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Thursday, December 20, 2012

2012 a fabulous year of weddings

I feel blessed and very happy about all the weddings we had in Riviera maya this year. So I decided to post about them. We had brides from very different cultures and guests from all over the world. With very different ideas and love stories I may say 2012 was an amazing year for us and we hope 2013 is even greater. Please enjoy our selection of amazing weddings in paradise.
Happy holidays!!!

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

2012 WELCOME!!!

I will begin 2012 by giving you the highlights of my NYE dinner party at INDIGO BEACH CLUB in Playa del Carmen.

It was a very nice saturday the 31st when I drove from Cancun to Playa to meet with my dear friend and Wedding Planner Vero Riviera. We had an amazing evening planned for our selves, along with Wedding Planners Carmen Laborin, Paula Balderas, Hosted by event planners Caty Gomez and Alina Heredia it would be a night to remember.

I'm walking with Vero and her friend Rosy down the 14 Norte Street when we instantly se a cute golf cart with a twist a sign said BARMACIA which translates to BARMACY and we just had to make a quick stop there, hahaha that is just when carmen and the gang joined us and we had some fun photos at the cute little car.

As I entered the area designated fot the dinner party @ the Beach Club, I immediately knotted my head as a sign of OMG I can´t believe it, they had little candle jars all in the center of the tables in BLUE and also the wine glasses in blue.

All the decoration is meant in different blue tones and silver.

And I absolutely loved the blue color combination as I have just recently posted about how BLUE will be a strong color at Weddings on the first months of the year in 2012.

Right next to the dinner tables we had the lounge area surrounding the wooden dance floor.

On the corner the DJ Booth and just across of it the PHOTO BOOTH,

were I had a blast taking photos with the girls!

Dinner was amazing:

At midnight the countdown towards 2012 started then we started eating our 12 grapes and wishing great things for this fresh start!

Party kept going on until 4am and we had a great night we will sure remember for a while!!!

Then we woke up at 545 am to watch the first sunrise of 2012.

Playa del Carmen and Riviera maya are sure the perfect place for times worth celebrating, wether its a wedding, anniversary or new years eve party visit us I can assure you, you will have the time of your lives!!!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

sweet & joy

Today's post is about the sweetness of weddings.

And not precisely talking about the LOVE and ROMANCE,

but about the wedding cake!!!!

I have read and heard lots of stories regarding the wedding cake, but do we really know where thsi tradition came from?

Well according to my WBW Book for Wedding Planners the history of the wedding cake goes back as far as the Roman Empire, of course by this time icing was not even on the mind of the bakers.

The groom would eat part of a loaf of barley bread baked especially for the nuptials and break the rest over his bride's head. History tells us that breaking the bread symbolized the breaking of the bride's virginal state and the subsequent dominance of the groom over her. Talk about "macho" ego.

The tradition disappeared fairly quickly in some places, we all can see why that lasted so little. If I'm a bride there´s no way I'm letting my man break the cake on my head, after all the time it took for me to look GORGEOUS... but there were still reports of breaking an oatcake or other breakable cakes over the bride's head in Scotland, in the 19th century. It's reported that in Northern Scotland, friends of the bride would put a napkin over her head and then proceed to pour a basket of bread over her. We are all glad this tradition is over.

I also read on the web that during Medieval England, there was a custom involving stacking small sweet buns in a large pile in front of the newlyweds. The couple would attempt to kiss over the pile. Success in the process was a sign that there would be many children in their future... I guess in those days they would still have many children even if they could not succeed in kissing over the pile of sweet buns...

And then we have the appereance of the BRIDE'S PIE. This was somewhere in the middle of the17th century and well into the early 19th century. Oh how I love pies!! Ok this pie was filled with sweet breads, a mince pie, or maybe just a mutton pie. The main "ingredient" of this pie was a glass ring.

The myth says that the lady who found the ring would be the next to be married. You didn't exactly find these pies at weddings but they where in almost every event. *** great idea for your bachelorette party lets see who the next in line is ???

But wedding cakes became really popular by the late 19th century, they where simple and usually plum cakes.

Legend has it that sleepers will dream of their future spouses if a piece of wedding cake is under their pillow. In the late 18th century this notion led to the curious tradition in which brides would pass tiny crumbs of cake through their rings and then distribute them to guests who could, in turn, place them under their pillows. The notion of sleeping with a piece of cake underneath one's pillow dates back as far as the 17th century and quite probably forms the basis for today's tradition of giving cake as a "gift." After a while brides started to get superstitious about taking off their wedding rings so this tradition just kind of ended too.

FIRST WEDDING CAKES WHERE WHITE.

White icing required the use of only the finest refined sugar, so the whiter the cake, the more affluent the families appeared. It was due to this fact that a white wedding cake became an outward symbol of affluence. (we get that now but not only with the cake but with the ring too) Previous to Victorian times, most wedding cakes were also white, but not because of the symbolism. Using the color white for icing had a more pragmatic basis. Ingredients were very difficult to come by, especially those required for icing.

THE CUTTING OF THE CAKE REPRESENTS THE FIRST TASK THE BRIDE AND GROOM DO TOGETHER AS A NEW FAMILY. It takes place on the center stage so every body can be a part of this moment.

And for sure this is one tradition that most of us have witnessed many times. The first piece of cake is cut by the bride with the "help" of the groom. So cutting the cake becomes a joint project. After the cake cutting ceremony, the couple proceed to feed one other from the first slice. This provides another lovely piece of symbolism, and one I really love: the mutual commitment of bride and groom to provide for one another. (till death do us part)

On my wedding planners course with the WBW I learned about the Groom's Cake, not every culture has this tradition.

Now a days it's a tradition that has prevailed in the South part of USA, but I have seen amazing Grooms cakes they usually symbolize something that the groom really enjoys doing in his life, fishing, gambling, play station, hahaha they are made with a lot of color and fondant details that really make them a fun part of the wedding.

We have evolved into a most sophisticated form of wedding cake with top tiers that are to cut the cake and bottom tiers made with decorated mini muffins. Also the tree tire cake evolves in to first and second layer being fake and only bottom one is to give the guests. And yes the SWEETS and DESSERTS buffet tables have also help bride and grooms decide into a much smaller version of their wedding cake and give guests the option of several deserts at wedding.