2011 BizBash Florida Event Style Awards

Apparently BizBash loves vintage as much as we do! We are happy to announce that our I "Heart" Vintage Furniture has been nominated for Best New Product. Check out the Event Style Awards List to see who else has been nominated for these awards, and take it from us, there are a lot of other Tampa professionals nominated. We feel honored to be among this talented group.

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Lovegevity's Wedding Planning Institute Blog!

Our own Amanda Allen has been an instructor at St. Petersburg College for Lovegevity's Wedding Planning Institute for the past 2 semesters. This past weekend Amanda received a great mention in the LWPI's blog for the end of the year party. One point that Amanda really focused on with her students was networking. She believes that it is very important in this industry and stressed that a lot to her students. At the end of the semester, Amanda's class put together a networking party that vendors were invited to. This networking party was such a success. This is a great article about the power of networking and a great article centered on her classes party.

This is another great mention for Amanda and her passion for teaching this course!

Thank you again for all the vendors who attended the party and thank you for LWPI for this great blog post!

Thanks!

We love when we have couples who take the time out of their busy lives to remember us and give us a little thanks for helping make their special day a fabulous one! The other day we received a thank you card in the mail and it meant a lot to us, and wanted to share it with everyone.

We received a call from Alexis, the Social Catering Manager over at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, because she had gotten engaged and wanted us to be part of her special day. Naturally we said yes because not only do we love her, but we feel so honored when another industry professional chooses us to help with their wedding. She works with tons of industry professionals every weekend and we felt so honored that we made her list to share her special day with. She could have choose anyone, but she picked us. Every thank you card we receive from couples we love, and this one especially meant a lot to us here at MMD Events!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Who doesn't love roses, and especially on Valentine's Day? We thought we would switch it up on our blog and feature our centerpiece of the week! Since its Valentine's day we went traditional and want to feature a centerpiece loaded with roses! Once again this fabulous centerpiece was created by our lead floral designer Amanda. The base of both of these centerpieces were filled with rose petals that match the roses on top. We hope that everyone has a wonderful day and Happy Valentine's Day!!

Bouquet of the Week!

Candy, flowers, jewelry, and cards, Valentine's Day is just one week away! In the spirit of Valentine's Day approaching, we decided to feature some of our red and pink bouquets.

Valentine's Day Fun FACTS:

According to Hallmark research, 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged annually. So for everyone who feels that Valentine's Day is a "Hallmark" holiday, well it is the second-most popular greeting card exchanging holiday. Can you guess what the most popular greeting card holiday is....Christmas!

Hallmark research also found out that over 50% of of all Valentine's Day card are purchased six days prior to the 14th. Start shopping now to beat the rush!

More than 1,600 Hallmark greeting card designs are available.

Who loves vintage- we LOVE vintage!!

We wanted to share some more photos from our I Heart Vintage collection. We love our furniture from the neo-vintage, found furniture and found objects collections. We are so happy with the photos that CSE Photography took of our furniture, we can not say thank you enough! The other morning we received great news that our I Heart Vintage furniture collection was featured in Eventline- an online newsletter from Special Events.

If you would like more information about our collection or would like to use it at one of you next events please contact us at info@mmdevents.com

Get Creative!

When a couple comes to us and asks us how to tie in a certain element into their wedding we always try to think outside the box. We had the pleasure working with a couple who loved to travel. When we first met them this was apparent and we had to tie in their love of traveling into their special day. Instead of having table numbers, we decided to label the tables as locations that the couple love to travel to. Taking that even a step further, each table location had a short paragraph of why that destination was important to the couple.

When thinking about how we were going to get the guests to their destination, we thought luggage tags would be perfect! After cocktail hour, guests were invited to find their luggage tag and then they were off to their anticipated destination.

We love to be creative and we love when we can take something that is special to the couple and translate that into their wedding.

A BIG thanks to everyone who made this event a huge success:

Lighting, Florals, Decor, and Furniture: MMD Events

Tent and Dance Floor: US Tent Rental

Photography: Phillip Llyod Photography

Linens: Connie Duglin