These Custom Bridal Bags immediately caught my attention.  Dylan and Dillion make these personalized bags for wedding parties custom to order. The bridal bags are fun to design for your bridal party with choice of fabric color, gold or silver flower charm, and choice of colored Swarovski crystals. These bags are great accessories or gifts for your bridesmaids! Like the sisters of Dylan & Dillion say, “Life is too short to carry a boring bag!”

 Check out www.dylananddillion.com

The beautiful 100% silk and quality craftsmanship, mixed with vintage inspired prints and flattering silhouettes of Yumi Kim dresses, makes these designs perfect for attending any type of wedding event. The Spring/Summer 2009 line is all about the renewal of femininity with a mix of floral prints and delicate, stylish detailing you can’t help but feel effortlessly beautiful in this collection. Follow Yumi Kim’s Designer and creator Kim Phan on her blog at www.iheartyumikim.com and on twitter under YumiKim to find out what inspires this contemporary designer.

For those that know me, I have this fascination with eggs. And I have kept a magazine tear out of a specific egg tree that was in one of Martha Stewarts Living magazine over 8 years ago…so when darling Jessi wanted to do a willow tree effect, I immediately thought of that picture. After hours of search, I found it! Then after everyone saw it, it wasn’t quite what they had in mind…i think it was the dangling eggs that threw everyone off! But after months of preparation and learning that there is nothing in nature that can make the twigs bend the way we wanted to, each twig had to be hand made, coated, painted and bent…to create this whimsical look. Thank you Sunny and team at White Lilac for your sweat and tears to make this happen. And Jeannine of Blue Magpie for creating the custom artwork seen throughout Jessi’s invites…oh so pretty. LOVE LOVE the raspberry red and happy yellow combo, good taste Jessi!  

I wanted to give a sneak peak of Jessi in her beautiful Vera Wang gown…do you see what I see, her cake!  yes, same applique lace design as her dress…..Wedding photos coming soon!  

Photos courtesy of: Joe Photo

How fun are these Bella Umbrellas? I love these umbrellas and they are just the right touch to any wedding! So sweet and sassy to protect your guests from the sun or even from any possible rain. These umbrellas make such a fun wedding photograph!  The best part of this, is that you don’t have to buy it, you can rent it!

Check out www.bellaumbrella.com

A few photos courtesy of Bella Umbrella website and: Jen Stewart Photography and Clare Barboza Photography

If you care about the nutritional content of your food, then you will be excited to hear that SB 1420 starts its first phase of implementation on July 1st. This new legislation will take some of the mystery out of restaurant dining.

This new law requires fast-food and other chain restaurants with 20 or more locations in California to post calorie information on menus, menu boards, and food display tags. Nutrition information is not required at grocery stores, for items on the menu for less than 180 days, alcoholic beverages, or self-service items at salad bars or buffet lines.
The law will be phased-in with full implementation by January 1, 2011.

The first phase–July 1, 2009 December 31, 2010–requires restaurants to provide a brochure at the point of sale that includes at least calories, sodium, saturated fat, and carbohydrate information. For sit-down restaurants, the information must be provided at the table. Drive-thrus are required to have brochures available upon request and have a notice of the availability at the point of sale.

The second phase–By January 2, 2011, calories must be listed on menus, menu boards, and food display tags next to the menu item. Drive-thrus will continue to have a brochure available upon request and must have a notice that the information is available.

Similar nutrition regulations have been implemented in New York City and in King County (Seattle), Washington. Other areas with similar legislation passed into law, but awaiting full implementation include: Multnomah County (Oregon), Philadelphia, San Francisco City and County, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties (California), and Westchester County (New York). Similar legislation has been introduced in many other cities, counties, and states around the U.S.

For more information about SB 1420 visit: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

Healthy Regards,

Have you ever driven by Baracci on Wilshire Blvd and drooled at all the dresses displayed in the window? I was always too intimidated to go in…but Diane wasn’t. She found the perfect wedding gown there…just stunning! Diane and Ben’s wedding was filled with laughter, romance and surprises. Right after the ceremony, guests were greeted with favors from Tiffany and Co (personalized with seating assignments) Then guests filled their tummies with an assortment of dim sum, imported cheeses, hummus, sashimi, smoked salmon, peking duck, you name it, it was there.

Another surprise was the arrival of USC Song Girls and USC Band. Final surprise of the evening was a grooms cake- basketball and Laker’s jersey, from Diane to her husband Ben, a huge Laker fan…they even named their tables after famous Laker’s, like Magic Johnson and yes, there was a game that night and they won.  After 4 courses and cake, guests indulged in Diane and Ben’s favorite snacks, popcorn, cheez its, Reeses, red vines, krispy kremes, and one of my favs, cadbury eggs!

Photos courtesy of: Joe and Mirta Barnet, Barnet Photography

I found these adorable dresses off of Wedding Chicks and fell in love with them! Yumi Kim has a great summer collection of dresses that are great for outdoor wedding rehersals, bridal parties, and showers.  Printed dresses are fabulous this season and will look great on the bride!

www.yumikim.com

Would you want to work out the morning of your wedding? I know my answer is “no”  One idea that Jennifer had was to do a morning run on the wedding day. I replied with fear, “Are you sure” and  yes completely worried….you know, twisted ankle, fatigue, etc…but they are in great shape and used to jog together all the time when they lived near the beach. So we invited all the guests to partake in the morning WALK or 3 Mile Jog around St. Regis hotel and park.  They asked guests for t-shirts sizes and had Laura Hooper Calligraphy, who created custom maps for the welcome totes, also print t-shirts for the guests.

And the party favors was another surprise… Karl Johnson who specializes in silhouettes, can cut an individual’s profile within 2 minutes. He then mounts it  on a museum matte and is given to each guest.  The 2nd exact duplicate is mounted into a scrapbook for the couple to keep…oh I so wanted to be a guest at this wedding just to have that done since we paid $40 at Disneyland for my daughter’s profile last year.

As the night unfolded, so did the low lights….Jennifer and Josh snuck out after the last dance to take a few last photos with Ben around the hotel.  Just pure complete romance.  Favorite photo of the night, Jennifer leaning on Josh’s shoulder, in black and white.

Photos Courtesy of: Ben Chrisman Photography

I just wanted to introduce myself to you, my name is Carrie Chen, and I will be blogging for Details Details these next few months! I can’t wait to share lots of fun ideas I come across that will be great for all of the summer brides. Happy Wedding Season!

It was so exciting to work with this fun-loving couple planning their wedding. Melis & Volkan were truly a joy to be around and we had some great laughs together. As you can see from their engagement photographs that they are just made for each other. April & Lindsey with Sweet Monday Photography captured their spirit and zest for life. I was so thrilled to finally meet April & Lindsey on the actual wedding day as we’ve heard so many wonderful things about their company. It was such a treat for me to work with a great photography team. I can’t wait to share their wedding photographs with you….more to come!