wondered if Ivy realized that they had been married for a month now.
Chapter 6
A satisfied smile grew on Ivy’s face after meeting with the first couple of her show. She had successfully presented her plans for their summer 2011 wedding.
Chiropractors Adrianne Reynolds and Robert Conway met at a Chicago Cubs baseball game three years ago. After they’d dated for eight months, Robert asked Adrianne to marry him with the help of the jumbotron at Wrigley Field.
The young professionals were to marry in a Christian ceremony at the Salem Baptist Church’s House of Hope, where the bride was a member. The posh reception, with seven-course meal, would be held at Stanley Hall inside the Field Museum.
Ivy happily answered all their questions and now that both parties were comfortable with each other, they would begin taping in another week. Ivy gave the couple a brief hug before they departed.
* * *
As soon as Ivy entered her office, she shrugged out of her coat and hung it on the brass coat rack in the corner.
The spacious and sophisticatedly decorated office had an old antique desk and two white Regency cane-back chairs. She also had dark cherry wood floor-to-ceiling book cases that were filled with reference books on any subject regarding wedding planning and décor. Across the room she had a seating area with a burgundy chenille-covered sofa and two more armchairs.
She kicked off her black high-heeled pumps, lay back against the fluffy pillow on the couch and rested her eyes. It was only ten o’clock, but she wanted to take this small window of down time to relax. She had a long day ahead of her.
Ivy had been up since five o’clock working on both the TV couple and Lauren Kabins’s wedding plans. She was confident that all the plans for Adrianne and Robert would be fine, but there were still some pieces missing in Lauren’s proposal due today.
She had thirty minutes before she had to meet with her sisters concerning those missing pieces.
After her power nap, Ivy got up, walked over to the gold mirror and freshened up her hair and makeup. She walked over to her desk, picked up the folder and headed to the conference room.
* * *
Everyone had already arrived when she walked into the room. She wondered if they’d had the opportunity to be creative since she had given them such short notice, phoning them only last night after Jonathan left.
“Let’s get this party started,” she said, placing her pen and paper on the table before taking her seat.
“Rosie, you first,” Ivy said.
Rose pulled up the laptop computer that was hooked up to a big-screen plasma television on the wall. She opened the file folder where she saved the sketches.
“Because the wedding and reception is in one place, we’ll have to set the scene from the beginning.”
She turned to Ivy. “Vee, I know you said she really likes tall centerpieces. I do, too, but they can restrict the guests from being able to see the ceremony depending on where they are seated at the table.”
Ivy agreed. “That’s true. Can you come up with something spectacular that you think she would love?”
Rose opened the first sketch file. “Here is an example of a tall, trumpet-style vase with peach and green hydrangeas, peach and white French tulips.”
She then opened the second one, moving the image beside the first one for comparison. “Here is the smaller centerpiece using a round container with the same flowers arranged differently.”
Ivy bit the end of her pen as she studied the images. “What about the ceremony? Did you get a chance to come up with something for it?”
Rose went to another file folder and opened a different image. “Do you guys remember what we were going to do for the Hawkins wedding at the mayor’s mansion?”
The others all looked up at the screen and nodded. “Well, I think we should do something similar, on a smaller scale, of course. We’ll need a focal point, a place similar to an altar. Arches are kind of out of
Chapter 6
A satisfied smile grew on Ivy’s face after meeting with the first couple of her show. She had successfully presented her plans for their summer 2011 wedding.
Chiropractors Adrianne Reynolds and Robert Conway met at a Chicago Cubs baseball game three years ago. After they’d dated for eight months, Robert asked Adrianne to marry him with the help of the jumbotron at Wrigley Field.
The young professionals were to marry in a Christian ceremony at the Salem Baptist Church’s House of Hope, where the bride was a member. The posh reception, with seven-course meal, would be held at Stanley Hall inside the Field Museum.
Ivy happily answered all their questions and now that both parties were comfortable with each other, they would begin taping in another week. Ivy gave the couple a brief hug before they departed.
* * *
As soon as Ivy entered her office, she shrugged out of her coat and hung it on the brass coat rack in the corner.
The spacious and sophisticatedly decorated office had an old antique desk and two white Regency cane-back chairs. She also had dark cherry wood floor-to-ceiling book cases that were filled with reference books on any subject regarding wedding planning and décor. Across the room she had a seating area with a burgundy chenille-covered sofa and two more armchairs.
She kicked off her black high-heeled pumps, lay back against the fluffy pillow on the couch and rested her eyes. It was only ten o’clock, but she wanted to take this small window of down time to relax. She had a long day ahead of her.
Ivy had been up since five o’clock working on both the TV couple and Lauren Kabins’s wedding plans. She was confident that all the plans for Adrianne and Robert would be fine, but there were still some pieces missing in Lauren’s proposal due today.
She had thirty minutes before she had to meet with her sisters concerning those missing pieces.
After her power nap, Ivy got up, walked over to the gold mirror and freshened up her hair and makeup. She walked over to her desk, picked up the folder and headed to the conference room.
* * *
Everyone had already arrived when she walked into the room. She wondered if they’d had the opportunity to be creative since she had given them such short notice, phoning them only last night after Jonathan left.
“Let’s get this party started,” she said, placing her pen and paper on the table before taking her seat.
“Rosie, you first,” Ivy said.
Rose pulled up the laptop computer that was hooked up to a big-screen plasma television on the wall. She opened the file folder where she saved the sketches.
“Because the wedding and reception is in one place, we’ll have to set the scene from the beginning.”
She turned to Ivy. “Vee, I know you said she really likes tall centerpieces. I do, too, but they can restrict the guests from being able to see the ceremony depending on where they are seated at the table.”
Ivy agreed. “That’s true. Can you come up with something spectacular that you think she would love?”
Rose opened the first sketch file. “Here is an example of a tall, trumpet-style vase with peach and green hydrangeas, peach and white French tulips.”
She then opened the second one, moving the image beside the first one for comparison. “Here is the smaller centerpiece using a round container with the same flowers arranged differently.”
Ivy bit the end of her pen as she studied the images. “What about the ceremony? Did you get a chance to come up with something for it?”
Rose went to another file folder and opened a different image. “Do you guys remember what we were going to do for the Hawkins wedding at the mayor’s mansion?”
The others all looked up at the screen and nodded. “Well, I think we should do something similar, on a smaller scale, of course. We’ll need a focal point, a place similar to an altar. Arches are kind of out of
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