JOURNAL
Elevate Your Wedding With a Lounge Seating Area
Get Cozy
Wedding lounges are one wedding trend we can definitely get cozy with! Think of these as a little living room for your guests. A place to relax, mingle, and connect with old friends!
As well as bringing your unique style to your wedding, lounges show guests how thoughtful you are as hosts to go above and beyond to provide special touches to the day.
Your venue may provide a lounge area but if not, rentals of unique, sofas and arm chairs to create a special space.
Here are a few of the lounges we’ve designed for our most stylish brides and grooms:
No matter you wedding style or location, there is furniture that will fit your aesthetic, decor, and details.
Step Up Your Wedding Signage to Suit Your Style
While most wedding decor is purely decorative, wedding signage has the added bonus of being utilitarian. It serves to tell your guests what is coming up throughout the day. Wedding signs can help to add to the aesthetic as well as set the tone for the day.
When having our design meeting, we discuss color palette, metal tones, and alternative textures/surfaces. Guests like to know where to go and what to expect and choosing signs that fit the style of your wedding serves as a twofer!
What Type of Signage do you want at your wedding?
One way to approach your signage is like a road map through the day. Use signs to let guests know if you desire to have an unplugged ceremony, or if you want them to share photos of your day with a unique hashtag. You can also let them know what’s coming up with signs pointing to lawn games during the cocktail hour, or sparklers during the sendoff.
Sparkler Send off
Quote
Unplugged Ceremony
What materials do you want your signs made out of?
Which materials you use say a lot about your style. Our current favorite is frosted acrylic but that style is often paired with our more modern couples. We want to celebrate your style! Some of our favorite material options are:
Wood
Chalkboard
Poster
Metal
Acrylic
Mirror/Glass
Wood
Acrylic
Chalkboard
What is your wedding style?
Do you define your style as rustic, modern, boho, or vintage? What types of signs you display can help show your guests what your style inspiration is.
Here are 4 bar signs, 4 different ways:
Where to source your wedding signs
A quick Pinterest search will show you how many vendors there are making wedding signs. The beauty is, there are sign vendors to fit any budget. Having worked with many professionals in the industry, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorites:
Etsy
Hey Halle
Letters & Dust
Fest Paper & Design
Crave Design
We would love to speak with you, learn your vision of your wedding and help you design your day!
Thinking About Hiring a Food Truck to Cater Your Wedding?
Plated dinner or a buffet used to be the only option when it came to how to cater your wedding dinner, but a newer option has popped up in the last couple of years. With the rise in popularity of food trucks, especially in the Portland Area, many savvy brides and grooms have been opting for a third, trendier option. Here are a few things to consider when deciding if you should hire a food truck to cater your wedding.
Food trucks:
Have the ability to offer unique fare at an affordable price
Have more menu options
Are less formal than traditional options
Look cool, make you feel cool
Can be brought in for a late-night snack
Provide easy cleanup
There are a few things to consider though before making your final decision:
Logistics/flexibility of the venue
Size of your guest list- you don’t want lines to get too long if you have a larger guest list (over 75 opp) consider hiring 2 trucks or stick to limited menu options.
Portion sizes, factor in 2nds
We HIGHLY recommend hiring a service to assist with food carts for ease of serving/bussing and all of the extra logistics that come in to play. Our favorite group Portland group is The Wait Staff Team. They can literally do it all.
Pro Tip: let guests pre-order their meals upon arrival for the ceremony as well as submit their order for each table at the beginning of the cocktail hour.
All in all, we think hiring a food truck is a fresh, fun option for our more laid back couples. Here are some of our favorite Portland trucks:
Solstice Wood Fire Pizza (delicious pizza!)
Koi Fusion (excellent food and quick service)
808 Grinds (food is great, very fast, and lots of leftovers)
PBJ Grill (YUM!)
PDX Sliders
The Whole Bowl
Rip City Grill (If you lose track of any guests, it’s likely that you’ll find them congregated around the grill)
The Mobile Scoop Shop
1927’s Smores