Posts in Pastiche Engagement
A Parisian Café Inspired Backyard Bridal Shower

With only a few weeks to plan, I had to make quick decisions. I decided on a Parisian inspired ladies brunch in our backyard and got to work completing the team needed to make it all come to life. The short planning timeline meant any custom elements were difficult so I decided to use a lot of the custom patterns and designs I already had from the Pastiche Boutique (like the blue floral decal on the cocktail cart) and ran with this Café Pastiche concept.

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An Engaged Wedding Planner’s Guide to Save-the-Dates

If you’re like me, small details, especially stationery, make your heart skip a beat. I LOVE getting mail, and I knew I wanted our stationery to reflect the tone we are designing for our big day.

Because I wanted the save-the-dates to complement the overall invitation and day-of stationery design, I needed to think about all of this early on. As we envisioned the flowers and tablescape, the stationery naturally came together. From there, we were able to combine our favourite elements to be reflected in the invitation suite.

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10 Things That Happen in the First Week of Being Engaged

It’s been one week since we got engaged and what a week it was!

As a wedding planner, the most common thing I always tell engaged couples is to take it slow and take it all in before jumping into planning as eager and excited as everyone can be. I thought it would be great to dive into some of the feelings, experiences and yes, planning that happened in this first week!

Here are 10 things that happened in our first week of being engaged!

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