Discover Local Insight About: Wedding and Event Planners

Orange Blossom Bar Cart Events is a party on wheels. Owners Shelley Brassfield and Kathleen Liess are neighbors who, six years ago, discovered a shared love of hosting parties and fashioning party decor...

I’m sure we can all agree that finding stunning inspiration for wedding flowers is easier than ever (thank you, Pinterest), but when you get down to brass tacks, putting together a floral scheme can be much more complicated than it sounds!

Invitations can seem like an odd thing to fixate on, but in reality, they are a guest’s first impression of what’s in store for them at your wedding. It might be a small detail for some, but it sets the tone for your big day, and you want to be able to get it right. For the all-local wedding in this blog series, we went with Citrograph Printing Company, which is the longest running printing company in California! Let me explain how we got there…

Wedding rings are a big deal.

The gown will get packed away. The flowers will die. Sometimes you’ll look at the photos.

But you will wear your rings every day for the rest of your life.

Redlands can feel like the kind of place where you know every good spot in town. You’ve found the best burrito place, you know exactly where to get your morning coffee, and maybe you’ve even been to some beautiful weddings in town. The thing about Redlands (or any small town, really) is that it’s the best place in the world to discover hidden gems, and wedding venues around town are no exception.

Choosing a wedding planner comes so early in the process, that the only thing you have to choose first is the person to marry.

The planner is going to facilitate everything and be everything -- sometimes therapist, bodyguard, dry cleaning runner, seamstress, cake server….

They are both very involved in the community, because they believe you “… get a lot of job offers in your life, but you only have one hometown!”