Ask Jackie Ohh...

It's finally time for me to announce to the world my new venture! I couldn't be more excited! After many months of working on this new branch of JACKIE OHH... EVENTS, here it is... ASKJACKIEOHH.COM.

I will be conducting weekly live, online chats with brides all over the nation. I wanted to help as many brides as possible, but since I am just one person, it is difficult to help every bride. This is a medium for me to give my expert advice to brides who are planning their weddings on their own. I hope to help many many brides and I couldn't be more excited to do it.

I have had many people today ask me how this got started... well here's the story in a nut shell. I get several calls a week from brides in need of advice from a professional planner. Many of them are on very tight budgets and are not able to afford a planner but need professional advice on certain issues. Of course, I speak to each of these brides and help them however I can. After this happening again and again with brides and vendors alike, I started speaking with friends about this idea of mine. I put it in the back of my mind- I was in wedding season! Then, a couple of months back, on a Saturday morning at 8:26 am, a local vendor and good friend of mine called my cell. I answered immediately being that I was getting ready to leave to a wedding set-up. I heard my friend's voice on the other line saying, "Jackie, quickly- how many steps are on the way up to the mound at Vizcaya?" I answered the question and and he said, "Thanks, it's easier to call you instead of looking it up, you know you are my search engine". ASKJACKIEOHH.COM was born shortly after that!

Stay Tuned for the first chat date! I will be releasing details soon!

Love is Sweet

Janelle and Robert's shower was this past Sunday and boy, did we have fun! More than anything, everyone was a on a tremendous sugar rush! The theme was candy land and as you can imagine... we had a blast planning the details! Janelle is a very hands-on bride and loves Google just about as much as I do. I research everything .... you thought I was bad, you have to meet this bride! Together, we have found the coolest things online! It was such a great pleasure being able to work with her and her family on the shower... I am looking forward to the wedding coming up in November. Stay Tuned, I will be sure to post the pictures of the wedding.

Here are some pictures of Janelle and Robert's Candy Land Bridal Shower.... enjoy!

Truly.... Love is SWEET like CANDY!

Don't they make the cutest couple?

At the shower venue, there was a platform that was placed center stage. Janelle and Robert wanted that area to be the main focus of the whole event. Therefore, we placed this Real Candy Store in the middle. The picture above is of the canopy that was made for the center of the display. It looked delicious!

Each guest received a lollipop with their name and table number on it as they walked in! So cute!

The centerpiece cylinders were filled with monochromatic colored gum balls topped with pomanders of mini roses and finished with multi-colored dum dums. Also, Janelle found an amazing contact for hand painting glass items. She bought wine cups for the women and bear pisners for the men and had them hand painted with the lollipops from the invite... super whispie and colorful. To top of the table decor, mini candy tins were filled with rock candy and placed in front of every place setting.

Here are some close up pictures of the details of the Love Is Sweet Station.

White Chinese take out stations were placed at the corners of the tables for guests to get their candy to take home. Janelle and I thought most people would wait for dessert... we were SO wrong. The cocktail hour had just ended and the stations needed to be refilled again. Obviously, it was a crowd pleaser! I'm so glad they all enjoyed it!

Hands-on and Very crafty Janelle did this great photo book for guests to sign in. Once the couples went into the photo booth, they got a print out of their pictures. They went to this station and cut the strip of pictures and pasted them in this book. It was so much fun!

The happy couple about to take their pictures in the Photo Booth.

How cute is this cake? Don't you just want to bite into it?

Here we are at the shower! Look at Robert's expression... It's priceless!

The Event Team: Event Coordinator- Jackie Farah Fernandez for Jackie Ohh... Events. Photography- Martha Ramirez from Unique Design Studios. Thank you so much for taking these great pictures and getting them to me so quickly. To the rest of the vendor team: Thank you so much for your hard work. Awesome Job!