Use the first photos of you as a couple for save the date notices to include in Christmas cards. Use different photos of each of you growing up for favor tags. Make a Moo Mini Card with your wedding photo, and new address on the back to include in your thank you cards. At your wedding, use the mini cards, to tell guests your flickr account that they can upload their photos of your wedding to…get creative!

 Check out their blog and Flickr website for even more creative ideas.

These fun mini cards are really easy to set up - and they can use photos direct from facebook, flickr and many more online sites. And the fun doesn’t stop there…you can order greating cards, sticker seals and much more! Design your own, or purchase their already made stickers.

Althought they come from the UK - they are affordable, are excellently printed, and arrived in my mail box in just under 3 weeks. I’d love for your post how you decided to use Moo mini cards or accessories with your upcoming wedding!

MOO MiniCards, Stickers & Greeting Cards

Jolyn Saramaga
Lead Wedding Planner
Nuance Occasions

For those of you with children - be sure to pick up the latest issue of “What’s Up Kids” - I was pleased to assist them with an article on hosting a successful baby shower (we love talking about other events too, besides weddings). It’s in the spring edition and can be found at Chapters, London Drugs and Walmart magazine racks.

As part of a week long feature on weddings with Shaw TV - Nuance Occasions will be featured on Friday April 18 starting at 4pm on the SHAW TV network across the prairies.  We discussed the trend towards more eco-conscious weddings and how couples can take the environment into consideration for their wedding day. We enjoyed showing off a variety of favor ideas and eco-friendly products to help with the planning process. Tune in if you can!!

And now - get our blog updates sent right to your email account - just subscribe with your email address in the box in the right column….we don’t see your addresses, so you don’t have to worry about your information being shared. We’ve got some exciting format changes in the plans for our blog - so stay tuned!!

Wedding season is beginning…and I hope all of your plans are coming along effortlessly!

Jolyn | Lead wedding planner
Nuance Occasions
http://www.nuanceoccasions.com

Our red rose logo has done us well for 7 years, but as our focus on creating signature weddings has evolved, it was time for a new look…

 Watch as our website and other materials are changed over the weekend to reflect our new, more distinquished look…

Nuance Occasions has just added an environmental policy to our website (check it out here) - as we begin to take baby steps in ensuring our business practices leave as minimal of an impact as it can. But we are also shifting to assist all of our clients, even through very small actions, to lessen the environmental impact of their wedding.

Now, we don’t expect every client to have organic food, or a wedding dress of hemp fibres, but even simple items like renting as much of our decor as possible so it can be reused by other couples, using LED candles or natural wax candles, ensuring alcohol bottles are appropriately recycled, and possibly by giving guests living/growing favors…these small steps, over 30+ weddings a year, can make a difference on what ends up in our landfills.

Whether you want to add a bit of ‘green’ principles to your wedding, or you want to ensure you have the most minimal carbon footprint on your wedding day, our article ‘Reducing Your Impact…Green Weddings’ will be sure to give you more ideas to help you make your wedding more eco-chic and eco-friendly!

Jolyn | Lead Wedding Coordinator
Nuance Occasions
www.nuanceoccasions.com

 This past weekend, at the Canadian Wedding Planners Conference held in Toronto, I had the pleasure of tasting these beautiful champagne truffles that Oprah loves so much!

 These handmade swiss truffles are available in the signature green and yellow packaging or special packaging such as pictured above. Choose from 2 or 4 truffles per box. Your guests will be delighted with these unique truffles, offered by only one Canadian supplier - William Ashley China in Toronto.

 And now, as a special gift…couples workingn with Jolyn will receive a special gift from William Ashley China when our services are booked for full wedding planning services (view here) - you won’t be disappointed!!

We did their ceremony at the Citadel Theatre, where they often met for lunch when first dating, and then went over to the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald into the smaller Jasper Room for a truly intimate wedding reception…complete with mulled wine and apple cider (who would have thought it would have been 0 degrees in Edmonton in February LOL)

Ceremony: Citadel Theatre
Officiant - Bill Pisarchuk
Reception: Hotel MacDonald - Jasper Room
Photographer: Rachel J Photography
Flowers - Corals’ Designs
Linens - Elegant Touches
Truffle Topiary - Truffle Sensations

Invitations

A moment before proceeding with their photo session

Pillars with rose arrangments for ceremony

Family of the bride and groom playing

Reception room entrance there was a K and E on each door (their initials)

Bride and groom chairs

Reception room (boardroom style table arrangment)

Round menus on charger plates (cruise ship luggage tags doubled as placecards as their favour - their first trip together was a cruise, and they’ve done lots of travelling)

The amazing truffle topiary placed on the guestbook table (couple fed each other one as an alternative photo opportunity since they didn’t have a cake.

Embellished decks of playing cards - competitive card games broke out after dinner, as there was not an official dance, etc - I even learned to play ’speed’ LOL

 Thank you Kim and Eric for allowing us to help you in planning this truly intimate winter wedding!! Your love definately helped to warm the room!! Best wishes!

Jolyn | Lead Wedding Coordinator

Nuance Occasions | http://www.nuanceoccasions.com

If you need to contact us, and only use hotmail, please email us a nuanceoccasions@hotmail.com and if you don’t have a response in 24 hours, please call to ensure we have received your email.

We thank you for your understand!

Jolyn | Lead Wedding Coordinator

P.S. and don’t forget to check out our revised website at www.nuanceoccasions.com if you haven’t been for a while!

May 2008 bring you health, happiness and prosperity.

I’d like to thank all of our 2007 clients - we have so many fond memories of the weddings we’ve assisted with over the past year…and getting to know each couple. We look forward to all the fun of seeing all of our 2008 weddings come to life after all the planning in the upcoming new year!!

We are truly blessed, and thank all of our clients - current and past - and all the fabulous vendors we work with - for making our job so much fun and enjoyable - we couldn’t keep doing this without all the support we have!

So best wishes, and we look forward to trying to blog more in the new year (I’ll try…but I’m never really good with New Year’s resolutions LOL)

Happy Holidays from the team at Nuance Occasions!

http://www.nuanceoccasions.com

Ceremony: Citadel Theatre
Officiant - Bill Pisarchuk
Trio - Rococo Strings
Reception: Mayfield Inn & Suites
Photographer: Smiley Eyes Photography
DJ - Mark from DJ Hotline
Cake - Simply Elegant

Processional - Citadel Theatre

Strings Trio

Ceremony Signing

Bridal Bouquet

Table Setting and Favor Box

Bride & Groom Rubber Duckie Seating Cards

Head Table

Head Table During Speeches

Bride & Groom with Cake

More of the Head Table

Calla Lily Cascade Cake