Aline and David's Tampa Reception

A few weeks back we had the honor of coordinating Aline and David's reception here in Tampa, Florida. The actual wedding itself was held in Aline's hometown in Brazil. Since some of their friends and family could not make the trip, David's family held a beautiful celebration at Higgins Hall, here in Tampa. We incorporated a lot of the same details as the actual wedding but also made it unique to the guests at the same time. A great time was had by all!

Many thanks to the vendors involved....

Coordination: Simply Divine Events

Floral: Angel's Flowers

Band: SouthTown Fever

DJ and Lighting: Inpulse Entertainment

Venue: Higgins Hall

Catering: CDB's Southside Restaurant

Wedding Cake: Frida's Bakery

Favors: Toffee to Go

Coffee and Gelato: Cafe Ala Carte and the Gelato Carte

Decor: My Event Design

Guest book Tree: La Vie En Rose

Foliage: Plantz

Menus and place cards: Not from a box

Linens and other rentals: Imperial Party Rental

Bridal Open House

Join Simply Divine Events at Anglo Couture's Bridal Open House Sunday, March 25, 2012

Are you engaged and looking to find the perfect vendors to make your wedding day exactly what you envision? This is your opportunity to meet some of the most talented Tampa Bay Bridal Vendors at Anglo Couture's Bridal Open House! You will be able to have one-on-one time to meet with local professionals that have experience in making dreams come true.

This is your opportunity to have one-on-one time to see how amazing their work is as well as the opportunity to win prizes!

There will be champagne, music, prizes and more. Register now through Anglo Couture's Facebook Page or through e-mail info@anglocoutureaccessories.com.

Event Details:

When: March 25, 2012
Cost: Free
Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Anglo Couture Bridal Boutique
689 Central Ave.
St. Petersburg, FL 33776
Phone Number: 727 526-5800
Register now through Anglo Couture's Facebook or e-mail info@anglocoutureaccessories.com.

The Wedding Event for The Special Event Conference

Last month Simply Divine Events had the unique opportunity to co-produce, alongside Sean De Freitas, one of the off-site events for the 2012 Special Event Conference- The Wedding Event! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work on an event of this magnitude, showcasing the newest trends and educating industry peers.

The event was held in the Exp Hall of The Florida State Fairgrounds. Our team of vendors loaded in and began to construct the event space on Monday morning. The event was held on that Thursday evening. The theme of the event was "Journey to Love". Award winning film maker, Brett Culp, followed our team around and filmed the behind the scenes planning process- telling a story of our "journey" in producing The Wedding Event.

The theme of the event was built around four different looks. The looks were Modern Organic, Earthy Glitz, Country Chic, and Moroccan Vintage. In the cocktail area, Anglo Couture provided four brides and gowns where a vignette was designed around the look of each bride.

The main focal point and entertainment of the cocktail room was an opera singer in an eighty foot red dress, designed by Designs by Sean, singing beautiful love songs.

As the singer's performance came to an end, pyro fireworks went off behind her and the four fabric doors dropped to the floor and guests entered into the main ballroom for dinner and the presentation. The room was broken up into the four distinct looks.

Please take a look of some of the photos from the event.

Photos courtesy of Rebecca Bouck Photography.

Moroccan Vintage Vignette

Main bar in the cocktail room

Lounge furniture in the cocktail room

Cocktails

The amazing singer

Moroccan Vintage centerpiece

Modern Organic

Earthy Glitz

Country Chic

A HUGE thank you to all the vendors who helped us put this AMAZING event together:

Ambassador Limousine

A La Carte Event Pavilion (catering)

Bay Stage Lighting

Cort Event Furnishing

Florida State Fairgrounds

Panache a Classic Party Rental Company

Anglo Couture

PRI Productions

Brett Culp Films

Dazian

Accent Decor

Big Image Systems

Deco AV

Designs by Sean

Event Star

MMD Events

Nuage

Rebecca Bouck

URBANcoast

Zambelli Fireworks

A Piece of Cake

Alessi Bakery

Amici's

Andy Frain Services

Blossoms, Branches, and More

Cafe A La Carte, Tampa Bay

Cakes by Nomeda

Chantilly Cakes

Concept Bait

Costa Tropicals

Epic 1

Every Last Detail

First Class DJ Services

Flutter Fetti

Full Pot of Flowers

Garrett Sound and Light

Global Experience Specialist

Globodyne Productions and Designs

Inspire Entertainment

J. Thor Productions

Passion Growers

Russ Wholesale Flowers

Sigma Services

Smiters Oasis

TBA Communications

The Cake Zone

The Fresh Garland Company

The Gelato Carte

Wind Visuals

J. Keith White with AANDK Productions

Rene Van Rems International

Stan Epps with Stan's Floral Concepts

La Vie En Rose

Steve Duke with A Touch of Paradise

The Knot Best of Weddings!

Take a look at what we received in the mail yesterday! We are so honored to be listed as one of The Knot's Best of Weddings.

Thank you to all of our past clients!

Come see us at the Don CeSar Bridal Show

Sunday, February 19, 2012 from 1:00pm-4:00pm we will be at the Don CeSar Bridal Show.

Click the picture below to get all the details.

Hope to see you there!

Behind the Scenes Film from The Wedding Event

A huge thank you to Brett Culp for creating these 4 short films; a behind the scenes look into the planning process of TSE's Wedding Event. In these films you will see Sean Freitas, our co-chair and designer of the event, along with Lori and Jessica with Simply Divine Events, the logistics chairs.

Click the link below to watch the films.

http://www.brettculp.com/tse/2012_wedding.htm

Thank you to all the vendors who made this event spectacular- we couldn't have done it with out you!

Enjoy!

TSE's 2012 Wedding Event

Lori and Jessica with Simply Divine Events worked alongside Sean De Freitas with Designs by Sean in co-producing the 2012 TSE Wedding Event!

We are so honored to have been chosen to be co-chairs for The Wedding Event for the Special Event Conference that was held in Tampa last week. The Special Event Conference is one of the largest trade shows and conferences in the Event Planning Industry.

In this blog post we are going to take you behind the scenes to see the process of setting up an event of this magnitude. The event was held in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds, and it took us 4 long days and nights to install this event. This has been the most challenging event we have worked on; and we executed it flawlessly.

The Expo Hall is an 88,000 square foot space. We transformed and brought in this space creating walls to the size and look of an elegant ballroom for 700 guests.

The Floor Plan

Day 1- unloading the trucks...

Building the truss...

Setting up the floral designers area. We had 4 designers; their teams set up 4 work stations and began to lay out their vases and process their flowers...

Day 2 - Building the 100 ft. long chandelier...

Setting up the cocktail area...

More flowers arrive...

Begin to design the centerpieces...

Day 3 - truss goes up and start laying tables...

Finish setting tables...

We had four looks inside the ballroom this is:

Earthly Glitz

Moroccan Vintage

Modern Organic

Country Chic

The stage begins to be built...

The stage- finished product

Day 4 - final tweaks and event day!

One of the cocktail hour vignettes- Moroccan Vintage

Cocktail area

Cocktail area - Opera singer in the 80' red dress (Dramatic)

The finished look inside the main dining room

Thank you to all the vendors who helped make this happen- there were over 50 vendors who helped us pull this event off!!! We will be sure to list everyone when we do another post of the professional photos.