European Paper Beach Wedding Invitations by The Purple Mermaid

The Purple Mermaid loves Beach and Destination Weddings!  We especially love Starfish, Sand Dollars and Sea Shells!  On gorgeous European paper, this beautiful invitation has an embossed border decorated with gems of the ocean.  Priced with the budget conscious bride in mind!  CLICK TO VIEW THIS INVITATION PACKAGE

Hydrangea Wedding Invitations at The Purple Mermaid

The Purple Mermaid features the very finest in unique wedding invitation packages.  This bright white invitation features beautiful 3-dimensional hydrangeas. Delicate paper blossoms with pearl centers adorn the top of this watercolor rendition. A Sheer white pre-tied ribbon hold the layers together.  Plus, our prices are perfect!  CLICK TO VIEW THIS WEDDING INVITATION PACKAGE

Blue Bird Wedding Invitations at The Purple Mermaid~15% Off

The Purple Mermaid features Blue Bird Wedding Invitations!  Show your unique style with this perfect package.  Your invitation wording is winged by a margarita pocket and a blue bird design in spring and cornflower. A bright white invitation is layered on top of a riviera blue background. Enclosure cards are available to complete this ensemble. Plus, you will receive 15% off your entire order automatically during checkout - no codes required.  CLICK TO VIEW THIS PACKAGE

Die Cut Butterfly Wedding Invitations at The Purple Mermaid

The Purple Mermaid features Die Cut Butterfly Invitations ~ Your names peek through a die cut in the front of this European paper with a subtle butterfly pattern. The front of the invitation is cut slightly short to let the inside show around the edges to frame its unique shape.  Lined inner envelopes in the color of your choice are an inexpensive way to add something special to your invitations.  CLICK TO VIEW THIS INVITATION PACKAGE

Tropical Symbols by Chloe B

The Purple Mermaid presents the Chloe B Wedding Invitation Collection!  You get 15% off automatically during checkout on most products!  Perfect! Your wording is printed on a white card with a design of your choice at the top. A larger olive card backs your printed white card to make an amazing statement.

Zebra Wedding Invitations at The Purple Mermaid

The Purple Mermaid offers these trendy, eye-catching invitations that are perfect for you!  Show your wild side with this adorable invitation. The border is made out of black foil zebra print.
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The Frozen Slushy Summer Wedding Signature Cocktail

One way to save on the bar bill at your wedding reception is to serve a signature drink to wedding guests instead. The signature drink can be made ahead of time and since you know exactly what ingredients are required to make the drinks, you can limit the bar tab of an open bar from ringing up.

The Frozen Slushy

Ingredients:
2 cups white sugar
7 cups water
4 tea bags
2 cups boiling water
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate (12 fl oz.)
1 can frozen orange juice concentrate (12 fl oz.)
2 cups vodka

Pour water into a large saucepan and bring it to a boil. Add sugar and stir until it's dissolved. Then set aside and let it cool. Place teabags in 2 cups of boiling water and allow it to soak to the desired strength. In a large bowl, mix sugar water mixture, tea, lemonade and orange juice concentrate. Stir in vodka. Place mixture in freezer overnight. When ready to scoop some of the mixture into a tall glass and pour any clear, carbonated beverage over it (Sprite, 7Up, Sierra Mist, Ginger Ale, etc.).

Blue Lemon Wedding Signature Cocktail at Perfect Party Press

Cocktail hour is even more fun with a signature drink that expresses both the bride and groom! For all you brides planning the perfect cocktail or signature drink to match your wedding, this great signature drink mixes color and perfect presentation.  A delicious blend of the Lemon Drop Mixer, vodka, Chambord, and Blue Curacao.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 parts Stirrings Lemon Drop Mixer
1 1/2 parts Smirnoff Vodka
1/4 parts Chambord
1/4 parts Blue Curacao
Garnish with Lemon Twists

Signature Drinks at Perfect Party Press

Perfect Party Press suggests a Signature Drink for your wedding.  A great little creative flair you can add to your wedding is to have a signature drink available for your guests to sip on during cocktail hour or throughout the evening of your reception. It's easier to plan out a signature drink to go with any theme you might be having for your wedding, but even if your wedding is theme-free then pick out a cocktail or mixed drink that you really love and give it a creative name. The name can be something catchy and unqiue that best descibes you as a couple or even something as simple as incorporating your favorite colors or your honeymoon destination. Let your bartenders/caterers know ahead of time about your signature drink and be sure they know how to make it. Make a display card next to all of the bars with a sign about the signature drink, what the recipe/ingredients are, and maybe even the inspiration behind the name of the drink.

The Butterfly Signature Drink

The Butterfly Signature Drink is perfect for your wedding, rehearsal dinner or party!

Ingredients:
Broker’s Gin shaken with crushed gooseberries and a splash of white cranberry juice, garnished with a gooseberry, right.


Directions:
Add 6 gooseberries and mash, then add to a Cocktail Shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and add 1 ½ oz. Broker’s gin, ½ oz. lemon juice, ½ oz. simple syrup and 2 oz. Ocean Spray white cranberry juice.

Shake and strain into a martini glass and garnish with a gooseberry.

Purple Baby Shower Invitations

Is Purple her favorite color?  Throw a shower for the Mommy-to-be with this fun purple invitation! We recommend using dark ink colors. Invitations measure 6 1/4" x 4 5/8".  CLICK TO VIEW THESE INVITATIONS ~ We have a gigantic collection of baby shower invitations to choose from too!

Gorgeous in Green Champagne Cocktail Signature Drink

Signature drinks at a wedding or festive party are the newest trend.  No need to get complex, as this simple to make signature drink has only 2 ingredients.  Simply name it something catchy to go along with your theme.

Here are the two ingredients:


Top shelf Champagne
Midori

Mix 1/2 part champagne and 1/2 part Midori in a pitcher. Chill and serve in crystal flutes. Perfect signature drink for your party or wedding!

Pink Passion Wedding Signature Cocktail

Design your own signature drink (with your own signature color) to include as a cocktail at your reception.   This one is a  a spin on the traditional Cosmo, add a Lemon twist.  This is your chance to be creative, have something of your own and have fun.

Ingredients:
2 ounces Marani Vodka
1 ounce Pomegranate Juice
1 ounce Fresh Lemon Juice

Combine in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Purple Fiesta Signature Cocktail Recipe

Many people will be planning parties of all sorts this season. What better way to add to your party decor than to have signature cocktail. Signature cocktails add to the color and decor or theme of the party and can also save you money on liquor in the end. Here are few signature cocktails you can use for your next themed event:

Ingredients:
Absolut Raspberri
1 part Blue Curacao
1 part Grenadine
1 part Gin
Blueberry
Raspberry

Fill a sling glass to the rim with ice cubes. Pour absolut raspberri, blue curacao, grenadine and plymouth gin into a mixing glass. Fill the mixing glass with dry ice cubes and stir. Strain the drink into the sling glass. Garnish with a blueberry (on cocktail stick) and a raspberry (whole).

The Wedding Toast Signature Drink

Make the toast at your wedding extra special with this great signature drink.


Ingredients:
1 part Bourbon
1 part ginger ale
1 part simple syrup
Juice of ½ lime
4 skinned cucumber slices
5 sage leaves (without stems)
Dash of bitters

Muddle fruit, add ingredients (except ginger ale) shake with ice strain into a martini glass and top with ginger ale. Garnish with a floating sage leaf.

ABSOLUT PEARTINI Signature Drink

ABSOLUT PEARS has introduced a signature Peartini cocktail. It has a stimulating and full-bodied taste that is soft and ripe with a long and fruity aftertaste. The aroma is natural, containing mellow pears with a hint of sweet almond notes, adding a sensual energy to this otherwise demure fruit.


Ingredients:
3 parts ABSOLUT PEARS
2 parts white cranberry juice
1 ½ parts lime cordial

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a well-chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a
pear slice and blueberries as shown

Purple Orchid Signature Drink Recipe

The Purple Orchid is the perfect signature drink!
Ingredients:

- 1 1/4 parts Grey Goose L'Orange vodka
- 3/4 parts creme de violette
- 3/4 parts lemon juice
- 1/2 parts simple syrup
- 1 dash peach bitters or orange bitters

Garnish: 1 edible orchid or violet flower

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add all ingredients. Shake vigorously until outside of shaker is frosted and beaded with sweat. Strain into martini cocktail glass and garnish with flower.

Very Sexy Martini Recipe

The Very Sexy Martini is a real party favorite ~ plus it's yummy!

Ingredients:
1 ½ oz – Belvedere Cytrus ½ oz

Crème de Cassis 1 ½ oz
Fresh Sour Mix

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.

Add in marinated wild berries (raspberries and blackberries marinated in simple syrup).

Top with Moët & Chandon champagne (or your favorite Champagne)

Brazilian Wax Signature Drink Recipe

Rum is one of the most popular distilled beverages used to make a variety of cocktails, and there are many grades of rum. Cachaca is specifically fermented and distilled in Brazil, and is the country’s signature drink. Cachaca is pressed from sugarcane vs. other rums which are commonly produced from molasses and sugarcane, and then aged in oak barrels. Consider this simple signature drink for your next South American or Carnival-themed event.

Ingredients:
2 oz. Cabana Cachaça
2 oz. Pineapple juice
Splash of club soda

In an ice-filled glass, add equal parts cabana Cachaça and pineapple juice, add a splash of club soda and stir. If desired, add passion fruit puree.

Pink Grapefruit Cocktail

Our Pink Grapefruit Cocktail is tart and refreshing ~ the perfect cocktail for a pool party or barbeque.

Ingredients:

3 1/2 ounces fresh pink grapefruit juice, plus grapefruit wedge for garnish
1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce orange liqueur
2 ounces vodka
Directions:Shake the grapefruit and lemon juice, orange liqueur, vodka and 1 tablespoon crushed ice in a cocktail shaker. Add a touch more fruit juice or vodka to taste. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with grapefruit. Enjoy!

Blushing Bride Signature Drink for Wedding or Engagement Party

Our Blushing Bride Signature Cocktail is the perfect choice for your engagement party or your wedding.

Ingredients:
1 oz. 10 Cane Rum
1 oz. Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
1/2 oz. Fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 oz. Mint-infused simple syrup

Directions:
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish: mint sprig and lemon twist

Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri Recipe

Whether you are creating frozen margaritas or daiquiris, here are a few basic tips that will help you get the most from your blender.


Use frozen fruit: For most frozen drinks having a key ingredient like fruit already frozen will help you get the consistency in the final product that you want. Even thirty minutes in the freezer for most fruit will help. This also allows you to store unused fruit for later use.

Add the liquid ingredients first: For most frozen drinks add the liquid (ideally chilled) ingredients first, then the frozen fruit and finally the ice or frozen yogurt.

Start the blender at a low speed and increase speed to get the desired texture. Too thicken the drink, just add ice. Too thin? Add more fruit or liquid

Strawberry daiquiri (for two)


Ingredients:

1/4 cup light rum
2 teaspoons lime juice (ideally fresh)
2 cups of fresh frozen strawberries
2 cups of vanilla ice cream.

Place the rum and juice in the blender and mix. Then add the strawberries and ice cream and continue to blend. Start the blender on a low speed untilblending begins, then increase the speed. Pour into two cocktail or specialty glasses and garnish with a half strawberry or strawberry fan.

Lemon Drop Martini Recipe

Lemon Drop Martini

1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce orange liqueur (Triple Sec, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, etc.)
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 ounce freshly-squeezed lemon juice
Ice cubes
Superfine sugar for dipping
Twisted peel of lemon

After Dinner Mint Signature Drink

A perfect signature drink idea is the After Dinner Mint:
Ingredients:
3/4-shot of Bailey's
3/4-shot of Kahlua
1/4-shot of crème de menthe. 

This great signature drink is a dessert-y after-dinner drink.  It's like drinking your dessert as opposed to eating it, and sometimes, it's less calories, depending on whatever dessert you would order.  You don't taste the alcohol. Just the sweet!

Bananas Foster Cocktail as a Wedding Signature Drink

One of the best ways to keep your wedding budget on track is to tame your bar budget.  Cash bars at a wedding are not an option.  So how does one handle the cost of an open bar without going broke? Two words...signature drink.  Choose a beer or wine that you love and then a signature drink. In addition to water and a few soda, that's all you really need to make your guests happy. Signature drinks are great - they can match your wedding decor, or be named after the couple, or symbolize a special memory for the couple. Here are a possible ideas for your wedding's signature drink:
Ingredients:
Ice
1 shot vanilla vodka
1 shot banana liqueur
1/2 shot butterscotch schnapps
1/2 shot chocolate liqueur
Splash light cream
Garnish with banana, sliced in 1/2 lengthwise

Directions:
In a rocks glass filled with ice, stir together all ingredients and garnish with banana.

Signature Cocktail Recipe for Your Next Event

Cocktails represent a significant portion of the cost for any event, so it’s important for event planners to be familiar with cocktails and drink recipes when planning a reception. By including a signature drink into special events, it helps make the occasion both memorable and cost effective.   But there are many different cocktails to choose: vodka, rum, tequila and more. The trick is to choose a signature cocktail that complements the meal while pleasing the crowd with your selection. 

For those wanting a trendy vodka martini cocktail, Cosmopolitans are a favorite. When vodka makers elbowed their way into the gin-inspired martini world, it created a whole new world of possibilities. And then came the Cosmo, a vodka martini with fruit flavors. For a sophisticated cocktail party, try this one:

Recipe:
2 oz. Tito's Handmade Vodka
1 oz. Orange Liqueur
2 oz. Cranberry
Splash of Blood Orange Italian Soda
Twist of lemon

Combine first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker until well chilled. Strain into a martini glass top with splash of Blood Orange Italian Soda and garnish with twist of lemon.

Pairing Red Wine with Food

In a perfect world a food recommendation would be included on the back of a wine bottle. Fortunately we can give you the insiders tips to getting a wine and food combination just right. Barberra red wine is perfect with Pizza, pasta, lasagne and lemon chicken. When eating fish or tomatoes, Cabernet Sauvignon should be avoided. This wine is better suited with chocolate, roast lamb, steak and duck. Merlot is perfectly matched with grilled meats such as barbecue meat and chicken. Avoid sweet food with this wine. Pinot Noir is not well matched with spicy foods such as Indian, instead it is ideal with Salmon, tuna, lamb and duck. Shiraz is great with a meal of barbecue, peppered red meats and sausage but should be avoided with fish.

Pairing White Wine with Food

When creating a wine and food combination, Chardonnay is best complimented with Veal, Salmon, grilled cheese and white sauce. You should avoid spicy foods with this drink. Gewurztraminer is ideal when matched with Pork, Chinese foods and Swiss cheese but must be avoided with light foods. Pinot Grigio is not an ideal option for Tomatoes and spicy food as this combination may create a rather unpleasant taste. Riesling is a very dry wine and perfect when teamed with Veal, Shrimp, cream sauces and Turkey. Sweet food should be avoided with Riesling and Sancerre however.