Wedding of the Week: Across the Pond in Pink

We are starting something new and exciting on the HH Design House blog. Each week, we will feature a wedding (or party) that we've worked on in a post. We hope you will check back weekly to see our featured events!

With all of the excitement about the Royal Wedding, we were reminded of a wedding we did from across the pond. Claire and Adam were married in England in 2009. Hot pink and white were the colors selected by the bride. The couple used invitations, programs, place cards, and other paper goods the Bride custom designed with Hayley.

The Beautiful Couple "signing the registry."

Claire and Adam are using the programs designed by HH Design House.

The groomsmen's ties had the wedding date embroidered on the tag of their ties. How cute!

Even the guests got in to the spirit of the color scheme, including this one who rocked a hot pink hat! Why can't we bring this fashion to the states?

The placecards for the reception were placed on a board.

Instead of using numbers for table identifiers, the couple used names of the mountains they have climbed together on cards tied to the centerpieces.

Here are the bride and groom standing in a meadow in the beautiful English countryside.

The elegant place settings featured menu cards designed by Hayley.

Dancing was a must at the reception. The bride and groom provided flip flops for the guests' tired feet, so they won't ever miss a beat.

What a beautiful and charming wedding!

We hope you liked what you saw from our "Wedding of the Week" post. There are many more to come! Please visit our website for more wedding ideas. Don't forget to "like" us on Facebook and suggest us to your friends.

Monkey Business: A Second Birthday in Dallas, Texas

No monkeying around...Even if this ultra-stylish-party-planning-guru-momma wasn't my best friend, I'd still want to be her! Parties and her children have to be her favorite things in the world, so you can imagine the excitement around their own big days!

The week after her monkey's first birthday, we started talking about the second! Here's what she had to say....

The Monkey idea came from my CRAZY daughter who climbs on everything! A few months before her 2nd birthday she was introduced to the "5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" song and book. She absolutely loved it and a party theme was born! As I started brainstorming I saw SO many monkey parties. I loved the invitation I designed with Hayley that incorporated my color scheme of pink and brown, with the hanging "girly" monkey, and also polka dots, which are special to us since that was the theme of our daughter's first! Martha Stewart has an entire line of "ready to make" things for a monkey, and at the time Target had everything we needed to tie the theme together. From plates, to the kids cups, a cute pitcher, monkey stickers to put on the walls, we were overwhelmed by all the stuff that was monkey related! And of course there has to be jumping around at a monkey party, so although I think they are used in overabundance, it was very appropriate and the kids' favorite part! Also, I didn't think of this for my own party, but my friend Kristen threw a monkey party for her daughter, too, and gave away bananas and a recipe to go with them! She is an amazing baker and I have to think those favors were coveted by all the monkey mamas!

Thanks for sharing your party with us! We loved getting to be a part of it and hope you are still cranking out the ideas for the kiddos when I am in need someday!

xoxo hh