One of Sedona’s best known and most popular officiants is Reverend Andrew Murphy, M. Div.  Show Stoppers has worked alongside Andrew many, many times.  His popularity stems from the fact that his ceremonies are both touching and sentimental.  He is well-liked and respected in the Sedona wedding professional’s community making him simply one of the best officiants available in Sedona.  He books very fast.  Our best advise is to secure his services as soon as you can.  A huge plus is that Andrew is fluent in Spanish.  In fact, every year he spends time in Mexico for his many clients who fly him there just for their special wedding days.

Andrew’s company, Heart of Sedona, provides valuable information and advise through his gorgeous website, HeartOfSedonaWeddings.com   Show Stoppers gives our highest recommendation to Reverend Andrew and urge you to visit his website and then speak with him before making any final decisions.  Andrew is a regular at Tlaquepaque, L’Auberge and all the major venues.  He is also a valued member of The Sedona Wedding Studio.

Every time we see Cameron’s work we are amazed with her talent and her distinctive style.  We first met Cameron when she asked Show Stoppers to provide floral and decor for her lovely wedding at the base of the San Francisco peaks in Flagstaff.  Since then, we have had the pleasure of working with Cameron on many weddings in Sedona as well as Flagstaff.

Cameron just opened a lovely boutique photography studio with her friend, Jamelle Kelly.  Their work can be viewed in person at their studio and gallery in downtown Flagstaff right off Heritage Square.  There is lots of information and tons of photos on their blog and website, Cameronkellystudio.com. There are also several more Show Stoppers weddings you will enjoy seeing.

After viewing Cameron’s work, you can really get a feel for how she captures images normally overlooked by ordinary eyes.  She has the ability to get those unexpected shots when special things happen that make every wedding unique.

Cameron is a true artist and we always look forward to working with her, whether in Flagstaff or Sedona.  Be sure to look for many of her photos in our wedding galleries.  One of our favorite images appears in the frame with changing photos on our home page.  It is the one with the bride and groom under the lantern.

If you are looking for exceptional photography, be sure to consider Cameron.  She travels and can help you with your dream wedding no matter where it is.

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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

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.  

Alyssa+Michael’s wedding at the exclusive Seven Canyons – Private Residence Club

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 :

Tlaquepaque Weddings Are So Romantic 

Patio Campanas is one of the most popular patios for wedding ceremonies in Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village. This summer, Show Stoppers created one of our popular rose petal carpets for the first time in Tlaquepaque. We used lemon yellow roses with a contrasting rusty orange border.Corner details were made of sunflowers, one of the bride’s favorites.

Petals from 700 roses were used in this colorful carpet. Our friend Wendy, who is the resident partner and manager of Tlaquepaque, and her husband Max wanted something very special as their gift to Alan and Jessica.  The early morning wedding was lovely with the warm and sunny summer colors.

 The nuptials were held in the beautiful arched walkway that divides the patio.  It serves as a perfect place for lovely ceremonies.  A gorgeous custom garland was attached to the arch.  We used whole and sliced lemons, yellow roses, sunflowers, gourds, rain tree seed pods, curly willow and assorted foliages.  Chocolate brown fabrics were draped in the arch to prevent guests from seeing into the patio beyond.

Tlaquepaque…  Perfect for outdoor Sedona Weddings

Everyone always has such a good time scooping up the thousands of rose petals and showering the newly weds in sheets of celebratory “rain.”  Pam really captured the moment in these wonderful images. 

  You can see more of Pam’s work  HERE

 Tlaquepaque Weddings for special Brides

Jessica was a lovely as well as charming bride.  This image is particularly effective with the Mexican tile picking up the colors of Jessica’s bouquet perfectly.  You can see why Tlaquepaque is one of our favorite wedding venues in Sedona.  Our second store, Nectar Design, is located in Tlaquepaque and offers a special package exclusively for Tlaquepaque brides. Being located at Tlaquepaque, our brides have the convenience and confidence of knowing their wedding will be perfect.    

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:     

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Outdoor Sedona Weddings

Are Breathtaking

One of the most memorable weddings we produced in 2008 was for Karen and Steve.  We quickly discovered we were all on the same page from day one.  The entire process was so much fun.  Karen wanted lots of purple for her wedding and she got it.  The challenge was to use varieties of purple, bring in elements of the southwest yet keep the look of a wedding, respect the style of the home and to create all of this in the heat of the summer on a windy day.  We pulled it off perfectly.  We didn’t do it alone though.

Karen Lynn, Sedonaweddingplanner.com planned every detail of this Sedona wedding until the last light went out.  It was complicated to pull this wedding off.  There were so many details to address and Karen was incredible.

No surprise who did the photography. Katrina Wallace, Sedonabride.com delivered the most beautiful photos you could ever imagine.  Katrina has a passion for her work and always makes Show Stopper’s designs look just like they did in person.  We have included some of our favorite shots.  You can see more of this wedding on Katrina’s website blog. Thank you Katrina, Andrew and Karen for making this wedding so special.  And thank you, Karen and Steve, for letting us do this for you.

Designer Bouquets Are

Unsurpassed

At Show Stoppers

Just look at this gorgeous bouquet Ken made for Karen.  He and Karen both love orchids so he used just about every orchid known to mankind.  It had such depth, texture, rich color and a subtle but sexy hypnotic fragrance.  The bouquet was the perfect complement to her fabulous Christian Dior gown.  Click on all the pictures to see more detail.  You can see color right down into the center of the design.

Professional Wedding Decor

To Tempt The Senses

The couple came out of the home strolling through the courtyard garden to greet the already seated guests.  I thought the entry gate, with antique Mexican doors, was perfect for the ceremony since it was already an arch.

We decorated the arch with manzanita branches, succulents, liatrise, stock, ocotillo, varieties of orchid sprays, larkspur and cholla cactus skeletons.

Guests were seated in the circular drive between a huge Spanish fountain and the entry gate.

The bowls of the giant fountain were designed with golden barrel cactus, agave, succulents, kale, larkspur, liatrise, orchids and cholla cactus skeletons.  There were the petals of 750 roses strewn across the top of the water.  They completely covered the surface.  It looked like some kind of exotic algae growing on top of a tropical lagoon.

The ring bearer carried one of our custom boxes with the rings inside.  The box was covered with galax leaves then decorated with succulents and orchids.  A purple ribbon finished the look.  He was so cute and so proud to be a part of the ceremony.  He was just beaming.

Weddings Sedona Style!

The centerpieces were made of fresh manzanita branches anchored in a base of polished alligator juniper.  Manzinita grows all around the home and looks stark and fabulous in silhouette against the twilight.  Quartz crystal specimens were drilled out to house a votive candle that created a mystical glow.  They served a duel purpose by weighting down the centerpieces.  Wire votives were hung from the branches surrounding a core of spilling orchid sprays, liatrise, stock and larkspur.

I love this photo that Katrina set up with the centerpiece against the aqua colored pool.  We hung small quartz crystal points to finish the look.  More tiny crystals were tossed around on the top of the table for the guests to take.

This great photo shows what can be achieved with good lighting.  We used small pin spots with pale pink gels on every centerpiece.

The evening concluded with dancing under the almost full moon.  Our lanterns looked great along the edge of the yard.  Howling coyotes sang a celebratory song just for Steve and Karen as the sun sank behind the formations of red rock.

Thank you Karen and Steve. You made this an experience we will never forget.  Jim and Ken

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