Cherry Blossom Bridal Shower - Macalusos 4.20.13

The title to this blog post could have easily been "2 Moms and a Bridal Party"

Bride's mom and future mother in law together hosted a simply gorgeous Bridal Shower for our Princess Bride Maria. 

This beautiful Cherry Blossom Bridal Shower was hosted at Macaluso's.

They left the entertaining up to the Bridal party and the ladies did a phenomenal job! We were honored and delighted to design and set up a cherry blossom themed and pink candy-filled Sweet Buffet. We can't wait til the Wedding!!

 

Count down begins...

Our Bride Maria showing the Future Mrs. shirt from us at CSE.

 

Below our Rustic/Glam Candy Buffet set up.











 

Bridal Shower cake by Palermo Bakery.







 

Catherine Scerbo Events & Design 

Bless this Nest Baby Shower 4.13.13

I am so excited to finally share our Bless this Nest baby shower on the blog. It was so much fun hunting for all the rustic/ vintage pieces that would help in the styling and creation of this concept for mama to be Lannie.

 

Since this is baby #2 for the gorgeous mama to be, I couldn't help but fall in love with this very fitting rustic wire bucket, it was such a great find! It served as an awesome styling prop, we included some baby onesies and a pair of vintage looking baby boots.

 

 

Table Top setting: for a delicate rustic concept, we dressed the tables in white linens and hand-laced burlap runners. For centerpieces white bird cages were nested on birch wood flat slabs, mason jars adorned with lace contained twine-tied bunches of jip (babysbreath) and mason jelly jars wrapped in twine contained floater candles. Round wood slabs were used as table numbers- numbers were stenciled with paint. White chair covers and hand-tied burlap sashes dressed the chairs. 

Rustic Dessert Table: Vintage looking baby onesie cookies were nested on square birchwood slabs adorned with doilies. The cookies were so delicious!

 Cookies by  Goehrig's Bakery

 

 

Escort cards were printed on kraft stock and were displayed on birchwood logs.

 

 

 

A rustic baby bookshelf was displayed and was quickly filled with baby books brought in by guests.

The bookshelf was built from wine crates.

 

Some more escort cards, these were hanging from a moss frame.

They were attached to twine with baby clothespins.

Cake Table

 

Guest book/Wishes for Baby.

Another great find were the birch wood pencils.

 

Baby birds Cake Pops were standing on a large wooden slab.

Cake Pops by Lenny's Sweets

 

Bless this Nest Cake. The base simulated a rounded wood bark slab and was all fondant made.

Cake by Lenny's Sweets

 

Our rustic dessert table. The 'Sweets' banner was printed using vintage newspaper print on kraft paper. Fabric strands attached to birch branch worked as garlands and adorned the dessert table as a backdrop.

 

The awesome vintage tea cart we found via Lucky 7 Design

Mama to be and the CSE ladies.

 

The Garden resting area created for the mama to be

 

 

Event Planning, Design and Styling: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Photographer: Genio Photography

Invitations, Escort Cards, Wish Cards: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Linens, Chair Covers & Centerpieces: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Cake, Cake Pops: Lenny's Sweets

Cookies, Cupcakes and Pastries: Goehrig's Bakery

 

70 Years Young - Frank Sinatra at The Graycliff 2.24.13

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A special celebration to celebrate a special man turning 70 years young.

 

How else do you celebrate 70 years of life? Well, we surrounded this special guy with all his favorite things; Family, Friends, Food and Frank Sinatra. Lot of F's there...we had a Fabulous time. 

 

Details.

Looking through my storage, I found a few old Sinatra records and some of them turned out to be the perfect guestbook.

 

 

This silver microphone and Frank's oil painting were a perfect find and made awesome props for the escort card table.

 

Invitations consisted of 3 layer stack cards in black, silver and white.  

 

 

Escort cards were adorned with the NYC skyline and a caricature of Frank Sinatra.

 

 

Guestbook Sign. I love this. So true. Perfect fit.

Tabletop.

We opted for a Hollywood Glam/50's concept and created Ostrich Feather centerpieces nested on trumpet vases filled with jelly fillers and lit via white foralytes to simulate soft spot lighting. The lit white feathers popped over the black tuxedo linens. 

 

 

The simple table numbers - translated in Italian.

 

Mangia!

6x6 white Menu cards displayed over silver beaded charger plates.

 

 

Keeping the entire 'Frank Sinatra' vibe, mini Jack Daniels bottles were the perfect favor.

Who doesn't know 'Jack and Coke' was Frank's favorite drink?

 

 

There couldn't be a better cake for the occasion. Thanks to Joanne at Palermo Bakery for designing this yummy cannoli-filled confection.

 

 

Catering/Venue: The Graycliff, Moonachie, NJ

Event Planning, Design and Styling: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Entertainment: LJ Productios - Jack Bermeo

Soloist/Sinatra performer: Antonio Valenti at Planet Antonio

Photographer: JargaPix

Invitations, Menus, Escort Cards: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Chair Covers & Centerpiece Rentals: Catherine Scerbo Events, llc

Cake: Palermo Bakery



Shiann's Winter Sweet 16 - The Tides Estate 1.27.13

I started planning a design concept with this lovely family back in September. From the 1st email I received from Shiann's mom, I knew that this was going to be a fun Sweet 16 to plan.

You've heard the saying "time flies when you're having fun", I wish I had the power to freeze time just a tad bit - this family was just so fun and a pleasure to work with!

 

 Their intentions were heart-set on giving their daughter an amazing evening, a Sweet 16 party that  presented her personality and one that she would never forget.

 

Meet sweet Shiann 

 

Escort Card table setting

 

 The beautiful set up; bright colors Turquoise & Purple. 

 

Photos on this post credits: LJ Productions

 

 A shout out and Thanks to all the wonderful professionals that made the day.  

 

Venue and Catering by The Tides Estate

 

Event Planning, Design & Styling, Event Rentals, Linens, Chair Covers,

Chargers, Favors by Catherine Scerbo Events www.catherinescerbo.com

 

Entertainment by Jack Bermeo at LJ Productions www.ljdjs.com

 

Uplighting by Premier Entertainment/JB Lighting

 

Candy Buffet by NJ Candy Buffets by Catherine Scerbo Events

 

Cake by Belmont Bakery & The Tides Estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day & Happy Anniversary to our clients Tiffany & Jakub!

Hope you all have a wonderful and sweet Valentine's Day!

Here is a video recap by Kenneth Stillman Video of our past Valentine's Day clients Tiff & Jake. We can't  believe it's been 4 years! Congratulations T&J...may you and your growing family continue to be blessed.

 Enjoy!

Here's our blog recap from 4 years ago...

http://catherinescerboevents.blogspot.com/2009/02/21409-congratulations-tiffany-jakub.html

http://catherinescerboevents.blogspot.com/2009/02/tiffany-jakub-part-ii.html

 

2.14.2009

Venue: The Villa at Mountain Lakes , Makeup by Cristina Resciniti, Photographer: Emin Kuliyev @ Emin Photography, Video: Ken @ Kenneth Stillman Video , Floral: Nathan @ Avenue Florists ,
Day of Coordination: Catherine Scerbo, Candy Buffet: NJ Candy Buffets by Catherine Scerbo Events, DJ: Jason Frankel @ Excel Entertainment , Lighting: Anthony DeStefano @ Premium Entertainment , Entertainment Band: The Nerds , Photo Favors: Ron Romanchik @ SR Photography

 



Wedding Anniversary Traditions

What's Yours? 

We all know about the Wedding Anniversary Gift tradition that’s been around for many years.

Gifting paper items for the 1st wedding anniversary. i.e. books, planners, personalized notecards are my favorites. For a more modern gift the 1st year gift a clock or gold jewelry. On the 2nd wedding anniversary tradition says to gift cotton and for a modern gift include China. On the 3^rd Year of wedded bliss, tradition says gift Leather or/and crystal, glass, pearls for a more modern gift. Anniversary #4 tradition says gift Fruit and/or Flowers (my favorite is Edible Arrangements basket) and a modern gift would be appliances, linen, silk or a blue topaz and so on... 

 

But, perhaps you create your own tradition that doesn’t include buying each other a gift.

Reservations at a certain-favorite restaurant that you only dine at for your wedding anniversary, revisiting the place you both met and for a romantic twist try reenacting that first hello, revisiting where you exchanged vows and relive the moment by reading your vows to each other, ordering a replica of your wedding cake and flavor?  

 

OR you can get as creative as our wonderful past clients D&J, who not only had their ceremony and reception where they 1st met but they saved their actual wedding cake and have been enjoying a slice on their wedding anniversary for the past 4 years! Yes, that’s right and she claims that it tastes amazing! They might have a slice or two left to enjoy on their 5^th.

 

What an awesome way to celebrate and relive that magical moment when you exchanged vows with your soul-mate. Reliving the moment you both gave your wedding cake the 1^st cut followed by the traditional kiss and feeding each other that first sweet piece...  

Thanks D for sharing your tradition with us. We wish you a Happy 4^th Anniversary and unlimited decades of wedded bliss.
 

Wedding-February 7th, 2009

Venue-Metro Bar & Café

Photo by Michael Falco

Ceremony-Four Orchids - Kim Worley

Cake- Carlos Bakery

Coordinator- Catherine Scerbo - Catherine Scerbo Events

 

Share your anniversary tradition with us! And if you aren't married yet, try some of the options we shared.

 

For information on how to preserve your wedding cake, click link TheKnot

For more information on wedding anniversary gift tradition, click link  Anniversary by Year