Friday the 13th!

Friday the 13^th, a date that screams superstition. In 2012, we’re lucky enough to have three occurrences exactly 13 weeks apart (January, April & July)! According to some sources, Friday the 13^th is the most widespread superstition in the United States today. Some people refuse to go to work, travel, even leave the house, and most wouldn’t think of holding their wedding on that date!

Although, if you’re able to put aside any friggatriskaidekaphobia (which in case you’re wondering, is the fear of Friday the 13^th), you could be in for a treat!   A way to ward off any phobias on your Friday the 13^th wedding is to use good luck themes in your reception décor.  Decorations mixing four leaf clovers, horseshoes, ladybugs, and stars are among the few that can help to create the lucky essence of your magical day!

However, before you start planning your special day, make sure you or your significant other isn’t suffering from any of these silly phobias!

Gamophobia – Fear of marriage

Geliophobia – Fear of laughter

Hierophobia – Fear of priests or sacred things

Neophobia – Fear of anything new

So if this has changed your mind about getting married on the next Friday the 13^th maybe you’ll be the one coming into some luck!

Spring Signature Cocktails

Impress your friends and family at the next gathering with these pastel (and delicious), Spring themed cocktails!  They are also great for a Signature Cocktails at a wedding!  They can be used as Bride & Groom or another way to bring your colors into the wedding, if they are pink and blue! Enjoy!

The first is a Pink Bonnet cocktail, complete with a foamy texture! 

 Ingredients (for one cocktail):

•          1-1/2 ounces gin
•          1/2 ounce simple syrup
•          3/4 ounce lemon juice
•          2 dashes of crème de framboise or grenadine (for color)
•          White of a small egg

(or you can use approximately two tablespoons of egg white substitute)  

Preparation:  

•          Shake all ingredients without ice to emulsify the egg whites
•          Shake all ingredients with ice & strain into a small cocktail glass
•          Add fresh muddled mint leaves, if desired

The next drink is called the simple Blue Cottontail.

Ingredients (for one cocktail): 

•          1-1/2 ounces vodka
•          1/2 ounce triple sec
•          1/4 ounce blue Curaçao
•          Flamed orange peel (for garnish)

Preparation:  

•          Shake ingredients well
•          Stain into a chilled martini glass
•          Flame the orange peel over the glass

  Cocktails obtain from The Nibble  

Easter Decor

Always returning to decorating with colored Easter grass that clings to everything and you end up finding months later? Well leave the pesky grass out this year and take inspiration from these new Easter and Spring decoration ideas!

Easter Egg GarlandA simple, easy to make decoration idea is Easter egg garland. All you need for this project is plastic eggs, thin twine and a darning needle (which is thick enough to go through the eggs).  Simply thread the eggs together using the needle and twine (for step by step pictures follow the link) and voila you have an Easter egg garland. So easy the kids can help! For some sprucing up, you can add ribbon tied into bows in various places throughout the strand of eggs.

Here’s idea for flowers, after all, what says spring time more than vibrantPink peeps fresh flowers! Similar to the vase filled with plastic eggs, first put the flowers in a smaller vase filled with water, that will fit inside the larger clear vase. Next, you can fill the space between the two vase with colored jelly beans, and bunny Peeps. The peeps won’t melt, they’ll simply get hard, so your decoration is sure to last as long until the flowers wilt!

blue peepsTry doing different colored peeps and jelly beans coordinating with different colored flowers around the house. To tie in this theme around the house, (inexpensively!) you can fill clear vases, jars, bowls or used bottles with different spring colored jelly beans (don’t worry, they’ll quickly become stale, but still just as decorative, so the kids won’t want to eat them!)           

Digital Brochure

I hope you enjoy my first digital brochure.  It was really fun to make and I will have alot more videos coming soon.   Jen

Bride's Choice Award Winner - 3rd year

March 5, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Taylor'd Events by Jennifer  has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Wedding Planning!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Taylor'd Events by Jennifer was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients. 

Taylor'd Events by Jennifer is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Taylor'd Events by Jennifer for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Taylor'd Events by Jennifer is one of the very best Wedding Planning within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

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