Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend! I just got an email from the lovely Katie Moos that the photos from a wedding I did a few weeks ago are going to be released today. Here’s a sneak peek image of the cake and seashell letters I made by hand (I bought Styrofoam letters from Moskatels and hot glued sea shells onto them).
Stay tuned for more of this lovely wedding…
A couple of weeks ago Holly Hatam of TearDrop Weddings, an invitation boutique, contacted me about doing a feature on my work as a wedding planner and event designer.
You can check out the posts here and here. Holly likes to use real weddings as inspiration for her designs. Here is her drawing based on my wedding:
I knew that renting any type of fancy linen (from BBJ or Wildflower) for runners was going to be expensive and they weren’t going to have exactly what I wanted. So I decided to make them myself. I found fabric in downtown LA, a beautiful lush green silk and a black and white damask flock. The flock was pricey, but I liked the rich texture it had compared to the flat damask. The green silk was a whopping $8 a yard.
I brought my florist, Kim from Collage, from LA because I had worked with her for the past three years and her arrangements are always stunning, she truly has a talent for blending colors and shapes. I told her I wanted succulents, orchids, black calla lilies and hydrangea.
I really wanted to highlight the contrast between the masculine succulents and the dainty hydrangea. Likewise, Kim added pods and roses which had the same effect.
For my bouquet, Kim wired in mini succulents and the groom wore one for his boutonnière. I loved my bouquet, it was the perfect size and it was just stunning against my dress. Enjoy!
For my wedding I knew I wanted a look that was simple, organic, elegant, and modern. My original colors were brown, chartreuse, coral, and white. But as time went by I got more and more sick of brown, so I started to play with the idea of classic black and white. I ended up with several shades of green, a rich, Kelly green (no pun intended), a celadon green and crisp black and white.
We are a boutique event design company based in Santa Barbara. We love creating designs that reflect the couple down to the smallest detail.
Kelly is a design fan. She loves event and floral design and is thrilled that she gets to call that her job. She has a pretty serious fabric and container collection and is a self-confessed shoeaholic.
