Press: Northwest Meetings + Events

We finally received the Winter 2011 issue of Northwest Meetings + Events Magazine! This issue highlighted the ISES Portland Chapter table top competition where we collaborated with great industry folks and took home the award for Best Use of Theme; a tribute to Wish Upon a Wedding, a nonprofit dedicated to granting weddings and vow renewals to couples facing terminal illness or other serious life-altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation.
Thank you Alesia Zorn Calligraphy, Studio Del Fiore and Swanky Tables for their contribution. Photos by Continuum Photography.

Also congratulations to the other winners; Peter Corvallis Productions (Best Use of Alternative Materials) and The Party Place (People’s Choice).

Press Release: WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™

Portland, Oregon – January 21, 2010 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Creations by Ly, Inc. has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Creations by Ly, Inc. is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Creations by Ly, Inc. is among the very best within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.

For more information, please visit at www.creationsbyly.com.

Portland Style Unveiled: The Perfect 10

WHOO HOO! We are so honored to be named one of Portland’s top 10 wedding blog by Style Unveiled. Thank you, thank you!

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Welcome to Portland Style Unveiled’s Perfect 10, where we pick a topic and bring you what we feel are the top 10 from that category … be it make-up for your wedding day, best wedding cupcakes, or best places to honeymoon! You’ll find it here on Portland Style Unveiled’s Perfect 10!
Yesterday was an exciting day around here, as you might know … So, today we are inspired to write a Perfect 10 about what we feel are the perfect 10 Portland wedding blogs! With all the fabulous wedding planning blogs out there, it’s really hard to choose just 10 Portland wedding planning blogs, which means this will be a repeat post in the near future. For now, please help us in celebrating these Perfect 10 PDX wedding blogs (which are in no particular order … we love them all the same and for different reasons)! Starting with… (read more)

A little thank you note from Megan and Justin

 Portland wedding planner Creations by Ly

“Dear Nadia, Thank you so much for everything you did to help me plan our wedding!! I can’t imagine doing it without you! We had the most amazing time and so did all of our guests! I’m so thankful for all of the time and hand holding I received from you!! Love, Megan and Justin”

photo courtesy JOS Photographers

News Alert: a past client is highlighted in Seattle Style

Last summer we blogged about Molly and Matt’s sunset wedding that took place at the Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland, WA overlooking Lake Washington. Seattle Style has highlighted their wedding along with a photograph of the couple captured by Rebbeca Ellison in The Lounge. Check out the feature to read the story on how Matt proposed to Molly.

a happy groom… William Steiner

We wanted to share with you a rave from a former client. This was sent to us from William Steiner who was married to his lovely bride, Reem in October.

“Nadia was an amazing wedding planner! I couldn’t have asked for more out of my wedding. She never stopped at the minimum, but instead always tried her best to look at what my wife and I were really looking for in our wedding, despite the fact that we ourselves didn’t usually know what that was. She knows people, she understands weddings, and she pulls it all off with superb skill and flair. I don’t think I’ve ever been to or seen in reality or movies a wedding that could have been more “mine” and perfect for my wife and I then the one we got. This was all thanks to Nadia being able to see beyond our words and understand us as people, and put together our personalities into a presentation that literally brought tears to my eyes upon its completion. Further, she worked with difficult distance, family, cultural, and wedding naievity issues, was always polite despite the fact that my wife and I were usually late or stressed out, and managed to calm both of us down whenever we felt it was going to crises. I would hire her again and again for wedding planning, and I recommend her and her company with full and complete appreciate for the talented and fantastic work they perform. Thank you, Nadia. If you need anything from me let me know.”

Salute from Molly and Matt Miller

You saw a snippet of their wedding.  Now here’s a rave and review from Molly and Matt.

“Dear Nadia and Jia,

Having you both at our big day made everything run smoother and more enjoyable. I know that myself and my Mother were able to relax because of you. The decorations that you put up including the luminaries turned out so well. I am very ahppy with the job you both did, and would definitely reccommend you to future brides!  Thank you!

Sincerely,

Molly & Matt Miller”

PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL rave and review

Candice and John are the owners of Johnny’s Caffe in West Linn who hired us to finalizing the details of their wedding. We received a lovely handwritten thank you note before we could post photos of their celebration. This is what they have to say about us.

“Thank you so very much for making this dream come true for us. Everything was as PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL as we wanted. The Dream Team is in our minds for making every detail as we wanted it.

With love,

Candice and John”