Weddings in Woodinville 2018

Four years ago I attended Weddings in Woodinville as a future Bride-to-be. I decided that I would also ask my friends to be my bridesmaids on this day as well. They all came over to my apartment before had and then I (of course) made them special cookie boxes and a custom card asking them "to be my..." it was an exciting moment.

 We lucked out on weather that year too as you can see, it was sunny and surprisingly warm for January in Seattle... The following year I got to go back again but this time as a bridesmaid for my friend who is to my right and kind of squinting in this photo haha...oh Jayme...gotta love my squad!

#Squad

So first as a bride, then a bridesmaid and then this year as a VENDOR! I was so excited to be about of this wedding show because 1) it is a big deal 2) it is exclusive and 3) it is really classy and well done. 

My awesome team was initially going to be staged at Redhook...however they closed up shop so *panic* mode for our team, but luckily they still had a spot for us at The Hollywood School House which is a gorgeous venue. 

My Weddings in Woodinville Team

Hollywood School House - Julia Kinnunen Photography

As I mentioned, I got to work with some really great vendors so let's talk about those fabulous people. All of these people were so great to work with. Lauren did a knock out job of our theme which was crazy and a little out of this world...Intergalactic Planetary...yup like the Beastie Boys song. And believe me, it got stuck in my head every time I said it...and it's happening now. Our colors were really dark and moody which I thought were gorgeous for a fall or winter wedding, we had a mixture of navy blue, deep purple and reds with mixed metallic gold and silver. 

Design/Coordination: Lauren from Flying Anchor Event Design 

Floral: Amarie Flora 

Make Up/Hair: Arianna Scott

Videographer: Best Made Videos

Photography: Julia Kinnunen Photography

Beverages: Breakside Brewery 

DJ/Music: Magnolia Rhapsody DJ 

Transportation: Butler Valet

Event Rentals: Pedersen's Events

Invitations/Paper Goods: Emily Rose Ink

Photobooth: Fun Frames Photobooth

Accomodations: Hilton Garden Inn Seattle/Bothell

When I first met with Lauren for coffee this past fall, she told me about her vision and her inspiration boards on Pinterest. Her main goal was to separate her theme from just "stars" or "under the stars" which been kind of over played in the wedding industry. I admit it took me a while to get my head around the theme, it wasn't quite under the stars and not kids birthday space planet...so what is it then?

Hollywood School House Transformed 

When I arrived in the morning to start setting up my dessert station the above picture is what I saw and I was completely blown away! Lauren and our team completed transformed the Hollywood School House to an out of this world planet. The up lighting and floral hanging center piece was a total show stopper. 

Ceremony Space

I absolutely loved the non-tradition circular set up for the ceremony. The clear chairs added to the glow and almost very space like. Amarie Flora KILLED it with that hanging flower center piece. It looks like it grew on a different planet. 

Shout out to our beautiful models for this event!

The Head Table 

I loved the back drop for the head table and the lighting on it was just perfect. OH! And I have to mention the awesome job our DJs did. They literally had me dancing all 10 hours I was there. At one point in the morning as we were setting up, my assistant and I were slicing cake and I hear a rap song come on and I was listening to the rapper, as I was not familiar with the song and I was like..."is that Chingy?" Yup...it was Chingy at like 11am...haha 

Head Table Close Up

Thanks again to the talented and amazing individuals at Pedersen's Event Rental who supplied all this crazy cool stuff for our theme. They really knocked it out of the park!

Place cards by Emily Rose Ink 

Emily Rose Ink did an awesome job with the paper goods for the event. She was even nice enough to make some for my dessert table which looked so awesome next to all the desserts. 

Dessert Table by Seatown Sweets

Lauren and I had a lot of discussion about what the cake should be and look like. I had a really cool idea for a Galaxy cake using mirror glazing technique. I even took a class about it to learn how to do it but decided to keep it more simple and "traditional" Plus I didn't know if I would have enough room on the table to display everything.

Purple Ombre Galaxy Cake

Lauren showed me this really cool ombre cake from Pinterest that went perfect for our theme. The finishing touch was the little Astronauts, people freaked out about them! And they are just so adorable, that and the star burst was all Lauren.

Galactic Dessert Table

The best part of the display was this cool mirror in the background. Again, Lauren had the brilliant idea to have some vinyl quotes and decals printed up to put on the mirrors. The quote above the cake was " You're not just a star to me, you're my whole damn sky." I like to think of it as modern romantic - lol. 

Little ombre star cookies

After Lauren and I met, and I signed the contract commiting to the event, I was trying to come up with my cake flavors to feature. One of my favorite things is trying in fun names to desserts like cake or cupcake flavors. So one night I am researching some fun cake ideas and I see this one cake called "Black Nebula" and it was for an Oreo chocolate cake and I thought - "That is so cool! What else can I come up with?" 

Cake Samples by Seatown Sweets

Now, I don' know how much you know about Astronomy, but I took Astro101 in college online and I didn't really retain a whole lot in terms of "astro terms" BUT thank gawd for Google. After finding a astronomy dictionary sight I scrolled through the list and jotted down terms that I thought could be good parallels for cake flavors.

Place Cards by Emily Rose Ink

 The terms that stuck out the most were: Big Bang, Red Giant, Black Nebula, Meteor Shower, Lunar/Solar Eclipse, and other fun words like Cosmic and Galatic. Instantly when I saw Red Giant I knew I had to use that one for Red Velvet cake, it was just too perfect. I took it one step farther too and made the cake GF for all my GF friends out there - and let me tell you....people went NUTS for it. I was surprised that of all the flavors, that one was by far the most popular. In fact, I had so many people comment "this is gluten free?!" that I had a slight panic attack that maybe I accidentally DIDN'T make it GF like I thought. So I tried a sample and was relieved...yup my friends Gluten Free. *phew*

Place Cards by Emily Rose Ink

The other cake names were Meteor Shower for classic vanilla cake, might be a little bit of a stretch but meteors always burn bright white so that's the parallel I am drawing with that one. One of my all time favorite cake flavors I make is s'mores which is a graham cracker cake, chocolate buttercream and from scratch marshmallow fluff - that mess concoction was Big Bang...because well you probably get the idea! 

Do you see those little dinosaur guys? Lauren spray painted those guys gold...how funny is that. All the guys loved the quirky little touch. I think it must have spoken to their inner child, my husband loved dinosaurs as a kid. 

Galaxy Ombre Cake

I love the little tiny silver stars on the cake. Each on of those were individually applied on with a toothpick. Now this cake I have to say is not real. As much as I would have liked it to be, it is just made out of Styrofoam.

Me and the dessert table 

Here is a better view of the overall dessert table. We were in a corner which was a little tricky to mingle and talk with people, sometimes it bottle necked a little bit as people came over to grab samples. The show was sold out at 750 people! Which is incredible, I saw some couples would I knew and some other friends who were just tagging a long. I wish I could have made it to the other venues to see all the beautiful and creative ideas.

Purple Swirl Cupcakes

Weddings in Woodinville is definitely one of the best wedding shows in Washington. The people coming through are really awesome, and I feel like there were way more grooms at the show with the brides to be too than I remember when I was attending. Hopefully, I will be able to participate in years too come!

Be sure to check out the Weddings in Woodinville event page for more information about the event, our vendors and all of the vendors who participated in this year's show.