1st 25 comments , We'll find you the perfect gift.

Christmas is approaching and we at Rattytatty Designs are offering a selection of Christmas Planning Services to take away the stresses of Christmas.

We can Decorate your house. provide you with a Chef on Christmas day, write and despatch your Christmas cards and also provide you with a Christmas shopping service. 

Now to get ourselves warmed up and raring to go we are going to accept Christmas Shopping challenges from you our readers. If your having problems selecting a gift for someone. just leave a comment stating the recipients age, gender, any personal style preferences, ie classic, modern and the budget for the gift. We will select 3 options for you complete with where you can purchase the items.

We will provide selections for the 1st 20 comments

Look forward to meeting the challenges

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Voodoo wedding ideas

Rumours abound about a December voodoo wedding for Robert and Kristen. However there are a great many hints that this is not to be the case. Either way the stars of twilight make a lovely couple.

If you are inspired by the rumours to consider a voodoo wedding yourself but don't want it to look like this

there are aspects of a voodoo wedding you can incorporate into your wedding.

Colours have a great importance in voodoo. So you can base your wedding  on the most providential colours.


The colours most apt for a voodoo wedding are

Blue represents love in Voodoo
White positive energy and good karma
Purple Spirituality
Green Tranquility

Invitations and stationery
For off the peg stationery you can follow the voodoo colour scheme.
But in reality only a bespoke stationer can provide you with a subtle set of stationery that has some obvious referance to Voodoo. Interlinked snake initials for instance

What should you wear

This is one of the dresses that I feel would compliment a Voodoo themed wedding . Available from Light in the box 

You can stick with a traditional style wedding and keep your accessories subtle or if  you want something a little more edgy and adds a bit of the carnival atmosphere found in voodoo add this blue feather jacket available from Miss Selfridge

and these blue shoes

available at endless,com


your bouquet needs plenty of blue, purple and green

I liked this one suggested on  dotcomwomen.com

Table settings White linen . Cobalt blue runners, Centrepieces to match bouquet. For the voodoo touch add good luck voodoo dolls as place cards Tagged with Name and what the colour should bring the owner alternate white doll with purple hair, purple doll with white hair.
As favours you could add Voodoo bottle spells  you can buy a how too book http://best.voodoo-spells.ever.com/

So  avoiding the Disney style voodoo wedding doesn't mean that you cannot reflect and embrace voodoo into your wedding. It just takes perfect planning

How can an Event planner give you a perfect Christmas

How can an Event planner help with Christmas.

Many Event planners can offer, or find you, specialised services to help you have a stress free Christmas.
Everything from decorating your house or business inside and out, including in some cases full fake snow cover for your garden, plus removing it all afterwards, to designing personalized Christmas cards, writing and despatching them .


Providing personal Christmas shopper with wrapped gifts at the end, so no mad dash around the shops, or getting tangled in tape.


Planning all your Christmas catering and providing a chef, and a waiter if required. This includes the cleaning up after.So you can enjoy, your Christmas dinner party, or your Christmas Day not having to worry about whether your turkey is cooked or sorting out the remnants of Christmas dinner. 


You can let your Event planner organise those aspects of Christmas you hate and save the bits you enjoy for yourself.

Take our Jobs you hate Christmas survey, no personal details are collected, we want to ensure we have every task that minimises your joy of Christmas covered.

CHRISTMAS JOBS I HATE

Christmas decoration ideas

Well Christmas is fast approaching and I thought I would put together some mood boards for Christmas 

so here is my 1st mood board for Black silver and red Christmas

Tree

Use loads of  beautiful black and silver and charcoal coloured baubles. Then add 1 red bauble you really love but use a lot of them. Use 2 strings of lights 1 bright white one red  .Black Tree and baubles all from Christmas time uk

Table decoration

Have a black undercloth and place an openwork batternburg lace table cloth over the top . Use Red christmas wreathes as table centre. with 3 different sizes of church candles in black . Use silver chargers, and black crockery, and red napkins.
I will be posting another idea on Thursday
Tracey

Rattytatty Designs (Events) a Poem

For those people who wonder what an event planner can do for them 

So what does Rattytatty do?

From finding a venue so sublime,

to food good enough for the queen to dine.

Finding you the perfect dress!

Delivering events without the stress!

She gives your perfect day that special touch,

that makes it look as if you spent too much.

Keeping everything on time, in budget.

She really is a priceless nugget!

So what does Rattytatty do?

Why, she designs events, just for you!

Hope you like the poem

Wedding fairs in the North West Saturday and Sunday

Whilst contemplating what "Your Great Event" should feature on Fridays I thought that last minute suggestions for Bridal fairs would be a grand idea . So I have selected a few in the north west.

Saturday 9th October


One fair
 Cheshire

New Blossoms Hotel

St John Street, near the historic town clock, Chester, Cheshire CH1 1HL 12 pm till 5

Elegance Weddings and Events invite you to their Autumn Wedding Fayre. At The Macdonald New Blossoms Hotel, St John Street, Chester, Cheshire CH1 1HL.  Parking 5 minutes walk away at the Pepper Street, NCP Car Park. Two fantastic fashion shows 1pm & 4pm. Entrance £2.00

Telephone: 07969 619051

Sunday 10th October

Cheshire

Mottram Hall

Wilmslow Road , Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire , SK10 4QT

Additional information:

Catwalks at 1pm and 3pm

Contact Weddinglink: 0161 925 4289

Telephone: 0161 925 4289

Hartford Golf Club

Burrows Hill, Hartford, Northwich, Cheshire CW8 3AP 11am till 4

Additional information:

Elegance Weddings and Events Invite you to their Autumn Wedding Fayre, at Hartford Golf Club, Burrows Hill, Hartford, Northwich, Cheshire CW8 3AP 

Telephone: 07969 619051

Greater Manchester

Lancashire County Cricket Club

ld Trafford, Talbot Road, Manchester, M16 0PX  11 till 4

  Additional information:

Confetti Queens wedding fair

Telephone: 0161 212 1490

Ramada Manchester Piccadilly

Ramada Manchester Piccadilly , Portland Street , Manchester , M1 4PH 12 till 4

  Additional information:

The Gay wedding show
For more information you can visit us at www.gayweddingshow.co.uk

Telephone: 01932 571286

Merseyside

The Orangery at Heaton Hall

Middleton Road, Manchester M25 2SW Sunday 10th October 12 noon - 4pm

£1 entrance fee on the day. Free tickets available HERE

Free Event mood board for 3 lucky winners

So I am launching a bit of a competition, I will designs mood boards worth £180 for 3 lucky people who comment on this post, if you are planning an event just  comment below. The 3 winners will be drawn using a random number generator. Please ensure I have your e mail adress so I can contact you for information about theme, colours  required and your budget.
1st name drawn will have a mood board designed within the week, second will be the next week and the third will be in the following week.

So if you want a gothic wedding, a corporate launch party, anniversary or christening or something really off the wall comment and you may get some free ideas for "Your great event"

This is the mood board from  Launching Your Great Event post. all details of suppliers can be found in that post.
To find out more about our event planning services visit us at Rattytatty Designs

Launching "Your Great Event"

Hi all Tracey Allen here

I am The Event and Wedding planner, and on this blog I am going to share mood boards for events, some helpful advice, and links to great sites full of brilliant event and wedding related products.

Anyway,  as most weddings are planned upto a year in advance, here is a mood board for a winter wedding .

If you don't want to go for the full winter theme, snowflakes etc,  but want your wedding to reflect the feeling of winter . Go for white with tones of cool blue.Add loads of crystal for that icy feel . 

Wedding dress EdenBridal 
Aisle decor Decorate my wedding

Iced rose and tealight tablecenter Glacial Art
Bridesmaids dress Light in the box

Bouquet yourweddingcompany

Invitations Bride and groom direct 
Cake Traceys Cakes  Not me I should add.

Tiara Princess Sparkle 

Shoes John Lewis

Silver organza bags k2-accessories_07

Blue foil chocolates ebay slion*22eller 

Chairbows Ebay seller weddingaccessory2009

Hope that my mood board has been of interest. If you used the mood board for a 100 guest wedding with 10 tables it would cost £3070,00 without shipping or delivery.

                                                            ...................................

I was asked recently what was the most money saving advice I can give to a bride and groom, in fact it also goes for anyone planning a large event.
                                                            

Insure your event!!  With weddings and events costing so much, you have to ask yourselves could you afford to pay for it twice. If the answer is no, or you wouldn't want to, then you really should insure your event.

What would you do if the bridegroom broke his leg at his stag doo, or your Mum or Dad are taken ill. close to the wedding. There are many things that can go wrong including flooded venues and snow blocked roads but  if you are adequately insured it will mean that you can make your alternative plans without undue stress or worry.

For a £30,000 event it should cost you less than £180.00 to insure it
. 

My recommendation for a wedding insurance company in the Uk  is Ecclesiastical  mainly due to the fact that when a large wedding list company went bust a few years back, Ecclesiastical had the best record for paying out claims.

Check out reputations of event insurance companies before you decide which one to use.
                                                                                                      ...........................................................

If there were one other peice of advice that I,would give to all brides and grooms  it is about wedding photography,it won't save you money but can make a huge difference to your memories of the day.

 Don't rely on friends and family to photograph your wedding, do get a professional photographer.
 They know exactly what to do to get the pictures you need, they are used to getting people to stand in the right place for the all important group shots without to much hassle .They understand the light conditions and have the right equipment to ensure great pictures on dull and overly bright days.

The day only happens once, make sure you have the day recorded properly.

Again check out the reputations as  bad professional photographers do exist. Also look for a photographer who offers you a CD of your images, not a DVD to music, but a CD of printable images and the right to print them. This will enable you to send photos to anyone you want, and put them on Facebook or get a professional or friend to make you a scrapbook.

Photographers  I recommend in the North West are Steel Orchid
Lawrence Clift Photography and George and Gleyns Dawber  all offer CDs of your images. all take excellent photos and both record your wedding whilst remaining unobtrusive.

So thats my 1st post I would love to have your feedback. and  I will take suggestions as to what you would like my future posts to cover.
Tracey Allen