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Make a statement with your wedding flowers- The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County

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Your wedding flowers add an ambiance to your special day. The colour and style can match your theme or simply be the most beautiful fresh flowers available at the best price for the season you are married in.

From your engagement party to your wedding day, flowers will play a role in all your celebratory parties.

Your bridal bouquet is the one adornment that can be your own personal, signature style. Whether it be a gorgeous multi-floral or a single gorgeous stem wrapped in ribbon, it will accessorize your gown and add colour.

Your groom and the rest of the wedding party will also have flowers- as will your parents and grandparents. Flowers are a signal of a big celebration and set the stage for the party to come.

You can wrap your cake in flowers and you can garnish your hair with them too.

When choosing your flowers, think through what you really like and the smell that you wish to have fragrance your air. The scent will always remind you of your wedding day!

After the wedding, preserve your bouquet and put it in a shadow box frame along with your invitation. It makes a lovely reminder and preserves your memory-making!

Windsor/Essex County offers some talented floral designers. Speak candidly to them and let them know what you are dreaming of and they will create your look for you.

The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County is pleased to offer you answers to all the questions that are asked everytime a wedding is hosted. Email us at www.theweddingguide.ca and Ask the Editor for your own personalized answers.

We wish you all the best and a happy, healthy life together.

Until next time,

Sheryl Davies
Publisher

Wedding Decorating -its the pizazz of your party! The Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County




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Your engagement has been announced and there’s wedding planning ahead of you. Your excitement is in high gear and it’s your day! Make it truly special.

Once you sit down and have a clear understanding of your budget and your expectations; the party details of your reception are in full swing.

Decorating your wedding reception site will clearly reflect your taste and theme for your special day. Start with a blank canvas and you will be able to translate any idea that you may want to use to reality.

There are many excellent design companies in Windsor and area that can make your dream come true. Speaking with a professional and relating your ideas will guarantee a day like you have dreamed about.

Make sure that all the elements are coordinated from your invitation to your chair covers. You could use a certain theme or just coordinate your colours or season of your wedding to make the room come together.

In this day of signature style wedding, remember to include lighting for a special blend of ambiance.

The Wedding Guide loves a great looking party and if you have done something unique and that speaks to being noticed, please contact us with a picture and we will share it with all of our brides.


Yes! I love good news! Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County Photographer, Jayme Morrison Wins Prestigious Award

Jayme Morrison Photography, Windsor, Ontario wins 2nd prestigious award.
As one of the Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County photographers, we salute Jayme for her latest award. Jayme specializes in weddings but shoots any event that you require.

Yes! I love good news! Today, Jayme was notified that she placed as one of the Top 20 Photographers in the AGWPJA print Competition – Q2! Her winning image is from “Kristi & Guy’s” wedding this past July. The category she entered was “Kids being Kids”.
Jayme Morrison wins another prestigious photography award. Congratulations to Jayme!!! http://www.jaymemorrison.blogspot.com/

Fall Weddings! One theme colours for the palette.Wedding Guide Windsor/Essex County

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The air is crisp and the hot, sultry breezes of summer are a thing of the past.

Fall brings the best of the wedding season where everyone is comfortable with the cooler temperatures, and the bride and groom can truly breath a sigh of relief.

The palette is vibrant with rich hues of colour and that makes for a gorgeous one theme colour wedding – white or ivory.

Nothing sets these colours off as well against the vibrancy of fall.

Consider this if you are planning a 2010 wedding – you can see the drama unplaying now through October. What a perfect time for a test-drive for next year.

Other bridal news this month points to more of the vintage look with big, clunky coloured beads as a bridal accessory. Gem tones in hues of purple and butterscotch are popular colours.

Enjoy the season. May your wedding day be as perfect as you dreamt it to be!

Sheryl Davies
Publisher
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Saluting Chalet Studio- Janet & Alan Arseneault- The Weddding Guide Windsor /Essex County

Chalet Studio was featured today on the newest local internet show, todayswindsor.com with Houida Kassem and Bevyn Palmeter. www.todayswindsor.com

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Check out the dynamite duo as they interview business and goings-on in Windsor/Essex County.

For over 16 years, we have watched Chalet Studio emerge as the property and business it is today. Through the tender, caring tutelage of Janet and Alan Arseneaultm, they have literally grown their dream with their  gorgeous country estate,  that pampers brides and grooms to the max. It is so calming upon your arrival, to set foot on their immaculate, manicured grounds; we can only imagine how soothing it makes  brides, grooms and their wedding parties feel. Everything here is luxe, lush and relaxing- like a time long-ago but with all the modern technological advances tucked discreetly away from the eye.

This was a life-goal for this innovative couple, who took a gamble and bought country land and became “farmers” of photography. The flowers, the creek, the décor, the beach area, the wrapped decks and their studio are a one-stop for picture-taking. Weather is no longer a factor on anyone’s wedding day anymore, and they can even drive a T-bird or a fire engine in through their heavy antique doors for shooting purposes. If you want a particular picture with something you cherish, whether small or large, Chalet will make it happen for you.

Both Janet and Alan have their own strengths in this business and as a happily married couple, they work in tandem to create pictures of extraordinary beauty. It is a wonderful lifestyle they are enjoying and it speaks volumes to their commitment to living life to the fullest.

If one thinks of Alice in Wonderland, this is the ultimate in falling down the rabbit hole right into a wonderful, personal experience that any couple would be thrilled with.

Chalet Studio also welcomes family and children’s shoots, pets, graduations and any other celebratory milestones of your life. They have followed families from their engagements to their grandchildren, making them a generational business.

We wish them every success in all their future endeavours and cannot wait to see their property in the next five years, as their grounds continue to mature and, they continue to add more of their unique touches to this outstanding palette. They have a wedding playground in exquisitely good taste for every theme and personality.

The Wedding Guide is proud to have showcased Chalet Studio from their beginning, over 16 years ago. We wish them every success in their future endeavours. 

The Wedding Guide invites you to join our blog www.bridaltalk.theweddingguide.ca for more bridal musing, banter and everything wedding, from your local wedding experts. We are the official bridal planner and website wedding portal for Windsor/Essex County and brides have trusted us for over 16 years to help them plan their weddings- stress-free and organized!

Watch for Daily Wedding Tips are posted on our Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=8871787529

We also have many give-aways, a Bride of the Month contest and more! You can win fabulous prizes!

All our photographers and brides in The Wedding Guide are Windsor/Essex residents and we salute them all!

Have you any wedding questions, or are you looking for a particular service or article for your wedding day?- contact us for complimentary advice.

Did you know there are $1000′s of dollars of money-saving offers for you on our website. www.theweddingguide.ca

Watch for our semi-annual Press Release about Bridal Trends for 2010 – coming soon!

Until later,

Don’t sweat the small stuff- your wedding day will be beautiful!

Weddings Windsor, Ontario, The Wedding Guide Talking 2010 bridal trends! Unique is in.

I’ve been reading about 2010 Wedding trends and the trend is pointing to a more unique, signature-style wedding . With the influence of year’s gone by, the style is moving toward home weddings, which aren’t necessarily less expensive, but certainly are more intimate and personal. A back yard is more easy-going for everyone. Your guests are more relaxed and it can be a great and moderately priced entertaining choice,  or you can go all-out.

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Perhaps decorating is the bride’s hot button and she goes all out to create their own space, unique to both her and her fiancé. She may then decide to cut back on favours completely. Everyone has their own style.We previewed covers for our current Wedding Guide over 6 months ago and go and agreed unanimously that the Hollywood look was going to continue to emerge as a  strong trend.

The consensus was a very glam, opulent and vintage cover. We have since learned that our cover girl, Brooke Boyle is vying for The Miss Universe Canada Contest in Toronto this week. And, the best of the best is that she is also a local Windsor/Essex native and she is engaged! All the best tomorrow, Brooke. 2

Veils with a feather or a jewel-clip and netting is the favourite choice for brides and they cover only the face. This is going to continue to be the head-piece rage well into 2010. It makes a statement and is more fun to wear and look at than the long trains of your mother’s day.

Looking ahead to bridesmaids dresses, and we’ve all been there; there’s more freedom to having the bride pick her colour and letting the gals buy their own styles, and meld the look together as one. The only key is too make certain that the styles are all either formal or informal. The two looks together won’t do it!

There are more emerging trends that deserve to be watched. Wedding pies, for- rent commercial aircrafts for ceremonys, ball gowns that flow like Scarlet’s wardrobe in Gone With the Wind, and outdoor weddings on farms, vineyards, zoos, old train stations and local, white sandy beaches.

Special decorating touches like your mother’s roses in antique vases will grace the guests’ tables.

Bright colours are in – rich hues in gem colours such as amber, plum and navy are coming into vogue. Copper, buttercream and black are also on the horizon.

To everyone planning a wedding; there has been no time as exciting as right now for your wedding day. The sky’s the limit, the mood is fun and friendly, and you have every option in the world to say ” I do” your way.

Until later,

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