Central Coast Wedding Professionals Wedding Faire!

Hey all you brides and grooms to be! We wanted to let you know about a FABULOUS opportunity to get a lot of your wedding planning/browsing done all at the same place! Melinda & her Festive Designs crew will be at the 15th Annual Wedding & Special Events Faire on Sunday Jan.31st at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo. There you can meet Melinda and dozens of other wonderful professionals from the CCWP- all of whom are guaranteed to make your special day a success! Visit www.ccwp.com to learn more and become a VIB (Very Important Bride!)

Hope to see you there!

Melinda & Nicolette

2010 Wedding Wire Bride's Choice Award!!

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Festive Designs has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Floral Design!

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.

Festive Designs 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 Festive Designs is among the very best Floral Design 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 our WeddingWire Storefront today at Festive Designs

Faces of Festive Designs

Meet:

 Shannon Carlisle

Shannon, 23, grew up in the Central Valley of California in a small town called Exeter. She was raised in an area rich in agricultural based business; one of the many reasons she chose to attend Cal Poly after graduating Exeter High School in 2005. She majored in Environmental Horticulture Science with a focus on floral design and plant protection. Shannon is planning to graduate at the end of this quarter! She was involved in the Gordon Student Chapter of SAIFD at Cal Poly and served as President, Secretary, and Vice President. After graduation, she plans on attending the AIFD 2010 National Symposium in Boston, completing her AES testing, and hopefully becoming become an accredited member of AIFD. Shannon also plans to earn her PCA (Pest Control Advisor) License after graduation in order to obtain a job as a PCA.

“I have worked for Melinda at Festive Designs since 2005. I enjoy designing flowers for weddings because every day is something new and different. Every customer wants their wedding day to be perfect and unique- and it makes me happy to be able to be a part of their special day.”