I truly believe your wedding should be filled with joy.
The bubbling from the depths of your heart – I can’t wipe this smile off my face – kind of joy.
This is what fuels me, and ignites my fire.
It is this-pure and simple — to give my clients the day they dream of.

I can’t wait to talk, and hear your unique love story.

I like to think that weddings are what they have always been. Dreams. When we are young we imagine what that special day is going to be like. We give it a skeleton shape in our brains and fill in the fleshy parts with our imagination. Its this concept of imagining that I hold dear to what has fueled and inspired me through my years of doing this. Wedding photography isn’t about what grandma did, its not about what your parents did and its not what your best friend is doing. Wedding photography is a chance for me to take that skeleton of an idea someone had as a kid and bring it to life, give it a soul. I still believe that every wedding should tell a story, but my favorite stories were always the ones with the most pictures.

From the prelude through the dinner, the music of  Cafe Melange will help to make your wedding ceremony even more unforgettable.

Together we perform an eclectic variety of music on the guitar and mandolin – from classic Americana to French, Italian, Latin, Classical, and more. Our music transports you to a French Cafe, Italian Bistro, Latin nightclub, or that favorite moment on the silver screen.

Popular with audiences at  weddings, wine tastings,

holiday concerts, and in concert, we have appeared on a Target Christmas CD and work regularly for the Minnesota Orchestra.

Joynoelle is the signature line of Minneapolis-based designer, Joy Teiken. The Joynoelle Ready-to-Wear and Bridal Collections are handmade and hand-finished in her South Minneapolis atelier. Every garment is individually cut, sewn and accented to ensure the highest of quality and attention to detail that Joy expects. This award-winning designer has been featured in many national and international publications including WWD, Real Simple Magazine, and Daily Candy NYC and has been shown on the runway in New York City, Chicago, and LA .

My clients choose Joynoelle not only for the outcome but for the process. Having a dress made is a fun. Watching it go from a piece of fabric to the draping and sketching to the fittings and the final gown is a special experience. I have many brides come back to me after their wedding and tell me having their dress made was the second best part of getting married (the first being marrying the love of their life). I love working with brides. Each one is special and wants their personality to show through in their dress. Having a dress designed and made for them is the perfect way to accomplish this. My brides are part of the design process and since I make the dress on their body through draping techniques and fittings, the dress fits their body and personality perfectly. I often suggest bringing in personal objects (their mother’s wedding dress, their grandmother’s beaded necklace, or their auntie’s lace) to incorporate into their dress to make it even more special. I have one seamstress and we work very closely together with the client. As the designer, I am in charge of the dress and client from start to finish. I do all the draping, cutting of the fabric, and the fittings. I may bring in extra craftspeople for things like beading and fabric dying but everything is done in my atelier. My seamstress and I work on sewing the dress together and she is part of certain fittings and finishing work.

We are set apart from our competition by our menu flexibility, our unique approach to customized events, the bocce/bowling aspect and individualized planning assistance.

Our clients choose us because we genuinely care about their event and their expectations. We look to exceed expecations, by listening first.

We only have one large event per evening, allowing us to be focused and available. We are a restaurant ‘first’ – professional service and food quality and execution is number one. We hire, train and develop our staff in event execution. They are in the trenches, and we respect and value their opinion. We spend a lot of time detailing the event with the staff, so they are clear of our expectations and the clients nuances.

Avant Decor is the only company in the Twin Cities that focuses exclusively on ceiling decor. With over ten years experience in the event industry, Avant Decor offers professional service and creativity. Offering a variety of colored fabrics, lanterns of all sizes & colors, and chandeliers, they have worked in the majority of venues in the area and have wonderful references. Avant Decor can plan your perfect environment with you, or they can work directly with other vendors to achieve the look you want.

Spruce Flowers & Home

Spruce Flowers & Home in South Minneapolis offers a beautiful combination of neighborhood shop and “Flower Bar” design center.

Spruce brings an organic yet modern aesthetic to flower design, not afraid to break a design rule when needed, and driven to  lead by design.

Our main focus is helping our clients create the wedding of their dreams by thinking and working creatively to also meet their budget requirements. We meet with our brides at our exclusive “Flower Bar” where we listen to their ideas for their wedding, look at design elements they have already selected or inspiration they’ve collected to create a mood board for floral development. With our walk-in cooler full of colors, textures and uncommon varieties of flowers, we can immediately start talking about ideas.

PHOTO CREDIT: Cadence Cornelius & Matt Lien Photography

Flora Bella is a boutique floral studio in the Arts District of Northeast Minneapolis. Celebrating our 13th flower filled season we’re dedicated to good design, exquisite color combinations, lush textures, clever patterns and elements of the unexpected. We’re obsessed with the details!

With a passion for the environment, we seek the best suppliers of local, seasonal and organic botanicals whenever possible. Many of these blooms and textural accents are grown in our own urban gardens.

We book a limited number of events per weekend in order to assure the personal attention you deserve and to artfully style your wedding to perfection.

We are creating a space specifically for creative, intimate weddings. We offer something that very few venues offer in the state–exclusive access to the property for an entire weekend to enjoy your family and friends and take time to enjoy your wedding weekend. Our cost includes the value of this included vacation stay for up to 14 people and the access to vintage and antique items. We have built this love of the artistry of weddings into every detail. For example, instead of folding banquet tables we built wooden harvest tables and instead of the usual white wedding chairs we collected antique wooden pews and folding chairs.

The fact that we are a small, individual-owned business in a sector of the wedding industry that is often faceless allows us to connect to clients in a way that just isn’t possible with many other venues.

We are also a gay-owned operation that understands the language of gay marriage and that believes that practicing same-sex marriage is AS important as fighting for it. We believe that marriage equality is good for the local wedding economy and we are proud to part of a community of vendors who also feel this way even though it isn’t a directly personal matter to them.

We have touched every part of our 40 acres and remodeled both the house and the cabin on the property ourselves and planted countless plants for the landscaping. We are so close to the product that is our venue that I am almost always covered in some sort of something or another, whether it be paint or dirt or sand from laying down our stone aisle. We literally do everything ourselves that we can and I communicate with each of the interested parties.