The Sedona Weddings and Corporate Events Guide

Sedona’s Most Anticipated Wedding Planning Event

With 80 Sedona Wedding Studio Vendors Represented

Connect . Plan . Design

Sedona’s most anticipated and well-attended wedding event. the Sedona Wedding Boot Camp,  is coming again this year on February 18th from 10:00 to 5:00. Connect . Plan . Design with leading wedding experts at Sedona’s wedding headquarters…. the Sedona Wedding Studio! This is Sedona’s main wedding event of the year.

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This is not your typical, same-ole-same-ole wedding show with ordinary rows of uninspiring booths lined up and down aisles. Come see the overwhelming difference and convenience an elegantly designed environment can make. Connect with Sedona’s 80 best vendors and venues at the Sedona Wedding Studio. Plan your entire Sedona wedding in a gorgeously decorated, visually inspiring atmosphere. Plan to attend The Sedona Wedding Boot Camp… the Sedona wedding planning event with a refreshing designer twist. Don’t miss it.

Quickest Directions:  I-17 North and take Camp Verde Exit.  Go left on Hwy. 260 all the way into Cottonwood.  Go right on State Route 89A into West Sedona. Go left on Mountain Shadows for parking. ( 5th stop light ) This is the easiest way to avoid traffic and delays.  See you there!

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THE  SEDONA WEDDING BOOT CAMP

FEBRUARY 18TH, 2012 / 10:00 to 5:00

Sponsored By The Sedona Wedding Studio

CONNECT . PLAN .  DESIGN

The 2012 Sedona Wedding Boot Camp has tripled in size!  Last year attendance was at capacity prompting the addition of more space. The 2012 Sedona Bridal Boot Camp is brought to you by the Sedona Wedding Studio, Northern Arizona’s largest and most comprehensive wedding organization with over 80 members. The 2012 Boot Camp will offer fresh and inventive ways for brides to plan their stylish Sedona weddings.

Brides will be able to connect with Sedona Wedding Studio vendors in an intimate setting while sampling food, cake and other treats as they stroll among beautiful vignettes, displays, and permanent exhibits in the gorgeous SWS Showroom.

This year’s expansion will include a fabulous “wedding inspirations” pavilion adjacent to the Sedona Wedding Studio, where brides can find everything and everyone they need to plan their Sedona weddings.   Don’t miss Sedona’s largest and most anticipated wedding event.

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Show Stoppers Decorates Tlaquepaque for

Annual Day of The Dead Celebration

Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is quickly becoming America’s newest holiday.  This fun holiday celebrates the lives of the dearly departed.

Loved ones create alters called ofrendas and honor their deceased loved ones by displaying their photos, favorite foods, objects and possessions that they enjoyed in life.  Even the lives of our furry friends are celebrated with thier favorite toys, treats and photos.

The holiday occurs on November 1st when it is believed that the deceased come back to visit their loved ones.  Various Katrina’s, playful skeleton people made of paper mache, wood or ceramics, decorate homes and doorways along with flowers, candy and lots of candles.  Traditional flowers include orange marigolds, white fever few, red cockscomb, roses and purple status.  Here are some great images of last years’s day of the dead event at Tlaquepaque by Sedona Bride Photography.

The huge fountain in Tlaquepaque’s Patio del Norte is decorated for dia de los muertos with pumpkins, squash, cactus, persimmons and berries.  Fun katrinas sit around the edge of the fountain with tons of candles and fruit.

Here is an overhead shot of the fountain.  The backdrops were painted by Show Stopper’s own, Tracey Downes, and are inspired by the old sideshow banner art typically seen along the midways at State fairs and circuses.

Here is one of the ofrendas showing the alter decorated with katrina’s, fruit, cake, candy skulls, candles, flowers and a dia de los muertos backdrop.

Paper mache katrinas

This is a great image of a niche in Tlaquepaque’s Patio del Norte decorated with fresh flower ristras, candles, rose petals, katrinas and fruit.  Don’t miss this very special and colorful event.  Be sure to bring your own ofrenda, candles, flowers, photos etc. to honor those you love and contribute to the dia de los muertos display at Tlaquepaque on the evening of November 1 beginning at dusk.

Tlaquepaque Chapel

By Sedona Bride Photography and Events By Show Stoppers

Events By Show Stoppers has made another magazine cover!  This absolutely gorgeous image of the charming Chapel at Tlaquepaque was taken by Sedona’s own Katrina Wallace of SedonaBride.Com and will be published on the cover of Arizona’s Finest Wedding Sites and Services September issue!

The magazine is one of Arizona’s most comprehensive sources for brides planning their weddings anywhere in the state. Show Stoppers designed another one of our popular rose petal carpets for the aisle.  Old rusted candelabra, wax luminaries, tons of candles and a fabulous old alter piece were used in the shoot.  Terra cotta cherubs holding cornucopias filled with autumn flowers flank the sides of the alter.

The Chapel at Tlaquepaque is one of Show Stoppers very favorite ceremony sites.  Show Stoppers can provide service or brides can use Show Stoppers second store, Nectar Designs, to provide flowers.  Nectar Design is located at Tlaquepaque in Suite A. 114.  Nectar offers discounted packages exclusively for Tlaquepaque brides and is Tlaquepaque’s “in house” floral service. Visit Nectar Designs here: Nectar Designs:  928-203-4749  / Tlaquepaque Chapel:  928-282-4838 /  Show Stoppers:  928-203-9096

More Images Of The Tlaquepaque Chapel

Event Decor Winners

“Best of 2009″

International Special Event Society / Arizona  

Ken and I are so honored that the Arizona Events Industry awarded Show Stoppers the “Zonie” for “Best Event Decor 2009.”  The award was presented at the annual I.S.E.S. awards dinner which was held at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale Arizona on May 13th.

Show Stoppers won the accolades by transforming the cavernous Pavilion at the Scottsdale Princess into a Las Vegas night club for 800 guests. The project was brought to the attention of I.S.E.S. by Deb Beggs of Tri-Rentals in Phoenix.  You may SEE THE TIME LAPSE VIDEO HERE :