This beautiful bridal shower was held at Allegheny Country Club for 60 guests. Pink with touches of green was the color scheme and the afternoon could not have been more perfect!

Guests sipped on cotton candy cocktails.

Cotton candy was placed in a champagne glass and champagne was poured over the cotton candy for a sweet, pink drink!

Instead of the traditional gift opening, gifts were handed to the bride as guests entered the room. The bridesmaids unwrapped each gift and displayed the gift on a beautiful table adorned with rosette linens and a grand pink and green centerpiece. Silver frames were placed by each gift with the name of the person who was giving the gift.

The bright pink and green were perfect for the sunny spring day!

Guests were able to get a lesson in organic skincare and create their own sea salt scrub. They took their scrub home in cute glass jars with custom labels.

Tea tasting was an informative and fun activity for the guests. Each guest was able to create their own tea blends to take home. They also took home a pretty tea cup and a tea infuser.

All in all it was a beautiful shower to celebrate a joyous occasion! To see more photos, check out our gallery!

Vendors:

Linens: Mosaic/ Rentals: Event Source/ Tea: Gryphon’s/ Skincare: Go Organic

Floral: Hepatica  / Venue: Allegheny Country Club/ Sweet Treats: Bella Christie’s 

At The Event Group, we take vendor selection seriously! Choosing the right vendors for your event is one of the most important steps in the event planning process. Today we are highlighting Julie Marckisotto of Pittsburgh Makeup. Julie stopped by our offices for makeovers and we had a great time chatting with her about the process and her favorite products. As a bride, the last thing you want to be worrying about is your makeup, and hiring a makeup artist is a great way to ease your mind and ensure you look your absolute best on your big day!

Julie came prepared with lots of different makeup and set up a small, neat work area. She asked Gina and Sydney about their skin types. As she applied the different products, she explained how to apply the product and the different brands she was using. During your bridal makeup trial, it is important to let your makeup artist know about your skin. Letting her know things like ‘oily skin’ or ‘acne prone skin’ can help to determine which products she uses.
This is Sydney’s after photo. She asked for very simple, natural looking makeup. Gina’s after is a bit more dramatic with lined eyes, shimmery shadow and a coral lip. It is important to schedule a trial run before your big day. This is so the makeup artist can get to know your coloring and skin type and it is also the perfect time for you, as the bride, to let her know what your likes and dislikes are. This way, there are no surprises and you are sure to look your absolute best! To see before and after photos, check us out on Instagram!

Here at The Event Group, we love Instagram. It is a great social media platform to share beautiful images! We are always posting inspiration, behind the scenes action and love to follow other accounts!

Instagram is a great way to incorporate social media into your wedding. Simply create a hashtag before your wedding and then publicize the hashtag around your wedding reception venue. It might be a good idea to make use of the fantastic service that https://kenji.ai provide to boost your instagram account, but I digress. It’s not only fun for the guests at the wedding, but it is also fun for the bride and groom to go through the hashtag after the wedding and see all of the fun photos that guests took! There are some great ways to get the word out about your hashtag. We are sharing some of our favorites from Pinterest:

Once you have introduced your hashtag to guests, they will have a ball posting photos!

At The Event Group, we always suggest to our clients that they have signs in the bathroom by the sinks, at the entrance to the venue and by the escort card table. Will you be using Instagram at your next event or wedding?