White Rolls Royce Limousine Sets the Tone For a Beautiful Wedding

With a beautiful bride leading the way. . .


Lovely embroidered napkins filled with Jordan almonds were the favor, in keeping with a family tradition.

This past Saturday night's wedding here in the Ballroom at the Hawthorne had many lovely touches that all added up to understated elegance. A perfect match for our historic hotel.

Juli

A Different Chair Cover Resource

For a wedding that will be taking place in the Ballroom tomorrow evening, there is a new resource for chair covers. I love the fact that these chair covers have gathered skirts, because it makes sitting in them more comfortable -- if you want to tuck your feet underneath the chair, you can do so, while with a straight skirt, you cannot easily do that.

These covers look lovely. Another thing that makes them unique is the combination of jacquard and plain weave fabrics, which adds texture to the room. Let us know if you are interested and we can help you obtain this service.

Juli

Another Nice Thank You EMail with Photo Link

From: Jocelyn F...
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:11 AM
To: Karen Cotton; Christine Madigan
Subject: Hello

Hi Karen and Christine,

I'll send you a more formal thank you when things settle somewhat for us but I did want to drop you a quick line now that we are back from our honeymoon thanking you and Liz for everything in the planning of our wedding!! (I don't have Liz's email so please thank her for me, she was so professional and perfect - everything was exactly how it should have been and better!) Everything was wonderful that day!! We had such a great time, it flew by and we already can't wait to see our video so we can recapture and relive the day! The hall looked beautiful, and the wreaths outside looked great too! Our photographer posted a few pictures on facebook from the day, many aren't in the Hawthorne but many are too so we thought you might like to see some of them! Our photographer was amazing as you'll see! They shot in the Hawthorne before but it was a while ago and they said they remembered the room once there and how beautiful it was!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4680486&id=161426317817#/photo.php?pid=10375748&id=31169760460

thank you again!!!

Jocelyn and Kevin F

Something Unique -- A Gobo at a Wedding

An awesome touch for a wedding. Check out the link in the email below:

-----Original Message-----

From: Stacie Giannetta

Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:00 PM

To: Christine Madigan

Subject: Follow Up

Christine,

We had spoken a couple weeks ago regarding the Stanick-Finn wedding that took place at the Hawthorne hotel on 1-9-2010. First off I wanted to say that the Hawthorne Hotel is beautiful! When we went to set up the gobo we were very impressed!

Secondly, I wanted to share the link to the pictures of the gobo at the Hawthorne Hotel from the Stanick-Finn wedding.

http://www.facebook.com/requestingyourpresence?ref=ts#/photo.php?pid=4680486&id=161426317817

If this is something you think other brides and grooms would enjoy for their wedding day please feel free to pass my information along.

Enjoy and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

THANK YOU,

STACIE GIANNETTA

www.requestingyourpresence.com

A Teal Wedding

In case you are thinking of other colors than those that we usually see used in the Ballroom, here are some photos of the room set up with teal napkins. In addition, this cake is iced in a color called sand. Normally we see ivory used most often for wedding cakes in our Ballroom.

You can certainly choose whatever colors you prefer for your special day. We just thought you might like to be able to see this particular set up, which is different than the usual.

We hope to see you here.

By the way, if you think you cannot afford a wedding at the Hawthorne Hotel, you may not have seen our VALUE wedding packages. Be sure to look at them before you make your decision. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Juli

Another E-Mail Wedding Thank You Note with Photos

From: Deanna

Sent: Fri 1/8/2010 4:26 PM

To: Karen Cotton

Subject:[our] Wedding

Hi Karen, Happy New Year!

I wanted to send you some photos of our wedding from Saturday, November 28th.
I think the one of us outside the front of the Hawthorne portrays how gorgeous of a hotel it is.

I just want to thank you as well as Kelly and Liz for everything. Kelly and yourself were so helpful during the planning process. Kelly always was so calm and quick to answer all my crazy questions!

I thought planning a wedding in 5 months was going to be very stressful but you guys made it very easy and enjoyable.

Liz was great the night of the wedding and I never once had a worry that something was going to go wrong. She did an excellent job!

The ballroom came out absolutely beautiful and we got so many compliments on how gorgeous it was. Feel free to use the pictures on the website!

It was a pleasure working with you and your team!

Deanna and Robb

A Different Perspective of a Wedding at the Hawthorne Hotel

I just got done reading an awesome post on someone else's blog! It was so good, I just have to post a link to it here, especially since it says such nice things about so many members of our terrific Hawthorne Hotel TEAM!!!

http://anitapatel.com/?p=275

In addition to great writing, it is filled with photos, as well as a kind of step-by-step, play-by-play narrative of what it is like to have your wedding reception at the Hawthorne Hotel. If you are a couple who is looking for a place to have your wedding, or even if you have already booked your wedding, I think you will want to read this lovely piece.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Juli

New Year's Eve Wedding

Darling place cards shaped like champagne bottles -- how perfect for a New Year's Eve wedding! Votive holders were shaped like miniature wine buckets, just visible in the background of this photo.

The beautiful bride posed for me in front of the photo of the first bride of the Hawthorne Hotel.

The balloon drop was all set and ready for midnight.


Table numbers were years representative of special times for this couple.

A Wedding Detail Not Always Considered

It is doubtful that many couples think about celebrating future anniversaries as a criteria for choosing the location of their reception. However, we do think it is something that the couples who choose the Hawthorne Hotel are happy with, at least after the fact, as you can see evidenced in this sweet story that is posted on our regular daily diary blog:

http://hawthornehotel.blogspot.com/2010/01/celebrating-anniversary-and-new-baby-at.html

This is hardly the first time we have posted such a story on our regular blog, but I thought perhaps you might be interested in reading one here.

Happy New Year!

Juli