Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Welcome Pea Pod

Our team here at ele3 Event Design & Planning would like to give a huge congratulations to Kate & Matt Upton and welcome their new sweet "pea pod" Niles Drake Upton into this wonderful world.

A little over a week ago ele3 Event Design & Planning had the oppertunity to give our friend, sister, and daughter a baby shower. The shower was neutral since Kate and Matt did not know what gender pea pod was going to be. We chose to show Kates sunny personality and designed the shower around daisies. Daisies resemble happiness, sunshine, and warmth a perfect match for the mommy to be. Kates pseudo mom, Sherrie and I had a wonderful time designing the decor of the event. Please enjoy the pictures from Kate's shower and help us welcome Niles with any loving comments you may have to share!!!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

“Green,” Pink, and Lots of Black

This weekend was a baby shower given by one of the partners of ele3.  The honoree is a woman whose favorite holiday is Halloween, and favorite color is black.  Now, I would NOT call her Gothic by any means, her preference in black is tasteful, and is shown by the adorable little baby clothes that she registered for, and the baby room, done in pink and black polka dots.  She was given 5 black onesies, with the saying "my little black dress" in silver.  She also received hand sewn blankets and other hand made clothes that were black, but with the accent color pink

For the color scheme we used lots of black, a touch of pink, and going "green", and what's the golden rule of going "green?" That's right!  Renew, reuse, recycle, and supporting Michigan businesses, I like to throw this one in for good measure.

To support our local businesses we purchased food from nearby farmers, and food from Meijer, a Michigan based grocer.  I would have liked to tell you that we picked fruit and veggies from out back, but we just started here, so maybe next year we can have an ele3 garden.  We wanted to keep with the black theme, so we chose black magic roses from family owned and operated, The Flower Garden, a florist in town.  We reused pink, and black polka dot cardstock, glass bowls, linens, and borrowed dishes from family, as it is better to use real dishes than paper, in the "green" world.   Lastly, we found a very cool organic ribbon that we used to tie the napkins and silverware together.  This wonderfully rip, tear, and curl ribbon is from Cream City Ribbon.