Gucci Women's Fall~Winter 2012~ Andrinique Special Events

In Mérida, every weekend is a holiday ! Andrinique Special Events

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Congratulations to all you newly engaged couples ! Andrinique Special Events just celebrated our 1st year anniversary in Merida. Our 1st full booking season has been sooo EXCITING ! We are booking dates like craze YAY us.

I am constantly speak to people about how AMAZIN Merida is for a destination wedding and or holiday location.. I came across this story today, take a look.

Weekends are family time in Mexico, and no city celebrates Saturday and Sundays with more enthusiasm than the Yucatán's cultural capital of Merida.

MÉRIDA, Mexico — A man in a white tank top, black drawstring shorts and flip flops drags a beat-up bike from the front room of an abandoned house on a wide boulevard lined with mansions.

For 30 pesos, less than $3, the rusted, one-speed "Cherry"-brand bike is mine for the next two hours.

I pedal along the Paseo Montejo, passing pastel-colored mansions, once the homes of wealthy plantation owners, now the headquarters for banks, insurance companies and car dealerships.

A group of children play a game of Twister on the sidewalk. Others join an impromptu art class, dipping their fingers into jars of paint set out on card tables in the street.

A girl cruises by in high-top pink tennis shoes with a matching pink tricycle. Then comes a mother and her two daughters on a white three-wheeler the size of a washing machine.

Along the "Bici-ruta" (bicycle route), three miles of city streets closed to auto traffic on Sunday morning, no one wears spandex. No one owns a fancy racing bike. No one bothers with a helmet.

Weekends are family time in Mexico, and no city seems to celebrate them with more gusto than the Yucatán's capital of Mérida.

Free musical and folk-dance performances take place around town nearly every night, but the whole city, it seems, turns out for an all-day street carnival called "Mérida en Domingo," — Mérida on Sunday.

The party gets a jump start on Saturday night with musical performances in several locations, then builds to a crescendo on Sunday with dancing in the Parque Santa Lucia and the region's largest Mayan handicraft market on the Plaza Grande, the site of the ancient Mayan city of T'ho.

It's all free, and as with any good party, everyone's invited. Some highlights:

• Noche Mexicana: Local dance groups perform and craft and food vendors set up stalls Saturday nights in a park at the top of the Paseo de Montejo. Named for the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo, who founded Mérida in 1542, the boulevard is sometimes called Mérida's "Champs-Élysées" because of its wealth of 19th-century buildings such as Palacio Cantón, home to the Anthropology & History Museum.

I found a table on the patio of the Tala Bistro in the Hotel Casa San Angel, the former home of a well-known mathematician, now an antique-filled boutique inn. On the menu was a Yucatán specialty, Sopa de lima (lime soup), and fajitas made with hormone-free beef. Locals gathered around red plastic Coca-Cola tables for cold drinks made with rice milk and tacos filled with shaved pork cooked to order by the street vendors.

The concerts are free, and there are plenty of folding chairs, but arriving early is essential. It was standing-room only by the time the costumed dancers took to the stage at 9 p.m.

• Corazón de la Mérida: "In the Heart of Merida" is another Saturday-night celebration, this one on Calle 60, a narrow main drag, and the side streets surrounding Plaza Grande in the 470-year-old city's historic center. Towering above the shade trees is the 16th-century Cathedral de San Ildefonso, built by the Spaniards with stones from Mayan pyramids.

I watched a lone man sitting on the curb playing a saw as if it were a violin, then peeked in at a classical-guitar concert in the Teatro Peón Contreas, a hall that could be mistaken for a museum with its marble staircase and frescos by Italian artists.

Vendors came by with caramel apples and pink and yellow cotton candy on a stick. A clown kept the crowd entertained with a dance routine that called for the audience to mimic his and a partner's moves. "Dancing with the Stars" it was not, but still lots of fun.

• Mérida en Domingo: The all-day festivities begin at 8 a.m. when the streets along the Bici-ruta close to traffic, then continue through the afternoon and evening with musical, comedy and dance performances at various locations.

I was in awe of a woman in a tight, pink dress, red-sequined sunglasses and white sandals staying cool in the 90-degree heat while dancing with her partner for nearly an hour on a bandstand in the cozy Parque Santa Lucia, once a stagecoach stop, now the site of a weekly antiques and crafts market.

People-watching is best from the terrace of La Dulcera Colón, a century-old ice-cream parlor across from the Plaza Grande. The air smells of roasted corn, vanilla milkshakes and grilled pork. Women from the nearby Mayan villages stroll shaded walkways with handwoven blankets and scarves draped over their arms, hoping to convince tourists to lighten their loads.

Most afternoons folk dancers in crisp white shirts and colorful dresses take to the streets for traditional dances performed in village fiestas called vaquerias.

Linger long enough and you might get lucky as I did and see a troupe doing "La Danza de la Cabezade Cochino," the dance of the pig's head, a traditional ceremonial dance in which the head of a barbecued pig (made of plaster these days) is passed around on a platter balanced on the heads of the male dancers. By Carol Pucci

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The Leonardo da Vinci of Cakes- Sylvia Weinstock ~Andrinique Special Events

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In Honor of Sylvia Weinstock aka the Leonardo di Vinci of cakes who turns 82 today , HAPPY Birthday !!!

The QUEEN of Wedding Cakes... and master of creme de la creme and eidble flowers... Take a look a some of her work Sylvia Weinstock

Sylvia Weinstock has created celebratory cakes for 30 years. She was motivated to produce not only beautiful cakes but also the most delicious cake. She uses crème de la crème, finest butter, heavy cream, fresh fruit and imported chocolate to create the most memorable delectable creations.

CHANEL Spring Summer 2012 Haute Couture~ Andrinique Special Events

Oh how we LOVE and Swoon over CHANEL ...

Karl Lagerfeld Haute Couture S/S 2012 Pure..GENIUS !

Enjoy .. we did!

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Spring 2012 Look Book~ Andrinique Special Events

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It snowed in NYC this weekend, an it reminded me that SPRING is around the corner...You like? I LOVE !

Credit: The FashioniStyle

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Tulum, Mexico is a Hot Spot for Fashion insiders~Andrinique Special Events

The Quiet End of the Runway

IT was a honey-gold morning in Tulum, Mexico, the low-rise, high-key ocean strip in the Yucatán 75 miles south of Cancún. While many visitors saluted the sun in various yoga poses along the white swatch of the Atlantic Ocean beach, Irene Albright and her daughter, Marina, stared at a computer screen in the open-air lobby of the Hotel Nueva Vida de Ramiro. They were looking at Chloé’s Web site.

And welcome to Tulum, a destination so popular with the fashion crowd this time of year that it almost feels like Fashion Week. While Teva-wearing backpackers look for sea turtles and New Age naïfs look for nirvana, the fashion obsessed don’t have to look at all to find one other. They are everywhere, artfully dressed down in high-peasant style.

The scene in late December included Nicola Formichetti, the stylist for Lady Gaga and creative director for Mugler; Amanda Hearst, the It Girl of Marie Claire; Tom Mendenhall, chief operating officer of Tom Ford; and Johan Lindeberg, the big-bearded Blk Dnmdesigner.

“It’s like my Miami,” said Kim Vernon, a former Calvin Klein executive who is now a fashion brand consultant in Manhattan. “But I didn’t go this Christmas because I just didn’t feel like seeing everyone I know.”

But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t know who was there. “Francisco Costa rented a house,” she said of that Calvin Klein designer. “Linda Fargo from Bergdorf Goodman was there, too, and so was the designer Naeem Khan and Michael Carl, the fashion market director of Vanity Fair.”

There were movie stars, too: Evan Rachel Wood, Jamie Bell and Kate Bosworth, who stayed, as she often does, at Coqui Coqui, the limestonespa and hotel owned by Nicolas Malleville, the international male model. In past years, Ryan Phillippe, Neil Patrick Harris, Sienna Miller and Alexander Skarsgard have also been spotted on the beach.

But never mind the air-sucking dust clouds of celebrities. They have St. Barts and Miami. Laid-back Tulum, which Italian Vogue called the new Goa, has its own players — minor ones to the masses, but important to those who speak fashion-ese.

“We were calling it the fashion jungle by the end of the week,” said Jym Benzing, a New York advertising casting director who visited during Christmas with a pack of stylists and photographers, staying in what he described as “huts” at Hemingway beach cabanas. “Every year, it’s more fashion people, and they’re all huddled together on top of each other.”

Anne Slowey, the fashion news director of Elle, wasn’t as enamored with the scene during the holidays. “That place is like going to Fort Lauderdale for spring break,” she said. “Only instead of shots and wet T-shirt contests, there are shamans and yoga classes. The flight back was like the fashion plane from the shows in Paris. Yeesh!”

SO how did a former stop on a low-budget hippie trail become a magnet for Seventh Avenue materialists?

Location, maybe? Flights to Cancún are quick and direct from New York, a little under four hours. The cab ride from the airport is an easy 90 minutes, made even easier with a recent highway upgrade that serves many new all-inclusive resorts (no, thank you) on what the Mexican government calls the Riviera Maya. There’s also the allure of a pristine white sand beach that stretches for miles.

Another draw? Sustainability. Tulum is consciously and adamantly off the power grid, which means it often uses solar generators and wind turbines to keep its lights on. Showers in many hotels are low pressure and often brackish, not fresh.

It makes people who spend their lives creating disposable luxuries feel slightly virtuous, or at least more rugged than they feel while wearing stilettos. And fashion people, often questing for self-enlightenment, are drawn to places with a strong spiritual feeling. Steeped in Maya lore, Tulum is a veritable sample sale of yogis, psychics and seers.

Another reason Tulum is a draw: it’s pedestrian-friendly. New Yorkers are often leery of driving, and so a tropical place where you can walk along the beach or bike along a quiet road, in search of one overpriced ceviche and the next, offers a remote tropical ease that isn’t enjoyed by Anguilla, Mustique or St. Barts vacationers, who have to drive on winding roads to get to pushy parties with power players, guest lists and bodyguards.

“Tulum has so many fashion people now, it’s like the Hamptons,” said Ariane Dutzi, a former fashion editor from Germany who has, like Mr. Malleville of Coqui Coqui, moved inland, to the colonial city of Valladolid, where she employs local women to make bags sold in stores including Donna Karan’s Urban Zen. “It used to be more relaxed and disconnected from the world. Now it’s so crowded that everyone’s looking at what everyone else is wearing.”

By BOB MORRIS

Published: January 21, 2012

SOPA PIPA BLACKOUT~ Andrinique Special Events

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How do you spell COMMUNISM ?

USA the NEW CHINA..

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EXPERTS ON MEXICO DESTINATION WEDDINGS / Part 1~Andrinique Special Events

My good friend Carmen Laborin the Romance Director for the Mexico Tourism Board speaks about the wonderful reasons to have your Destination Wedding in Mexico... What do you think? leave your comments, we would love to hear from you.

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Badgley Mischka ~ Andrinique Special Events

BADGLEY MISCHKA ~ Bridal Trunk Show featuring our Spring 2012 Collection: January 13-15.
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VOGUE ~ Andrinique Special Events

{#148} Purple Eggplant Olive Glam Inspiration~ Andrinique Special Events

I OOO, AWWW and SWOON over this Purple & Olive Color Palette via Wedding Nouveau

{CREDITS: Candle Centerpiece; Living Room – Unknown; Models – Unknown; Signage by Laduree via here; Antique Door Knob; Bouquet; Cupcakes by WhipperBerry via here; Frame & Figs by Lucyina Moodie; Invitation by The Nichols Photography (via 100LayerCake); Chartreuse Shoes; Candles}

HAPPY 2012 ~Andrinique Special Events

Happy New Year Greetings from Andrinique Special Events,

I am uber EXCITED to begin the new YEAR ! I am not one to make resolutions however, I do take a quick account of the prior year to assess my own personal growth, and to ensure I am still on point and LASER focus on my LIFE goals. A few rules that work for me are:

1. STAY Focused
2. If something does'nt make me HAPPY, stop doing it
3. Always ask myself WHY, what are my intentions?
4. Remember that everyone is in my life for a REASON.
5. Surround myself with POSITIVE, LIKEMINDED people.
6. SHARE, and BE LOVE & LIGHT

MOST importantly, I KEEP DREAMING ! EVERYthing is possible....

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 ~ Andrinique Special Events

HAPPY ALMOST NEW YEAR ! See You Next Year !

ENGAGEMENT Season 2011~Andrinique Special Events

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6 more days until 2012 ! Andrinique Special Events Wishes Everyone a Heathly & Blessed New Year !!

Congratulations to all the newly engaged couples !!! ( so far...we still have all the New Year's Eve proposals to look forward too )

KrashingMotions Photography

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Holiday Party Look ~ Andrinique Special Events

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Fendi sleeveless dress, $669 Balmain long jacket, £1,949 Christian louboutin heels, $1,095 Elie Saab clutch handbag, $912 Cuff bangle, $5,800 18k jewelry, $1,895

                        Happy Holiday's from the Team at
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Top 10 Sexy Wedding Dresses 2012 ~Andrinique Special Events

My brides are shopping for their 2012 Wedding Gowns, so here are the top 10 for the SEXY Bride via ThKnotTV Enjoy !!

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This WEEKs Fav Look ~ Andrinique Special Events

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Here is my fav look this week via thefashionistyle

LOVE, LOVE,LOVE!!

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2011 Celebrity Wedding Dress~Andrinique Special Events

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So there you have it... My fav is Dylan Lauren's designed by her amazin father Ralph Lauren...

Which one do you heart?

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Look Book ~ Andrinique Special Events

Lanvin scoop neck top, $525 Balmain tux jacket, £1,999 The Row stretchy pants, $1,990 Christian Louboutin platform shoes, $995 Marni clutch bag, $980 Lanvin jewelry, $599

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania bomber jacket, $627AG Adriano Goldschmied high waisted jeans, $315Proenza Schouler high heel boots, $635Marc by marc jacobs handbag, $285Alexis bittar earrings, $155

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Victoria's Secret Holiday ~Andrinique Special Events

Vera Wang's " LOVE" collection

Hola !

Engagement season has officially begun ! So, many girlfriends are NOW fiances..YAYA ! You'll know them when you see them. They are the girls who are constantly staring down at their left hand, wiggling their ring finger to admire the light hitting their diamond and smiling at the glitter and shimmer of the bling ! As we all know, timing is everything, and Vera Wang is ALWAYS on time with everything she does. I am completly in "LOVE" with the Vera Wang Love Collection

Here are a few AMAZIN pieces...

Congratulations!
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CYBER MONDAY ~ Andrinique Special Events

TODAY IS CYBER MONDAY !!! with all the CYBER MONDAY Deals, we have decided too offer a CYBER MONDAY deal of our own! Many brides will be getting engaged over the next few months…

CYBER MONDAY ~ Day of Coordination $1200.00 !! Yes, this is a craze PRICE but, we are paying our blessings FORWARD… This is’nt a watered down versus of any sort. This is our FULL ” Day of Coordination ” service that originally starts at $2500..

small print- guest count is up to 150 people and wedding date must between April 2012 through Oct 2012.

Offer expires Nov 30th 2011 – subject to date availablity

HURRY and get your date BOOKED !!!

Congratulations ! and let the planning BEGIN !

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Andrinique

Day after Thanksgiving SPECIAL ~ Andrinique Special Events

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving ! There is sooo much to be thankful for this year for Andrinique Special Events We have had so much growth this year and have made so many amazin connections. We have offically been successful with our destination division in Mexico, our California office is growing by leaps and bounds ,and we successful relocated our headquarters back to NYC !! We have a new Candy Bar service added to our menu, custom designed my Sandee Creager of Candee by Sandee , we have a bridal jewelry line launching in May 2012,and we have partnered with the The Hacienda Luxury Collection and Carmen Loborin of The Mexican Tourism Board to name a few. So GRATEFUL is an understatment ! I am over the mood with graditute.

So, with all the BLACK Friday Deals and SPECIALS, we have decided too offfer a BLACK FRIDAY deal of our own! Many brides will be getting engaged over the next few months...Some lucky ladies recieved their much anticipated wedding proposal and BLING.. I mean RING, last night while enjoying the THANKSGIVING holiday amoungest family and friends. Then there will be the Christmas and New Years proposals and finally Valentine's Day.

So, for the all NEWLY engaged ladies who will be hitting their computers,laptops and I pads this weekend with pad & pen in hand ready to take on the WEDDING PLANNING details, this is what have for you !

BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL ~ Day of Coordination $1200.00 !! Yes, this is a craze PRICE but, we are paying our blessings FORWARD... This is'nt a watered down versus of any sort. This is our FULL " Day of Coordination " service that originally starts at $2500..

small print- guest count is up to 150 people and wedding date must between April 2012 through Oct 2012.

Offer expires Nov 30th 2011 - subject to date availablity

HURRY and get your date BOOKED !!!

Congratulations ! and let the planning BEGIN !

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Andrinique

Tom Ford's Spring 2012 Collection via VOGUE ~ Andrinique Special Events

Hola,

I've been MIA for a week or so, I knnnoww ! but, It's been raining an COLD in NYC.. I have had to wrap my brain around the fact that I am BACK in NYC fulltime ..an a little freaked out at the thought of NYC in the winter with the snow and minus 10 degree temps, and wind chill factor.. ( all words very familiar to NY'ers ) ..Hey, I am a ny'er, born and raised, WTH am I afraid of ??

ANYway, with all the HUSH surrounding Tom Ford's 2012 collection it was a HUGE and welcome surprise to hear it was being featured via photo images on Vogue.com today.. The even BIGGER surprise was the reviews the collection has recieved ! Most are saying things like WTH, been there, done that and NOT SO MUCH ! We at Andrinique Special Events are saying it's OKKK, but yeah...been there done that is our thought also.. What's my brides thinking ?

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From the RUNWAY~ 2012 Wedding DressTrends~ Andrinique Special Events

Hola Mi Gente,

Who said wedding season wraps up by now ?? NOT at Andrinique Special Events we are like the energizer bunny, we keep going, and going and going...

Yes, my friend this sould be a V~ log, but sometimes images can stand alone. Here is a short recap/ wrap up of the 2012 wedding dress trends. STRAIGHT from the runways of NYC !

Trend 1: LASER-CUT FABRICS

the parts that look like paper snowflakes? Those are laser-cut! Reema Arca

Trend 2: SPAGHETTI STRAPS

Wtoo Fall 2012

Trend 3: PURPLE DRESSES

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                           Trend 4: ROYAL WEDDING-INSPIRED DRESSES

Jim Hjelm

Trend 5: WEDDING JUMPSUITS! LOVE ! Perfect for the same sex brides or the been there done that bride ( 2nd or 3rd time bride - dare I say )

Theia

Pnina Tornai

So, which trend is your favorite? My is the Theia jumpsuit.. comment on your favorite..

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Andrinique Special Events ~ Planner VS Designer

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So, I know I have been MIA the last few days... I have been in NYC in the snow ! Yes, SNOW.
It snowed this past weekend and on my BDAY weekend of all the NERVE :-) I am not even winterized yet.Take a look/listen to my recent video blog aka V~log. I am speaking about the diference between a planner and a desginer.. Enjoy !

VINTAGE STYLE ~ Andrinique Special Events

OMG ! look what I found ~ VINTAGE BABE ~ via What Goes Around Comes Around iiiii

Authentic Mexican wedding Oaxaca ~Andrinique Special Events

Hola Amigos,

It's a beautiful, crisp fall morning in NYC, my favorite time of the year. ( with a bit of holiday anticipationin the air). As I was engulfed in my typical morning routine of read my favorite blogs, I came across this one featured on grace ormonde. A traditional mexican weddding in Oaxaca, Mexico.

These images Di-Lanatta’s Photography capture the LOVE, Family, tradition, and all the spritual elements of a true Mexican Wedding, wonderful work ! Peace & love to this lovely couple....

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