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Blue and Orange Gator Inspired Dessert Table
IMAGE CREDIT: LIMELIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Now if you follow our work, you know how much we heart our friends over at Limelight. They have been our biggest supporters over the past few years and I just can’t say enough about them. Of course, what we seriously love about this table is that our lovely couple, Robin and Byron wanted to go outside the box and create a Gator inspired dessert table. Now, being a proud Gator Alumni myself (raising arms, whoop, whoop), I was super excited, however, I knew this was going to be tricky especially when the entire room has an different color palette. Luckily, I think we were able to strike a balance between the shades of desserts, lining on all of our vessals and a lovely touch with the paper garland.
Go Gators!
Table Credits
Wedding Planner: Staci Mandikas from Unique Event Design
Photography: Limelight
Gator Head Decal: Beepart
Linen: Connie Duglin
Desserts, Candy and Backdrop: Chic Sweets
Paper Banner: Kate Grenier
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My Heart is Full
This weekend Chic Sweets had one of our busiest weekends yet. Happy clients, beautiful dessert tables, but I didn’t want to make this blog so much about our work as it was about our team. So today I want to say, THANK YOU, my heart is full. There is something very special to be said about the people in your life who believed in you even before you believed in yourself and what I thought was a shot-in-the-moon idea to start a business.The people who’ve always supported you and your crazy visions while others stood by shaking thier heads and anticipating you’d fail or couldn’t handle seeing you actually succeeding on your own merit.
So as I sit here hitting keystrokes, feeling a huge knot building up in my throat, there is something to be said about these unbelievable people and I believe that something to be said is simple: Thanks for believing in me when I wanted to give up and for laughing, crying, and having panic attacks with me along the way. Your unwavering faith in my work, leaves me without words….other than just massive amounts of love for all of you.
My heart is full.
Natalie
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Life Interrupted
So when I started this post, I thought it would be about where I was in my life, Lara Casey’s Making Things Happen workshop and how my path has taken a lot of twists and turns as a business owner, wife and mother. I even made a video–can you believe that? It was hard but I felt only I could explain best in my own words. Then a few days before I planned on posting this video, my grandmother (the center of my universe) suffered a major stroke. And while I felt my world closing in, finding it hard to breathe, let alone get through the day…I was dealing with morning sickness.
Yes, that is right, along with the deepest lows, there can be incredible highs which can totally catch you by surprise. Yup, your’s truly is pregnant and in my second trimester. We were excited and nervous but in the end, we cannot wait to bring another “Clamp” into our home. So with a lot of things happening (understatement), I think it would have been easy for me to turn the off button, close the door, and hide under the covers. A few months ago, that would have been the case, but one of the biggest lessons I learned from Lara Casey’s Making Things Happen, is that me, and only me has the power to make. things. happen. And in the end, I took a deep breath and realized that I can do this. That despite the circumstances and hard lessons, I’m going to get through this and come out of it a better person.
So while I’m still struggling to understand my grandmother’s current health situation and doing everything we can to make her better, I’m reminded every moment of the day that I’m going to be a mommy to another little one, sooner that I can imagine. I guess I can say that today my thoughts are simply to take what life has to give you, whether it be wonderful, great, awful, terrible and find that strength deep inside of you to keep on moving forward. Making the choice to open your eyes, get out of bed and live your life everyday with just love and faith, which is what I seem to be holding onto, everyday. Sorry, if that was a little to preech-y.
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Every Last Detail TV: Candy Dessert Tables
This was a video posted for Every Last Detail’s shoot. Enjoy!
Behind the scenes:
1. Humidity+Natalie’s hair=not good. Thankfully Lyndsey Does Makeup was able to pull me together.
2. Loved how many times I said “um”
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Every Last Detail Inspiration Photoshoot
So I know it’s been some time and forever since I’ve blogged. These past two months have been the busiest we’ve encountered since Chic Sweets began, two years ago. Of course, I’m super beyond happy at the growth but that has also come with some unexpected challenges such as can’t-seem-to-peel-myself-from-the-couch to blog and update my readers. Add three boys and an ever-patient husband to the mix and it’s been beyond crazy times for me.
In addition to working with clients, I’ve also been working to relaunch my site in addition to making some major life changes which I hope to share shortly through a video-blog. Yes, apparently I caught the video-bug so all of you can see me stumble as to find the right words to convey where I’m at in my life right now.
So now that I’m hopefully manage somewhat explain my current status, let’s share some of the good stuff! Recently we were lucky enough to be asked by Every Last Detail wedding blog to participate in one of their Style Dictionary photoshoots. Readers picked the color palette and we took it from there. I also loved that I got the chance to work with Shay Cochrane Photography. I have long admired Shay’s work so it may sound cheesy, but I always tend to get giddy when I see a photographer shoot my work for the first time–it gives me a chance to see my work in a whole new light.
Enjoy! And for the shoot in it’s entirely, please check out Lauren’s Every Last Detail description here.
Photography: Shay Cochrane Photography
Design, Styling, Planning/Coordination, Details: Every Last Detail
Venue: Postcard Inn
Paper Products: Seaside Invitations
Model’s Makeup: Lindsay Does Makeup
Dress: The White Closet Bridal Co.
