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Posts Tagged "Seattle weddings"
Yesterday, we did some really good goal setting here in adventure land. I think this is crucial. Not all people operate best with concrete goals, but I definitely do. I was hoping that everyone on Team Adventure would ride the wave of goal setting and boy howdy, did they ever. We had to start the meeting with everyone in shades because the awesomeness of all of our future projects was emanating off of everyone so intensely, it was blinding. I tried to take a picture of myself but I couldn’t, TOO BRIGHT! Other than goal setting, we had another great week at The Adventure School, Misha made lasagna and cookies! Jordan brought in a fish that he caught. And everyone else was doing their thing with considerable amounts of grace AND swagger. A deadly combo, and by deadly, I mean awesome. We’re gearing up for a pretty bangin’ July followed by a year or century more of delicately crafted radness. We hope you can join us on all of our fun adventures. We will be all around the town and all around the world and fully buzzword compliant. This week marks designer Greg Flores’ first week in the office and he is already hard at work on feats of visual bravery. Look out for exciting new offerings in Adventure Design and Products. Besides the usual picnics, parties, cotton candy and beach time, this summer is all about getting the word out about The Adventure School, I wanted to tell you in case you didn’t know, that we are actively seeking new clients of all kinds. Corporate appreciation fetes, weddings, branding, experiential marketing . . . we can do a lot of things . . . so tell everyone where to find us, like look for us in the internet and we are also in the International District, sometimes we are in airplanes or cars, trains, boats. Sometimes you might see us a Highland Games or skeet shooting. You and all your pals should come adventure with us and we will have a party any time. See you soon! Maybe I will see you tonight at On the Boards? Friend of Adventure, Mike Pham, is performing all weekend at the NW New Works Festival. Not to be missed. SOCCER PRACTICE from Helsinki Syndrome on Vimeo.
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As I mentioned early this week, I am a fountain of knowledge about all things adventure and possibly all things BRUNCH WEDDING. So, folks, if you’ve ever wondered about . . . THE BENEFITS OF BRUNCH, . . . let me fill you in. Today’s wedding is a spectacular (and expensive) event and many of the brides we work with seem sad to see the fun end. They’ve usually been planning for the big day for a year (or more!) and it goes by quickly. A ‘day-after’ brunch is an awesome time to connect even more with loved ones; especially out-of-towners who have journeyed to the wedding. It is a wonderful idea to surround yourself with love during your first day as a married couple. 1. Cheaper: Brunch food is just cheaper, I think this is because we live in a dinner-archy. Dinner is considered better, more awesome and more important and is therefore more expensive. But who cares? Take advantage of the dinner-centric culture, Go Big and Go Brunch! (and maybe Go Home to do it, or at least in the backyard of your fanciest friends house, or better yet, the home of an older, wiser family friend who loves to garden)! 2. Unexpected: Your friends will love you if your brunch is a ‘day-after’ thing. Good friends love to re-hash everything and if they want to squeeze in as much time as possible with the far-flung old buddies from camp, from high school, college or whatever, a post-wedding brunch is an unbeatable choice! 3. Not so much drinking: No one will get embarrassingly drunk on mimosas or bloodies the way they might on the open bar vodka sodas. Just sayin’, could be good for people who are not as interested in an all night wedding turned frat party. 4. Diversifies décor options: Some folks might want to ditch nighttime rented elegance for brunch in favor of sentimental, folksy or bright and cheery handmade décor. A bunch of family quilts and dishes from home is totally awesome and expressive of the couples’ lifestyles and individuality; less inhibiting than the traditional evening wedding. 5. Better for including kids: Little children can be a more active part of the festivities as it is not past their bedtime and perhaps the brunch reception will be a less formal affair or the ‘day-after’ brunch may be a fun way to hang out with kids who were asleep or with the babysitter during the wedding the night before. 6. Booking entertainment could be cheaper too: Feel free to wheel and deal with your favorite bands! They probably aren’t too busy and a day-time setting could call for smaller groups. An accordion duo in the park or the backyard during brunch would rule! CONTINENTAL BREKKIE AT HOME
GOURMET RUSTIC PICNIC 1. Hire a wedding planner to really get your gourmet brunch the attention to detail it deserves. The Adventure School is available. 2. Take out from a favorite casual dining spot and a performer, for example; Paseo, every body will love this, have a flamenco guitarist strum along while you eat! Indian food in the park with saris spread on picnic tables or on the grass would be awesome! Hire an Indian Classical dancer to strut their stuff for a thrilled crowd as they drink bottomless chai! A performer can add an awesome surprise element for just a few hundred dollars. 3. Make a smorgasboard of desserts, it’s informal so everyone can share. Cupcakes from the new Cupcake Royale on Pike street on Capitol Hill brought to Volunteer Park for a casual post wedding brunch would be ideal! Get Top Pot donuts, bring vegan sorbet. Check out the new awesome Domestic Architecture designed Cupcake Royale. 4. Use whole foods, (not the store). Bring a knife and cutting board and cut hunks of cheese, bread, meat. Everybody can get down with great big hunks of food, you can let your hair down and place some petanque with a baguette in hand. 5. Bring jars or food tins (get some used food tins from local grocers or tea shops) and fill with local flowers from Pike Place Market. Extremely reasonably priced. Get a bunch of sweet pea blossoms for five dollars! If you feel like outsourcing hire Marigold and Mint to do a similar wild flower look for your wedding picnic! 6. Hire a bartender or barista! Seems extravagant, but will set an awesome tone to an informal brunch! No one should be without a drink! Ask your favorite local bartender to do it and get a $10 banquet permit from the liquor store, after all, it’s a private event in your own backyard. Fancy non-alcoholic drinks rule too! Caffe Vita has coffee carts ready and willing to come to your event. Cute! 7. Foraged and Found Edibles! Get them involved! You will have the wedding of the year! So Locavore it hurts! Back to the land young lovers and the loved ones who love them! Also, check out Christina Choi’s restaurant, Nettletown. 8. Make specialized brunch totes by ordering and monogramming Boat & Totes from LL Bean! Get them embroidered to say I Love You or The Jones or something else. (I think you can have up to 10 characters). FOOD CARTS So many great food carts right now in Seattle. Marination mobile, Maximus Minimus, skillet, Veraci pizza, Tako Truk and Rancho Bravo just to name a few. They add a huge dose of whimsy to any event. Personalize the experience by having them plate up the goods on containers in the theme. Have a circus experience with red and white stripes and checked items from Cash and Carry. Ask them to use mason jars for your down-home folksy shindig. Incorporate a band that compliments the mood of the food cart: slide guitarists with marination mobile. Add a cotton candy machine to the mix; have someone funny staff it. Go totally DIY and build a funny tent and serve your mom’s pies out of it. Go green with corn plastics or thrifted dishes, flatware and cups. BRUNCH IN A RESTAURANT A restaurant buy-out is intimate and shows you really care; an awesome option for foodies!
You want it? We have it in spades. Every week, The Adventure School is quoted in several national internet publications about wedding planning and event planning in general. The latest slew of articles are all about adventurous honeymoons. So, if you are in Philly or Chicago or San Antonio you will get some tips from me! But, faithful readers, of course, your best source for Adventure Tips is right here on the adventure blog. With that being said, right now (and always) I am in to saying to people, start your marriage right . . . with a wicked awesome ADVENTURE! A quote from the source article . . . “Go scuba diving and snorkeling in Puerto Rico: it is tropical and beautiful with extremely consistent perfect summer weather year-round. Easy-going honeymooners can choose this option using USA driver’s license and dollar bills as it is an American territory that feels like a far-flung land. The beautiful diving spots offer fun for honeymooners who are doing it for the first time or are very experienced, lovers might spot bluehead wrasse, French angels and batfish or sea horses, coral shrimp and arrow crabs! Puerto Rico has some of the best beaches in the world and it’s just a short flight for under $100 from NYC. Drink rum and luxuriate after a long day of floating in warm tropical waters. Your own secret tropical land! If you want to revel in time alone together head to Big Sky Country and bike Montana for your honeymoon. An economical choice that is anything but short on beauty and luxury. The www.visitMt.com website lists more than 38 scenic bicycle tours rated from easy to experienced for both road and mountain bike riders. Spotting Elk, Bighorn and Buffalo by day and relaxing in gourmet steakhouses and top-notch lodges by night is the ultimate start to a marriage full of all types of experiences from 4-star massages to teamwork on the roads! Very adventurous lovers should hike Kilimanjaro! It is Africa’s highest summit surrounded by wildlife preserves. You can do double duty by rounding out your hiking adventure honeymoon with a safari through the Serengeti Plain and Ngorongoro Crater. Every marriage should start with an epic story, for those who honeymoon in Tanzania, it won’t just be about who obsessed over the sunscreen it will be about who was the best at spotting lions from the jeep”! ADVENTURE EXPERTISE, get into it!!
The big beautiful light-filled and blank canvas of Pravda Studios served as the backdrop for a stunning hand-made wedding last Saturday. It was both a nod to Jessica’s fierce individuality and Matt’s career as an architect that helped us to collaboratively came upon the idea to marry OSB, dropcloths and housepaint together to create an elegant and innovative wedding decor schematic. Zaha Hadid’s paintings and my jazzy LeSportSac luggage were the inspiration for the decor. The boxes hanging over each table served as visual timeline of their relationship. One side showed the table number, one side featured a word that represented a part of their life together and one side illustrated that word with an image: We hand painted 12 fourteen-foot tall tapestries to cover the columns supporting the roof in the space. We also hand dipped over 200 scrap pieces of OSB to create “paint pocky” to line up in a rushing river over each table in the 14 table set-up. The tables were set in three complementary zig-zags to augment the experiential nature of finding your table and thinking about their life together. Guests were asked to find their seat with a handmade lollipop, hand-dipped by the bride and groom themselves. The guestbook was one continuous spool of typewriter ribbon. We created one box with a special false door to explode confetti over the dance floor. All in all it was an expression of the couple and their hopes and dreams for their life together. Also, it looked mad awesome!
Decor photos by Patrick Wright!
Mark and Heidi’s loved ones left some retro memories for the happy couple at last weekend’s Space Needle wedding reception. Ta-dow! We love Polaroid even more now that it’s practically contraband. Between freedom tushes and masquerade ready topiaries, the party Polaroids capture the classy/ruckus tone of their mid-century bash! Here’s just a light smattering of the copious dream shots that Mark and Heidi are now the proud owners of:
Last summer we had the good pleasure of working on the wedding of a two local artists. Their view of marriage was very profound and their sense of fun runs very deep and so as you can imagine, it was a great experience! We present to you some photographs that document the day that Dawn Cerny and D.W. Burnam became Mr. and Mrs.
Photos by Winnie Westergard.
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