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MODERN SPRING WEDDING

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MODERN SPRING WEDDING

Ottawa Art Gallery, Toast Events Modern Wedding. Wedding planning reception decor

A blank canvas. Light, bright and airy. With a creative mind, anything is possible. Limitless. I love the feeling of minimalism with it’s carefully and consciously chosen design aspects. Clean, fresh, easy to the eye. But I also am a maximalist when it comes to infusing some European flare to any of my designs. I think it’s because it reminds me of home. There’s something comforting about old world details we don’t often see in abundance the western world. AND I absolutely love mixing those two styles together, especially in intimate settings with the smaller weddings we are seeing these days. Here are a few words from Amber & Muse, where our work was featured.

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“As spring approaches us in great stride, winter is approaching somewhere else in the world, which can feel charmingly warm and heavenly light with a modern spring wedding like this. The wedding planners of Toast Events show us how that works.

„Stuck deep in the depths of the cold winter here in Canada we wanted to create an inspiration shoot that dissipated the winter clouds and made us feel the warmth of the coming ‘primavera’.“ Jen and Salvatore of Lace & Luce reveals. „Using spring florals and adorning the bride in greenery, with modern touches of Renaissance decor, this vision alluded to Spring with lavish but yet graceful details.“

From this era came the source of inspiration in which the ladies apparently took a long bath. Following the example of Botticelli’s famous painting “Primavera”, they transformed the Ottawa Art Gallery into a magical place somewhere between the 15th and 21st century when they realized their stylish visions.

And so, just as the fantastic artist once did with “Flora”, they adorned their bride with magnificent flower arrangements of the Fleuriste Flower School and let juicy green foliage glide down her silhouette.

Underneath, a stunning bridal dress by Catherine Langlois flashed out. An absolute highlight itself due to its feather-light tulle, seductive transparency and enchanting floral applications.

 „Paired with our wedding dress, an exquisite pair of tulle sock heels which were also custom designed and made by Elise Schmitz from Toast Events, hand-stitched and beaded to compliment the wedding dress with ruffles of tulle, raw silk ribbons and Swarovski crystals.“the team told us excitedly.

In a second we too can swarm and revel about what we are about to sse, when the photographers Jen and Salvatore of Lace & Luce invite us to look around in their fantastic picture gallery. Have fun!”

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PERSIAN WEDDING AT FAIRMONT CHATEAU LAURIER

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PERSIAN WEDDING AT FAIRMONT CHATEAU LAURIER

Chateau Laurier Ottawa, Toast Events Wedding Planning

The Chateau Laurier feels like a second home to me. I’ve had the honor of planning weddings here since our first in 2012 and have been one of their preferred wedding planners for some time now. I love designing in this space as it’s a little slice of Europe. The construction of the Chateau dates back to 1909 with some of its furniture bound for Ottawa sinking to the depths of the ocean with the Titanic in 1912. As iconic as this building, we have equally designed some beautiful fairytale weddings here. This Persian weddings ceremony was held in the Laurier Room with the reception in the grand Ballroom. We incorporated a stately floor plan with long angled tables which stretched the length of the room. The details were simple and decadent.

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PRIVATE ROCKLIFF ESTATE WEDDING

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PRIVATE ROCKLIFF ESTATE WEDDING

Private Wedding Ottawa, Toast Events Planning

In the middle of a Pandemic and we had huge plans. Plans for a unique botanical take of The Great Gatsby. Ceiling of greenery and twinkle lights, oversized chandeliers, and a midnight champagne tower…. but as we all say now, the world had other plans. Quickly we pivoted and pitched the idea of hosting Emilie & Simon’s private wedding at their family home in Rockliff with their reception still to be hosted for the date of their one year anniversary. As their petite wedding drew near, we were in official lockdown- yet again. Gatherings of 10 only. And thankfully their bubble was just that.

I have to say- a small wedding is almost- in my eyes, a styled shoot. We have time to capture every little detail of the day to truly string in the story line through photography. I can narrow my vision into the tiniest details on a scale I could never do for a 150 person wedding. I was even able to set and style the dinner table myself. One of my favourite things to do. Needless to say, I really hope the trend of smaller weddings continue.

Before their backyard wedding, we hopped in the car and drove a few streets over to the Rockcliffe Park lake for a first look and pictures with my dear friends and photographers Joel & Justyna.

Dinner for the evening required chopsticks and enough Chinese food for an army. Emilie & Simon ordered every single item from the take-out menu of their favourite restaurant and had custom bamboo chopsticks designed for the occasion.

And all you need to know is that at the end of the day, I left with egg rolls. The rest is history.

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Ombre Smoothies

It's the morning of your wedding day and the last thing on your mind is eating breakfast-I know! On my wedding day the only thing I could stomach was Rooibos tea and some candied ginger to settle my stomach. It's true, there are so many things going on between makeup, hair and photo's, that if someone isn't appointed with the job of feeding you or at the very least reminding you to eat -it's just not going to happen! 

 

I'm a big advocate of eating breakfast, but I can also understand why some brides might want to skip it. At the very least I always suggest that one of your bridesmaids be in charge of making smoothies. And if I was in your bridal party, I would be making these super adorable ombre smoothies...

 
 
  • 1/2 cup of raspberries
  • 1/2 cup of blueberries
  • 1/2 cup of strawberries
  • 5 slices of peaches
  • 1 banana
  • 1 cup of yogurt 
  • 1/2 cup of almond milk 
  • 1tsp of coconut sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups of ice

option to add 1/2 tbsp of vanilla protein powder to each layer.

Place 1/2 cup of coconut milk, 1 banana, peach slices and 1/2 cup of ice into your blender and mix for 30 seconds. Pour it into a container and set aside. 

For the second layer, blend 1/2 cup of yogurt, 1/2 cup of strawberries & 1/2 of raspberries, 1/2 cup of ice. Pour it into a container and set aside.

Now that you have two smoothie flavours, put containers into the freezer for 10 minutes until they become a thicker consistency. The last smoothie layer should be added as a topping. I find that the blueberry turns grey if it sit's out for even a few minutes. 

Once your two first layers are chilled, you can then take 1/2 cup yogurt, 1/2 cup of blueberries, 1/2 cup of ice and blend. Briefly set aside.

Fill your cups with the first banana & peach smoothie, then the strawberry & raspberry smoothie followed by the blueberry topping and serve. 

serves 4

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