Category Archives: The Sweetest Occasion - Event Planning

Mike’s Surprise Party – A Basket of Memories

One of the things I love most about my husband is that he’s such a guy’s guy (thus the sports-themed birthday party) and yet he has a quiet sentimental side that I adore. (Read: I am complete sap and I appreciate that he understands that nostalgic, emotional side of my personality.) One of my favorite [...]

Mike’s Surprise Party – The Invitations

When planning Mike’s party I knew I wanted the invitations to be something clean, simple and masculine, because that’s Mike’s style. A point of note – Mike is obsessed with the newspaper. (In the best possible way, of course.) I knew I wanted to line the envelopes in something fabulous and immediately decided to use [...]

Mike’s Surprise Party – Source List + Budget Breakdown

I’ll preface my source list by noting that I never shop at Walmart and by “never shop at Walmart” I mean I might walk in there once a year at most. Low and behold, last Sunday was my once a year trip into a Walmart and I scored a bunch of basic project supplies for [...]

Mike’s Surprise 30th Birthday Party

I thought I’d kick off the week by sharing a little of my weekend with you – the surprise 30th birthday party I threw for my husband on Saturday night! I started planning this party for Mike almost immediately after wedding planning wrapped up and I knew right away that I was going to do [...]

Elena and John’s Beautiful Fall Finger Lakes Wedding

This past weekend I had the extreme pleasure of coordinating Elena and John’s beautiful fall wedding in the Finger Lakes. From day one, Elena was a dream client in my book. She got in touch after being referred by Megan Dailor, one of my absolute favorite photographers to work with, and has since become a [...]