The Persnickety Blog | Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Your wedding brand – uniquely your own

The one thing that we pride ourselves here at The Persnickety Bride is our ability to literally create beautiful and unique custom event and wedding products. Owning a marketing firm for 23 years in the gift, stationery and media industry, our firm brings tremendous knowledge to our event and wedding customers. Our name The Persnickety Bride, is an offshoot of our other division Persnickety Promotions, in Sandy Hook Connecticut located in Fairfield Country. We also work with brides throughout New England, Westchester, NY, New York City, and New Jersey. Whether a client is looking to create a custom brand look and carry it as a theme through their event, or they are trying to locate a very unique item, we usually can turn up whatever is needed in record time.

We just recently finished this fabulous Save-The-Date for a bride and her mother ordered custom made champagne glasses for her bridal shower. Her wedding invitations are now in the works and we should be talking about her favors very shortly. It’s a great thing to be able to create the whole package in one place. It’s easy to track, and more importantly you get the continuity you want in the look of your wedding or event.

Clean, crisp simply stunning Save-The-Date

Fabulous twisted stem champagne glass with custom art in Navy

March 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

Setting the tone for your wedding

Full of glorious jewel tones and natural tones

So you and your fiancé have now gotten engaged, are in the process of locating a ceremony location and perhaps a venue.

You both know your personalities and what you like and dislike. At least you thought you did until you started wedding planning.

Now some of you may absolutely be on the same page with regard to what your big day is going to be like, then some of you will need to learn marital compromise just a little earlier.

We have seen so many couples that come to The Persnickety Bride in Sandy Hook, in Fairfield County Connecticut that we usually can see very quickly what attracted our couples to each other. Many of them do have the same vision for their wedding. Then you do have some couples that do need to bend their vision to accommodate for perhaps a need to have a cigar bar at the wedding or a photo booth. Couples today have tremendous choices of what they want to incorporate into their wedding theme. There is so much it can become overwhelming. I believe some of the best ways to get your thoughts down is by looking at different items on pinterest boards. The visuals are wonderful and you can basically create your own wedding story board through pinterest to work from in your wedding planning. We love adding to our pinterest board by wedding themes (when we get a free moment of course) currently we have 24 boards that you can see on http://pinterest.com/thepersnicketyb/ .clients.

As a design team we love to see the colors and fabrics our brides bring into us to help complete their wedding stationery suite, their custom favors, gifts and tabletop. We love color and texture especially in our stationery papers. It’s always interesting to switch up styles throughout the day based on the likes of each of our clients.

So just remember in setting the tone, pull the pieces together as a visual collage that you use to guide your decisions. In thinking about tone I located a couple wedding settings that I thought were just lovely. You can see the color, the texture and theme in each one of the venue elements. Enjoy!

magnificent use of Magnolias

March 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

Your Save the Date style tells alot about you as a couple

Your Save the Date is pretty much your calling card to the world that - Hey – we are getting HITCHED!! The best part is that one little card can speak volumes about your personality as a couple.

It can be playful. It can be fashion forward. Or it can be romantic and traditional. Here at The Persnickety Bride in Sandy Hook, CT we have created them all. We have produced balloon Save the Dates that have been sent flat and then blown up. We have created hankies as a Save the Date. Our best Save the Date was an etched wine glasses for a Napa Valley wedding. It went along with a Save the Date invitation about our client’s upcoming wedding in the vineyard. In a lovely cardboard box. Now those were pretty special.

The beauty of your Save the Date is that it can start to set the tone for your wedding. You can give your guests and little peek of what your big day will be like for them.

I’ve put a couple photos of some of the ones I just love. I was trying desperately to find the great one I have that looks like a passport and I just couldn’t find it. Talk about a great Save the Date for a destination wedding.

Well when I find it, I’ll post it – promise. So for now, I hope you enjoy the ones below. We have a large selection of Save the Dates on our website and we certainly know how to make up creative ones as well. So let your imagination soar!

fun loving and free spirited

Stunning..

Romantic and elegant … simply stunning…

Comfortable and Casual

Our famous Nappa Valley Save the Date wine glass…

So sophisticated and beautiful NYC by night

January 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

A Brand New Year – A Brand New Flurry of Brides!!

Well here we are in a brand new month of the brand new year of 2013!! Along with the new year comes a new group of engaged couples that have just jumped into the realm of wedding preparation.

I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be the most daunting task in your life. There are a couple rules of “engagement” if you will in the fine art of preparing for your wedding day. The first rule is do not run out and buy a single bridal magazine. Allow yourself at least a full two weeks to simply be engaged. Breath… get excited… but don’t you dare buy a magazine. You have plenty of time to get overwhelmed (and trust me you will be overwhelmed) – so relax smile and enjoy all the lovely compliments you will get over your ring and your groom to be.

The second rule is to take your hubby to be and sit him down. Look into his eyes and ask him (and yourself) what you want your wedding to be. It’s your day, it is all about you two and sharing that with the ones you love. Write down what you would like to have on your wedding day. Is it a particular venue, or maybe a few venues, write them down. Is it a theme, perhaps something you both share. A type of ceremony. Pies for desert instead of cake or cupcakes. You can of course write down a budget but do it in the form of a marker so that you can gauge where you would like to be on the entire wedding. This can of course be fined tuned if parents are helping out or other family members.

In these first two weeks of engagement bliss, enjoy each other – collect information or go see the venues and ceremony venues (if they are separate) so you can get an overview of what is available for the time you would like to get married. Also if you are interested in doing an engagement photo – go get one done. That way your family can proudly send it to the papers to announce your upcoming nuptials. You may get lucky enough to be so pleased with your engagement photographer that he or she can do your wedding as well. Once that’s done go down to your local pharmacy Bride Magazines and get all the bridal mags your little heart desires.

Let’s face facts you are just dying to see all the gorgeous gowns and ideas.

Just remember once you open those covers ….. there is no turning back…

January 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

A message to all my friends and clients…

We are all in town trying to cope with the loss of so many of our beautiful children and loving caring staff at Sandy Hook Elementary. We have had this business in town for 10 years and worked with Sandy Hook on all of their spiritwear needs. We loved everyone there and I personally am as a parent grateful that my second grader was spared. So many families were not as fortunate and for this I ask you to continue praying for all of them and the angels we now have in Heaven.

For those of you in the community, know that my firms – Persnickety Promotions and here at The Persnickety Bride – will be working a percentage proceed to the appropriate fund that leaves all money here in town to help our community. We will of course work with any fundraising done specifically for our town on a cost-only basis so that we can maximize money to the need of our community.

We have been in close touch with the PTA and once something is announced of what they are coordinating I will pass all information along to all of you that have asked to help the school. They are working on it and the best thing we can do right now is wait until they have a coordinated effort.

It is very, very tough right now and so many people want to help, I can truthfully tell you it is lovely but overwhelming for this community. We have to do this in an organized fashion. We also don’t want donations meant for victims to go to unscrupulous people. Please if you want to donate to the school wait until something formulated is announced. Also stay in touch with the Newtown Patch and The Newtown Bee to see what actual funds are being set up in town that are appropriate funds to contribute to. Please continue your emotional support to all of us. We need it, we appreciate it and we know all the love you are sending. Thank you so much.

December 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

A save-the-date that’s “you”.

Creating a custom save-the-date doesn’t have to be boring. And we have done a number of beautiful Save the Dates over the years. But this one for Casey and Scott is just terrific. Such a nice fit with the picture that they chose. This is your chance to set the tone with your guests for your big day!

December 13, 2012 | 1 Comment