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Nov 19 2012

Umbra Factory Sale 2012 – Great Wedding Ideas!

Umbra has an amazing sale once every year in December, and this year it’s no different. We generally don’t post a lot of sales on our page, but this one is extremely useful for couples who are getting married.

 

 

If you know of the brand Umbra, they make very trendy home accessories and decor. As a couple who are looking to get married, it’s a great way to save a lot of money and decorate the new house in a stylish way. But that’s not the reason why we post this sale. It’s that sometimes you will find extremely good gems for your wedding, and we’re talking about your wedding centrepieces and wedding favours. If you’re looking to DIY on your centrepieces and/or favours, this is a great place to scavenge and get ideas. As an example, for our own wedding we purchased roughly 40 bouquets of metallic flowers from Umbra. While the retail value of each bouquet was $50, it was only $5 at the factory sale! So instead of spending $2000 on the centrepiece, we only spent $200.

There are tons of high quality, premium creative items that can be used for your wedding. But beware! The line up is crazy! And many good things go quickly. So if you’re up for the task, head over to Hall 6 at the International Centre, 6900 Airport Road on Saturday December 8th or Sunday December 9th from 9am to 6pm.

Tip: People probably start lining up at 6am on Saturday.

Tip #2: Umbra has a retail store on Queen and John Streets, at 165 John Street Toronto, ON M5T 1X3 416-599-0088. Good idea to head to the store and jot down what you want before you browse the factory sale. You won’t miss the store:

Umbra Store Toronto

To help you out, I dropped by the store today to take photos of some of the items that might be of interest. There are items in the store that won’t be at the sale and vice versa. But at least it gives you an idea what to look for when you’re there!

Potential centrepiece ideas:

 

See you there!

Carmen

 

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Nov 03 2012

Recap of The Civilized Bride Show 2012

We had a great time last night at 99 Sudbury in Toronto for the 2012 annual The Civilized Bride Show. Set in a slightly different environment, The Civilized Bride Show is formatted such that brides can take their time to stop by each booth and mingle with the vendors, all the while enjoying hors d’oeurves and sipping wine. We found that this type of environment is great to get to know each other, as brides here are generally not time constrained and rushed as with other wedding shows. As a wedding planner, this is especially important as it gives both parties a chance to engage each other and be able to understand their needs in more detail. It also helped that the number of vendor booths were limited to a few dozen, and to improve on the quality of the booths the vendors had been hand-picked by-invitation-only by the organizers of The Civilized Bride.

Here are some photos of our booth as well as one from the event floor. We opted to continue the Italian theme and of course, we are still giving away TWO FREE TICKETS TO ITALY. The draw is coming very soon, so if you’re looking for a wedding planner, be sure to book us before the end of the year to take advantage of this contest! We would also like to thank CurlyGirl Flowers for their gracious sponsor of all the florals and Have a Seat for the table linen for our booth. (all photos below copyrighted by Devoted to You Inc.)

Flowers from CurlyGirl

Devoted to You Booth at The Civilized Bride

Devoted to You Booth at The Civilized Bride (rear angle)

The Civilized Bride Show show floor

This is the last wedding show we’re doing for 2012. It was a great event and definitely has a trendy and modern vibe which complements well with the Liberty Village setting the show was in, so kudos to the organizers of The Civilized Bride.

Till next time!

Carmen

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The Civilized Bride - November 7, 2012 - 2:00 pm

These pics are great! May we use them on our website??

Toronto Wedding DJ - January 6, 2013 - 6:38 pm

This was a great intimate bridal show. This was our first year as the exclusive DJ supplier and we were glad that we had the opportunity to be part of this great show.

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