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Marlee and Ezra’s Machine Shop Wedding was the perfect ending to the summer wedding season!! I started helping Marlee and Ezra plan 15 months before the wedding day. With Marlee and Ezra living in New York, the mother of the bride Heather took the reigns locally to handpick vendors and to make the vision for the day come to life.

Vendors such as Machine Shop, Arts and Flowers, Bean and Ro, and Festivities helped to create the elegant decor that Heather and Marlee were looking for! Arts and Flowers did an amazing job on the wedding floral, transforming our vague ideas into something truly unique and different!  Bean and Ro worked with Heather and Marlee to not only design the wedding invitations, but also all of the stationery items for the welcome dinner, brunch, welcome bags and day of the wedding!

Like most Jewish weddings, finding the perfect band is an important component to the wedding day! Marlee and Ezra choose Bluewater Kings and the dance floor was packed all night long!! The only breaks that guests took from the dance floor were to enjoy some unique late-night snacks provided by Damico Catering. Because we were celebrating Marlee and Ezra’s wedding during the Minnesota State Fair… we themed the late-night snacks all around our favorite “fair foods”.

Thank you again Marlee and Ezra for letting me be apart of your big day!!!

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator: Lasting Impressions Weddings

Caterer- Damico Catering

Band – Blue Water Kings

Ceremony Musicians- Birchwood String Quartet

Ceremony Site – Adath Jeshurun Congregation

Reception Site – Machine Shop

Chocolates- Nancy Charney

Draping – Richfield Flowers

Floral – Arts and Flowers

Hair and Makeup-Primped

Invitations – Bean and Ro

Photography- La Vie Photography

Rental Items – Festivities

Transportation – Lorenz Company

Transportation – Renees Royal Valet

Videography – Sunset Blue Productions

Valet- Uptown Valet

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When people first hear that I am a wedding planner the first question I normally get is “What is the craziest story that you have?” I understand the interest in all of the “crazy stories” but I wish that instead of asking me about crazy stories people would ask me about why I love my job. One big reason I love my job would be “Families”.

Everyday I get to work with and become part of amazing families and one of my favorite have been the Saunders Family. The whole family is so welcoming, nice, HAPPY, thoughtful and I have enjoyed every email, every call, every meeting that I have had over the years with this tight knit family.

I have had the joy of knowing Rachel’s family for years now, after I assisted with planning Mindy and Ryan’s wedding a few years ago (It feels like yesterday) and when I got the call from Debbie that Rachel was engaged I was so excited!

Rachel and Billy wanted to create a beautiful, fun and classic wedding and we brought on a fantastic team of vendors to help create this vision including Aria, Janelle Elise Photography, Linen Effects,Paper Rock Scissors and Munster Rose!

Rachel and Billy… It was so much fun and from the photo overload you can tell that I have a hard time picking my favorite images (Janelle- You are to blame for that!!) xoxoxo!!

Vendors

Wedding Coordinator –  Lasting Impressions Weddings
Ceremony Site – St. Philip the Deacon
Reception Venue – Aria
Caterer – Damico Catering
Photography – Janelle Elise Photography
Videography – Virtuoso Video
DJ Instant Request
Cocktail Hour Music -A Jazz Trio
Transportation- Renees Royal Valet
Floral –Munster Rose
Rental Items: Linen Effects
Photobooth –Selfe and Co.
Hair- alibi the salon
Makeup- Nicole Fae
Stationery – Paper Rock Scissors
Dress- Posh
Tanning- Go Glow
Calligraphy- Rosann Konieczney

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American Swedish Institute Wedding

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator – Lasting Impressions Weddings

Ceremony Site Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church

Reception Site American Swedish Institute

Videographer PlayYourStory

Photographer Laura Ivanova

Photobooth Traveling Photobooth

Rental Items – Apres

Florist – Arts and Flowers

Bakery Farina B

Makeup – Emily J

Ceremony and Cocktail Hour Classical Guitarist – Pjany Music Productions

Stationery  Paper Rock Scissors

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I am not sure if it is the mutual love of the lake or the fact that we are both blonde and like to talk (a lot) But from the minute I met Clare and her parents I instantly fell in love with them and I knew that the next few months planning their wedding would be a lot of fun!! Clare and Trent had been in numerous weddings while their wedding and I think that gave them a lot of ideas and direction on what vendors they liked and what decor they wanted to incorporate.

I have a lot of “favorite” parts of this wedding, but I am especially fond of the beautiful stationery products. Because the wedding venues were surrounded by Lake Minnetonka we chose to do an illustration of the lake, the Lafayette Club and the church. The illustration that was done by Cait Courneya and Paper Rock Scissors and it set the perfect tone for this wedding!

Love you lots Clare and Trent!

Vendors

Wedding Coordinator- Lasting Impressions Weddings

Ceremony Site – Wayzata Community Church

Reception Site – Lafeyette Club

Photography – Janelle Elise Photography

Videography – One:One

Band – Rock with U

Lighting – Instant Request

Floral – Sadies Floral

Rental Items – Apres Party

Hair and Makeup-Emily J

Bride Hair and Makeup – Anonby Studio – Sara Lien

Cake – Farina

Stationery – Paper Rock Scissors

Illustrations: Cait Courneya

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Vendors

Wedding Coordinator –  Lasting Impressions Weddings

Stationery  – Paper Rock Scissors

Ceremony Site Our Lady Of Victory Chapel

Reception Site – Calhoun Beach Club

Photography Vick Photography

Floral – Just Bloomed

Rental Items: Linen Effects

Lighting Instant Request

Dress- L’Atelier Couture Bridal Boutique

Band – Casablanca Orchestra

Transportation Renees Royal Valet

Hair and Makeup: Brett Dorrian Artistry Studios

 

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2017 seems to be the year of the winter wedding for us at Lasting Impressions!! With everyone around me now saying “Are you ready for busy season” I keep thinking… When was it slow season!  We loved all of our winter weddings this year and thank god, the weather cooperated with us with very little snow and travel problems!!  Katie and Joe were married on January 14th and I have been so excited to post this wedding!! Not only did I love working with Katie and Joe (and Katie’s fabulous mom Patty!!) But It is the first wedding we have coordinated at the much anticipated Machine Shop in Minneapolis!!

The Machine Shop came along at the perfect time for Katie and Joe! They were engaged in April  knew they did not want a long engagement, so we were looking at a late fall/early Winter Wedding and we also needed to find a venue that would  hold 400-500 guests!! Thankfully the Machine Shop was just entering its final stages of construction and we were able to take a “hard hat” tour of the space. Hard hat tours are not always the easiest for clients to “envision” the finished look of the space, but Katie and Joe loved what they were seeing and loved that it was something different and they had not already been to numerous events at the space!!

Now when it came to designing the space, It really was a fun challenge for me to work on the logistics with the wonderful Machine Shop Staff, Apres Party Rental, Rudy’s Rentals, Arts and Flowers and of course the stylish bride and her mother!! The goal of the design was to warm up the industrial space with lots of candles, chandler’s, wood farm tables and classic white and green floral.

The vendors on this wedding did a fantastic job and I am so thankful for each and every one of them!!! If all winter weddings could be this fun.. I would not even mind the long Minnesota Winters!!

Vendors:

Wedding Coordinator – Lasting Impressions Weddings

Ceremony Site – Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church

Reception Site – Machine Shop

Caterer – Damico Catering

Photography – Graddy Photography

Videography – Vibrant Film

Band – R Factor

Cocktail Hour Music – Sandy Atlas Trio

Transportation – Renees Royal Valet

Floral – Arts and Flowers

Rental Items – Rudys Rentals

Rental Items – Apres Party

Photobooth – Traveling Photobooth

Hair – Brett Dorrian Artistry Studios

Makeup – Tina Beaupre

Stationery – Paper Rock Scissors

Dress- L’Atelier Couture

Valet – Tradition Valet

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