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PHOTOS FROM BRIDAL SPECTACULAR With the combination of CLM Weddings and Enchanted Florist we created a "Winter Wonderland" theme in The Bridal Spectacular's Inspiration Avenue. As brides entered into our...

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CLM DESIGNS RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES FUNDRAISER....... After months of planning alongside with The Ronald McDonald House Charities and a wonderful planning committee, Wine Women and Shoes took place at the Boutique Venue,...

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BRIDAL SPECTACULAR AUGUST 20th & 21st AT CASHMAN CENTER [gallery] Planning a Las Vegas wedding? It can be exciting, challenging and downright unnerving but you've come to the right site! The Bridal Spectacular's goal is to help...

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CHRISTIE MCCOY DREAMS BIG - AND EXECUTES EVEN BIGGER CLM Owner, Christie McCoy, was recently featured on The Write Shot's Blog Christie McCoy dreams big – and executes even bigger by Tash Christie McCoy was that little...

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SAMANTHA AND FRANK'S PROFESSIONAL IMAGES ARE HERE!!! To visit photos from Samantha and Frank's New York Wedding Please Click Here! [gallery]

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PHOTOS FROM BRIDAL SPECTACULAR

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With the combination of CLM Weddings and Enchanted Florist we created a “Winter Wonderland” theme in The Bridal Spectacular’s Inspiration Avenue. As brides entered into our area they stepped up onto a catwalk which would take them on the journey of a wedding. To the immediate right they experienced a winter white ceremony with willow and birch trees, hanging elements and clear spirit chairs which were provided by RSVP party rentals. As their walk continued they saw a “design center” where a winter themed wedding gown was displayed, thanks to Davids Bridal, a white tuxedo by Tuxedo Junction of Las Vegas, and lots of ideas and concepts to assist them with planning and designing their weddings. Cathy Colbert of 1st Impressions Invitations created an escort card tree and also invitations as each bride walked through our area. The cocktail hour included regal blue linen, provided by BBJ Linen, and white feather centerpieces. Inside the reception area we showcased large crystal and floral chandeliers on the tables. Although these chandeliers would typically be hanging from the ceiling we placed them on top of the tables so all of the brides could really see them up close and personal.

A lot of detail and planning went into our vignette and everything you see is available for rent for your wedding! We hope you enjoy!

CLM DESIGNS RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES FUNDRAISER…. WINE, WOMEN AND SHOES

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After months of planning alongside with The Ronald McDonald House Charities and a wonderful planning committee, Wine Women and Shoes took place at the Boutique Venue, MEET Las Vegas. CLM Assisted with the designing of the venue which included Hot Pink Linen and with the Assistance of Enchanted Florist: Hanging Crystal and Flower Chandeliers, Floral Arrangements and Hanging Feathers. CLM also arranged for a fantastic Jazz Band, The Corsairs, to play throughout the event!

About Wine, Women and Shoes
Wine, Women & Shoes is the brainchild of Napa Valley vintner, Elaine Honig. While chatting with a girlfriend about the growing popularity of wine and food pairing events, they jokingly said “wine and shoe pairings would be a lot more fun!” And they were right. WW&S events are now in 20 cities across the country, with over 15,000 attendees per year, and they have raised more than $4,000,000 for women’s and children’s causes.

About the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Las Vegas
Our Mission: Believing that every child deserves a safe and supportive place to grow, Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Greater Las Vegas creates and supports programs that directly improve the health, education and well-being of children in our community. The Ronald McDonald House® is the cornerstone program of RMHC, and provides temporary housing for families who travel to Las Vegas to receive critical medical treatment for their children.


Photos provided by Levi Ellyson

BRIDAL SPECTACULAR AUGUST 20th & 21st AT CASHMAN CENTER

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Planning a Las Vegas wedding? It can be exciting, challenging and downright unnerving but you’ve come to the right site! The Bridal Spectacular’s goal is to help make planning your special day more fun and less stressful and give you ways to see the latest trends in wedding themes and decor. We are here to help in three ways, our bridal show, wedding planner and this comprehensive web site.

Come To Our Next Bridal Show… Las Vegas’ largest and most respected bridal event. Wander down aisles and aisles of booths featuring services such as the latest bridal apparel and tuxedos, banquet sites, beauty ideas, bridal consultants, bridal registries, cakes and caterers, entertainment and disc jockey’s, florists, invitations, jewelers, photographers, videographers, wedding accessories, favors and more. See dazzling Spectacular Fashion Shows. Click here to see interactive show floorplan.

Request Free Las Vegas Wedding Planner… Our Spectacular Bride™ provides all the information you will need for your Las Vegas Wedding as well as articles, decorating ideas and helpful hints. You can pick this planner up at any of the locations listed on our wedding planning services page or if you are out of town just click here to order yours.

Click Here For Las Vegas Wedding Resources Today…Let your fingers do the walking right here on our web site, you’ll find all the wedding professionals you will need listed in our wedding planning services section, many with links to take you right to their sites. If you need help today, just click away.

Please make sure to come and visit us in Booth # 652 and also come and check out our Inspirations for your Upcoming Wedding in the new INSPIRATION AVENUE! While you are at the show also make sure to stop by the Fall Inspired Concessions Area!

Can’t wait to see you there! To order your tickets online click here!

CHRISTIE MCCOY DREAMS BIG – AND EXECUTES EVEN BIGGER

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CLM Owner, Christie McCoy, was recently featured on The Write Shot’s Blog

Christie McCoy dreams big – and executes even bigger
by Tash

Christie McCoy was that little girl who always dreamed about her wedding day. She was also that little girl who absolutely had to redesign her bedroom monthly, if not weekly, so it comes as no surprise that when that little girl grew up, she started planning weddings and events professionally.

The year was 2003 and the place, New York City. Back then, her operation was a one-woman show.

Since then, Christie has been dreaming big and executing even bigger. Christie’s CLM Weddings now plans events from coast-to-coast, while claiming Las Vegas as home. Christie employs a total of four planners, whose numbers increase seasonally through the addition of assistants and interns.

Creating, showing and sharing

Both, an event designer and wedding planner, Christie relishes keeping up with the most recent styles and industry trends. She also prides herself on creating that custom feel for each client’s vision.

“Designing is probably my favorite part of wedding planning,” says Christie, “because my clients can let go and my creative juices flow.”

Christie creates sketches, shows sample photos, and shares what she is thinking, in terms of overall design concepts with her clients. This way, they know what they are receiving and can ask questions. The next step in bringing these concepts to life is approaching a décor company that can assist with the logistics of making the look and feel come alive.

“Being an event designer takes a lot of creativity and time,” notes Christie.

Ingenuity and creativity really come into play, as Christie helps clients build personal and realistic budgets, prioritizing what is most important for them. Next, she is responsible for executing their vision within that budget.

Doing what she does best

Christie believes strongly in the necessity of strong communication and teamwork when planning events, no matter how big or small. She collaborates with each creative professional involved, from the on-site coordinator to the décor company’s end-of-night strike crew.

Her philosophy—Do what you do best.

“Let the venue shine with their food, beverages and service,” she says. “Let the photographer set the perfect backdrop for jaw-dropping photography, and let the wedding planner plan the wedding.”

Ideas and inspiration

Though ideas come easily to her, Christie also reaches out for inspiration, citing event designer Preston Bailey, whose work is often referred to as artistic installations, as one of her favorite resources.

Christie also prepares a mock-up or rendering of each inspired element she proposes to her client. Tablescapes, room design, lighting schemes, printing and every other detail, no matter how minute are set-up, modeled or sketched out.

Stimulating all five senses

“A true event designer not only looks at elements people can touch or feel,” says Christie, “but also attacks all of your senses.”

Christie shows line samples, prop samples and anything tactile, encouraging her clients to think about what their guests will see, smell and hear when they walk into a room or space. All these details need to be addressed to create that awe-inspiring reality, as seen here in Christie’s Big Appletini winter wedding held at the Las Vegas Four Season’s Hotel.

“My client, like many, simply said, ‘I trust you,’” says Christie. ”‘Just capture my vision and I know it will be beautiful.’”

Snow falls on a hot summer night in Vegas

On a sweltering Vegas evening this past June, Christie transformed the Four Seasons Las Vegas into a snowy Manhattan paradise. Arriving, dressed to the nines, ready to stroll down Manhattan‘s Park and 5th Avenues, guests received a holler from a 1940s paperboy standing in front of a New York City magazine stand, peddling a detailed program of the evening’s festivities fashioned after the New York Times.

Guests read the day’s breaking news – BIG MIKE AND LITTLE LISA GET HITCHED – sipping their Big Apple inspired cocktails, which included, among others, deliciously refreshing snow appletinis, while they strolled through snow-covered trees and branches in Central Park, making their way toward a winter white floating chuppah draped in rich fabric and crystals.

Passing over 250 candles and stopping only to grab a knish, mini-hotdog or piece of sushi from a cart, guests settled in for an evening of New York inspired love, romance and fun. The city’s skyline lit up, and it snowed – nothing like a June snowfall during Las Vegas’ triple-digit summer.

Double doors opened and guests walked up the stairs and over the George Washington Bridge, gazing down to fish frolicking below. Making their way from one side to the other, guests descended into a street lined with historic brownstones below.

Having crossed the bridge, children ran ahead to a brownstone food station filled with everything a young palate desires. Adults took their time stopping to admire the custom-made, five-by-three-foot chandelier boxes that hung from the ceiling high above. Overflowing with hydrangeas and adorned with crystals strung from beneath, the chandeliers floated like clouds.

Candles were everywhere.

This is the Big Apple
Apples. Everywhere. Thousands of them. Literally. Some red, some painted gold. And some, frozen in time inside one of two sculpted ice luges that created a dramatic element framing a 30-foot ice bar, where snow appletinis flowed as guests tapped their feet to Frank Sinatra crooning his fabled “New York, New York.” Apples made their appearance, again, in an entire wall constructed of the fruit, all red save for the couple’s monogram gilded and shining.

“Believe it or not, the apple wall is something I dreamed of five years ago,” shares Christie, “I waited that long for the perfect opportunity to present itself.”

(Click here to see Christie’s apple bar and wall sketch)

Big apples appeared again on the tables in the form of place cards, intriguing guests almost as much as the beer garden’s foliage-infused entrance, complete with a flowing fountain that set the mood as guests picked up custom-etched glass pints to fill with their favorite brews.

The icing on the cake

The New York skyline cake, lit from within, had no stand and, instead, sat atop a Plexiglas box filled with alternating compartments of flowers and, yes, more apples. The couple’s monogram in gold on a red apple, of course, provided the perfect accent.

70 people and 41 hours later

Seventy people and 41 hours from set-up to strike, only begin to explain the resources tapped for this six-hour uber-affair. The client allowed Christie freedom to design and create. Though sharing ideas and sketches every step of the way, Christie and her team were allowed to just run with things.

“The bride was a guest,” says Christie, “She had no jobs except to get married and dance and visit with her friends and family. She knew we could execute her vision, but, in the end, she was surprised at the details – and how well we did it.”

Christie’s recommendation for DIY brides:

Planners, whose full services are utilized, both, design your event puzzle and put the pieces together. DIY brides, who hire a planner for day-of coordination, should remember to share the details of their vision and take the time to explain assembled elements and creations – as well as how and where, exactly, they fit into your day.

When your day-of planner knows each piece of the puzzle, you can sit back, relax and trust him/her to piece it together in a way that meets or exceeds your expectations.

Just a few more details

Throughout her career, Christie has been involved in NACE and ISES and the International School of Hosptiality. Her day-of services start at $1,500, though all services are custom-tailored to suit each couple’s specific needs. Christie and her team are available in Las Vegas, New York and beyond.

SAMANTHA AND FRANK’S PROFESSIONAL IMAGES ARE HERE!!!

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To visit photos from Samantha and Frank’s New York Wedding Please Click Here!

APPLE BAR SKETCH – COMPUTER GENERATED RENDERING – FINAL PRODUCT

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Often when a couple comes to us they have a “wedding theme” or ideas but don’t exactly know how to put it all together…. that is where we come into play! This overall concept was designed by CLM Owner, Christie McCoy, about five years ago after a revelation came to her in her sleep. An Apple Bar made completely of real apples….. not only will you enjoy a delicious and refreshing cocktail, but you will also be surrounded by the smell of fresh apples. We also added in a 30′ ice bar and two oversized shadow boxes which included the couples engagement photos and red crystal chandeliers.

Below you will see a very rough sketch to a computer generated rendering and then the final end product photo.

Thank you to Andrea Trubiro and her team at LTeventions for making this sketch and dream become a reality!

BIG MIKE AND LITTLE LISA’S NEW YORK CITY STYLE”WINTER” WEDDING

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COMING UP THIS WEEK…. NYC WINTER WONDERLAND COOLS OFF A HOT LAS VEGAS SUMMER NIGHT!

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Thrilled and excited is an understatement for our emotions towards our upcoming Wedding this weekend at The Four Seasons Las Vegas! This Saturday CLM in conjunction with some of the BEST Wedding Professionals in the Las Vegas Valley will transform The Four Seasons Ballroom(S) – yes more than just one, into a NYC Winter Wonderland theme! There are so many surprises for Lisa and Mike’s Guests that we will not spoil any of them before their event…. but please stay tuned for lots of updates this weekend as we set up and prepare for this Extravagant Wedding!

Stay tuned!

UPDATED PICTURES FROM SAMANTHA AND FRANK’S NYC WEDDING!

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Thank you to Arak Karofsky for these photos!!!

WEDDING OF KELLY AND TOMMY AT WASTED SPACE INSIDE THE HARD ROCK LAS VEGAS

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Photography by The Black Chicken