Linen Pick of the Week: Garden Toile

Garden Toile is the pick of the week. This beautiful fabric caught my eye immediately, with it's intricate detailing and gorgeous floral pattern. For this storyboard, I chose to accent this linen with a coral lamour. This fabric allows the client to use almost any other linen to accompany it, as it is simply black and white. Coral is one of my favorite colors and a very popular one for this summer. I also chose a sheer pewter fabric and a classic ivory alongside the coral to add texture and dimension.

For this simulation client, I decided to use the coral color to adorn the other design elements of this wedding. This can be seen in the invitations, escort cards, cake, and floral bouquet, all coming together to achieve a successful color scheme. I also decided to choose a pewter place setting to accent the sheer fabric mentioned earlier. The slight sheen from the plate replicates the same effect of the sheer pewter linen.

Do you have a specific color in mind for your wedding? Need some help making a final decision? Let The Events Company help with your linen choice, and any other design elements.      

Chair Covers: What kind to choose?

There are three areas of décor most brides are concerned about when they walk into a raw venue: the color of the rug, walls and chairs. Walls and floors can be altered and muted with lighting and other décor designs, but chair covers are the element you can have the most fun with. There are hundreds of color combination ideas available, in various linen fabrics and styles, and dozens of design concepts - it is impossible to keep up sometimes!

Here are some chair cover options available at The Events Company in Syracuse, New York.

  

Celedon Lamour Chair Cover and Ivory Lamour Chair Tie
Photo by Lisa Walsh @ Hotel Syracuse

Maize Spandex Chair Cover with Maize Lamour Chair Tie
Photo by Meghan Thomas Photography @ Turning Stone

White Lamour Chair Wrap 
Photo by Genevieve Fridley Photogrpahy @ Traditions at the Links

No matter what your vision, chair covers for your wedding should be a fun decision.  If you are struggling with ideas, be sure to get in touch with an event designer in your area.

Here is to Wonderful Wedding Planning!

Shannon Marie Lach

Wedding & Social Event Director

The Events Company

Syracuse, New York

Add Life to the Party with LIGHTING!

When flipping through magazines or online albums, many of the venue photos that catch your eye have extensive lighting and various spotlighting to accentuate architectural elements or mask imperfections.  Lighting is a décor designer’s trick to making all your guests say “WOW” in any venue.

Lighting can range from simple uplighting using par cans around the perimeter of the space to elaborate treatments using intelligent lighting. Whichever you choose, you will have instant ambiance. 

Lighting can be used to accentuate wonderful architectural elements or hide a less than desirable wall color.

Brides love seeing their monogram on the dance floor - just know that once the dance floor is full of people it becomes a really bright light on bodies. If you want to have the monogram, use it for the walk-in Wow! and then turn it off or find another location to project that won't get 'interference.'

We've transitioned to LED lighting, which draws less power (which is better for the venues), offers unlimited color choices, and the ability to change colors through the course of the event. Gobos are used for projecting patterns and are great in adding texture to walls and floors.