Eco Friendly Rice Butterfly Confetti

Traditionally rice is thrown at the bride and groom to bring them fertility and good luck and the word confetti comes from the Italians who traditionally threw sweets at the lucky couple, confetto.

All this, however, sounds painful and as we are always searching for eco friendly alternatives to our weddings, we were delighted to find this new product, rice butterflies which we will now be stocking in our shop.

These gorgeous butterflies are currently available in white, red, yellow, green and blue but shortly will be available in pink.  As they are so lightweight they stay in the air for longer ensuring your photographer will capture the magic and give your photos the wow factor.

We love them and with all the symbolic meanings behind throwing rice at the happy couple, we cannot think of a better way to start your married life than to be blessed by fluttering butterflies!

Romantic Blossom Cupcake Class by Sweet Things by Fi

We are delighted to introduce our first cupcake decorating class hosted by Sweet Things by Fi at our wedding studio on the 8th February. 

If anyone does not know Fi's work or indeed has not eaten one of her cakes they are truly missing something and life is not worth living until you do! 

Fi is one of our favourite wedding cake designers, whose creations continue to amaze our clients and us, plus she buys me creme eggs so I am heavily blackmailed!

Fi's first cupcake decorating class will be held at our shop, based in Elviria, on the 8th February from 3pm until 5pm.

The theme of our first cupcake decorating course is Romantic Blossom Cupcakes.

Fi will bring the freshly baked cupcakes and each student will be provided with 6 cupcakes each, 3 chocolate and 3 vanilla along with all the decorating materials to create beautiful cupcakes ready for you to take home. 

You will learn the art of creating sugar craft roses, pearl and bows as in our photo above and get to take them home.

Fi's cupcake course is 60 euros per head and this includes tea, coffee and cakes to test along with a lot of fun plus 6 fabulous cupcakes unless we have eaten them first! 

This cupcake decorating course is limited to 6 people with a minimum of 4 people so first come first served but there will be more classses to follow.

If you would like to book this class please contact Fi on 697228088 or email her on mail@sweetthingsbyfi.com

To view Fi's website and see her amazing creations visit

http://www.sweetthingsbyfi.com/

POSH GRAFFITI Letters and Hearts at Reviva

Image courtesy of Jeremy Standley

Reviva are delighted to now stock POSH Graffiti by Emma Readnett Bayley.

Spell out your romance with these stylish white Love Letters, hang them up at your wedding or place a message on your cake table and then take them home and proudly display your love for each other on your walls!

The beautifully boxed sets of LOVE and MR & MRS would make an ideal wedding or anniversary present and there are some cute hearts ready to hang at your wedding or home.

If you have a special word or initials you would like to order as a gift or for your home, pop into see us or call 618 021 172 or email us your order laura@reviva-weddings.com.

Please do note if you have a special order you must allow time for delivery to the shop.

Valentines Flowers and Decorations

As we approach Valentines day, we thought we would share a little inspiration with you and we love this photo shoot found on Postcards and Pretties by Jenny Haas photography.

This gorgeous mock tea party set up has inspired us particuarly as it has one of our birdcages in it, well not one of ours literally but we have the same!

One of our birdcages at Sharon and Michael's wedding in Mijas, image courtesy of Jeremy Standley

As always, the attention to the details, the garlands made out of pale pink doilies I love, pink lemonade and swirling cream just make this photo shoot divine and gorgeous.

Currently we are decorating the shop ready for Valentine's day, which is the busiest day of the year for Loraine.

Loraine has stunning flowers ordered, which is very exciting with the most fabulous red roses, and this year we have some gorgeous heart decorations and garlands, Cath Kidston style fabric hearts, mirror and glass hearts, LOVE and heart plates, love candy, cupcakes from the amazing Mark at Cake Marbella, a Valentines dream is awaiting our clients! Loraine and I are rather hoping there will be some of Mark's cupcakes left so we can scoff them :)

In fact when I was in the shop earlier today there were some gorgeous flowers being delivered from some stunning amaryllis in a beautiful coral colour and some deep red ranunculus, I can only imagine the bouquets and displays that Loraine will make with these this week, they will be divine, in fact I should take some photos and post them for you, as she is such a talented stunning florist.

Heather from Fiestasol and I were talking today about our flowers and weddings and Heather said she thought our flowers were the best here by a long way and Loraine is the the most creative florist here by far here on the coast.

Her clients and our brides will lay testimony to my statement and it is a joy working with her to provide all our flowers for our weddings along with my staff. I strive for perfection and have worked with a few florists here but none can match Loraine's skill and artistic eye.

If you do wish to pre order flowers, decorations and cupcakes please do call us on 952 839 830 at the shop or my mobile 618 021 172.

I do advise preordering in order not to be disappointed as from what I saw last year there was a queue outside the door for about 10 hours!

If you wish to order balloons as well for your Valentines party or restaurant or wish us to dress your venue ready for this occasion, please do contact me as we do also now offer balloons to compliment our flowers and for venue dressing, although they do have to be pre ordered with notice ready to collect from our shop or for us to come out and set them up.

Christmas Week

This time of year is a time for reflection, enjoying family and friends and thinking about achievements, what we can do better to improve ourselves and preparing for another year.

For me starting my own business has been the most rewarding thing I have ever done (apart from having my three beautiful daughters of course!).

Creating a dream and making it a reality is the most satisfying feeling and I am so passionate about what I do that working is enjoyable for me, it does not feel like work, it is a hobby and a lifestyle, which I think is hugely important to create a successful business as you eat, live, breath and sleep it!

Everyone has a story and mine is no different and I did lose faith in having friends, but what I have realised over the past year in particular, is the lifestyle I have created for myself has introduced me to some wonderful people, and now I realise I have created a network of friends that I value enormously.

I thought I would share some of my days with you now to see what we get up to when we are not busy creating our wonderful weddings and parties.

Today I spent a morning surfing some fabulous blogs, gaining inspirations and ideas for next year's weddings. I then popped down to the shop this afternoon to see Loraine and Anoulka so I decided to take my camera with me and take some photos. Here are some photos of the shop in it's full Christmas glory and Loraine and Anoulka working hard creating fabulous Christmas bouquets, arrangements and decorations, I am the lazy one sitting on a chair with a coffee :)

I have also taken a photo below of my beautiful Christmas chocolate cake delivered to me a few days ago by Fi, our crazy and hugely talented cake maker, she has created a birdcage for me which I love and don't really want to eat but I will succumb shortly!

I then popped round to see Heather, the owner of Fiestasol, for a cup of tea and homemade biscuits at her lovely cosy home as she was housebound with her beautifully cuddly children and I wanted to deliver a Christmas card and also took her a lovely festive bouquet from the shop for her to enjoy.

Sometimes a working mum's life can be hard so I always think that the mum's need to be spoilt for once! Although of course Heather is very lucky to be married to a superb chef who has taken over the kitchen for Christmas with huge enthusiasm whilst I am still checking off my to do shopping lists!!

All I can say is if anyone out there is considering starting up their own business, just go for it, you have to be passionate about what you do and be prepared to work hours that no one else would even consider but it is so rewarding to create a lifestyle and meet hugely talented and interesting people that otherwise you would never have crossed paths with.

New Confeti Magazine out for August

We love this beautifully produced magazine, designed for the wedding industry here in Southern Spain it is a bride's must have bible. If you are planning a wedding here it is essential reading, but not just for weddings in Spain, it is full of fabulous ideas and the most up to date news on wedding trends.

The latest August issue features Actress Emilia Fox as the cover girl, enjoy features such as John Gallianos niece getting married in Gibraltar wearing a couture Galliano gown, bridal fashion by John Rocha, advice on Jewish weddings in Spain, a Gibraltar special and check out page 72/73 for a feature on one of our fabulous weddings here in June at the Puente Romano Hotel.

Copies of this magazine are widely available throughout the Costa Del Sol including our shop in Elviria.

Eco friendly freeze dried petals coming in for September

We are delighted to be expanding our range of wedding decorations in our shop in Marbella and from the beginning of September, Reviva Weddings will be stocking eco friendly freeze dried petals. 

A beautiful range of peony, rose, hydrangea and delphinium petals will be available from our store. 

Perfect for scattering aisles and tables or filling our stylish confetti cones, biodegrable, non slippery and do not discolour.  A wonderful range of colours available from hot pink, raspberry ripple peony mixture to the fresh green hydrangea, lavender and ivories.

Also available in our new 5 litre stylish boxes which can be used as a keepsake after your wedding to store those precious wedding memories in.

Fabulous Florals

We just love the fabulous florals that are still taking one of the top slots in wedding styling, and were thrilled to find this image on The City Sage.

It showcases the decadence of the hugely popular floral style that is still taking the fashion and interior worlds by storm.

We cannot wait to see our latest photo shoot of a Cath Kidston style centrepiece and cake and now have these two fabulous accessories coming to our shop soon.

Check out our floral card cake stand at just 14 euros, easy and quick to assemble and ideal for garden style weddings or vintage tea parties to pop your fairy cakes on.

Flat packed and easily transportable, saving you the hassle of hiring or buying a china piece and worrying about it breaking.

We adore these beautiful vintage style teacup candles at 15 euros each, a gorgeous and unique gift for your girlfriends, set them out on your tables to complete that fabulous vintage style. They come in a selection of sherbet colours and can be washed once the candle has finished and used as a normal teacup.

Both these items will be available in our shop next week.

Wedding World update in Marbella!

It is always refreshing to see new and existing businesses expand, particularly with that 'recession' word hanging above our heads.

But alongside our recent shop launch, there have been some other businesses we work alongside that have also kick started 2010 off with a bang.

We are delighted that Jeremy Standley has now moved premises and has his photography studio up and running. These fabulous shots of one of our spring bouquets were taken in Jeremy's new studio and we are thrilled with the results. We took little Twinkle to Jeremy's new studio last week for photographs and we are dying to see the results and by the way Jeremy does a fab cappucino! We have yet to sample the cava :)

The photos of our spring bouquet were taken for inclusion in the extremely well produced new Confeti Magazine.

The Confeti magazine has taken the wedding world here in Southern Spain by storm, it is beautifully produced and well worth any potential brides snatching their coveted copy!

It is full of the latest wedding fashions, professionals tips, plus a huge amount of valuable information for any brides to be, particularly if you are getting married here in Marbella and beyond. The second quarterly issue has just come out this week and again is buzzing weddings.

Heather at Fiestasol has now launched her fabulous new website, full of ideas for weddings in private villas and her wonderful catering business. Having sampled quite a few of Heather and Alex's canapes and chocolate cake recently I can certainly vouch for yummy food!

As we all look forward to our summer wedding season, we are delighted to showcase Spain as one of the top wedding destination areas and despite the doom and gloom we are busily working away here to create many more fabulous, beautiful weddings for our clients and are all excited about our coming year ahead.

Valentine's Inspirations

As we approach our new wedding shop launch party on the 10th February, our theme is obviously hearts, all carefully planned!

I love this board from Cornerstone events, so pretty and romantic with lots of hearts of course :) I have some lovely hearts in the shop of which have already sold out but desperately hanging onto them ready for our party decorations!

Fabulous books and notecards

I am very lucky with such a talented family (me not included in this statement!) that my sister that works for Ryland Peters and Small publishers.

They produce such fabulous books, inspirational and hugely stylish. I love them and cannot get enough of their notecards, wedding books, interior styling books and the hugely new popular Hummingbird Bakery Cupcake range.

Cupcake notecards in a tin
We will be stocking selected items in our shop from the delightful notecards, William Yeoward and Jane Packer cards, wedding note cards, and some wonderful wedding styling books, many of which have been bibles to my clients over the past year! Plus I think before I place the order we will certainly be including some of the delicious cupcake accessories.

Wedding notecards

William Yeoward place name tags

I have just visited their blog to see the latest and found this wonderful new book, Perfect English, a brief introduction!

Wedding Products

Reviva Weddings will shortly be opening the first wedding shop here in Marbella.

We are looking for stylish wedding related products to showcase in our shop.

If you wish to submit your wedding product to us for consideration please do contact us directly at info@reviva-weddings.com.

Vintage Style Weddings

As we lead up to the opening of our new venture (shop) here with Loraine at Earthscent, I am looking for french vintage style inspiration, truly romantic garden tea party settings.

I always think the perfect wedding flower is the peony and we have found these fabulous images again on Once Wed using these lovely 'fabulous fat' flowers, if ever there was a source of Inspiration it is this website, it is truly amazing! I have spent hours on there today :)

Photo frames on tables to either write messages for your guests or displays for table numbers is a definite must for 2010, plus the use of bunting, definitely a cheaper way of creating a festive party feel.

Paper love heart confetti, the old fashioned horse shoe confetti in pastels is back, so much and such fun to think about, but goodness how I am busy!