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Private Residence Perfection!
People always ask us where in the city is our favourite location to do weddings and while Ottawa has some fabulous venues, we always enjoy when we get to create our own space from nothing. This wedding from last season was a labour of love from the first moment we saw...

Our Top 10 Transformations of 2018!
The holidays are truly a magical time of year but for us wedding planner January is pretty great as well!! We finally get a chance to go thru all the great photographer images of our years work, and 2018 DID NOT disappoint! The Design Co team was fortunate to be...

Al Fresco Dining at the Fairmont
This year we got to pull of a first at the infamous Chateau Laurier - and it was fabulous! This hotel is definitely one of our fave venues in the city so when the bride wanted to host her friends and family all on the terrace we jumped at the chance to be the first...

A 2018 Pantone Inspired Wedding
Every year the design and planning world looks forward to the announcement of the Pantone of the Year. What is a Pantone you ask? Pantone states that the Color of the Year is actually “…a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our global culture that serves as...

Spring-Summer 2017 Ottawa Wedding Magazine Cover Shoot
Polar vortex? No problem. Our newest Spring-Summer 2017 cover of the Ottawa Wedding Magazine is out and it is the perfect cure to those winter blues! We are loving the bright, bold colours that were the inspiration behind this shoot - from the florals, to the...

Summertime Wedding at Le Belvédère
When your wedding venue is as spectacular as Le Belvédère, there is absolutely no question about the fact that your wedding is bound to be beautiful, and Mahtab and Jonathan's summertime wedding at this cliffside venue is no exception. With an ultra-feminine palette...

The Questions You Should be Asking Your Wedding Planner – Answered!
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Are you singing along with me here? It's the hap-happiest season of all! Still no? Okay, fine. No, we are not late on the back-to-school commercials and yes, we know that it is WAY too early to start singing holiday...

A Beautiful Spring Wedding at Evermore
With our 2016 wedding season almost at an end, photos from this year's weddings are beginning to roll in and we could not be more excited to start sharing them with you all! Yes, we do like to think of ourselves as semi-professional iPhone photographers (a good filter...

The Design Co. Top Ten – Our Favourite Fall-Inspired Bouquets
From the beautiful hot, sunny days that we have been having of late, you would never know that summer is about to come to end. I know! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to bring you down on a Monday morning, but it is a sad truth that we must come to terms with! It is a...

Wedding Bells Fall/Winter 2016 Feature – Kaylee & Nick
Have you picked up your copy of the latest Fall/Winter 2016 edition of Weddingbells magazine yet? If not, not to worry! We will catch you up on what we feel is the most important page in the entire magazine and that is the Real Weddings feature on Design Co....