A Secret Garden Wedding

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team loved working with Flexi and Mike on their intimate 9.11 Secret Garden wedding. For Mike who is on active duty in the US Airforce, the date, the red, white and blue details and their choice of caterer all held a special place.   The Beginning Of A Beautiful Day…

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Brides of Every Size, Shape, and Ability

Our Special Moments Event Planning team was completely blown away watching the events leading up to the recent New York Bridal fashion week. As wedding planners working with Tampa Bay brides for over fifteen years, it is often hard to watch the struggle some brides-to-be go through finding their dream wedding gown. For years, everything…

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Looking Ahead To 2020 Wedding Trends

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Yes, we know it’s not even October but our Special Moments Event Planning team is already looking ahead to what is going to be hot for 2020. Having worked with couples to plan their Tampa Bay area wedding over the last fifteen years, we know how fast things change.  We know what will continue to…

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Fantasy, Function, and Fun

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team recently found out that Marry Me Tampa Bay has featured a phenomenal styled shoot that we produced earlier this year. Our  Lead Dream Maker and Master Wedding Planner, Tammy Waterman, had been asked to be on an advisory panel during the renovation of the historic Belleview Inn, just outside…

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Securing Wedding Gifts and Cards

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If you have been on your social media or seen the news this week, you probably have seen that a woman wandered in to a wedding reception and walked off with a couple’s gift cards. As wedding professionals our Special Moments Event Planning team was kind of blown away by this.  It’s something we just do…

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Slow Your Roll

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And your curl and your up-do too! Our Special Moments Event Planning team decided it was time to tackle the hard stuff – hair and makeup services for your wedding day. We know that hair and makeup are a very personal thing. You want to look like you on your very best day. Not too…

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It’s All About The Wedding Cake!

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We have seen wedding cakes evolve quite a bit in our fifteen years at Special Moments Event Planning. We have seen big cakes and small cakes for the couple to cut for a photo.  We saw an upswing in cupcakes and donut cakes, and (thankfully) a swing back toward delicious, beautifully designed wedding cakes. Our…

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Hey Mr. DJ

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Our Special Moments Event Planning team fields questions from our clients about all areas of weddings, planning and even some personal matters. But, recently we have had a lot of couples asking us about music. Specifically, they have been asking about songs for their first dance and for parent dances. You can’t imagine our surprise…

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Pink and White Harborside Wedding

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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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Reuse and Give Back

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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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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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We’ve Got It In The Bag

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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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