This is an unusual post for my company. We are not discussing style design, beauty but rather addressing how to navigate your wedding and events amidst a global pandemic crisis. Just writing the term brings me shivers and tears to my eyes. I created my business to inspire joy to my clients, to myself and to the world.

When I think of any event and in particular weddings, I think of happy moments, laughter, groups of guests sipping on a drink, listening to the music, funny dancing, memories being built. It is difficult to think all of these moments are now on pause until further determination.

It is difficult to accept the world is facing a global crisis of this magnitude and no definite answers on when this will end. What I do know is that it will end. I know soon we will all be laughing in a beautiful event together again.

At the core of this situation, I have my clients in heart. My company is looking out for their best interest and monitoring the situation on a day by day basis to understand the implications it holds to them. My clients are the heart and soul of Harlow & Dahlia Events and with dedication will assure their weddings and events are properly managed to navigate this unprecedented situation.

I also understand many couples are being face with tough choices regarding their weddings and the timing of the Covid-19 epidemic. I thought of endless possibilities on how to help and the first initiative is a simple but useful resource guide to help through some of the toughest questions.

Please feel free to share this guide with any couples that could use the additional perspective. It’s meant to be helpful, to inspire and more importantly help everyone know that it will be okay. We don’t have the end date yet, this event has no proper timeline to follow but it has a curfew. That curfew will arrive soon enough and we will all make it through as a community, as couples ready to celebrate their beautiful day, as vendors who thrived in this sudden hit to their small businesses. We are in it together and we will thrive.

Stay tuned for more announcements on upcoming services for couples facing postponements as well as resources for small businesses struggling with the sudden circumstances.

With all my love and positivity,

Claudia

Covid-19 HD Events Resource Guide

Covid-19 & Weddings

Steps to manage the effect Covid-19 may have on weddings & related postponements

Lately I’ve been in the mode of invitations and all things beautiful stationery! In fact, many a times this is one of first key crucial steps to the planning process. Sending the save the dates is the start of the official wedding announcement in many ways!

I use a variety of designers and stationery makers to provide our clients with the ultimate luxurious stationery experience. One popular option clients pick when stationery is an important item to consider but they don’t want to break the budget is pursuing invitation designers online. A few months ago I stumbled across Basic Invite and have been in love with their inventory.

Some fun ideas I came across:

Beyond wedding invitation sets and day of stationery, I find clients’s families hosting a bridal shower or bachelorette party, often prefer to send out invitations. In a perfect world, these invitations should tie in well with the wedding aesthetic. Browsing through Basic Invite’s inventory I found the cutest bridal shower invitations. These invitations the future bride is “traveling” from Ms. to Mrs. You can also change the color for this invite to match the colors for your wedding!

Check them out here!

travel themed bridal shower invitations

If you would like to try the invites prior to ordering a full, set custom samples for all of their invitations are available.

Another stand out for me is their vintage wedding invitations. I am a lover for all things classic and these invitations pay an ode to those brides and grooms looking for a beautiful, classic and memorable wedding invite set!

I am in particular in love with the vintage clear set in grey: https://www.basicinvite.com/elegant-vintage-clear-wedding-invitations.html

The entire suite offers a variety of color schemes with over 180 color options to customize, fonts and variety to integrate well with your wedding colors and theme! Check out the full vintage suite selection here: vintage wedding invitations

I learned through working in the website that you can in fact customize every detail on the wedding invitations which is unique for any online wedding invitation company and something I LOVE, LOVE as it is so important for me to customize every client’s stationery design.

Now the reasons I even felt compelled to make a post about stationery and Basic Invite, they offer 40+ envelope colors to match their 900+ invitation sets. Pretty amazing, huh? That is a world of possible mix and match color sets!

You can collect and upload your guest list addresses on their system and they will print onto the envelopes at no charge! But my favorite feature: their seal and send wedding invitations are an all-in-one wedding invitation with a tear-off RSVP postcard included! The Seal & Send is their newest collection and I know as a wedding planner, I love this concept. Currently, they offer them in over 30 designs including our ever-popular foil options which are customizable. Each guest’s names on the Seal & Sends are printed on the front of each invitation so no envelope is necessary!

And my favorite feature offered by Basic Invite, their wedding websites!!! Believe it or not, in 2019, there are only a few sources I recommend clients for websites and Basic Invite is one of them!

Their wedding websites are completely customizable! They are mobile friendly (which is important for your guests as most guests will see your website on their mobile phones) and incredibly easy to navigate. You can instantly upload all of your wedding details, along with images, and a convenient map with directions for your guests. For my event stylist heart, they also offer from 180 custom colors, and a design suite to match the wedding invitations they offer which is so important for consistency in your style aesthetics!

If you are curious about exploring this collection for your wedding website, here is the entire collection: wedding websites

Had to share below some of my favorite images from their collections!

xo,

Claudia & The HD Events Team

Check them out: @basicinvite

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Hi everyone!

We have been busy developing a major new part of our business that we are about to announce but our website and blog are such an intricate and important part of our wedding planning business that we want to keep it full of life and our latest news.

We will be recapping our 2018 season shortly as we prepare to unveil our 2019 season! We already enjoyed our first wedding of the 2019 season: a winter wonderland for Heather and Cory at the beautiful, classic and historic Woodstock Inn!

We are so thrilled to share with you our 2018 season, our 3 major publications, our major business addition and expansion news and our 2019 season as it begins to unfold.

In the mean time, enjoy this gorgeous photo of our 2018 wedding at Riverside Farm for Alli & Zach.

Photo by the talented Sabin Gratz.

Love,

Claudia