My fairy godmother…

The most talented Marie Mallozzi did the hair and makeup for me and my wedding party. She was a saint, stayed totally calm amongst the chaos of 5 women all trying to get ready for the big event and worked her magic wand on everyone.

She even came down in the lift with me to the entrance of the wedding ceremony and helped me with last minute touch ups, held my hand as I had to balance along a wall to get in to the entrance of the aisle and smoothed out the back of my dress…


LES CISEAUX DE MARIE
Tel: 06 16 14 48 96
Email: lesciseauxdemarie@gmail.com
http://lesciseauxdemarie.com/book.php

Just an added comment regarding the flowers…..

As our wedding was outside on grass, we wanted to do something to make the affect of an aisle. I did lots of research and after reading tips from other brides not to put a canvas runner down (apparently ladies high heels get stuck and people fall over) that we would use fresh rose petals. We also wanted to have fresh rose petals to throw at the end of the ceremony as confetti. It was not a problem for our lovely florists to provide the white rose petals, however the price of fresh petals was horrendous to say the least.

However all was not lost, I found an alternative “Preserved Rose Petals” they look and feel like the fresh petals but even better they won’t wilt or die in the sunshine and they are available in a wide range of colours and at a fraction of the price.

There are many providers out there depending on what country you live in, I ordered mine from Perditas Petals and had them delivered to my office in London and then I took them out to France with me.

Artistic Creations

3 A Roni Fleur is a family business that has been
creating floral arrangements since 1887 and is now run by the fourth generation of Roni’s, four brothers and one sister.

We had a lovely meeting with the sister who showed us through examples of their work and then came up with great ideas after we explained our look and feel we were striving to achieve, it truly was a made to measure service – and unlike some other companies we met, no French artist temperaments to deal with!

Our colour theme was white and arzu blue for the whole wedding, so all our flower arrangements were made up of white and what they call King Blue.

(sorry these are not our professional photos, just photo's that guests took.)

3A RONI
6 rue Sainte Marguerite
06 160 Juan les Pins
France
Phone : +33 4 93 61 93 31
Fax : +33 4 93 61 83 14
Email : roni3a@club-internet.fr
Web: http://www.roni-fleurs.com/

And for dessert….. the wedding cake

We decided not to go down the road of a traditional English/American style wedding cake. We figured whilst in France do as the French do, so we went with a Croquembouche.

The name comes from the French words 'Croque en bouche' meaning 'crunch in the mouth', because of the sensation one has while eating one of the puffs. The croquembouche has been used as a celebration cake for weddings by the French nobility since the early 18th century. Each wedding guest would bring a “sweet bread” or two with them to help create a tower of cream puffs. The couple of honour would attempt to kiss over the tower. As tradition has it, the hope was that this ceremony would grant them a prosperous life together.

The cake is made from choux buns filled with vanilla crème (profitteroles) held together with caramel in an impressive pyramid, and often decorated with threads of caramel, sugared almonds, chocolate, flowers, or ribbons.

Our cake was arranged through the venue with La Boutique at Oasis Raimbault. Contact there is Valérie Raimbault boutique@oasis-raimbault.comRue Jean Honoré Carle - 06210 La Napoule - FranceTel direct 33 (0)4 92 97 31 82Tel 33 (0)4 93 49 95 52 - Fax 33 (0)4 93 49 64 13http://www.oasis-raimbault.com

For those keen cooks, or brides on a budget here is a recipe which serves 20 people http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1801/croquembouche

The Yummy Stuff

Club Port la Galére offers various options with regards to catering your wedding. You can choose from either one of two all-inclusive packages which they call Les Formules or go a-la-carte. The two packages are:

The Preimiere Formule
Cocktail Open-bar without champagne
Menu options 3 to choose from
Wines of the slopes
Mineral water
The hire of the club incl. all equipment, chairs, tables, linens etc
Personnel until midnight

The Deuxieme Formule
Open cocktail bar with the champagne
Menus options 5 to choose from
Higher wine selection
Mineral Water
A goblet of champagne with dessert
The hire of the club incl. all equipment, chairs, tables, linens etc
Personnel until 2:00 am
Incandescent Decoration

Les Formules work out to be great value, and you can add things on and pay a supplement. We went for the Deuxieme Formule and it was great, as previously mentioned nothing was too much trouble. I won’t list all the menus or prices as I am sure they change from year to year.

However to give you an idea our menu was 5 courses followed by wedding cake, we did warn our guests not to eat a big lunch that day!