos are amazing! Brittany did a fabulous job capturing the personalities and love between them! Here are just a few that we had to share!!!This is ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-16972092318023590212009-06-21T08:48:00.001-07:002009-06-21T08:53:05.009-07:00engage!09 GRAND CAYMANI am so excited to share that this week I will be going to the Grand Cayman for engage!09. Last year I went to Orland to engage!08 and it was so much fun and such a great summit to learn all there is to know about the wedding industry from the BEST of the BEST! Engage!09 will be even better and I am so excited to be here! There are so many fabulous speakers this year and I have heard lots of ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-6090522871054869202009-05-29T10:00:00.000-07:002009-05-29T10:00:00.698-07:00Favorite Vendor Day 4-Peculiar Pair PressAmy and Mary Beth are a pair of accomplished graphic designers who share a love for fine printing and are addicted to everything paper. Each earned their BFA in graphic design, and then independently decided to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area, Amy from the Lone Star State of Texas and Mary Beth from New York. eventually, their paths crossed while working in the same design department at a ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-5209639293955834912009-05-29T02:00:00.000-07:002009-05-29T02:00:00.174-07:00Favorite Vendor Day 5- Cardgirl Custom InvitationsWell today is our last day of Favorite Vendors...and I am so excited about our 2 vendors today! I have loved stationary since I was a little girl and while most kids wanted toys for their birthdays and Christmas I always asked for "fun" stationary! So today we are highlighting two custom wedding stationary designers! They are both so fabulous and so talented! Every time I meet with both of them I~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-56090557830981533982009-05-28T10:00:00.000-07:002009-05-28T10:00:01.308-07:00Favorite Vendor Day 3- Michelle WalkerOur next oh so fabulous photographer is the very talented Michelle Walker! We are so excited that she is guest blogging on our week of Favorites as she truly is one of our most favorite photographers! Michelle has worked with us on so many weddings I can't even count them all and she was even my wedding photographer for my wedding! I could not have imagined my wedding without her! So without ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-46685972921587410712009-05-28T02:00:00.000-07:002009-05-28T02:00:00.983-07:00Favorite Vendors Day 3-Kate Webber PhotographyGreetings Readers!I hope you are enjoying our week of Favorite Vendors just as much as we have enjoyed sharing them with you! Today we have two fabulous photographers we are highlighting and we love working with both of them so much! They are both so talented and both so much fun! They make the events we work on together a blast and they capture the images as the story is unfolding right before ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-47924352061603342442009-05-27T12:00:00.000-07:002009-05-28T20:46:46.295-07:00Kelley + Darren Part 2The evening ceremony took place at the beautiful Mission in Sonoma. It is always fun to plan a wedding ceremony at The Mission as it has so much beauty already~ Kelley & Her Father.. The wonderful Reverend Dalton officiated the beautiful ceremony. Rev Dalton is wonderful so if you are ever in the need of someone to officiate your marriage in wine country he does a wonderful job! Mr. & Mrs~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-41947900436119388522009-05-27T10:00:00.000-07:002009-05-27T10:00:00.614-07:00Kelley + Darren Part 1A beautiful day in April..... Kelley "Pre" Wedding Dress....Hair and Make up done by the fabulous Katie at It's A Date Beautiful lace wedding gown...and very pretty gold Prada shoes.... We are just loving Kelley's hair piece! It is so fun and romantic and the perfect touch to her ensemble. The Bride is Ready~ A Little Dallas in Sonoma is always fun~"The Groom" Darren patiently awaiting his bride~~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-86846188555544553342009-05-27T02:00:00.000-07:002009-05-27T02:00:00.887-07:00Real Wedding Wednesday-Kelly + DarrenHello Readers!I hope you are enjoying our week of Fabulous Vendors! We thought we would take a little break and feature a wedding we did in April this year! Kelley & Darren were married at the Mission in Sonoma, CA and their reception was held at the oh so charming restaurant Estate. Estate is located right off the square in beautiful Sonoma, CA.Here is a sneak peak of what is to come today!~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-91960215519995642832009-05-26T12:00:00.000-07:002009-05-26T12:00:01.032-07:00Merry Popin NanniesMy name is Barbra Anne Schneider and I am the owner of The Original Merry Pop-In Nannies. I started the company 5 years ago at the suggestion of a wedding coordinator who was unhappy with the nanny services out there and felt a strong need for professional, event nannies. Using my background and degrees in education, not to mention my husband’s background in special events, I created a company ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-3507050734011635312009-05-26T10:00:00.000-07:002009-05-26T10:00:00.268-07:00Napa MomsWhen I planned my wedding one of the hardest decisions we made regarding our guest list was whether or not to invite children. We weren't so much concerned with children interrupting our event but rather how were the parents going to have fun if they had to care for their children all night? After much research, discussion with our guests who are parents and deliberation we decided to invite the~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-22241353095914113402009-05-26T02:00:00.000-07:002009-05-26T02:00:00.594-07:00Favorite Vendors Day 2 -Nanny ServicesToday we want to highlight the Nanny Companies we work with. Over the past few years we have seen that more weddings are opting to have a "CHILDREN'S" reception. I actually had a children's reception for my wedding last fall. We had our wedding at a fine dining restaurant that wasn't really appropriate for children so we rented out the conference room and turned it into a "kids reception" it was ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-21548215450674878342009-05-25T10:00:00.000-07:002009-06-04T22:04:42.007-07:00Inticing Creations-Kelly ZubalI am so excited for our next vendor! We met Kelly now almost 2 years ago and it was LOVE at first bite! Kelly surprised and delighted us with her yummy cakes! She totally changed our minds on wedding cakes and for this reason a beautiful relationship started! Kelly is absolutely amazing! Her work is impeccable her cakes are delicious and never in my entire life or career have I tasted better cake~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325353607033416456.post-65751254871626119352009-05-25T08:00:00.000-07:002009-06-04T22:01:58.095-07:00Cake CoquetteOur next guest blog is from the talented Gabrielle Feursinger...we have had the pleasure of working with Gabby on some beautiful wine country weddings and her work with buttercream is absolutely amazing! I have never come across anyone more talented! Please check out the photos below her post on her cakes!Cake CoquetteHello A Savvy Event Blog Readers!My name is Gabrielle Feuersinger, I am owner ~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13503587525891759796noreply@blogger.com0