RSVP Event Design nominated for an Event Industry Award

We are very excited as we just found out that we have been nominated for an event award! The Canadian Special Events Society hosts the Canadian Event Industry Awards (Star Awards) which recognizes outstanding achievements in all areas of special events. RSVP Event Design has been nominated in the Best Wedding Under 75K category for John & Yuki’s fabulous wedding.




We will be attending the awards in Toronto on March 25th. Keep your fingers crossed!

Here is our video entry.

Fun ideas to Celebrating Saskatoon’s “Cool Culture”

Well it’s a fact. If you live in Saskatoon or in Saskatchewan from early November to the beginning of April you will have a chance to experience this “cool culture” I am speaking about. By this I am speaking of WINTER! I have decided that if you can’t beat the winter weather you might as well join in some of its fun! PotashCorp WinterShines 2011 showed us that there are so many ways to celebrate winter! Ice Climbing, snow carving, sleigh rides, maple taffy making, dog sledding and ice carvings are just a few of the ways we celebrated at PotashCorp WinterShines 2011. The long winter months sometimes keep us in our houses. Here are 10 fun and easy things to do in Saskatoon and right in your own backyard.



1. Go for a walk- enjoy a walk down by the river. The riverbank in Saskatoon is so beautiful. Enjoy the beauty of the South Saskatchewan River, hoar frost on the trees and wonderful walk paths!



2. Build a snowman or snow fort. Put the snow piles that you have shovelled to good use and create an awesome fort with it!



3. Take a card board box and pack it with snow. Let it sit for a week or so cut the box open and carve away! Using old paint scrapers and files you can create beautiful snow sculptures right in your front yard.



4. Add some color to your front lawn. Fill 1gallon pails or larger with water and add some food coloring. Let them freeze. Then spread them around your yard. Add an LED light for night time! Not only have you had fun outside doing it but your yard will look beautiful as well!



5. Go for a skate at the Cameco Meewasin Skating rink (right next to the Bessborough Hotel). They have skates if you need to borrow! There is also a great spot to warm up if you get chilly!



6. Have a fire in your back yard and make Maple taffy! This is a fun and tasty treat for all ages! Check out www.canadianliving.com for a recipe on how to do this!



7. Challenge yourself to try a winter activity that you have never done before. A few popular activities are Cross Country skiing, downhill skiing, and snowshoeing.



8. Shovel your neighbours drive way or sidewalk. The extra fresh air will make you feel great!



9. Cross country skiing is a great way to get exercise. Visit Kinsmen Park or Wildwood golf course for wonderfully groomed ski trails.



10. Next year Visit PotashCorp WinterShines 2012 for more wintery fun activities to do by yourself or with your families!

Invitation Confusion

One of the major steps when planning a wedding or event comes with choosing your invitations. With all the styles, colors, and designs to choose from the options may seem endless and often overwhelming. Your invitations provide the first glimpse into the feel of your wedding so it is important to stay true to yourself and show your guests what your big day is all about! Here are a few tips to take the guesswork out of choosing your invites.


Back to Basics

Before you meet with anyone about your invitations be sure to have the basic information decided. How many invitations? How much information needs to be included? How do you want your RSVP’s handled? Having answers to some of these questions nailed down makes the invitation process a little less confusing.


Talk to the Experts

Instead of trying to sort through the mountains of design options that you would find in magazines or on the internet, set up a consultation with us. Looking through actual invitation samples and talking through the options can help you get a tangible idea of what your invitations could look like. Bring samples of colors or design styles that suit your wedding so we can come up with a design that is true to your style.

Make Time your Friend

Why stress if you don’t have to? We can generally make your ideal invitations happen under a time crunch, but if you have some time before your wedding come see us early!

There are lost of decisions to make in regards to invites so take your time and be confident in those decisions!

Hopefully these tips will help sort out this sometimes confusing process.  Stop in anytime to talk to our knowledgeable staff about your upcoming wedding or event and let us help you design the perfect invitations. The options really are endless, but perhaps with us they’ll be a little less overwhelming!

For the Sweet Tooth...

As many of you may have seen, Candy Buffets are a trend that has popped up at a lot of weddings lately and that trend is here to stay for the summer! The great thing about the Candy Buffet is that there are endless possibilities of how to personalize them. It is also an inexpensive and fun favor idea!


For a vintage feel…

A soda shop style candy buffet is a great idea for a fun vintage wedding. Using jelly beans, old-fashioned stick candy and licorice you can transport your guests back to simpler times. Toss in some glass coke bottles or personalized soda pop and they’ll be ready to rock around the clock!

Add some international flare…

A candy buffet is also a great way to incorporate international flavors into your wedding. If you have guests coming from other parts of the world, order in some special favorite candy from their home. It will not only be a new adventure for your local guests, but it will make your international family and friends feel special.

For the elegant bride…

With a little research, a candy buffet can have a very elegant look. The increased popularity of this fun wedding idea has provided the bride with endless options. You can do a beautiful candy buffet full of black and ivory confections if that suits your taste. Guests can fill champagne glasses with candy personalized to your wedding, which will suit there sweet tooth and your elegant style.


Whatever the look, style and feel of your wedding, a candy buffet is a great way to have guests interact with each other, learn a little about your personal style and take home a treat that they will love!


Come visit us for many more fun tips to create the perfect candy buffet!

"Rock The Reception" in Saskatoon!

One of the newest wedding trends is to have a choreographed, surprise first dance. Traditionally first dances have been slow, romantic songs however; some couples prefer to forgo tradition and choose a fun and upbeat song to surprise and sometimes shock their guests!


As a wedding planner with a dance background I couldn’t be happier to accommodate my clients who want to (literally) shake up the norm with some funky moves and cool tunes. I have had the honor of choreographing several first dances for my clients and it is always a blast!

Surprise first dances come with a few challenges and you want to be sure you are well prepared so that the first dance is not something you are stressing about your entire wedding day.

• Start early and give yourself plenty of time to rehearse

• Consider your gown and what moves will work with your style of dress

• For clients that are nervous about being the complete centre of attention you might consider including your bridal party

• Try your best to keep it a surprise from your guests but be certain to let your photographer and videographer know so they can capture every moment

• If possible try to rehearse in your reception space. Sometimes nerves can set in and the new dance space can mix you up and turn you around

Amanda & John busted a move to “I Like to Move It”.

 

Tawnya & Dean's first dance involved a country/ hip hop showdown between Tawnya and her Dad and Dean and his daughter.

Jade & Nathan's entire bridal party helped pull off their first dance surprise.

Personalizing Your Wedding

“How do I make my wedding unique”? It’s a question I get from all of my clients and it’s one I love answering as we definitely do not do “cookie cutter” weddings here at RSVP Event Design.

The best way to make your wedding unique is to personalize it and make it about you. What was cute at your sisters wedding might not work for you if you and your sister have nothing in common and have completely different style and taste. Think about what makes you and your fiancé you and how your relationship is unique. Maybe you love camping and campfires so you want to do s’mores at your midnight lunch. Or maybe you love watching old movies so your table names are in honour of your favourite movie stars of the past.

Here are some great personalizing concepts my clients have done at their fabulous weddings:

Tawnya and Dean apparently eat ketchup with EVEYTHING so their favours were personalized mini ketchup bottles with their name and wedding date.

John & Yuki work on a cruise ship so they had a cake in the shape of a cruise ship for the groom’s cake.

Kim & Vito came up with a heart felt and fun way to honour the loved one’s they have lost to breast cancer. They greeted each guest with a pink Baja Rosa shooter as they went through the receiving line and then made a donation to the Pink Ribbon fund for cancer research in their guest’s names.

Daley McIntyre & John MacDonald had a fun and yummy way of playing up on the fact that both of their last names start with Mc! They had a martini luge for their signature cocktail which was a Cranberry 'McTini'.

Jade & Nathan had fun honouring their family’s farming background by using grain in their centerpieces and also having photos of themselves holding the table card number to correspond with the seating chart.

Pam & Chris' Wedding

We had the pleasure of being a part of Pam & Chris' beautiful wedding this past summer and just received a few images from their very talented photographer at Cattura Imagery http://www.catturaimagery.com/ who captured the day so fabulously!