Events by Elaine
(map) Phone: 615-418-3513 Hours: 9 am - 7 pm
Hands-on coordinator for budget minded and DIY brides. Over 10 years experience with event and wedding planning. No wedding to large or to small.
As a wedding coordinator, I am here to help bring your ideas to life, not to tell you how your wedding should be. I have experience working with couples and know t...
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Reviews for Events by Elaine
I just wanted to say thank you for helping to make our wedding day the best day of our lives. It truly couldn’t have been a more perfect day.
Thank you for everything. You handled everything very well and we could never have pulled yesterday off without you. You kept the ceremony on track and people came up to me all night and said that normally wedding ceremonies get off to a weird start or things get pushed way back off schedule, but ours was smooth and well timed. You handled the bumps in the road calmly and acted where necessary with thumb tacks and scissors. You kept the craziness filtered from me and the crazies away from me. Thank you a thousand times over.
"Elaine was fabulous. She created our wedding schedule and coordinated our many vendors through various changes. She took care of all the details and handled any issues that arose. She made all of us feel calm and relaxed. She created all the signs for our wedding which was a huge benefit; plus she has some of the best prices in town. We could never have handled this event by ourselves. Thanks again!"
Elaine helped us on so many details. In addition to all the normal stuff she made a seating chart which she had printed and framed and even brought an easel. She also made a photo slideshow that played throughout the reception. It was so nice just to have someone around to handle everything.
Elaine is great! she jumped right in and helped handle my DIY wedding reception she arranged tables and centerpieces...hung lights & tulle and even created a special head table for us later she send us a special video from some of the highlights of the day!
Elaine traveled over 1000 miles to handle my wedding. She handled all the details during the day of our wedding. She even brought her camera and captured candid photos while we were getting ready and of my family.
Thank you for all the hard work. You handled the issues at the church and the reception was beautiful. It was so nice just knowing I didn't have to take care of any of it. Thanks.
"Elaine was awesome! I called her to come in at the 11th hour for day of coordinating; I was so busy that I didn't have time to give the poor woman very many details but she did great just "winging" it! Took care of all emergencies including a missing boutonniere for my husband's father - she made one from a rose in the bridesmaid bouquet! Wished I would have used her from the beginning of planning!"
"Thank-you for all of your hard-work and help. We couldn't have done it without you."
A professional coordinator whose talents fit within this business.
About Events by Elaine
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As a wedding coordinator, I am here to help bring your ideas to life, not to tell you how your wedding should be. I have experience working with couples and know that every bride and groom is unique. I will seek to reflect your personality, lifestyle, family traditions, and spiritual beliefs into your special day.
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Immediate areas: Nashville, Huntsville, Chattanooga.
Available around the Southeast.
Blog: Events by Elaine
Color Pairings to Match your Style
Pick harmonious tones to evoke the ideal style
If you watched Steel Magnolias, you may remember the pink-tacular wedding scene. Shelby’s choices of “blush” and “bashful,” or rather pink and pink, resulted in a ceremony that may as well have been doused with Pepto Bismol.
From the invitations to the flowers and bridesmaids’ gowns, color plays a huge role in tying together all the wedding details. But with so many choices in a sea of shades and tints, it’s hard to know where to begin. Here are some tips from the pros to help you find your signature colors. Forget pastels. Bold and vibrant colors are in this year (think coral, bright shades of blue, and yellow), as are monochromatic themes. Even black dresses are gracing the runways.
Elizabeth Hempfling of Events by Elizabeth Ashley in Boone suggests choosing the venue and a theme before making color choices, which will set the tone of your wedding—dusty olive and pink champagne say vintage, red and black are classic, and yellow and lime mean vivacious. She also advises, “You want colors that are going to pop against the backdrop. Dark purple will get lost in a dark space.” Personal style should also be reflected in your special day.
“Look at pictures and art for inspiration and consider the colors you surround yourself with in everyday life,” suggests Kiersa Holy of Events by Kiersa in Asheville. If you have a specific hue in mind, Holy recommends exploring the website colorschemer.com, which offers tools for helping you make complementary matches.
Other considerations when picking colors are how they will look against skin tones or in photographs under various lighting conditions. Remember to keep it simple by narrowing your choices to two or three, and don’t change your mind after you’ve sent the invitations. And, unless you’re striving for a Steel Magnolias-inspired wedding, avoid pink on pink.
—Melissa C. Smith
From WNC Magazine - Article
Wedding Colors Inspiration
Wedding Color Inspiration
Weddings by Color
Inspiration Board: Yellow, White & Black
This outdoor wedding felt airy and bright. The tablecloths and linens were alternated with yellow and white while black centerpieces with yellow candles and white flowers completed the effect.
Happy Valentines Day
1.Take some inspiration from famous couples. Plan a dinner with your love and make placecards with the names of a famous couple. Ideas include: Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Antony and Cleopatra, Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Romeo and Juliet, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward....
2. It's cliched but it still works - make a mix CD of their favorite songs
3. Do them a favor. That one chore that they hate doing - do it for them for a week. Nothing says love like taking out the trash or doing the laundry.
4. Write them a love note. Sit down and write (with real paper and your handwriting) a love note describing why your love them or why you fell in love. As a child, I used to sneak into my grandmothers hope chest and read the love notes from my grandfather. So enduring
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