Styling - The New Wedding Trend

Styling...it's the newest trend in the Wedding and Event Planning world. Ten years ago it was mainly full planning. Five years ago the new push was for the DOC (or Day of Coordinator). And now, it's styling. With the onset of the DIY bride and blogs like Style Me Pretty and 100 Layer Cake, the wedding stylist was born. I have personally seen a boom in my business with clients wanting me to style their wedding.

By style, I mean take their 500 pins from Pinterest and turn all of those ideas into a cohesive look. It is awesome! I love it...it is so much more creative than just being the DOC, and I really get to work with my clients on a one-on-one basis to make their wedding ideas come to fruition. Here are a few examples of weddings I have styled recently.  

Photos courtesy of Matthew of Cly Creations

 Photos courtesy of Dante Williams Photography

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Katie is the Wedding and Event Planning Student Advisor and owner of Sara Kate Events.

Inspiration for a Beautifully Decorated Wedding Reception Table

There's nothing more disappointing than going to a beautiful wedding, then going to the reception and the venue falls flat because there's no inspired decorating going on. Receptions are important in any wedding planning process. It's the way you bring every guest together to celebrate the newly-married couple. It's a way to feed and fete your guests and thank them for coming to your event. And the reception decor, particularly the reception tables, should carry the color scheme and overall theme of the wedding. Here's an inspiring reception table that put us in awe, and we're sure you'll find it inspirational, too. Click on any photo to see more.

In our inspirational photos, the rustic nature of the old wood tables and chairs is vastly amped up with the addition of lacey fabric and abundant flowers - and note the flowers at many different heights and locations (chair backs and the center of the table, with high and low arrangements adding color and romance without blocking the view across the table). Flowers + Tabletop by Karen Tran Florals.

Thanks to 100 Layer Cake for their beautiful photographs, posts, and wedding and event inspiration. 100 Layer Cake is a unique, comprehensive wedding and event planning resource for and by thoughtful, crafty modern women. Their vendors, projects, weddings, resources, sponsors, and marketplace are hand-picked and thoroughly researched with the hope that every single one is a truly unique addition to both your wedding and your planning process. Visit the 100 Layer Cake website today.

 Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Set a Beautiful Wedding Table: 5 Alternative Place Settings

Simple floral place settings harmonize well with a Wyoming ranch wedding.

It's nice that there are no set-in-concrete rules regarding how to plan a wedding. Yes, you want to stick to the budget. Yes, you want to stay on schedule. Yes, you want to have everyone wear nice clothes (unless your clients are naturists, of course). Okay, so there are definitely rules ... but there's a wide latitutde of what's acceptible in today's wedding that's essentially cutting every wedding couple a big break. Everyone can relax, take a deep breath, and pay attention to personal style over expected formality. Here are some alternative place settings that caught our eye. Click on each photo to check out the rest of the wedding!

Plain white dishes harmonize well with the rustic elegance of this Indian wedding table in California.

Simple and colorful, this Netherlands table adds a homey touch with doilies underneath the place settings.

Old World Italian elegance, this table setting combines romantic flowers with handcrafted lacework, bone-handled utensils, and marine decorations.

 A French chateau wedding inspires beautiful vintage china and silver with soft touches of wildflowers.

Thanks to 100 Layer Cake for their beautiful photographs, posts, and wedding and event inspiration. 100 Layer Cake is a unique, comprehensive wedding and event planning resource for and by thoughtful, crafty modern women. Their vendors, projects, weddings, resources, sponsors, and marketplace are hand-picked and thoroughly researched with the hope that every single one is a truly unique addition to both your wedding and your planning process. Visit the 100 Layer Cake website today.

 Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.

Subscribe to the Sheffield Designer newsletter.