Five tips on Preparing for Make Up from Angela

How you treat your skin before that big day goes a long way.  Especially in our cold, windy San Francisco's "summer"!  Cold weather can create a lack of moisture, leaving your skin in a more vulnerable state.  Here are some tips to ensure that your skin has that beautiful, glowing texture that all brides desire.

1.) Always: Before you go to bed, remove make-up with a high quality make-up cleanser, tone, and follow with a heavy moisturizer.

2.) Especially during cold weather: Lips need special attention, so, always start with a moisturizer (I love Burt's Bee's) before applying lipstick.

3.) The Day before your wedding: Use a serum, after toning and before moisturizing. This will help your skin to retain a maximum moisture balance.

4.) The day of: Use a mild exfoliator (not a mask) to eliminate dead skin and create a smooth, clean surface.

5.) Please, no tweezing or waxing at least 3 days before to avoid any redness or swelling.

Now you are READY to let your make-up artist take over the reins, while you relax and enjoy your big day!

Locally Grown Weddings Featured Members:

Angela LaFlamme, Make-Up Artist

Aurora Meneghello, Photographer

Madeline Trait, Florist

Looking for a Fantastic Hair Stylist

Locally Grown Weddings is looking for a hairstylist to join our team of creative professionals!

About us: Locally Grown Weddings is a collective of San Francisco based female small business owners with an emphasis on green business practices.  We work together to provide truly unforgettable wedding experiences for our clients.  We know that planning a wedding can be a challenging, even daunting process.  WE are here to help.  Together we possess 25 years experience in the Bay Area's wedding industry.

Teamwork is essential to any successful event.  When working with Locally Grown Weddings team, you can be confident that each vendor is highly compatible with the entire group.  We work amazingly well together and have a lot of fun in the process.

About you: You are an amazing hair stylist with a strong emphasis on weddings. How are your business practices "green"?  Do you use green products?  Do sustainability and awareness about our environment play a part in your creative process?  If so, please submit the following to: gethitched@locallygrownweddings.com

1.)How are you "green"?

2.) Pictures of your work or a link to your web-site

3.)Testimonials

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Locally Grown Weddings Featured Members:

Angela LaFlamme, Make-Up Artist

Aurora Meneghello, Photographer

Madeline Trait, Florist

Not Just Wedding Cakes...

When it comes to wedding desserts, the first thing that typically comes to mind is the traditional wedding cake, with its many tiers and smooth finish. And with all the tools and ingredients available to pastry chefs these days, it's possible to create all sorts of delicious and inventive wedding cakes that really showcase a couple's uniqueness. 

But...what if you don't like cake, or you're just not that excited about having this as the finish to your wedding? When my husband and I got married a few years ago, that was a big dilemma for us. As someone who designs and creates wedding cakes professionally, it seemed only fitting that we'd have a lovely tiered confection to round out the big day, but we're both not really cake-lovers. Sure, we enjoy the occasional slice of cake, but it's not the first thing we'd order on a dessert menu. 

What did make us (and our sweet tooths) really happy was ice cream. The best endings to our dates was oftentimes stopping by the local ice cream parlor for a cone of something cold and delicious, so we chose to share our love of this all-season treat by having an ice cream sundae bar, complete with all the fixings. So much more us, and so much fun for each of our guests to personalize things according to their own tastes. And as we head into the summertime, ice cream bars are an awesome way to highlight the season's best produce in tantalizing and unique flavors that extend beyond the traditional chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. What about lavender honey vanilla, or strawberry with a balsamic caramel swirl?

Other ideas to consider for an alterna-wedding dessert could include: mini cream puffs filled with a variety of different flavored custards, fruit tartlets that showcase luscious seasonal fruits, a giant candy bar filled with homemade caramels, truffles, marshmallows, nut brittles, and more! Think of what you and your partner really love the most and chances are, this can be a delicious and visually stunning wedding dessert. The possibilities are endless, and your guests will thank you for giving them something just a little bit different at the end of the night!
 

Wedding Desserts by Pei-Yee Woo

Photography by Aurora Meneghello

Madeline's Tip: How to Grow Air Plants

Air plants also known as Tilandsia are unique plants in the fact that they do not need soil to survive or grow. Though they don't require as much care as some other house plants they do have some requirements to survive and thrive. Below I have outlined general guidelines to care for your air plants.

• Protect them from frost
• Give them bright, filtered light
• Provide minimal watering

If your home has dry air and lots of light the plants will need to be submerged in water for 2 to 3 hours every two weeks.  If your home has shade and more moisture in the air you can use a soaking mist once or twice a week in the summer, once a month in the cooler months.

For more in depth information about how to care for your air plants click {here}


Flowers by Madeline Trait
Photo by Aurora Meneghello

May 19th: Locally Grown Weddings Meet and Greet with D&H Sustainable Jewelers

Locally Grown Weddings Meet and Greet with D&H Sustainable Jewelers

Thursday May 19th, 2011

6:30 -8:30 pm

2323 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

How green can you be? Just ask Shawn Higgins and Lindsay Daunell of D&H Sustainable Jewelers. After years of working in an industry notoriously bad for the environment, Shawn and Lindsay decided to put their values into their work and now run what could well be the greenest jewelry store in the country.

On May 19th, the Locally Grown Weddings team is hosting a Meet and Greet event from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at D&H Sustainable Jewelers. This event is open to friends, colleagues, clients and everyone else who wants to stop by and say Hello! The whole team will be there, Chef Stephanie and Dulcinea Bakery will provide snacks and there will be wine tasting to enjoy, including lemon rosemary bars and vegan chocolate cupcakes with strawberries & oregano or balsamic syrup. Yummy!

Not only will you meet a bunch of great people, but you can see first hand some of the beautiful work Shawn and Lindsay have chosen to display, like the pieces above, two wedding bands made of recycled gold and precious metals formed in the ancient Japanese style of Mokume Gane by Michael Daniels.

Our hosts, D&H Sustainable Jewelers, are official partners of Locally Grown Weddings and they are located at 2323 Market Street (near Castro Street. We hope to see you there!

Locally Grown Weddings Photography by Aurora Meneghello
Locally Grown Weddings Flowers by Madeline Trait

Wedding Bands by Michael Daniels, courtesy of D&H Sustainable Jewelers, Official Partner of Locally Grown Weddings.

Find the Locally Grown Weddings Team at the New Living Expo April 29-May1

SAVE THE DATES!  

We will be at the New Living Expo in San Francisco on April 29, 30 and May 1.

 

Come meet Sadie, Stephanie, Aurora, Madeline, Angela and Pei-Yee the last weekend of April.  Locally Grown Weddings will have a table in the Green Bride Guide Section. Come by, ask us questions, meet the team and enjoy a few hours browsing the best green wedding vendors in the Bay Area.


And make sure to enter the raffle at our table in order to win an engagement portrait with make up session and flowers!


Here's a little more about the New Living Expo:

300+Exhibits
100 Lectures
Free Workshops
Panel Discussions
Natural Food -- Bodywork
Green Business

Bookstore and book signings by authors
Business Opportunities

General Admission:
One Day Pass - $15
Two Day Pass - $20
Three Day Pass - $25

Special Events - $29 or $59
20 years and under -- Free

General Admission includes:
Workshops, Lectures, Panels & Exhibits

Order Tickets in Advance or info
(415) 382-8300
Volunteer:
(415) 751-6443

Ride BART to the Hotel Whitcomb, Civic Center, and ride our FREE shuttle to the Expo.

Bring your BART receipt and receive $5. off admission

Cherish Your Wedding

We had a lot of fun at the yearly Cherish Your Wedding Event at Cherish Shop on Clement Street.

 

Pei-Yee Woo, the owner of Dulcinea Bakery and official Dessert Maker of Locally Grown Weddings, prepared some delicious treats: mini chocolate cupcakes with mocha butter cream and vanilla mini cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting

Madeline Trait, our wonderful florist, donated a bouquet of flowers from her garden which included Kale, Double Tulips, Hellebores and Cala Lilies 

Angela LaFlamme showcased her make up skills and one lucky bride won a make up session at half the price!



As special guest, we were lucky to have publicist Danielle Grant with us from Argot & Ochre. A&O is pioneering a new model of business in the art industry, one based on advocacy, authenticity and integrity. Danielle connects artists, galleries, non profit institutions and art publications.




Danielle wore an elegant yet modern wedding dress from Adele Wechsler's Eco Couture line.



Aurora Meneghello, our photographer was there to capture the day and Sadie Waddington, our event planner,  shared all her amazing knowledge with brides as they walked in.





This month, find the Locally Grown Weddings Team at the New Living Expo April 29th-May 1st, in San Francisco. Details soon....