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Jenna and Andrew’s Wedding Tyler, Texas

March 10, 2010 in Real Bridal Parties by Twirl Talk | No comments

A dream of all dreams…a Twirl girl gets married!

Andrew and Jenna (previously a Twirl intern) were married at the amazing Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with a following reception at the Willow Brook Country Club.

An absolutely breath taking service, Jenna’s bridesmaids were gleaming in the “Violet” dress by Simple Silhouettes. Her navy dresses were perfectly complementary to her dress and really added that elegant flare to her wedding. The dresses were a simple but sophisticated touch and really allowed the bridesmaids to shine down the isle.

 Not only were the dresses adorable, but Brandi Burkett (brandi-burkett.blogspot.com) truly captured each moment beautifully!

As if her wedding wasn’t exciting enough, We are also so thrilled to announce that Jenna’s mother-in-law will be opening up a Twirl in Tyler, Texas! What an exciting year Jenna & Rhona have in store!

Jenna and Andrew, from all of the Twirl Girls, we wish you both a lifetime of happiness and bliss! Congratulations :)

- Mo : )

Tuesdays with Ty – Reception Menus

March 9, 2010 in Tuesdays With Ty, Ty by Twirl Talk | No comments

The food served at your wedding reception should help reflect you and your fiance’s style and tastes.  What if your tastes are vastly different, you may ask??  That’s where you can (and should) build both in to the menu.

Brandon and I we decided at the beginning we wanted everything to be comfortable and relaxed for our wedding day, and that will extend to our food.  Our caterer, Lundy’s Special Events, has a HUGE menu to choose from.  After weighing all the options, we decided on a dinner buffet for our reception.  We are trying to stick within our budget and while some may think heavy hors d’oeuvres are less expensive…think again!  Since the portions are smaller, many people will eat several.  If you are going this route, be sure and include some more substantial food mixed in.  The bite sized menu items are all the rage with receptions this year.  I love the idea, but it just wasn’t our style for the main course, so we plan on using it later in the evening.

Mini Cheeseburgers are a great choice for wedding appetizers! Yum!

So…now to reveal our dinner selections!  It is important to make sure YOU are going to enjoy the food served to all your guests.  Brandon doesn’t like crazy foods and I love home-style cooking, so we are doing a traditional Southern meal.  Southern pork tenderloin, fried chicken, green beans, garlic mashed potatoes, salad and fresh fruit!  I am getting hungry just thinking about it!  We are also going to serve a “late night snack” but have yet to decide what it may be.  The ideas we have been given are Krispy Kreme donuts, mini cookies and milk shooters, cheese sticks, mini milkshakes…I could go on and on! 

Cookie and Milk Shooters

Food stations are also a fun idea for receptions.  We considered doing this with a pasta station and hot brown station.  Never be afraid to ask your caterer what your options are…the possibilities are endless!  Nacho bars, sushi bars, mashed potato bars, etc.  You can make the reception meal whatever you want!  Just make sure everyone will eat, drink and be ready to dance the night away!

Bridesmaid Tip: Offer to take your bride out to dinner at her fave restaurant to help brainstorm her favorite foods.  This may trigger a reception idea she may have never considered!

Happy Planning!

-Ty

Ordering A Fabric Swatch of Your Bridesmaid’s Dresses

March 8, 2010 in Uncategorized by Twirl Talk | No comments

Your wedding color sets the tone from the very beginning when sending out your invitations, to the linens on the tables during the reception.  The start off point is when you choose the color of your bridesmaid dresses.  The dress color you end up with plays a major role in the look and feel of your wedding.

Once you have chosen your girl’s dresses a great way to help in the rest of the planning is to order a fabric swatch.  This fabric swatch can then be taken to your invitation appointment, florist appointment, linen appointment , tuxedo appointment, and so on.  It’s important to know that just as every designer has different styles of dresses, they have different policies when ordering a fabric swatch. 

What you can expect is that fabric swatches typically take anywhere from 1 – 4 weeks to come in. Some designers will not allow swatches to be mailed out until your dress order is sent in to them.  Others have the option to go online yourself and place the swatch order without going through a retailer, like Dessy. 

When your swatch comes in remember that your dresses will be cut off a different dye-lot and may vary slightly from the dye-lot used for your dresses.  This is because silk fabric contains variances in shading and is completely normal. 

Having a fabric swatch can be so helpful.  Just check with your dress retailer to find out the best way to go about ordering yours.

~Jenni

Dress of the Week – Twirl Lexington

March 5, 2010 in Bridesmaid Dress of the Week, Ty by Twirl Talk | No comments

In honor of our Lynn Lugo Trunk Show this weekend at Twirl Lexington, we are featuring the “Sam” dress in Sunshine Shantung ($270).  This dress has a very classic silhouette, but the button and ruffle detail give it that something special that all brides are looking for in bridesmaid dresses!  Best of all…we can totally see this dress gracing the Spring meet at the horse races or at the perfect summer party.

Lynn Lugo "Sam" dress in Sunshine Shantung

The Garden Wedding Contest 2010

March 4, 2010 in Twirl Announcements by Twirl Talk | No comments

 The Desert Botanical Gardensin Phoenix, AZ is partnering with The Arizona Republic, AZ Central, and Channel 12 to give a deserving couple the wedding of their dreams. Think “The Today Show Throws a Wedding” but in Arizona! :)

“The Garden Wedding Contest 2010” launched on Monday, March 1, 2010.  Couples can enter to be the “winning couple” through Friday, March 12 at 8pm.  Once the final couple is determined, they will be announced publicly on Monday, April 5 and the wedding planning will begin! 

Over the following 6 months, the viewers and readers can share in the wedding planning by logging on to “The Garden Wedding Contest 2010” Official Website, dbgwedding.azcentral.com , and voting on various wedding elements.  We are very excited to announce that wedding planner, Victoria Canada, of Victoria Canada, will work with you and the couple throughout the planning process to finalize all aspects of the wedding.

It’s going to be a blast! Twirl is so excited to be a party of this fabulous, fun event. Twirl Boutique will be providing the Wedding Dress, Bridal Party attire (bridesmaid dresses for the ladies and tuxedos for the gentlemen) as well as beautiful jewelry by jewelry designer Liz LoveWe hope you’ll enter! We can’t wait to be a party of your special day!

xoxo – The Twirl Girls

Lynn Lugo Trunk Show This Weekend – Twirl Lexington

March 3, 2010 in Twirl Announcements, Ty by Twirl Talk | No comments

For one weekend only (March 5-7) Twirl Lexington will have Lynn Lugo’s new spring collection!  Lynn Lugo features classic, yet fun styles for alternative bridal, bridesmaids and mothers in a wide variety of colors. 

 

All new Lynn Lugo orders placed this weekend will receive 15% off.  Call (859-309-2493) or email us for your appointment.  Look forward to seeing you this weekend!

-Ty

Rachel and Seth’s Wedding @ Brophy Chapel

March 3, 2010 in Angela, Real Bridal Parties by Twirl Talk | No comments

Rachel and Seth were married @ the Brophy Chapel  in Phoenix, Arizona. Their fabulous day was coordinated by wedding planner Victoria Canada. Melissa Jill is the amazing photographer behind these stylish and fun pictures.

 Rachel’s girls wore dresses by Vineyard (style # 1415). They look so beautiful and the color is just perfect!

How cute are these purple shoes that Rachel wore with her wedding dress.

Congratulations Rachel and Seth. We wish you a lifetime of happiness.

xoxo *Angela

Tuesdays with Ty – Wedding Invitations

March 2, 2010 in Uncategorized by Twirl Talk | No comments

Selecting your save the date cards and invitations are very important in setting the tone for your big day!  Brides these days have a ton of options to choose from and that can make it more difficult. 

After  your colors, theme, venue and time are selected it is your choice on whether to send a save the date.  Personally, we decided to save a bit of money and fore go the save the date.    That being said, I have received so many cute options before!  Refrigerator magnets, Christmas cards…even a save the date via Facebook…yes, you read that right Facebook is taking over the world! 

Photo Booth Save the Date

In order to get an idea of what style you like look at different planning blogs and websites.  For example, Style Me Pretty has gorgeous pictures of real weddings and lists the vendors they use.  There are also some preferred vendors listed so you can browse their websites and see what you fall in love with and find your personal style.

Personally, I am mix between traditional and fun and I think that reflects perfectly in our invitation.  Luckily, I have a dear friend, Elizabeth Henderson with Polka Dot Papers, that has been helping me with invitations for years now.  In our meeting I told her my preliminary ideas and also came prepared with how many invitations we needed and when we wanted to get them in the mail (8 weeks prior to the date).   She produced some samples for me and we chose the font style and look we liked best!  I LOVE what she came up with and it perfectly incorporates our style and colors without going overboard.  One other thing we did to save a bit of money is a reply postcard!  This saves having to buy another envelope and postcard postage is about half of what a normal stamp costs.  If you are tech saavy, you can set up a wedding website and request guests to RSVP via internet!  One of my New York friends did this last year and it was too cool!

Our traditional, yet fun invitation that I LOVE!

The next question is…to calligraphy or not calligraphy??  While it is traditional and gorgeous, we took an easier route and are having Polka Dot Papers print the outside and inside envelopes for us.  Technology makes this super simple these days via an Excel Spreadsheet and mail merge.  This will save us a ton of time and money, but still look nice and match the font on our invitation.

Bridesmaid Tip: Offer to help your bride with the stuffing/stamping of the invitations!  Have a girls night…pop open a bottle of wine and enjoy!  This will take a load off of your bride’s shoulders and give you an excuse for a girls night too:)

Happy Planning!

-Ty

Wedding Songs

March 1, 2010 in Angela, Bridesmaid Tips and Advice, Uncategorized by Twirl Talk | No comments

How does one decide their perfect wedding songs? There are so many choices!

The first one that comes to mind and is a must is your “First Dance” song. Some couples make this song “their song” – which usually means it was the first song they heard together on their first date. Or maybe the first song they danced together to. Or in some cases I have seen (heard) it be a song with a message that represents their relationship. When my best friend got married, her “First Dance Song” was called “Looks like we made it” by Shania Twain. It couldn’t have fit their relationship any more perfect than if the song had been personally written for them. I like this idea the most. This way while people are watching you share your first dance, they can listen to the words tell a story about the couple. I have been to one wedding where their “First Dance” song was the first song that came on the radio on their first date. To this day I don’t remember the name of the song or who it was by, but it was heavy metal and I can imagine very awkward to dance to (considering how awkward it was to watch them try to dance to) and there was clearly no “special message”.

Once you have the very important “First Dance Song” taken care of, it’s time to move on to the equally important “Father Daughter Song”. I understand not everyone is close to their fathers, or perhaps their fathers are not around to share in this special day… but the weddings I have been to the Fathers have been present and this dance has been special. Being a HUGE country music fan (largely in part because of the story that most country songs tell) there are several songs that come to mind for this particular dance. Tim McGraw’s “I Loved her First” or perhaps “Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle (which has been re-done several times by country artists such as Garth Brooks).

The one thing that is kind of a bummer is that there are SO many songs out there… but some how only a handful of them make the list for these two categories of wedding songs. Before my best friend got married, she had a few of us over and we spent hours trying to help her find her “perfect” song. We sat around her kitchen table with her i-Pod plugged in, our lap tops on hand and a box of old CD’s we hadn’t seen for years. We opened a bottle of wine and spent the whole night coming up with different songs that brought back memories for us… but also told stories that related to my friend and her soon to be husband. We had so much fun. I think involving your bridesmaids in this task is a great way to get different opinions and they will no doubt come up with songs or artists you may not have come up with on your own.

Now in all fairness, I would almost guarantee that @ some point, you will attend a wedding and hear the same song that you heard at a wedding the year before during one of these two dances. Does it really matter though? I don’t think so. In the moment that the song is playing, and the two people are dancing… all that matters is the happiness that theses people are sharing and the beautiful message or story that is being told by the song. If you do like one of the more popular first dance songs, perhaps you can make it your own by having it sung to you by someone important to you instead of using the DJ version. Little touches like that can turn something that’s “already been done” into something that is yours.

I am going to leave you with the “First Dance” link below. I know you have all seen it a million times… but I think it is just too fun and fabulous to not mention!!! I am not going to lie… depending on who I end up marrying, if they are “cool” enough… I many just reenact something like this myself. ;)

First Dance Song

Happy Wedding Planning to you all! I hope you have fun going through old song books and current popular albums in search of your perfect wedding songs.

xoxo *angela

Twirl Lexington Dress of the Week

February 26, 2010 in Bridesmaid Dress of the Week, Ty by Twirl Talk | No comments

We love this purple bridesmaid dress by Lela Rose ($290)!  This chiffon dress features a square neck line that perfectly frames any face.  The details on this bridesmaid dress are amazing.  The ruffle and button detail give it a bit of flair and elegance all at the same time.  The addition of the satin belt to cinch your waist is the icing on the cake.  Lela Rose is available at the Twirl Lexington and Twirl Chandler locations.

Lela Rose Dress Style #120 in Smashing

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