Orange Cymbidium Returns

Cymbidiums are my FAVORITE orchid of all time. Personally, I used green cymbidium orchids in my wedding. The wonderful thing about cymbidiums is that they withstand the heat and are a pretty strong variety of orchids so it will look nice your entire wedding day! I love it when brides ask to do an orchid theme. If you didn't already know, orchids symbolize luxury, nobility and lust!

This particular bride wanted an orange cymbidium orchid for her invitations. Not to mention she's getting married at the Fairmonth Orchid! So it seems befitting to have an orchid as her theme. For their reception, they want to go with matching favor boxes with both orange and yellow cymbidium orchids and plans to put hard kona candies inside for her guests. She's even looking at table cards!

This bride came to me via the referral of Bob Brown of Eye Expression Photography. Bob has a great eye for catching some really great moments. I love his eye for details. You can view some of Bob's work on my website on the home page and I hope to post some of the weddings we've worked on together in the coming months!

Out of Town Guest Bags - Kicking off Your Wedding with Style!

Many destination wedding couples want to welcome their guests, who have sometimes come from very far places to be a part of this wonderful occasion. A few of my clients have requested personalized welcome tags, water bottle sleeves and wedding week itineraries. Most wedding coordinators can help the bride/groom with local goodies for a service fee if the couple cannot do it themselves. The bags can be as elaborate as those nice canvas beach bags or even just nice color coordinated paper shopping totes!

This particular client requested oranges and yellows as her color theme and wanted the cymbidium orchid. This is such a nice way to greet and welcome your guests at their hotel room. Especially since they probably just got off a long flight! You definitely want to throw in some great local items (in Hawaii the popular things are macadamia nuts, Maui chips, Kona coffee, shortbread macadamia nut cookies (Big Island Candies or Honolulu Cookie Company are my two favorites!), and of course the local tour/activity guides!

1/27/2008 - Pineapple Invitation 2008

So I got this great new software program from Mountain Cow! It's so COOL! Anyway, this is one of my new inivtation designs using this new software tool, the new cardstock line from Envelopments and of course this cool pineapple design by my brother - the true artiste in the family!

I created this design for an upcoming article for http://www.destinationweddingstyle.com/ on Jet Set/Destination wedding invitations. I'm hoping that it will be posted in February! There were 3 or 4 designs that I created for the article...

It's kind of funny because when I started my business in 2003, I really didn't think much of doing invitations because I was hooked on the clay flowers, but the invitations are what carries my business which is great! Now I know I had a good business model when I envisioned what DK Designs would be!

You can view more of my designs at www.flickr.com/photos/dkdesigns. I haven't had much time to redo the DK Designs website so this is where I house many of my new creations...