Thursday, November 19, 2009

It's Always Sunny...


One of our favorite couples we worked with this year, Jill and Glenn will be starring together on FX's hilarious comedy series, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Tonight! We've been big fans of this show for a long time, and often find ourselves quoting our favorite episodes and laughing about it weeks later.

We can't wait to see this dynamic duo on TV doing what they do best. Be sure to check it out. Congrats Jill and Glenn, so proud of you two!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

All You Need Is Love: Nick + Missy



This Chicago-based couple was an absolute joy to work with. While living in Chicago and busy with work schedules, Nick and Missy put complete faith in us to create their special day.

Where it all began:
Nick is a musician in a band and Missy is a dancer. Their combined love of music, and the infamous words of The Beatles, gave us a jumping off point in creating their one-of-a-kind, young, fresh, stars and guitars wedding!

It's difficult to predict when or where you will find inspiration, but as soon as we found this amazing, vintage, beaded guitar pin, we knew we had found something special and things quickly began to unfold. The Spanish-style pin gave us an amazing color palette to work with of jades, blues, tangerine oranges and chocolate brown. Adding a few special touches, the pin was transformed into Nick's boutonniere. As intricate and unique as it was, it became one of our favorite details of the day!

The girls looked beautiful in their teal Lynn Lugo dresses.

Twigg Botanicals was yet again amazing. These flower boxes full of sunflowers and roses framed the start of the aisle. They were so incredibly bright and happy! Beatles sheet music was also turned into petal cones, which lined the aisle. Guests showered the couple with the petals after they were pronounced husband and wife.




We used varying sizes and colors of these paper lantern stars and strung them from the ceremony structure Twigg built on the croquet lawn at Rancho Valencia. It was quite breathtaking to look at, the couple standing under the stars with the sun behind them. The stars absolutely glittered.

Love they way they are looking at each other here. I live for these looks.


It was really such a gorgeous, sunny day and the ceremony spot at Rancho Valenica captured it perfectly. It's always fun getting to work with Twigg and the team because we get to collaborate right from the start of the planning and designing process to create details in the florals that highlight the overall feel of the wedding. Twigg's team created these rose petal aisle decorations in the shape of the musical bass and treble clef to hint at the love of music the couple shares.




Because our color palette included bright orange, we incorporated real, fresh oranges into the centerpieces throughout the wedding ceremony and reception. They looked good enough to eat!


The couple got to sneak away and get some great shots by Natalie of Natalie Norton Photography. Even though she was extremely pregnant, Natalie didn't miss a shot...even if she had to climb on chairs or get down on the ground! We are always so impressed with how hard she works and love the way the pictures came out.




Stay tuned for more pictures from Nick and Missy's reception!

Remember when?

Remember when we posted this "What's in my file" for Missy and Nick? We were completely inspired by the vintage mosaic guitar pin that we found (pictured in the upper left), which later became part of Nick's boutonnière thanks to Twigg Botanicals.

We have finally gone through all of their amazing pictures from Natalie Norton Photography and are eager to share them with you all!


Stay tuned to see the pictures from their guitars and paper stars, Beatles-inspired wedding!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Having Your Wedding on Santorini Island

Wouldn't it be great to have a wedding in a foreign country, especially if this country is Greece? As I was looking around, I found many brochures of Santorini Island and I have to admit that this place surely attracted me the most. It looked really ideal to go and see the difference of visiting this place than others and experience staying at one of the many luxury hotels that the island offers.

What matters for you to notice, it is not only those wonderful talks and reviews of other people who have already been there, but how can a couple from a far place can be easily convinced to have their wedding on this island. But that could only be done by a complete wedding package offered by travel agencies or Santorini hotels directly. All the hotels have excellent wedding planners, well experienced that have a variety of ideas on how couples would like to present their special day to their guests. They had a complete list of couturier, jewelers, flower shops, beautician or beauty parlor that can be chosen by the couples according to their needs and wants for the upcoming celebration.

Couples who want to make their wedding very private, away from crowded neighborhoods and gate crashers will surely get the solemnity of the occasion if the wedding will be done inside the hotels. Many of Santorini hotels have a little chapel inside where the ceremony can be done. It would be wiser though for the couple though to take a mini vacation first on the island, choose the right hotel and then talk with the organizer of the wedding. Through this conversation, they will be given specific pointers and tips when, where, what why and how could their wedding become so unique and memorable.

Tips like when is the best time, month or day to get married in Santorini island, as well as where would be the best place to have the reception and the honeymoon, how many quests they will have, what are the excellent things that will be used by both parties, whether it would be a color motif of the dress, kind of flowers, fashion dress, make-up and accessories, if they are going to have a traditional Greek wedding or any other questions that the couple may have.


Source : http://ezinearticles.com/?Having-Your-Wedding-on-Santorini-Island&id=1524181&opt=print

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