All the action is over at our newly updated Sparkliatti! So, reset your feeds! Click the new logo below to go to all the best posts from this blog plus two new blogs posting today!
...is coming to a new feed near you...
...starting on Monday, May 2, we will have a newly rebranded site.
The New Blog will have....
- bigger pictures of our events
- gorgeous galleries
- beautiful. large inspiration boards
- twitter feed
- easier sharing
- all the best posts from the old blog
So, come Monday, you'll have to reset your feed to the new site. Stay tuned...
You can Download the 11x17 .pdf here
If you're in Calgary, or central/western Canada for that matter, we would love to see you at this special fundraising event on May 1. I'll be in Calgary to speak about wedding, trends & how to plan/design a wedding and signing copies of our book: Signature Sasha: Magnificent Weddings by Design. For each book purchased, the proceeds will go to Wish Upon a Wedding.
The event is being hosted by Bubbles & Beaus Event Planning and you can purchase your tickets here.
See ya soon!
It's time for Episode 5 of the new SyFy Channel Hit Show: Marcel's Quantum Kitchen! We designed a party for Marcel's new catering business for the Los Angeles Fire Fighter Museum & Memorial featuring our award winning fire table.
I know that I can't wait to see how all the drama played out - and there WAS drama...unscripted & totally real. From pouring rain to the infamous plate incident.
Hope you'll watch this SyFy Channel show along with me on Tuesday, April 19 at 7 PST/10 EST.
Check out the super fantastic preview for the show here, you'll get a little taste of the event! Make sure to set your DVR or watch it live!!
And the fantabulous Jarrid will be live tweeting during the show...as will I from my @sparkliatti account at the 7 p.m. PST showing. You may be surprised by what I think about Marcel Vigneron and whether or not our two strong, driven, perfectionist personalities jived!
So follow along at #marcel #marcelsquantumkitchen.
At Sasha Souza Events we plan all different types of social events. It's not just weddings...
Everything from birthday parties, rehearsal dinners, brunches, winemaker dinners...anything that consists of a gatherings of friends. Today I have a really great new event that we planned last August...I love all of life's celebrations and this one is no different.
EVENT PROFILE:
Project: Winecentric celebration dinner
Guest Count: 180
Location: Castello di Amorosa
Date: August 28, 2010
Client Desires: a wonderful, protracted "winecentric dinner" which focuses on what Napa Valley does best ... a food & wine experience.
Event Overview: Guests were shuttled to the venue where they noshed on hors d'oeuvres while overlooking the upper Napa Valley while listening to a live quartet. Before guests were seated in the courtyard, they toured the venue to learn more about how the winery creates the wines they would be tasting later. Once they entered into the courtyard, the experience began with opulently decorated tables in plum linens and accented with gold and fucshia. Guests dined on four courses paired with wines from the winery and the guests were educated on the exact viticulture of wines they were drinking.
After dinner, guests were invited to spend time in the velvet rope bar...to continue their wine tasting experience which included dessert wines paired with small bites. Decorating the well was so much fun with feathers and garland.
Lighting makes all the difference, check out this 16' ice wine bar both during the day and after with the lighting. It's literally day and night...
What celebration is complete without dancing? The dancing room was kept relatively monochromatic but an intense swirl gobo lit the floor.
The lighting in the evening was immensely important to the design because the site can feel very cool and we wanted to warm it up and make it really the star of the event.
Hope you enjoy the amazing details shot by Damion Hamilton and while you're at it, please swing over to his blog to make a comment to increase his donation to Japanese aid relief as well for his Comments for Cash campaign today, 3/29.
So, instead of leaving comments here, please leave them on the posts on their blog.... it would mean a lot to me if you would help support this wonderful cause.
Click the palette below to be taken to the colourlovers information for this event.
Tomorrow I'm showing a great life celebration...make sure you come back :)
image (c) Damion Hamilton for Sasha Souza Events
If you have just a couple of minutes, mark your calendars for Tuesday March 29th, where you can help us give big! Here’s a video that will give you an idea of what we’ve got planned and how you can be a part of it!THE SHORT VERSION: Although Japan might not be in the front page news every day still, it is an important part of our daily life as a business because each of our wedding clients walks away with a wedding album that’s handmade in Japan. We have found that some of the family members of our album company’s employees are displaced in shelters in some of the hardest hit areas of Japan. The orphans, the food, and water shortages, it all breaks our hearts. We want to do more! We have to do more!
See the whole post....via hiscreationsblog.com
I love what Damion & Julie Hamilton are doing to help in Japan. So many people need our help and many of those injured and displaced are suppliers to the wedding & event industry and our peers. Please mark your calendars to support Comments for Cash on March 29.
I was able to check out the ebook format of my book Signature Sasha: Magnificent Wedings by Design on my iPad, today. It's pretty awesome...clickable pictures, saveable pictures. I think that it's a great addition to the hard cover book that's been selling really well for the last year. In fact, Amazon has recently had a hard time keeping our book in stock {a good problem to have}.
The book is NOT YET AVAILABLE. But when it is, it will be downloadable as a .pdf or an .epub and can be used on any book reader, iPad, iPhone, etc. The cost will be $30 and it should be available for download after we make a few small tweeks to the formatting.
When I printed the above images, I was able to select my own font, brightness and even made the pages sepia instead of white. It was really fun to be able to offer this book to planners and brides who can then have access to the images to create inspiration boards (giving proper credit :) ) and to inspire so many more people to celebrate their weddings colorfully and personally.
I'm so excited! This morning I received my design space for the upcoming Hartmann Studios Annual Client Appreciation Event and we are HONORED to design one of the inspiration spaces for the company!
This is an INVITE ONLY event and If you're not on the list, you can email them for access to what is going to be an amazing showcase...I'm only one of the ten featured galleries, tons of caterers and florists
I wanted to give you a sneak peek at the 60's retro event we're putting together with Hartmann & Impact Lighting. Working with the designers at Hartmann who have conceptualized the space, we'll be adding our own Signature Sasha style to this very funky look.
The color palette is super inspiring and my mind is reeling with all the fun things we can do! With the spring flowers that are our now, it will be fantastic!
Our linen is a fab Pucci print! I LOVE prints...
I can't wait to use the items I've been assigned in this challenge! Check out some the items I have to work with...
I'll be sure to share the official photographer images after the event for those who cannot be there and I'm looking forward to getting really creative to design an event space that feels cool, funky and ultra mod. It'll be GROOOOVY.
See you there!!
Read the entire post and see all the pictures, including those of me hula hooping at Damion's blog: hiscreationsblog.com
The SEARCH Foundation helps people in the events industry who are faced with catastrophic loss and illness.
Check out this great fundraiser we did while we were at The Special Event Show in January this year where we raised nearly $50,000!!
Thanks Damion for such a great post and pictures!