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Hello and welcome! In The Now Weddings + Events is a style-infused group of wedding gurus committed to making your day uniquely YOU from head to toe. On behalf of myself and the rest of the team, I want to say thank you for stopping by. I'm so glad that you've found the time to browse our blog! Here, you'll find loads of information about the industry, our clients, and ourselves mixed in with pictures and silly anecdotes that should give you a real glimpse into who it is that we are, and what we stand for. Above all, we hope that this online journal of our lives and job shows you how much we love what we do! We welcome comments and connection more than anything and our desire is that the outpouring of our hearts would resonate with you in a way that prompts you to reach out to us and let us know you're here. So, what are you waiting for?

xoxo,

A. Auer

March Tabletop | A Teaser

POSTED BY Amanda

Can you believe I’m posting something at 5pm? I can’t. It [a little bit] grosses me out. I’d wait to release it until the ‘morrow but I just can’t do that. I’m too excited. And plus, we’ve got lots of deliciousness ahead- whose to say this particular moment of delicious needs to wait?? I say thee nay!

I just stopped by in the midst of my afternoon to share with you a lovely image that I find particularly drool-worthy. You may have seen our color board for the March Tabletop a few posts back, and here, my lovelies.. is a snippit of the fruition of said color board:

More to come on that later! Hope you’re having a splendid week. I’ll try my best to keep our blog fresh, inspirational, and regularly scheduled as wedding season sets into motion.

Here’s to keeping your head on in the midst of chaos!

xoxo,

A.

Amanda - T- super easy!! Green wheat and italian ruscus leaves! :) Would love to make them for your guys, by the way!
Taraneh - Ahhhhhhhhhh! What ARE those! Green! I want those for my groomsmen!
candice - what a tease!
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Okay so tell me honestly… who doesn’t have a crush on the fabulousa wedding blog What Junebug Loves? I know that I have for years, so this is a particular honor!

I’m thrilled to announce that our Utterly Engaged Designer’s Challenge Table was featured last Thursday! I’ll be posting tons of photos here [shortly] as well, but for now, go gift your eyes with some gorgeousness over at Junebug’s Post!

Brick place mats and plexiglass menus and faux bois plates with pops of deep teal and hot cocoa. Like, seriously for real! I love it!! Hope y’all do too!

xoxo,

A.

Amanda - THANKS Stephanie!! Me too. :)
Stephanie Williams Photography - Love the look of your new blog Amanda!!
BRITTANY - This is in my top 5 favorite tabletops you've done yet! You are so talented and well....AMAZING!
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Oh how can I express my thankfulness for the blog world? It’s because of the vast internet space that I’ve exposed my heart and mind to so many gorgeous things. And this, my dear friends, is absolutely no exception. I am swoon-tastic over this. Thanks so much to Green Wedding Shoes for their calligraphy-inspired post and for popping this little sweetheart right into the mix. And even more so, thanks to the Behance Network for apparently being so ridiculous to create this masterpiece. If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have loved it. Had I not loved it, I may have spent my life missing it… with a small empty space in my heart, string-sized.

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Favorite. Favorite. Favorite.

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The laborious detail:

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I’ll level with y’all: I’m exhausted just looking at this beautiful piece of art. Knowing the time and skill it took to craft it… just GUESSING the precision involved… yikers. My heart is bursting full of thanks for true artists like this. Perhaps a large-scale project in this manner of craft isn’t for you, but just a touch of this yarn-y, craft-y, homespun lovin’ would make any wedding a dreamy delight!

Happy Friday to you, my lovelies!

xoxo,

A.

Sarah - OMG. Seriously. Isn't it amazing? I was so in awe of this the first time I saw it. What an interesting piece to hang in your house, too!
Michelle - I love personal creativity! Doesn't it remind you of the circle project we did in elementry school but so much more awesome!!!!
Rachel - Oh. My. Goodness. THAT is incredible.
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Fresh New Face!

POSTED BY Amanda

I’m so excited I could pee!! Okay- maybe that was an over-share. But seriously… did you notice anything “new” about us today??

That’s right! Our new, sooo NOW blog and website are here!! There are plenty of new amazing features over on the site so if you’ve yet to go browse around… go do it!!!

Here’s a short list [what?! I'm list-y lately, love me for it!!] of things that I think you should squeal with joy about in regards to the new site:

1. Team Bios!! YAY! A biography page for each of us gals!

2. A short blurb on what we consider to be our ideal client, which is amazing! [As all of our clients are, anyway!]

3. Our ridiculous press and features slideshow page. Ugh. So blessed. Honestly!

4. The fun FAQ page!

5. The BEST for last… NEW GALLERY IMAGES!! We’re featuring about 20 weddings on the site as well as tons of tabletops in their own separate gallery. So thrilled! Lots of weddings and tables you’ve likely never seen before, either!

And in case you didn’t notice… my FAVE new blog features:

1. PICTURES of the team, on the right [more pics of our newer girls are to come... just gotta get us all in one place at one time!]

2. My heartfelt note at the top of the blog. I mean it, every word. And I’ll likely be changing it [as well as the team picture] often!

3. Our badges of honor, on the left. Adore!

4. The header!! I loooooove the header! These pictures were hand picked and hand paired by yours truly and I love each one of them. They’re my gals, my guys- my couples! My loves! I’m so proud to display them and see them on a regular basis.

Hope you all love it, too!! So- what do you think?? Vast improvement?? Worth the year-and-a-half I put into really thinking through what I wanted In The Now Weddings + Events to BE and stand for?? I sure hope so!

I’m off on a mini-cation with my main man. But I’ve got a gorgeous Friday Lovely in store for this week- so stay tuned! And be sure to leave some love and thoughts about the new site, too!!

Until we meet again, loves…

xoxo,

A.

joyful weddings & events - looks great amanda!
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This is just a little something I made to catch your eye. No, this isn’t a real wedding. I did whip up this invite comp with a couple in mind but really, I was channeling my inner Martha and just needed to SEE this idea come to life!

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Things I love about this invitation:

1. 45 degree angle.

2. Text as the WHOLE invite.

3. Marriage as the center, larger focal point.

4. Hello, it screams to be letterpressed!!

I just adore everything about it. I’m so thrilled that I got to design it so perfectly. What are y’alls thoughts on the design??

Hope it makes your heart dance like it makes mine to the mambo!

xoxo,

A.

Amanda - Hi Conley! You can actually get to the SAME categories at the top of the blog, now. It's one simple step to see everything that's been posted in each category- it's a drop down menu! Hope this helps. And if you're looking for more samples of my work, check out the actual website [inthenowweddings.com]- I've got a ton of images in the galleries there as well! xoxo, A.
Conley - I dont care for the new website. I liked the old one with the categories on the side. You dont have enough samples and it was nice to look back at old blog postings with the pictures there. Also, there are too many steps to go through for just wanting to see your work. It needs work, sorry.
Amanda - Steph- do you have yours done yet? I can re-create 'em for ya! :)
Steph - Love it.
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Ugh- why can’t they sell incredibly unique and modern and COOL stuff in the USA? Seriously. These chairs are making me drool right onto my laptop.

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Thank you, House To Home, for bringing this vision into my life! I shalt never forget you, deliciously colorful bentwood chair. Can we have a party now or what??

Fill your weekend like a crayon box stuffed with colors!

xoxo,

A.

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Table Palette | March

POSTED BY Amanda

What’s that now?? A storm is a-brewin’ once again in So Cal! Ya don’t say!!

It completely, 100% FIGURES that I’d plan yet another trip to my favorite area [the downtown LA garment and flower district] on a day when torrential downpour is very likely to ensue. Yet, my motivation is strong, and my excitement is rumbling inside my brain louder than the thunder could roll!! Here’s a little sneak of the colors I’m putting together for our lovely March tabletop. Of course it’s got an Irish feel to it- it’s March! I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s going to be outrageously, utterly, ridiculously fabulous. And that’s not just because it’s me putting it together. Okay maybe it is. Jury’s still out… I’ll let you all decide!

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What do you think of when you see this? When you think of March?? When you dream of Ireland??? Curious to hear the answers that you come up with! It may or may not make it’s way onto the March table!

xoxo,

A.

Amanda - Rach I bet you're lookin' a little gansta today too!! :)
Rachel - Holla! Can't wait to get this from the mind to reality. It's gonna be slammin'. (I'm feeling a little gangster today).
Amanda - OMG- I LOVE that!! It's absolutely vintage-traditional oriented. Yay! :)
lindsey - The blue + gold give it a regal feel! Like you're entertaining men in poofy shirts and powdered wigs.
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Random Rundown!

POSTED BY Amanda

That’s right, y’all! Bringing back a little randomness from the In The Now team for you. I’ll bet that you’re pretty excited at this point, aren’t you?? Well, I am too!! So here’s a few randoms from yours truly to kick things off!

1. For Valentine’s Day my husband got my a stuffed lion [with a sunflower petal collar] that sings the song “Sunflower” by Neil Diamond in 3-part children’s choir unison. It’s disturbing at best. If you have absolutely NO idea why he’d do this, go here. The trouble is, I make the bed every morning and put it right in between our pillows as a joke… but now it’s kinda become a habit. Yikers.

2. I’m almost ready to reveal the new site. Like, in the next 48 hours, keep your eyes peeled. It’s gonna be epic sauce. And with the new site, I’ll likely be taking on a new intern for the office. I just feel they coincide. I’m super extremely overly ridiculously excited about that!

3. I’ve been doing a lot of designing lately. In fact, you’ll notice once the new site is up that design services are included in every In The Now package. For this, I am thrilled. But it also means that I have trouble sleeping at night with my head exploding and ideas pouring out onto [in the morning] illegibly-scribbled notepads. I’m kinda obsessed with it. I’m eclectic and random and scattered and all the signs of a great designer. But, I have the skill to reign myself back in. I literally separate my week into design days and organizing days. It’s become very efficient! A few of my iPhone pics that are inspiring me lately:

This specific orange-yellow tone of wood:

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Mini champagne splits [dying]- BOTH being used in upcoming projects:

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Lorina Lemonade with it’s feminine bottle shape:

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Wallpaper at the Barnes & Noble. Hello, they’re mini ampersands!

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VIBE! Dinnerware [plates, chargers, bowls] a la Town + Country Rentals:

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And one last picture that always keeps me going:

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Husband’s special note to me whilst cooking dinner. Love him, too!

4. Two Auer Photo. Okay I said we’d talk about it so here’s the talk. NO I’m not “becoming a photographer”. NO I don’t shoot weddings. TAP was essentially created because we have great light in our studio space, a nice camera, and I’m a control freak that wants to ensure I get the images I need from each table setting. Really, it’s much more simple for me to commit to designing one table a month when I know I don’t have to orchestrate a photographer to come lend their time shooting it for me. It’s worked out fabulous thus far. and The TAP blog is just to post images of our shoots on a place that isn’t associated as much with In The Now. I don’t want people coming here, seeing that Josh and I have taken the photos, and being confused. Simple as that! We don’t shoot people. We shoot things. Things that can’t move. Where the variables are considerably less and where [and when] we can control our settings, lighting, etc. That’s the way I like it! SO- now you know! A quick peek into “getting the shot”:

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And here is the shot itself:

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Kinda totally worth all the MacGuyver moves we had to make [at one point, Josh had his iPhone under the spoon- which was sideways still- holding up the camera! Ridiculous]!

5. I’ve been cooking at home a lot. It makes me feel like a lady. But it also gives me dishpan hands. Big sigh.

6. I don’t consider myself a DIY craft oriented type of person. But right now I’ve become increasingly distracted with paper products like this:

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And this:

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SHOOT me dead, I just love it so much! It makes me motivated to create and recreate!

7. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that we hear a lot of familiar songs while watching Cougar Town. That’s because this is one of the FIRST shows that Josh has been placed on [with his music] that we can actually stomach watching. It’s quippy, smart, and fast-paced. Stuff that I love. The only problem is that when we do know he’s getting placed, I’ve already been distracted by the plot and I’m not paying attention! If you watch it, just know that if they’re in the bar, there’s a great chance my husband’s song is playing in the background as ambiance music. He’s been placed 7 times so far [and they've only had 15 episodes]! It’s pretty fun.

8. Something that made me smile today when opening a random folder:

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Sometimes I miss my clients after their weddings. But it makes me bubble with pride, hope, and joy that they’re off creating families and lives and sharing last names! Thanks to Jonilyn for this one. And Christine + Tim of course!!

9. Do you notice that I release my blogs each day at 10:30am? I typically try to write in the evening, in advance, and then release at 10:30am for consistency. It’s currently 10:31am and I’m so anxious I’m biting my nails over it!

10. Since we’re changing the site and blog, we’ll have a lot more flexibility with writers and content and etc. So, I’d love feedback on what you’d like to see more of, what keeps you coming back, what you look for in a blog you love, and what will enhance our impact in your wedding world! Please, don’t hesitate to leave comments. We’d love it! I want to introduce you to our world in an intimate way, but I don’t want our features to be sloppy or incomplete. Tell me what you’ve liked, tell me what you haven’t so much cared for! I’ll give you all a dollar. Just kidding. I probably won’t.

And now for a soapbox moment: The deliciously adorable Shannon and her husband Scott entered the Green Wedding Shoes contest for a photo shoot and styling! They’re finalists!! Give your vote for them here!! SO proud of her styleboard! :)

Hope your day is filled with random JOY and bursts of laughter- the best kind!!

xoxo,

A.

March Tabletop | A Teaser- In the Now | Weddings & Events - [...] you believe I’m posting something at 5pm? I can’t. It [a little bit] grosses me out. I’d wait to release it until the [...]
Erin - Amanda! That meat shot cracked me up! You are so cute!! <3
megan - You're pretty dang adorable. About the lion, I totally understand. My husband once got me an Easter card with bunnies cuddling that promised "daffodil-y days and soft bunny nights." I almost peed my pants laughing.
Christine - Psst...it's no secret, but your clients miss you as well! =) Can't wait to see the new site!!!
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