Day of Coordinator

Many brides confuse the role of wedding planner and day of coordinator. Each are necessary to pull off a smooth and flawless wedding it just depends on how much help is needed to plan your big day. In this day and age, many brides are doing much of the work themselves to cut cost and to place their own personal seal on their wedding for guests to see and enjoy. If you don't have anything- a Day of Coordinator is a MUST.

Day of Coordinators typically meet with the bride and groom a month before the wedding day, visit the venue location and ensure everything is on track with vendors and the bridal party. They pick and ask questions to ensure the bride and groom are happy with the decisions made and that everything for the ceremony and reception runs on course as planned. On the "day of" they arrive well before guests arrive to ensure decorations are prepared and in place, each vendor arrives on time and does their part and that the bridal party is in their places once the ceremony is ready to begin. They guide and cue the reception activities for an efficient, yet enjoyable time for all. At the end of it all, your Day of Coordinator is there to ensure the bride and groom are off safely, decorations and gifts are packed and safe and that the venue is back in satisfactory order. Many times they are the last to leave.

The tough part for brides is letting go and allowing the Day of Coordinator to do what they were hired to do- which is to allow them to enjoy their wedding day. Up to this point the bride and quite possibly, family and friends have prepared everything from seating arrangements to florals-and the Coordinator ends up receiving input from MANY different people. This can be very frustrating and confusing for the Day of Coordinator and places the bride and groom in an awkward position. It's imperative that they share with everyone exactly what the Day of Coordinator is there for- to ensure a flawless wedding that is enjoyable for all!

Unsure of what you need for your wedding day? Contact Jameson Creations for a FREE consultation with an experienced planner.

Picture: JC Weddings 2010

Glamours Top 5 Fall Wedding Dresses

Go to the Glamour website and see The Top 5 Most Breathtaking Wedding Dresses of Fall 2011 Bridal Week. This Monique Lhuillier dreamboat is one of my favorites! Absolutely breathtaking...

Wedding gown with adorned neckline moniquelhuillier.com

 Source: www.glamour.com - Glamour Weddings

Having your wedding in September? There are many ways to add touches of the season and create a beautiful indoor or outdoor wedding.


 Use the rich colors of fall: golds, bronze, and oranges to name a few. Then use deep purples and greens as accents.

Cake Table- JC Weddings

If your wedding is indoors, think of using soft candle light for an evening wedding and create a beautiful fall centerpieces or scatter your table with fall leaves flowers.

Your guest will love the ambiance you create!








Add more fun autumn decorations that capture the essence of the season. Then nuzzle up to your new bride or groom-to-be and let your guests enjoy!

Escort Card Table Decor- JC Weddings

Fall Wedding Sign in Tree JC Weddings

Ceremony Aisle- JC Weddings

If your looking for the perfect designer wedding dress but don't want the "high end" price tag- check out this article found on the yahoo shopping website from Forbes. Your dress dreams can come true!

10 Designer Wedding Gowns For $500 Or Less

 
 
 
 
Source: Yahooshopping.com
              forbes.com

DIY Favor Baskets

Favors for your guests are always extra special when they are handmade {by you of course!} with love! My cousin and his wife had a beautiful family-style Fall wedding in 2009. Each wood basket was customized to a family or single person and included fall themed items like yummy carmel apples and candies, and homeade banana bread and apple butter.

Our families were so excited to grab the baskets and peek inside at all their goodies to eat in their hotel rooms that night and over the weekend.






Summer is here and great ideas to add to welcome and favor baskets are bottles of water with a customized label and personalized fans. Include your names and wedding date or a summery design with rubber stamp sets or add a sweet or funny picture of you and the groom on the water bottles.












Pictures from: Jameson Creations wedding Planners, Martha Stewart Weddings and My DIY Wedding Day

Here some uniquely cool wedding trends that I found as I was persuing the web today. Have any more? Share with us on Facebook!

Mix the table shapes at your reception...


(Picture credit: Ace Party Rentals)


This picture of a beautiful summer outdoor reception allows for guests to be seated at longer banquet table and rounds. Interchanging the banquets and rounds throughout the reception makes for an elegant, less coordinated look. This ideas is great for garden receptions for a more rustic feel. A variety of chairs could also be used to pull it all together.




Purple & Siver Candy Buffet by Jameson Creations





We've shared it before but Candy buffets and bars are still a growing trend at weddings! Brides have expanded in to other unique ideas for their bars and buffets such as desserts bars featuring cupcakes and cakes, brownies and cookies. Doughnuts were a recent request from one of our brides as well as popcorn and hot chocolate bars...great to warm guests up at a winter wedding!    






Our September 2010 couple!
Shovanna & Jason Burcham

Another really great trend is brides and groom walking down different aisles and meeting at the front of all their guests. People have really seemed to appreciate the out of the ordinary of the groom standing in one aisle as his bride comes up another. It's so romantic as the bride is given away and then walks across the front to meet her husband to be! Ain't Love Grand!

Meet us here for more great trends this wedding season!

Salt Ceremony

I love weddings and I am always excited to see what the couple can and will do to create a special or unique moment on their wedding day. I've witnessed many unique and special unity or memorial ceremonies and I never tire of seeing new ones. The Salt Ceremony was done at the wedding of Ray & Ann this past weekend and was so special and beautiful as the officiant shared its significance

When you perform the Salt Covenant, you are combining your individual grains of salt, symbolizing your united life. Your commitment to one another and to God cannot be broken unlesss you can separate your salt from your husband or wife-to-be (Salt Ceremonies, 2011). 

The salt ceremony can be performed several ways. The bride and groom can have separate vials of salt and pour them into a "unity" container or as Ann & Ray did by taking a pinch of salt out of a beautiful container and placing several grains on each others tongues.

 What type of memorable ceremony will you do for your wedding?

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 Here are more pictures from our blissful wedding weekend. Anne and Ray. What can I say? Their wedding left us feeling...seriously- we were speechless. It was such a special day and its so hard to put in to words how it made you feel. It was simply amazing. Everything about that wedding shouted LOVE and you definitely felt the love all through that place! Thank you Anne and Ray for reminding us of what it is to love and be loved.

Mr. Ray & Ann Littlefield: Married May 15, 2011

Ceremony site before the florals and decorations

Anne had a tropical vision and she ran it! We transformed the room into a tropical paradise. Thanks so much to the Columns staff for all their help.   

Beautiful Birds of Paradise florals and sharp greenery by Royal Creations adorned the place in bright colors. Black satin chair covers and cream organza sashes added just the right amount of elegance to the ceremony and reception areas. You knew you were in paradise standing beside one of the huge 6 and 14 ft palm trees (yep-real ones!) that lined the staircase, aisle for the ceremony and the buffet table.

Balcony view of decorated ceremony site

Hats off to Anne and Ray Littlefield and their gorgeous "all about love" wedding. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful ending to our busy wedding weekend.

Cocktail Hour centerpiece

Ann's silk look-a-like for keepsake

Ann chose these beautiful tropical florals by Royal Creations

These unique Anthuriums were highlighted in many of their floral arrangements. Julie with Royal Creations say's they also come in a bright RED and a lovely HOT GREEN. 

 

Ann & daughters (from left): Keri, Amanda & Tammy

Family is so important to the couple

RAY + ANN = LOVE

 

So SWEET!

Giving Ann away

Kissing the bride!

A taste of cake at the reception

A stolen moment between the two

A lovely end to a gorgeous day!

We did it!

Photographers: Randall's Photography, Inc.

Ceremony & Reception: The Columns- Greenwood

Florals: Royal Creations- Weds by Julie

DJ: Patrick's DJ Service

Cake by: A Piece of Cake

Planners: Jameson Creations

Columns Coordinator: DeAnna Foreman

 

Garden Wedding

Beautiful cake & tasty cupcakes by Indy Cakes for Lori & George

We are tired, but blissfully so after an amazingly busy wedding weekend at Avon Gardens in Avon, Indiana and at the Columns Ballroom in Greenwood, Indiana. Thanks so much to: Karen Robbins and the Avon Gardens staff, Rhea Anee and DeAnna Foreman at the Columns Ballroom, Steve Owens with Patrick's DJ Service and the dynamic photographic duo Randy and Joanna Baughn with Randall's Photography, Inc.

A special heartfelt thank you goes out to the couples for allowing us to be a part of their day! Take a look at some of the photos below  from Lori and George's wedding. We'll return with gorgeous photos from Ray and Anne's tropical themed wedding. CONGRATULATIONS to the happy couples!

Lori and George Ncube were so sweet and amazingly calm as they went about their day. The gardens are so beautiful and serene, it was hard to not stop and smell... everything!

Mr. George & Lori Ncube: Married May 14, 2011

The wedding party in their gorgeous gear wait for the next wave of photos!




 

Avon Gardens provided the perfect backdrop to a beautiful wedding



The guests enjoyed a tented reception



The bride and her party made the centerpieces



Happy Mother's Day 

to  every Mother and Mother-to-Be

from the Staff at

Jameson Creations Wedding Planners

Best Wishes for a Very Special Day!

Check out the MAY Issue of Indy Wedding Ideas

Open publication - Free publishing - More indy

Candy Buffets can be used for many different special occasions

• Wedding Receptions
• Bridal and Baby Showers
• Birthday Parties
• Anniversaries

AND SO MUCH MORE!

Our candy buffet dedicated to the Race for the Cure
Indy Wedding Ideas Bridal Show -Saturday April 16, 2011

CONTACT US TO ORDER YOURS!

Wedding Day Transportation for Guests

Family and friends come from miles around to celebrate with you on your wedding day. Providing transportation for your guests save them from rental car expenses, lets them have  fun and party at your wedding and reception yet still make it back to their hotels and homes safely and responsibly.

At Jameson Creations, we see this a lot and when a bride comes to us with this dilemma, we are able to give her some helpful advice and tips. Check these out: 

1) Depending on the size of your wedding you may be able to hire a standard bus such as a school bus to make one trip for pick up and drop off. This will require all guest to be ready, but scheduling a time and making this known to guests can allow them to prepare and plan to be ready so their evening is fun and stress free. If you are already renting a limo or car for the wedding party, ask them about other transportation- which typically equals savings for you. 

2) If it is in the wedding budget, shuttle buses are really popular and typically work for larger wedding guest parties. Multiple trips can be made at specific hours that are designed with the bride and groom dependent on the time of their wedding. This helps to make sure guests make it to the wedding festivities on time and also helps with families that may have small children and need to leave the party earlier. 

3) You may check with the hotel you have chosen for guest lodging to see if they have a shuttle service available. If the wedding and reception site is in close proximity, they may offer it at a discounted rate or even free to hotel guests. There is typically charge that can range anywhere from $15-$25 per trip. 

Your wedding day should be a great time for you and your guests. Providing this service will show you went the extra mile to ensure they fully enjoy your wedding day. 

Jameson Creations is a full-service wedding planning and day of coordination company. Let us put the "wow" in every detail of your wedding. Contact one of our experienced planners today!