CCWedblog turns 4 today!

C&C (which is an acronym for creative coordinators *wink* *wink*)  created this blog to document the amazing weddings we have been lucky enough to partake in and to offer advice and tips to future brides. We are grateful that bride’s allow us to play a role in the beginning of their life together. We have a job that maybe 98% of the time is extremely happy, memorable, and an ideal day. It is fun, ever-changing, never dull, rewarding, and we are grateful that bride’s allow us to play a role in the beginning of their life together.

 

Here are a few highlights of our favorites posts to our most viewed posts, click the title to view the posts

 

Our most popular post, yup you guessed that’s why we re-blog it:  Fun Favors and Awesome Activities

Our most popular non-wedding post:  Young 50th Anniversary Party 

Our most viewed Wedding Story:  Proffitt Wedding

Our most viewed Friday Find: Most Over the Top Wedding Proposal 

We might add this adorable couple is now married and they are expecting so we will share the adorable baby announcement video too. Yes this is it the fabulous Justin Baldoni star from Jane the Virgin so after the proposal and wedding video did you really expect anything less!

We want to say thank you and we can’t believe it has been 4 years already!

Happy 

CCWedblog 

Welcome 2015!

We can’t wait to see what 2015 will bring.

We are looking forward to working with our 2015 couples, sharing our bridal adventures, and providing wedding planning advice along the way. We are listening to you so we have streamlined the blog and will be adding links to our social sites to make it easy to follow our day-to-day adventures as well as a link to our full wedding planning website.          Creative Coordinators.com  Feel free to follow us on social media to see behind the scenes photos, advice, and fun adventures we are up to this year!

Here’s to a great year!

Creative Coordinators 

Excited Engaged Couples

We can’t wait to see what the new year will bring.

We are so excited for the new year and we know that 

   2014 is going to be amazing!

We have so much to share with you this year from our weekly Tuesday Tips, to great advice, and fabulous  Friday Finds we love so much we can’t help but share, as well as many of our bridal adventures and we can’t leave out all those real weddings.  We have brought on some new contributors here at ccwedblog as well as partnering with some amazing wedding vendors  so we hope you enjoy all the new things here at ccwedblog.

Most of all we are excited about working with all of our 2014 & 2015 couples on their upcoming weddings because it is all about the details.

We would love to hear more from you so remember you can follow us over on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and of course you can find us at CreativeCoordinators.com because  the CC behind ccwedblog stands for Creative Coordinators.  You can write us directly at ccwedblog@creativecoordinators.com

We wish you the best with all or your wedding planning and hope we can help you make this wedding planning adventure a fun, exciting, memorable and  stress free time.

Be Marry,  

C & C

{ Creative Coordinators } 

{Friday Find} Skimping on The Rest

PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES

RANK YOUR PRIORITIES

First and foremost, decide what facets of your wedding are most important to you.  Focus on areas that make your heart go pitter-patter, and you’ll feel OK about skimping on the rest.

As for what guests tend to remember, according to a survey conducted by St. Louis Bride and Groom magazine, 81 percent of guests say the entertainment is the most memorable part of a wedding.

 This is great advice from Martha Stewart Weddings and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Use the link below to  see more great tips and advice about ranking your wedding priorities

http://www.marthastewartweddings.com

Be Marry, 

Creative Coordinators

2013 in Review

WordPress.com prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Attractions in 2013

These are the posts that got the most views in 2013. .

• 1 {Real Decorations} Young 50th Anniversary Party  February 2012
• 2 {Friday Find} Most Over The Top Wedding Proposal  October 2013
• 3 {Wedding Story} Delahunty Wedding January 2012
• 4 Fun Favors, Awesome Activities June 2011
• 5 { Friday Find} Heck Yeah You’re Invited!  January 2013

Some of your most popular posts were written before 2013. Your writing has staying power!

How did they find you?

The top referring sites in 2013 were:

1. facebook.com
2. pinterest.com
3. creativecoordinators.com

Some visitors came searching, mostly for table decorations for anniversary parties, homemade 50th anniversary centerpiece ideas, and decorations

Where did they come from?

112 countries in all!

Most visitors came from The United States. Canada & Australia were not far behind.

From Everyone here at CCwedblog and Creative Coordinators we would like to thank you for making 2013 so amazing about we look forward to sharing so much more with you in 2014! 

Be Marry, 

Creative  Coordinators 

{Friday Find} Warm & Cozy Wedding Ideas

Warm and Cozy Wedding Ideas From Martha Stewart Weddings 

Cozy knitted ring pillows lend warmth to a winter wedding.

Hot Cocoa

Collect just the right ingredients for to warm guests. Start with a large container of hot cocoa and a bag of mini marshmallows, measuring them out into individual serving sizes and placing them in small cellophane bags. You can also include two mugs, each filled with a pair of new, cozy socks.

A Winter White Wonderland Wedding 

Abby spent many family vacations in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and always knew that she would get married there some day. But even though she and her future husband, Cliff, had dated since high school in Mobile, Alabama, she didn’t initially peg him as the groom. Four years of long distance on-again, off-again later, they got serious. She moved back to Cliff in Mobile, and a year and a half later, he proposed.

Abby wasn’t fazed by the prospect of long-distance wedding planning, and with the help of a planner, the couple pulled off a glamorous ski-lodge wedding, with bursts of metallic gold to play off Colorado’s snowy landscape.

Check out even more warm and cozy Winter Wedding Ideas at Martha Stewart Weddings.com

Be Merry, 

C & C

{Tuesday Tip} In a Timely Manor

With 2013 coming to an end we wanted to remind you that planning ahead and giving yourself plenty of time will make the planning process so much more enjoyable.

We recommend that you finalize all your wedding details 10 days prior to your wedding.

Finalizing your timeline and wedding details in a timely manner allows to relax with family and friends during the remaining days leading up to your walk down the aisle.

 

 

 

Be Marry,

C&C

{Friday Find} The Best Holiday Planning Advice

With Thanksgiving right around the corner we thought we should some great holiday advice.

From none other than Martha Stewart

Starting off with Everything you need to know for a fabulous Thanksgiving.

http://www.marthastewart.com/274893/how-to-carve-a-turkey/@center/276949/everything-thanksgiving?xsc=eml_msl_2013_11_21_template

Then our favorite the 10- Second Holiday Bar.

http://www.marthastewart.com/1043097/10-second-holiday-bartender?xsc=eml_msl_2013_11_21_template

Enjoy your holidays!

Happy Holidays, 

C & C 

{Tuesday Tip} Finalizing the Flower Details

Make sure to finalize all your wedding day details with your florist.  Confirm delivery details and decided which arrangements will be moved from the ceremony to the reception site.

Don’t forget to plan for someone to move these items if your florist will not be on site after the ceremony to do so.  If space and time allows we recommend moving all your ceremony flowers to your reception to fully enjoy them on your wedding day.

Also plan where those beautiful bouquets will be placed during the reception.

Be Marry, 

C & C 

{Tuesday Tip} Color Over It With Chalk

Chalk.

Keep a stick of white chalk handy while you’re getting ready. In the event that you spill or  brush your dress against something take a stick of chalk and lightly “color” over the stain. Chalk is great for footprints on your train.  The chalk will mask an unwanted splashes of color and keep your dress in pristine condition. Chalk is also fantastic for occupying bored flower girls and ring bearers. So keep some chalk on hand.

Be Marry,

C&C Team