Wine Trolley Wedding: Stop #1 – The Ceremony

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San Luis Obispo held a special place in the couple’s hearts and made for a perfect launch pad for this “Wine Trolley Wedding”. Incorporating the couples love of wine, food and gorgeous Paso Robles vineyard lined landscape lead to the invention of this multi-stop Wine Trolley Wedding. As the wheels started turning and vendors came on board, the excitement grew as we realized we were pioneering this multi-venue traveling trolley event.

For the ceremony, we found a site on Robert Hall Winery that had never been used before, with an ancient oak framing the vineyard setting. The bride made a grand entrance by walking through a suspended ruffled pergola placed at the beginning of the aisle way instead of the traditional placement at the end of it. Grass sod covered in white petals served as the aisle way down to the lucky groom and was framed by white picket fences dripping with flowers and wine bottles painted in high gloss white for a modern spin on the vineyard setting.

Programs were printed directly onto brown paper lunch bags with the Apache blessing and filled with horns that said to “blow” and confetti that said to “throw”. The bride wore glamorous Christian Dior heels while the groom wore funky rock n’ roll Mark Nason cowboy boots with velvet accents!

Following the ceremony, the guests toasted the new couple that had their own colossal couture wine goblets, which served as their tasting cups for the day!

From the ceremony location and tasting toast, to a boxed lunch cave tasting, to a wacky wig wearing winery and ending up at a luxurious reception site, we realized that we had the opportunity to design four different unique settings! The trolley, the lunch and reception are coming up next…

Event Design, Coordination & Graphic Design: Lollipop Events & Designs
Photography: Mike Larson Photography
Ceremony & First Tasting: Robert Hall Winery
Florals: Lori Boe Floral Design

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Wine Trolley Wedding: The Invitations

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To set the tone for the Wine Trolley Wedding (see the Save the Dates & Rehearsal Dinner below), we designed booklet style invitations. Inspired by the bride and grooms love of modern design icon Jonathan Adler, we incorporated a contemporary pattern that was foil printed in white onto wood grain paper.

The booklet contained the itinerary, a wine trolley map and illustrations of two owls sitting in a tree fusing the rustic country setting with a modern funky edge and playing off of the old classic song “Dustin & Brittany sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g…”

Photography: Sarah Yates

The RSVP card even had a place for guests to write their song recommendations for the wine trolley ride and ceremony. At the ceremony we gave some of the songs to the DJ who dedicated the particularly funny ones to the guests who had requested them!

Jan

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Wine Trolley Wedding: Colorful Welcome Dinner

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The wine trolley weekend fun was started off with a welcome/rehearsal dinner for this San Luis Obispo wedding. To keep things interesting we went a completely different design direction from the rustic/mod wedding to come and instead welcomed guests with a Latin style affair.

Guests were served pitchers of mojitos, traditional Brazilian appetizers, and cupcakes in a vibrant array of colors. Fun dice games, and props were set at each table to serve as comical “ice breakers”for the events to come. The guests had a blast playing with the silly props, and rolling the dice to “stand up and dance” or “give the couple a funny toast”.

Rod iron chairs and tables in a rainbow of bright colors from lime green to cherry red were topped with polka dot and striped vases, flowers and fringed blankets in a fluorescent palette of squares. Balloons were strung at varying heights and up-lit to give the impression of floating lanterns. The overall effect was whimsical, festive and got the guests excited for the wedding weekend to come!

Event Design & Coordination: Lollipop Events & Designs

Photography: Mike Larson

Jan

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Wine Trolley Wedding: Save the Date Invitations

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You may have seen a glimpse of this wonderful Western wine trolley wedding on Style Me Pretty. This week we will be featuring all of the design details from this multi-location event! San Luis Obispo held a special place in the heart of this couple, they wanted a rustic wine trolley wedding on the coast of central California, and their save the date invitations set the tone for the festive day to come. We started by designing the front of the invitation to look like a country western music poster pronouncing the big bash!

Photography: Sarah Yates

The back of the invitation provided a fun map of the details to come with twists and turns and an eclectic mix of typography. No detail was left unturned, even the envelope had a large horse shoe with the love birds perched upon it.

Tune in the rest of the week for details of the wedding invitations, the latin style rehearsal dinner, photos of the ceremony, lunch stop and the reception!

Jan

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Day of the Dead Invitations

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This utterly unique couple wanted to showcase their personalities and individualism through their invitations. They gave us complete creative freedom! We created a skull design out of icons that represented both of them individually, and together. The Groom loves: His Italian heritage, being a musician in his band, music, mustaches, pizza, beer, and his bride-to-be! The Bride loves: Her Mexican heritage, being a hair stylist, margaritas, tacos, maracas, Mickey Mouse and her groom-to-be! Their actual tattoos were incorporated in the design and their initials took the place of the teeth underneath the handlebar mustache.

We hand sewed buttons for eyes and laced blue and red string around the invite and around the eyes for the closure. Who says you have to tone down your true colors for your special day? Staying true to who you are and letting your personalities shine through is very cool, chic and oh so Rock n’ Roll!