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Wedding Experts: Planning a Delicious Menu

Advice from Menu and Event Expert, Victoria Campbell. Victoria Campbell, general manager at Ramekins Culinary School, Events, and Inn has established an amazing event and hospitality team that she leads. Having been in the hospitality business for more than 25 years, her expertise and attention to detail assure every event is beautiful, elegantly served, locally […]
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Wedding Experts: Finding the Perfect Venue

Venue expert Kristen Stimpert shows how to have some flexibility with your vision so that you can allow your vendors to really showcase the region and the experience it can create for you and your guests.

Photo courtesy Tia for Tia & Claire Studio.

How to Plan the Perfect Sonoma Wedding

As an established wedding planner in Sonoma, Kelly McLesky-Dolata believes party planning should be stress-free. Here's how to have a perfect Sonoma wedding.

Don't have all your Christmas gifts line up? Here are some local stores to get those 11th hour gifts, while still being thoughtful. This is Copperfield's Books, it has gifts for all ages. (Crista Jeremiason / Press Democrat)

Last-minute Gift Shopping in Sonoma County

The Christmas season has a tendency of sneaking up on us, especially if you aren’t the type to start planning for it in July. You could do the mundane gift card or run to the ATM for some fast cash. Or you can give the appearance that you planned for the holidays. Here are some […]

Healdsburg Author Gives Christmas Trees Flight

To Carrie Brown, a Christmas tree is like a mannequin to a great designer — a naked shape just begging to be dressed. Every Christmas for more than 20 years, the owner of the rustic and retro Jimtown Store on the outskirts of Healdsburg “concocts new flights of fancy” with her own tree. “I love […]
Photography by Chris Hardy

A Kenwood House Worth the Wait

The 6,300-square-foot home, which is part Cape Cod and part American Craftsman, is nestled on a 5-acre parcel in Kenwood, in the heart of the Valley of the Moon.

Photography by Chris Hardy

Healdsburg Artist Creates Modern Decor with Candles

To Dundee Butcher, candlelight is as crucial to a party as great wine and food, especially during the holiday season. “Candles bring light and softness to a table,” said the Texas native who now calls Healdsburg home. “Just like a room without flowers feels dead, I feel the same way about candles. It’s warm. It’s […]