Sequins for Weddings

Bling is in :)!

 

Images for Inspiration Board from Pinterest

 

I have loved sequins eversince I was a child, my obsession with anything that glitters has become bigger as I got bigger!  Throw in some glitter, better if it is edible, and I am in heaven!

 

We are squeaking with excitement here at Reviva as we have gathered our glittery accessories ready for our 2013 weddings. 

 

We are excitedly awaiting the arrival of our new completely fabulous wedding accessories including sequin table linens in golds and silvers :)

 

Gorgeous glitter freestanding Mr and Mrs letters that can be personalised with your new surname and are available in a huge variety of sparkly colours.

 

Glitter banners are also a wonderful way to add some bling to your wedding, perhaps hang one over your cake table.

 

Image from Etsy

 

Image found on Pinterest

 

We are now stocking velvet glitter ribbons in a beautiful range of colours.

 

Image courtesy of Etsy

 

We cannot wait to share some of our sparkly weddings with you in 2013 and if you wish to add some magic twinkle to your wedding here in Spain please do contact us on

info@reviva-weddings.com

 

Reviva just got Festive!

 

 

 

 

 

Here at Reviva we are known for our trend setting, gorgeous wedding designs throughout the summer.

But what girls cannot resist festive glitter and sparkle :)! 

We have added snow to our blog to get into the festive mood and are busy refurbing and filling our pretty shop with many delightful Christmas decorations and festive florals. 

 

 Our new fabulous Christmas glitter words have arrived, they are super sparkly and perfect for displaying on your mantlepiece or shelves to bring some very glittery festive cheer into your home. 

 

We are stocking a small selection but if you wish to have a personalised glitter word made for Christmas do pop down and see us or email us at info@reviva-weddings.com.

 

Our hugely popular vintage style signs fly off the shelves as soon as they arrive so we have just restocked, they make the perfect present all year round.

 

Next week we start creating fresh advent wreaths and stocking many beautiful Christmas foliages from fresh blue pines, berries, poinsettias and amaryllis.

 

If you wish to order a beautiful Christmas arrangement or bouquet please do pop in and make sure you are on our order book. 

 

Our talented styling team also offer a Christmas decoration service.
 Perhaps you want a gorgeous professionally dressed Christmas tree set up in your home, your mantelpiece dressed beautifully for a dinner party or some festive decoration for a corporate event.

 Whatever the occasion, from a private home to a company celebration let us help you decorate and dress your festive event with huge amounts of style!

 

We stock a range of Christmas cards and gift tags, gorgeous velvet glitter ribbons, (could not resist!) and some very sparkly candle holders all arriving next week as well as the festive month of December arrives!

 

Along with our beautiful flowers, plants and decorations you can be assured that popping into our shop to see us will be a treat and do hop into the Arte Cafe next door for a warming latte or hot chocolate or treat yourself to delicious breakfast or lunch.  Definitely a Christmas shopping trip worth putting in your diary!

Eco Friendly Rice Butterfly Confetti

Traditionally rice is thrown at the bride and groom to bring them fertility and good luck and the word confetti comes from the Italians who traditionally threw sweets at the lucky couple, confetto.

All this, however, sounds painful and as we are always searching for eco friendly alternatives to our weddings, we were delighted to find this new product, rice butterflies which we will now be stocking in our shop.

These gorgeous butterflies are currently available in white, red, yellow, green and blue but shortly will be available in pink.  As they are so lightweight they stay in the air for longer ensuring your photographer will capture the magic and give your photos the wow factor.

We love them and with all the symbolic meanings behind throwing rice at the happy couple, we cannot think of a better way to start your married life than to be blessed by fluttering butterflies!

Romantic Blossom Cupcake Class by Sweet Things by Fi

We are delighted to introduce our first cupcake decorating class hosted by Sweet Things by Fi at our wedding studio on the 8th February. 

If anyone does not know Fi's work or indeed has not eaten one of her cakes they are truly missing something and life is not worth living until you do! 

Fi is one of our favourite wedding cake designers, whose creations continue to amaze our clients and us, plus she buys me creme eggs so I am heavily blackmailed!

Fi's first cupcake decorating class will be held at our shop, based in Elviria, on the 8th February from 3pm until 5pm.

The theme of our first cupcake decorating course is Romantic Blossom Cupcakes.

Fi will bring the freshly baked cupcakes and each student will be provided with 6 cupcakes each, 3 chocolate and 3 vanilla along with all the decorating materials to create beautiful cupcakes ready for you to take home. 

You will learn the art of creating sugar craft roses, pearl and bows as in our photo above and get to take them home.

Fi's cupcake course is 60 euros per head and this includes tea, coffee and cakes to test along with a lot of fun plus 6 fabulous cupcakes unless we have eaten them first! 

This cupcake decorating course is limited to 6 people with a minimum of 4 people so first come first served but there will be more classses to follow.

If you would like to book this class please contact Fi on 697228088 or email her on mail@sweetthingsbyfi.com

To view Fi's website and see her amazing creations visit

http://www.sweetthingsbyfi.com/

POSH GRAFFITI Letters and Hearts at Reviva

Image courtesy of Jeremy Standley

Reviva are delighted to now stock POSH Graffiti by Emma Readnett Bayley.

Spell out your romance with these stylish white Love Letters, hang them up at your wedding or place a message on your cake table and then take them home and proudly display your love for each other on your walls!

The beautifully boxed sets of LOVE and MR & MRS would make an ideal wedding or anniversary present and there are some cute hearts ready to hang at your wedding or home.

If you have a special word or initials you would like to order as a gift or for your home, pop into see us or call 618 021 172 or email us your order laura@reviva-weddings.com.

Please do note if you have a special order you must allow time for delivery to the shop.

Valentines Flowers and Decorations

As we approach Valentines day, we thought we would share a little inspiration with you and we love this photo shoot found on Postcards and Pretties by Jenny Haas photography.

This gorgeous mock tea party set up has inspired us particuarly as it has one of our birdcages in it, well not one of ours literally but we have the same!

One of our birdcages at Sharon and Michael's wedding in Mijas, image courtesy of Jeremy Standley

As always, the attention to the details, the garlands made out of pale pink doilies I love, pink lemonade and swirling cream just make this photo shoot divine and gorgeous.

Currently we are decorating the shop ready for Valentine's day, which is the busiest day of the year for Loraine.

Loraine has stunning flowers ordered, which is very exciting with the most fabulous red roses, and this year we have some gorgeous heart decorations and garlands, Cath Kidston style fabric hearts, mirror and glass hearts, LOVE and heart plates, love candy, cupcakes from the amazing Mark at Cake Marbella, a Valentines dream is awaiting our clients! Loraine and I are rather hoping there will be some of Mark's cupcakes left so we can scoff them :)

In fact when I was in the shop earlier today there were some gorgeous flowers being delivered from some stunning amaryllis in a beautiful coral colour and some deep red ranunculus, I can only imagine the bouquets and displays that Loraine will make with these this week, they will be divine, in fact I should take some photos and post them for you, as she is such a talented stunning florist.

Heather from Fiestasol and I were talking today about our flowers and weddings and Heather said she thought our flowers were the best here by a long way and Loraine is the the most creative florist here by far here on the coast.

Her clients and our brides will lay testimony to my statement and it is a joy working with her to provide all our flowers for our weddings along with my staff. I strive for perfection and have worked with a few florists here but none can match Loraine's skill and artistic eye.

If you do wish to pre order flowers, decorations and cupcakes please do call us on 952 839 830 at the shop or my mobile 618 021 172.

I do advise preordering in order not to be disappointed as from what I saw last year there was a queue outside the door for about 10 hours!

If you wish to order balloons as well for your Valentines party or restaurant or wish us to dress your venue ready for this occasion, please do contact me as we do also now offer balloons to compliment our flowers and for venue dressing, although they do have to be pre ordered with notice ready to collect from our shop or for us to come out and set them up.

Christmas Week

This time of year is a time for reflection, enjoying family and friends and thinking about achievements, what we can do better to improve ourselves and preparing for another year.

For me starting my own business has been the most rewarding thing I have ever done (apart from having my three beautiful daughters of course!).

Creating a dream and making it a reality is the most satisfying feeling and I am so passionate about what I do that working is enjoyable for me, it does not feel like work, it is a hobby and a lifestyle, which I think is hugely important to create a successful business as you eat, live, breath and sleep it!

Everyone has a story and mine is no different and I did lose faith in having friends, but what I have realised over the past year in particular, is the lifestyle I have created for myself has introduced me to some wonderful people, and now I realise I have created a network of friends that I value enormously.

I thought I would share some of my days with you now to see what we get up to when we are not busy creating our wonderful weddings and parties.

Today I spent a morning surfing some fabulous blogs, gaining inspirations and ideas for next year's weddings. I then popped down to the shop this afternoon to see Loraine and Anoulka so I decided to take my camera with me and take some photos. Here are some photos of the shop in it's full Christmas glory and Loraine and Anoulka working hard creating fabulous Christmas bouquets, arrangements and decorations, I am the lazy one sitting on a chair with a coffee :)

I have also taken a photo below of my beautiful Christmas chocolate cake delivered to me a few days ago by Fi, our crazy and hugely talented cake maker, she has created a birdcage for me which I love and don't really want to eat but I will succumb shortly!

I then popped round to see Heather, the owner of Fiestasol, for a cup of tea and homemade biscuits at her lovely cosy home as she was housebound with her beautifully cuddly children and I wanted to deliver a Christmas card and also took her a lovely festive bouquet from the shop for her to enjoy.

Sometimes a working mum's life can be hard so I always think that the mum's need to be spoilt for once! Although of course Heather is very lucky to be married to a superb chef who has taken over the kitchen for Christmas with huge enthusiasm whilst I am still checking off my to do shopping lists!!

All I can say is if anyone out there is considering starting up their own business, just go for it, you have to be passionate about what you do and be prepared to work hours that no one else would even consider but it is so rewarding to create a lifestyle and meet hugely talented and interesting people that otherwise you would never have crossed paths with.