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Pink and White Harborside Wedding

Our Special Moments Event Planning team loved working with Vicka and Blake on their beautiful wedding at Harborside Chapel and Innisbrook Golf and Spa Resort. We actually worked with Blake’s family for his sister’s wedding, so there was already a great connection there. The Harborside Chapel was the perfect setting for this soft elegant color…

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I See The Light

As much as our Special Moments Event Planning team loves the scene in Tangled where Rapunzel sees all of the sky lanterns taking off, some things only happen in fairytales. The truth is that most municipalities and wedding venues do not allow the launch of sky lanterns because of the risk of fire. They are…

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Reuse and Give Back

Earlier this week in honor of Earth Day our Special Moments Event Planning team wanted to focus on sustainability in weddings. From Invitation suites on recycled paper to local, seasonable and organic food at your wedding reception, there are a lot of ways to make your wedding more environmentally friendly. Wedding flowers can be a…

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Truly Special Moments

Our Special Moments Event Planning team recently had the pleasure of working with Alyssa and Anthony on their Clearwater Beach wedding. They are a couple who are very much in love, incredibly sweet and very much devoted to the Lord. Their beautiful outdoor wedding ceremony at the Clearwater Beach Library and Recreation Complex overlooked the…

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Make Your Wedding Iconic

Recently our Special Moments Event Planning team had the pleasure of working with Keriann and Jeremy on their downtown Tampa wedding. We featured their wedding in our recent blog post Wintertime Love. When selecting wedding photos by Grind and Press Photography for the blog, one thing that jumped out was the wedding portraits at amazing…

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We Are Featured in Wedding Planner Magazine!

Our Special Moments Event Planning team is beyond thrilled to learn that our Star Spangled Wedding has been featured in the current issue of Wedding Planner Magazine. This magazine is distributed internationally to our wedding planning colleagues and features weddings with interesting designs, details and challenges planners have to overcome. Bonnie and Marcus’ “Vintage Americana”…

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Blue and Gold Beach Wedding

Lauren and Neil were such a fun and interesting couple for our Special Moments Event Planning team to work with. Lauren had a lot of the planning completed for their Opal Sands wedding on Clearwater Beach but primarily worked with us for guidance and vendor referrals as needed. The wedding was created in a beautiful…

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Wintertime Love

Earlier this year our Special Moments Event Planning team worked with Keriann and Jeremy to create a little wintertime love. They traveled north from Ft Myers for a Tampa Bay winter wonderland wedding. The winter wonderland theme began with shimmer silver invitations with tiny white flakes of snow. We love how Keriann carried through the vibe…

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We’ve Got It In The Bag

Our Special Moments Event Planning team is asked nearly every week about Welcome Bags for out of town guests. Do we need them? What goes in them? Do we send them everyplace people are staying? And, can you do them? We decided that breaking it down in a blog post was an easy way to…

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Anyway The Wind Blows

In the past, our Special Moments Event Planning blog has talked about being OK with your plan B; and Melissa and Nelson are a wonderful example of that. The evening before their wedding at the beautiful Opal Sands Resort on Clearwater Beach, it was fairly windy and pretty chilly. Melissa decided right there that the…

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Home Sweet Home?

Our Special Moments Event Planning team frequently gets requests to assist in planning a wedding at a couple’s home or at a unique outdoor location. What’s not to love? It’s Florida and we have great weather, amazing sunsets, and beautiful scenery. However, the biggest challenge is that too often couple’s do not always think about…

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Love and Warm Candlelight

Rebecca and Jacobs’s wedding was one of love and family with warm candlelight throughout the evening, and our Special Moments Event Planning team loved working with them. The beautiful wedding took place on Clearwater Beach at the Sandpearl Resort. Family and friends traveled in from all over the world to celebrate the wedding that occurred…

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