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12/27/2017

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Proof that all your friends and family came TO CELEBRATE!

There are so many little details when it comes to wedding planning that by the end of it you may be making choices just to make the problem go away. But keep in mind that these little details really do make all the difference when everything comes together on the big day.  You'll be so ahppy the you made mindful choices that really represent you and your loved one. One of those little (major) details is the guest book.  The guest book is a key detail because everyone who attends the wedding will see it & (hopefully) sign it. Here are a few tips to picking out the perfect guest book.
1. Representation: This day is all about you and your loved one becoming ONE unit.  So what is something that the two of you love to do? Do you love to travel together? Use a globe. Do you love to ski together? Use a set of skis. Do you love to drink wine together? Collect corks and have people sign them. There are so many possibilities, but keep in mind that it is best when it is about you.
2. Aesthetic: You can choose something based of the theme of your wedding.  Is your wedding more black-tie? Stick to a classic alternative of a beautiful bound book that will shimmer in the night. Think about the rest of your decor and see how your guest book can compliment it.
3. Keepsake: Your guest book is a keepsake that you and your partner now get to keep forever til death do you part. Want to hear a great tip? Pick something you like! Pick something you treasure and want to keep displayed around your home, not just a memento that you are going to put in a box and forget about. A framed picture for people to sign is a great decor piece that you can add to any part of your home.
4. Find inspiration: Still struggling to find "the one" for your wedding.  Turn to others for inspiration.  Ask your friends and family members what they used when they got married, or take a peek at the guest book of any weddings you may attend in the near future. Inspiration may strike at any moment! And then there is always the internet which is packed with some of the most creative ideas known to man.  So grab a cup of Joe and surf the web a bit looking at wedding blogs, Pinterest, and wedding inspiration pages. 
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Rustic Mountain Wedding - Colorado Wedding Planner - Vail Wedding Planner

10/14/2015

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Kim and sean - 9.5.15 - Colorado Wedding

TaKim and Sean were a fabulous couple to work with for their Colorado Mountain wedding. They did Rustic - but they did it right. No burlap for them... No tacky... it was all lovely! The fall colors, interesting textures, and cute cowboy boots made this wedding adorable! Thanks to Jon Kohlwey Photography for the awesome images and Bella Calla for the decor and florals! If you're looking for an officiant for your wedding, That would be Reverend Scot Sanders, from Wedlock Officiants. He is a fabulous Colorado wedding officiant. 
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Sweetly Paired is a full service wedding planner and day of coordinator in Denver. We offer planning in Colorado, as well as anywhere in the world! We do destination wedding planning, and make your day go smoothly, and stress-free! Please don't hesitate to email lilli@sweetlypaired.com with questions! We offer full scale event design services as well.
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What do wedding planners really do? - Colorado wedding planner

10/1/2015

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What do wedding planners do? Why do they cost so much? 

Wedding planners are some of the hardest working people in the world! A wedding planner's wedding day starts at the moment the clients open their eyes, and finishes long after they leave the wedding! Our pedometers often read 15 or more miles, walking around the venue, moving from ceremony site to ready rooms, to reception site, back around again, making sure all of the people working to make the event go smoothly have all the info they need to be successful. But it doesn't start or end there!  You should expect to spend $1500-2500 on a month-of coordinator, nation wide. For a full wedding planner, you can expect to spend TYPICALLY 10% of your budget... Usually $6000-10,000 plus, depending on your event and its needs! 

Is it Scale-able? 
An average wedding in Colorado is about $31,000, according to The Knot. Weddings that have a wedding planner are typically $40,000+. Sweetly Paired's average wedding for our full planning clients is about $60-70k. Our Day of clients range from about $30k, to 50k, typically. When the budget is higher than that, you need someone for more help than a day-of typically gives. 
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Get the word 'perfect' out of your vocabulary. 
Nothing's perfect. Your wedding won't be perfect. Your day will be lovely. Exciting. Memorable for you and your guests, no matter how many or few there are. As soon as you wrap your mind around that, you can relax. Now that we've said that... a big piece of what your wedding planner does is shield you, and your guests, from those imperfections. We may have had a fire, a flood, or a plague... our clients don't know about it! That's really the goal of the day. ​We try to make your guests have the 'perfect-est' day they can! 
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Be YOU!
From picking a venue that's right for the couple, to helping them navigate menus and caterers... choosing photographers to suit their budget and style... to helping to design the event from top to bottom... so it isn't like any other wedding, it's reflective of the clients! That's really important with all those inspirations out there on the web. We help you take that scattered Pinterest board, and use it for inspiration instead of plagiarism. ​Whether you're downtown Denver like the couple here, or having a Vail or Winter Park wedding, we can plan your wedding to be intrinsically reflective of you. 
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We work SO many hours!
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Our average wedding takes us MANY hours to plan. An average wedding for us for 100-200 guests is about 100-150 man hours to plan. We like to give full service assistance to our clients, and we're involved in the event design, the vendor selection, and the overall guest experience. We have a staff of 10 at our beck and call, and they all have concierge service, world-class design, and guest experience at the front of their mind. We can handle the most intimate gathering to the large, 500 person event with grace. THIS is a big part of what planners do. ​We offer complementary consultations that help you understand what level of service YOU need for your event. We offer just coordination, which is really a month-of service. We offer a la carte planning consultation hours, and we offer full service planning. YOU pick what you need, we execute. 
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Some things we do... just for day of coordination! Wedding planning - That's another level!

  • Initial Consultation 
  • Email/Phone Support
  • Timeline Generation
  • Timeline Facilitation
  • Vendor Coordination
  • Contract Management
  • Create Wedding Agenda for All Vendors
  • Day of Coordination - 10-12 hours
  • Processional Facilitation
  • Usher Instruction
  • Pre Wedding Day Planning Session
  • Collection of Decor, Guest Registry, etc
  • Transportation of your items
  • Managing Event Schedule Day-Of
  • Wedding Emergency Kits!
  • Final Payment Distribution
  • Tip Assistance and Distribution
  • Budget Assistance
  • Transportation Arrangement
  • 30 Day Walk Through Assisitance
  • Wedding Night Accommodations
  • Seating Chart Assistance
  • Pack up Personal Items and Gifts
  • Break Down Coordination
  • Day-of Coordination Assistance
  • After Wedding - returning rental items. 

Sweetly Paired is a Colorado wedding planning firm, working in Denver, Boulder and (loving to plan in...) the mountains! We work very often as a Vail wedding planner, and even work in Aspen and Beaver Creek. We love working at the Donovan Pavilion in Vail! We offer full service wedding planning, as well as day of and month of wedding coordination. Don't hesitate to reach out to us at lilli@sweetlypaired.com or 303.995.2867 if you have questions! ​
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5 of Our Favorite Colorado Wedding Venues - Denver wedding planner - Colorado wedding planner

9/20/2015

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Here's a snapshot of some of our favorite wedding venues! 

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1. The Highlands Ranch Mansion - at 9950 E Gateway Dr in Highlands Ranch is a lovely, stately place for a wedding. They have high ceilings in the stone-walled ballroom, gorgeous antiques in the 130 year-old home, and a fabulous staff that's happy to help you find the best of the best in Denver's wedding vendors to make your wedding day amazing! Thanks to Elevate Photography for the photo and Bella Calla for the flowers for this shot. 


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2. Sunspot at Winter Park - Winter Park Colorado - Winter Park Resort Weddings. This venue has everything you could want in a top-of-mountain venue for weddings. There are beautiful vistas, two awesome spaces, depending on how large your event is, and a fabulous roaring fire (not to mention awesome food!). This is a great example of the lovely outdoor and indoor space at Winter Park. Photo below is Autumn Burke, photo at left is Nicole Lenzen. 
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Beaver Creek Chapel Wedding
3. Beaver Creek Chapel - Beaver Creek Colorado - Vail and Beaver Creek weddings. This gorgeous chapel with the huge exposed beams in the ceiling, lovely view out the tall windows, and rustic but classy antler chandeliers is a fabulous place to tie the knot. It is an easy walk from the Park Hyatt, The Ritz, and many other Beaver Creek wedding venues. You can also easily shuttle your guests here if you're planning a Vail wedding. Thanks to awesome photographers Elevate Photography. This wedding is courtesy of wedding planner Mark Christopher Weddings, and the flowers are from Bella Calla. 
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4. Chatfield Botanic Gardens - Denver Weddings - Rustic Barn Weddings. Chatfield has a lovely rustic red barn to get married in, beautiful gardens all around, and it is a working farm! You'll see the farm at work, twinkly lights at night in the huge trees, and have a blast dancing the night away on the patio! Sweetly Paired has done many weddings at Chatfield. The flowers here are from Bella Calla. These photos come from Krista Watzel. 
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5. Crooked Willow Farms - Larkspur Colorado 
Sweetly Paired has worked at Crooked Willow many times! We love the very updated barn feel. This venue has gorgeous wood and brick walls, awesome concrete floors, and a spectacular wedding ceremony site with a large arch. Mark Paquette was the wedding planner for this wedding, and Bella Calla was the florist. We thank Ashely Sawtelle for the lovely photos! 
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Colorado wedding planner - Winter Wedding Design

8/31/2015

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Nothing says winter like snow in vail colorado for a gorgeous wedding! 

Here at Sweetly Paired - Colorado Wedding Planner - We ADORE winter weddings. There's something romantic about the snow and a warm fire in the mountains for a wedding! Cody and Shaye came up from the deep south to have their destination wedding here in Vail, Colorado. They had gorgeous whites, and rich reds. The red flowers stood out against the background of snow like a warm fire on a cold day! The venue was the lovely Sonnenalp hotel in Vail. The bride and groom got to sit by the fire and have a fabulous German-inspired meal prepared by Ludwig's restaurant in Vail. 
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Lush Green and White Wedding - Colorado Wedding Florist

7/31/2015

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Awesome Wedding inspiration from Bella Calla Colorado Florist,Sweetly Paired Wedding Planning, and Ali and Garrett Wedding photography! 

Ali and Garrett did an amazing job of shooting this lovely inspiration for a green wedding in the spring in Denver at a fabulous wedding venue, Blanc Denver. Green kale, lush white flowers, rustic elements, exposed brick, green wedding cakes, lanterns, tall baby's breath centerpieces and more! We loved being a part of such a lovely day! Loving the white lush flowers, the green and white color palate. Love the rustic, winery feel of the venue. 
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Mountain Wedding Colorado - pastel wedding flowers

7/17/2015

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This lovely wedding at Deer Creek Valley Ranch was shot by Jennie Crate with Green Blossom Photography! The soft pastel flowers and delicious details made this one a beauty! The gorgeous bride doesn't hurt either!  The lovely florals are by one of Denver's best wedding florists, Bella Calla! Love the succulent boutonnieres, the pastel peonies, and the soft lovely ranunculus in the wedding bouquet an the boutonnieres... so lovely! 
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Color Palate Inspiration - Peach - denver wedding planner

4/16/2015

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Peach is one of our favorite colors for a wedding palate. It goes beautifully with blush, ivory, pops of yellow, cranberry reds, lush greens, and even hot pink! We love peach we a wedding flower color, as well as a color for lovely bridesmaids dresses! 
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Sweetly Paired is a wedding planning and coordinating firm in Denver Colorado. We coordinate and plan weddings all over Colorado, including Denver, Boulder, Vail, Aspen, the mountains, and eyond! We also work in New Orleans and surrounding areas. Don't hesitate to reach out for any questions or to inquire about our availability for your wedding. We work with all couples, no matter how they're paired. 
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Lovely winter wedding at artwork network gallery - denver wedding planner

4/6/2015

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This lovely bride, and her fantastic husband are some of our favorite clients ever! Anna and Matt married this winter in Denver, at Artwork Network Gallery. The gallery is a fabulous Denver wedding venue, and it's a great space for parties of all kinds! Laura Murray was kind enough to share her fabulous images! Bella Calla handled the floral design, and the Bella Calla team did an amazing job bringing fun, pastel spring to a snowy winter day! The snow on the trees created the perfect backdrop for this winter wedding in Colorado! Azucar Bakery provided this elegant wedding cake! 
The review of Sweetly Paired from Anna:
"Made me completely relaxed on our big day and was an incredible help. Had great ideas. Had incredibly helpful vendor recommendations also - made our day honestly perfect! Not to mention her floral service is to die for. Loved working with Lilli!!!!"
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Amazing wedding showcase at Seawell ballroom

3/27/2015

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We partnered with Bella Calla and Eclectic Hive for this showcase, and brought out some amazing designs! Studio JK, one of Denver's best wedding photographers, provided these awesome images! This was truly one of Denver's most high-end wedding showcases, with some of the best vendors out there! Denver wedding planner, Lilli Black, with Sweetly Paired planned the design along with Luc from Eclectic Hive for the Directors' Room and lobby areas for the show. The Directors' Room at the Seawell is a fabulous place to get married if you have a small intimate Denver wedding. It has an amazing patio, and wonderful food served by Epicurean. 
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The floral design was romantic, soft peach, marsala wine, and lovely gold containers. Bella Calla set up their rental wedding chuppah, and they provided all vase rentals. Eclectic Hive did an amazing job with the furniture, and Event Rents did a fabulous job with the linens, glassware and amazing place settings. 
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