The Sedona Weddings and Corporate Events Guide

Our own Andrea Carusetta won T.L.C. Network’s Ultimate Cake Off.  Her 7 foot cake took top honors at the competition held recently in Los Angeles and came with a $10,000.00 prize.

The fabulous cake had colorful garlands of  hanging sugar crystals and a pair of gorgeous hand-made flying sugar geese in a delicate gilded cage.  Andrea came up with the design to honer the Korean heritage of the lucky bride and groom who were given the cake for their ceremony immediately following the competition.  Andrea’s incredibly detailed sugar flowers, including peonies, were fashioned by her talented team members under her direction. The yummie cake had passion fruit and mango filling.  

The Sedona Wedding Studio is so proud to have this important cake artist right here in Sedona and as a member of our group.  Andrea’s cakes have regularly gained National recognition. Her incredible cakes are on display every day in the studio for all to enjoy.  Any cake from Sedona Cake Couture is an Ultimate Cake.  Congratulations Andrea from all your friends at The Sedona Wedding Studio.  You deserve all the attention and we are so proud of you.  Jim and Ken

Heads up everybody.  Liz Margin, famous make-up artist and Sedona Wedding Studio member, has won kudos for her exceptional work.  In a national press release dated January 21, 2010, her fabulous career became the talk of Sedona.   All the Sedona Wedding Studio members are so proud to have Liz as a part of their team.  Congratulations, Liz!  You make everyone look so incredibly glamorous!!  The press release in it’s entirely is posted here:  

Sedona makeup artist , Liz Margin, was recently awarded the Bride’s Choice Award 2010 for makeup artistry from WeddingWire community, which includes Martha Stewart Weddings and more than 100,000 wedding professionals across the U.S. and Canada. The New York born makeup artist has collaborated on runway shows for some of the world’s greatest designers such as Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan and Ralph Loren.  Some of her most  memorable experiences include photo shoots in Italy for Gucci and on the Brooklyn Bridge for Guess Jeans as well as her travels to Aspen, London and Paris as Sandra Bernhard’s personal makeup artist .  Her roster of celebrities reads like  a who’s who list in the world of entertainment:  Heidi Klum, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Chloe Sevigny, Molly Sims, Matthew Broderick and Tom Brady, among others.  Liz also co-founded Team Artist Representative in Boston.  The 20-year-0ld agency is now the most successful of its kind in the region , representing hair and make up artists, stylists and producers for advertising, fashion and commercial photo shoots.  Liz moved to Sedona in 2005 where she has focused on bridal clients while continuing to travel for photo shoots.  Last fall, she worked with Spiritual Cinema Circle featuring actress Mariel Hemingway.  ” Of all the famous people I’ve worked with and all the exotic places I’ve traveled in my career, this award is one of the highlights.”  says Liz.  ”It means I’ve pleased the most important clients I’ve ever worked with, my brides.  They have a vision of how they want to look, and they trust me to make them beautiful on one of the most important days of their lives.  It’s a very intimate experience with all their friends and families gathered around.  I’m honored to have their confidence.  

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 :

Nectar Design…

Tlaquepaque’s Official 

Wedding Florist

For those of you who may not know, Ken and I also own Nectar Design in Tlaquepaque.  Our store is located in Suite A.114.

Nectar offers competitively priced wedding packages that are custom designed for brides being married at Tlaquepaque.  (Show Stoppers also has great packages for brides being married at other venues in Sedona. )

To keep prices reasonable,  Nectar’s floral packages are designed to streamline wedding services by eliminating time consuming personal appointments and replacing them with phone and/ or on-line conferencing.  This saves everyone time including the brides and eliminates the need to travel to Sedona just to make simple flower choices.  No personal appointments are scheduled for brides wanting our exclusive packages.  Phone conferencing with designers is of course available anytime with pre-arranged scheduling.  Photos, price lists, booking information and reservation forms are available at Nectar Design or via e-mail.  Sales associates will be happy to provide this material but will not be available for lengthy discussions.  All information is provided in the information they provide.

Not all brides will want a wedding package. Those brides may choose to have custom bouquets with more involved services and discuss their needs with one of our designers.  Budgets, as always, depend on flower choices, season and availability.

The big bonus is that Tlaquepaque brides have the convenience and confidence of an “on property” wedding floral service that focuses on them.  By having an “in house” service that provides flowers exclusively for Tlaquepaque brides, prices can be kept reasonable and the wedding day worry free.

More involved weddings needing services not provided by Nectar Design will be directed to Events By Show Stoppers.  While Nectar Design is a different company, flowers will never the less be filled by the same superb designers that have earned Show Stoppers the reputation we enjoy.

This is a great opportunity for Tlaquepaque brides who want to choose from our different packages to have gorgeous flowers at substantial savings without compromising the quality of the flowers.  Please call Show Stoppers at 928-203-9096 for information or stop by Nectar Design in Tlaquepaque Suite A.114.

Sedona Wedding Professionals

Create Magic

  Ken and I are thrilled that Events By Show Stoppers has made the cover of Phoenix Bride and Groom Magazine!  Our dear friends Katrina and Andrew, SedonaBride.com captured this intimate moment through the sensitive eyes of their exceptional photography.  This charming image embodied everything the magazine wanted to say about romance, innocence and style. Congratulations Katrina and Andrew, you are true artists and the best kinds of friends to have.  Congratulations to Ken for designing such a fashion forward and colorful centerpiece and bouquet.  What a team!  See the incredibly gorgeous SLIDE SHOW HERE:

Phoenix Bride

And Groom Magazine

  Be sure to get a copy or visit PhoenixBrideandGroom.com and see the lovely 10th Anniversary issue.  Congratulations to Fran, Stephanie, Jennifer, Renea and the entire Phoenix Bride and Groom staff.  This edition is stunning and we are so honored to be so well represented in this historical issue.  The Show Stopper’s team wishes the Phoenix Bride and Groom staff continued success and kudos for consistently bringing fashionable images and valuable information to the forefront of the bridal industry through this important publication.

     Here is a cover to whet any appetite.  More of these fabulous images can be found in the Sedona Section where the floral work of Events By Show Stoppers and the photography of Sedona bride is featured in a lavish two-page spread.  Don’t stop there!  

   In still another section, readers will find an exotic Moroccan style wedding where every detail was overseen by Show Stoppers and photographed by Katrina and Andrew at L’Auberge de Sedona.  Visit L’Auberge HERE:

  Don’t miss Show Stopper’s ad featuring another stunning rose petal carpet inspired by Navajo weavings.  Here are some other wonderful images.

Ken’s centerpiece is jaw-dropping gorgeous.  He used mounds of orange pin cushion protea, lavender stock, gold cymbidium orchids and deep red roses. If ever a floral design could be called sexy, this is it.  HOT.

L’Auberge de Sedona…..  Perfect for Rose Petal Carpets

Here is our latest rose petal carpet.  We were inspired by patterns seen in jeweled Egyptian collars.  ( An idea picked up by watching old movies.)

  Guests are always intrigued when they enter an area and come upon designs like this for the first time.  From a distance they can’t often relate to just what the design is.  When they get closer and realize it is thousands of rose petals, they are astonished.

This close up is so cool.  Katrina said it looks like a road of rose petals going around a bend.

Sedona Wedding Shoot at L’Auberge…  Fabulous Bridal Bouquet

Here is the exquisite bouquet.  Ken’s creation features gloriosa lilies, bougainvillea, pin cushion protea, heather and hypericum berries.  Ken’s signature designs spill with texture, depth and color.

We love this image.  Katrina got it all.  What color, composition and intimacy. 

    Wait until you see what’s next!  Jim was inspired while watching one of his favorite movies, “The Ten Commandments.”  He got this idea during one of the opening scenes.  Princess Nefertiti, while reclining on a balcony, plucks flowers from a lovely garland of acacia and anemones to shower her Prince as he entered the city among the adoring crowds shouting ” Moses! Moses!  This boa sports 1000 daffodils.  Outrageous.

 Katrina thought it would be fun to let the groom wear the boa too. What a sport.  Blake was eager to comply.  Everyone comments how wonderfully the golden yellow pops against the beige color of the winter grasses in Oak Creek Canyon.  

This was actually the second daffodil garland Jim has made. The first was designed years ago for a sculpture in the courtyard of the Jr. League building in Houston. He made it for a wedding reception and brunch honoring the Duchess of  Windsor the following day.

We will close with this shot of several of us on the Show Stopper’s team installing the carpet.Oh, one more thing.  People always ask what happens to all those rose petals…Phoenix Bride and Groom Magazine was so inspired by this shoot that they honored Show Stoppers by asking us to design their 10th Anniversary Gala held at the Arizona Grand Resort on June 3rd.  We were thrilled to be working along side Victoria Canada Weddings and Events who oversaw every detail to perfection.  Here is another chance to see the SLIDE SHOW HERE: