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| HOLIDAY WEDDINGS Winter

Holiday Weddings

 
A wedding Winterland created by Bentley Meeker

by Shelley Waugh
Creating a magical winterland or holiday weddings are perfect for transforming a simple idea into a magical one. Top New York City lighting designer, Bentley Meeker, is known for transforming a simple room into a unique environment, pictured above. His celebrity weddings clients include Star Jones, Robert DeNiro and Grace Hightower, Billy Joel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, Liza Minnelli, Soprano’s Jamie Lynn Sigler, Harvey Keitel, Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa Rivers and former Mayor of New York City Rudolf Giuliani. Visit www.bentleymeeker.com.
Helping you plan
When snow is on the ground the season allows you to set your theme in Winterland. Keep it simple so that it can be integrated into the style and elements of your wedding such as your invitations, dress, decor, parties, gifts for your guests and your wedding cake.
In The Modern Bride Survival Guide, New York City event designer, Preston Bailey suggests that when you're creating a theme use only one or two colours to make it more dramatic.

Event planner Elizabeth K. Allen of New York City advises for winter wedding invitations is to choose garnet (deep-red) card stock with pearlized ink. Wrap invites in snowflake-pattern vellum (a premium type of paper and card stock) with silver snowflake seals; use the same vellum to line envelopes. For decor, top the tables with garnet taffeta cloths, then drape with an overlay of rich, black-burgundy velvet accented with garnet satin piping. For the menu, instead of placing a bread basket on each table, serve guests warm, popovers with an herbed butter for wintery comfort food. For dessert, treat your guests to an extra-rich and decadent wedding cake: black forest torte decorated with dark-chocolate icing, chocolate shavings and sugared fruit. For favours, fill an oversized, monogrammed ceramic mug with a bag of gourmet hot chocolate and wrap in a box with garnet satin ribbon. The Modern Bride Survival Guide by Antonia van der Meer. Visit www.amazon.com.
HOLIDAY DRINKS & DECOR

WHITE CHOCOLATE MARTINI
Who doesn't like chocolate and it's simple to make in minutes.

INGREDIENTS:
2 oz    White chocolate liqueur (Godiva, Mozart etc.) or White creme de cacao instead of the liqueur
1 oz    Vanilla flavored Vodka (a premium brand or regular vodka)
8        Ice cubes or crushed ice
1.5 oz Half and Half (half cream and half milk)
1        Normal or dark chocolate bar

METHOD:
Bar tools used: shaker and strainer
Glass: Martini, Old fashioned, Rock. To chill a martini glass just put a few ice cubes and water in it while you're making the cocktail.
   
Step 1: Pour the liqueur vodka and cream in the shaker
Step 2: Add 8 cubes of ice
Step 3: Shake it hard! 20 times at least
Step 4: Strain the cocktail into your chilled martini glass or strain over crushed ice
Step 5: Shave a piece of the chocolate bar over the drink, the shavings will add flavor and color.
Courtesy: www.cocktail-guru.com/white-chocolate-martini.html
HOLIDAY FAVORITE WITH SPARKLE TWIST
Edible silver and gold garnishes

NATURAL VANILLA EGG NOG
Yield: 1 - 32-oz. pitcher (approx. 6 servings)

INGREDIENTS
• 9 oz. natural vanilla liqueur (Navan/House of Grand Marnier)
• 6 Grade A or AA eggs
• 9 oz. whole milk
• 6 teaspoons superfine sugar
• Garnish: Ground nutmeg and edible gold (Oro Fino) or edible silver (Argento Fino) Petals (Easy Leaf Products).
• Optional garnish: Cinnamon-Nutmeg whipped cream topped with gold leaf

METHOD
Step 1: Separate the egg yolk and white into 2 bowls. Beat the white with 3 tsp. sugar until peaks form. Beat yolk with remaining 3 tsp. sugar until stiff. Gently fold egg white into egg yolk.
Step 2: Add milk and mix gently.
Step 3: Add natural vanilla liqueur and mix gently.
Step 4: Pour mixture into an ice-filled cocktail glass. Add the garnish.
Optional Garnish: Cinnamon-Nutmeg whipped cream topped with gold leaf. Directions: Beat 2 oz. whipping cream, with pinch ground nutmeg and pinch ground cinnamon until stiff. Add to top of drink and sprinkle with gold leaf.
 For more information visit www.easyleafproducts.com

click here for more Holiday drink ideas
GINGERBREAD HOUSES FOR THE KID'S TABLES
Creating a Gingerbread House from an award-winning cook
Perfect holiday centerpieces for the kid's tables that you can theme and construction with the guidance of the Food Network’s Gingerbread Challenge winner Christina Banner and her book, How to Build a Gingerbread House: A Step-by-Step Guide to Sweet Results.

Christina teaches home cooks how to bake and build a gingerbread house from start to finish and provides instructions using a basic house pattern as the foundation for eight uniquely themed gingerbread houses that uses everyday ingredients and basic kitchen equipment. She also includes tips and trouble-shooting topics like fixing a warped piece of Gingerbread. Her suggested decorations are all completely edible and easily found in the aisles of your local grocery store.

Her tips and techniques are for all levels of experience and includes easy to follow recipes, including two types of gingerbread dough, homemade snow, cookie roof shingles, construction techniques, architectural details like chimneys and corner joints; and timelines for baking, assembling, and decorating your creations

Click here for recipes from How to Build a Gingerbread House: A Step-by Step Guide to Sweet Results by Christina Banner. Visit www.amazon.com
The Holiday Bride - basic wedding planning rules always apply:
The basic rule: Plan your wedding that includes, a calendar, time-lines and a place for contracts for services and products. Create a three-ring binder with an index to keep a spread sheet or pages A-Z to keep categories on separate pages so that you can keep track of what you are doing by dates, companies, contacts, phone and fax numbers, and email and website addresses. Then you "Work Your Plan."

Planning a wedding is a work in progress, but the basic elements are:
• setting your budget, confirming your time, date and place of the ceremony and reception before you finalize:
• your wedding parties, theme, stationary: invitations, program and thank you cards, guest list, outfits and accessories, hair and beauty, gift registries, menus, wines and beverages, wedding cake, flowers, photographer / videographer, music, entertainment, transportation, guest favors and wedding party gifts, wedding night, honeymoon, your wedding website and more.

Gown Photo: The hand embroidered broadtail and Russian sable jacket worn over a chiffon flowing bridal gown, is by designer Dennis Basso visit www.DennisBasso.com


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