Circus Wedding Ideas

Our next feature was actually a 30th birthday celebration for event designer Lindsey Hartsough for Magnolia Event Design. The ideas were so spectacular and could easily be carried over for a wedding. Lindsey goes on to share how her day was put together and of course give you some fabulous Circus Wedding Ideas. That are glitzy, glamorous and of whole lot of fun.
The ever so fabulous Linda Chaja captured this fun day. You can see so many more photos in the full gallery by clicking here. Let us know what you think about this circus extravaganza.

From Lindsey:

Circus to me evokes fun, childhood, fantasy, beauty and all things wonderful. Being an event designer I find that food is the easiest way to convey a theme to your guests and luckily for me the thought of "Circus/Carnival Food" makes me giddy! I am a girl who loves to go to carnivals, cicus' and fairs to experience all the tasty treats that aren't easy to come by. I taste a lot of "fancy" food for my clients, but there is nothing like a corn dog, churro, popcorn, cotton candy or a caramel apple. Because my guests are used to fancy food I thought it would be fun for them to go back to childhood and enjoy lots of tasty treats. I worked with the chef to "fabulize" the foods a bit, but really didn't want to take away from the traditional mindset that these foods convey.

So, what is a birthday without a cake? To me funfetti cake is childhood all baked up! There is something unexpected and fun about cutting into a formal cake and finding every cover of the rainbow inside. Jessica created her Salted Caramel Apples and Beet Sugar dyed Truffles. Okay, you may think you have tried a Caramel Apple before, but you haven't! These little puppies make my mouth water just writing about them. As the birthday girl I would have hoped my friends would have left me one, but NO! Those babies were devoured before I had a chance to grab one for myself... how rude!

Circus Wedding Ideas

A "Lindsey" event isn't an event without an Open Air Photo Booth... we created a custom backdrop for the booth and was sparkly and super fun. Nick designed the perfect custom layout to match the event perfectly! Who knew that in Nick's bag of tricks was a professional grade cotton candy maker machine thing? Nick has that little sugar goddess available for rent and let me tell you first hand how much fun it is to have cotton candy at your party... real FUN!

Circus Wedding Ideas

As you see there are a ton of custom cocktails at the party. Lindsey greeted guest with a custom cocktail.

I really love floral tasting drinks and feel in love with Parfait Amour, which is a violet liqueur on one of my trips to Vancouver. I worked with Josh at Blush to create the perfect signature cocktail for my event. I wanted something with a violet hue and that had a floral taste.

Lindsey's Luscious Lavender Sparkler
1 part Pinky vodka (This vodka is hand blended with violets, rose petals and ten other botanicals), 1 part rose champagne and a dash of Parfait Amour. We garnished with fresh mini edible flowers

Circus Wedding Ideas

The idea of carnival food at a wedding at first makes you think ummmm no...but, we love the idea of jazzing it up a bit and making carnival food fancy. Sounds like an episode of Top Chef. What do you think? Would you opt for carnival food at a wedding?

Mossin the super duper fabulous chef at Blush created a custom menu for me and the guests raved about the flavors and treats. We had carnival treats- churros, corndogs, French fries, mac and cheese, burgers,

Circus Wedding Ideas