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When it comes to wedding favors the options are endless. You want to give your guests something unique, fun and that they will enjoy. Our bride last weekend chose to have a Hershey kiss bar. The station was set up with large glass vessles full of different types of Hershey kisses including classic milk chocolate, [...]

As spring and summer are coming, one of the first decisions a bride and groom have to make is whether or not they want to have an indoor or outdoor wedding. You might be thinking- why would anyone want to take a chance at an indoor wedding or why would anyone not want to have [...]

Have you ever seen pictures of wedding dresses from different decades? You know exactly the ones I’m talking about. The dresses that you can almost pinpoint the decade based on its puffy sleeves, hoop skirts or other details. That’s what has made the wedding dress such a great industry. For today’s post, we are going [...]

Many things can be overwhelming when planning a wedding but it’s also supposed to be fun…right? And what could be more fun than a wedding show with all different types of vendors for every aspect of your wedding that you may not have even known existed? If you haven’t decided to elope yet, I have [...]

Here are a few beautiful pics (from Neil Boyd Photography) of our booth at the Wedding Affair at North Hills Renaissance a few weeks ago… Carly and I met so many wonderful new brides!  Thanks to Fresh Affairs for the fab flowers and hanging amaranthus (my fav!).  I love the shades of pink color palette [...]

This month a wedding designed and planned by La Fete was featured in Cary Magazine’s Bridal Issue.  We had so much fun planning Lan and Kenny’s Carolina Inn Wedding!  I wanted to devote this blog to her design process and inspiration. Lan knew she wanted to use shades of blue in her wedding.  Our first [...]

Bridal Trend Forecast 2013 By Taylor Arnold   From a downright elegant affair to a simple outdoor ceremony, there is no shortage of wedding styles, trends and traditions. If you or someone you know is tying the knot this year, this area is home to an array of unique venues, not to mention professional bridal [...]

Use the below link and access code to get your free tickets to Cary Magazine’s Wedding Gala on March 7, 2013! http://www.carymagazine.com/weddings/tickets-2013 and enter the CODE – LFBRIDE Hope to see you there!  

I’m so excited for La Fete to be featured on Style Me Pretty today!  We had SO much fun designing this wedding!  Check out the feature below and some of our favorite images from Becci Ames Photography… http://www.stylemepretty.com/2013/02/05/north-carolina-loft-wedding-from-events-by-la-fete/

Amanda and Mark’s wedding was held October 13, 2013 at the Greek Orthodox Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.  I absolutely LOVED this Greek ceremony!  The church was so ornate and the ceremony so full of beautiful symbolism!  Amanda chose a color palate of plum and ivory with touches of light green.  Perfect compliments to the [...]

Catherine and Neal were married on October 6, 2012.  Their wedding ceremony was held at Saint Thomas More and the reception at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens, both in Chapel Hill.  Catherine and Neal hired us to help with the design and decor in addition to her month-of services.  In order to spice up the [...]

New York City residents Sandra and Mike returned to their college town of Durham, North Carolina to have their Duke Chapel Ceremony and Duke Gardens Wedding Reception.  Sandra and Mike hired La Fete for full service planning as she was only to travel back to North Carolina once before the wedding.  They wanted a sophisticated [...]

From: Rebecca Boyle Subject: Thank You! Date: November 18, 2012 6:36:44 PM EST To: rebecca@eventsbylafete.com Hey Rebecca, I’m sorry for the delayed email message, but I did want to thank you for what a tremendous job you and your team did for our wedding. Our experience, as my mom put it, was “worth your weight in gold” and you [...]

Catherine and Jeff’s Raleigh, NC wedding was held at at the Meredith College Chapel, followed by a reception at the urban downtown venue, The Stockroom.   They called upon La Fete’s “Month-Of” Coordinator, Carly, to orchestrate the affair. Both venues were stunning with flowers by English Garden, a cake from Edible Art, rentals by CE [...]

Emily and Joe were married on April 21 at Elodie Farms in Rougemont, NC. Elodie Farms is a working goat farm owned by Dave Artigues and if you haven’t had the opportunity to experience his goat cheese you are seriously missing out! I was hired to plan Emily and Joe’s wedding over a year ago.  [...]

Lan and Kenny had a Carolina Inn wedding and reception this September.  It was a perfect fall day, complete with a home football game.  I just got this video clip and had to share. Heart Stone Films did an amazing job, as always, capturing the raw emotion of the wedding day.  Hope you enjoy Lan [...]

The traditional ivory wedding invitation will never go out of style. However, there are plenty of fun invitation trends out there if you want to shake things up! Our favorite wedding invitation trend for 2012 is the letterpress invitation… in NEON!  I actually think neon would be pretty great for holiday parties as well. Check [...]

Winter is just around the corner so we decided to take a break and look at a few fab places to have your honeymoon  (or a vaca from the planning process!)! Here are our top 8 picks for most romantic winter honeymoon destinations: 1. Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands This is my favorite [...]

Cranberry and camel are both colors that evoke some of the best aspects of the fall season; ranging from the changing foliage to bundling up in that favorite camel coat. Check out a few of these beautiful images for color palette inspiration! Caramel and peanut covered apples… A perfect seasonal treat for the dessert table! [...]