Feb

26

Aisle Style: The Imaginative Indie Bride

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A step-by-step guide for the indie bride. This bride stylishly struts her offbeat style. She supports independent jewelry companies like Prismera Design, who make beautiful botanical and nature-inspired jewelry and Ouma for custom tulle dress designs. This bride dares to be different…

The Bridesmaid Dresses: Dress your maids in these unique and chic ‘Queens Crouquet Ground’ custom party dresses tinted in any color for the bride who loves wearable art. Choose from any color including antique pink, blushy peach, light aqua periwinkle or give each gal a different hue! by Ouma; $325.00

The Jewelry: Wear a Titanopsis necklace, cut from a sheet of metal and then cast in bronze, this succulent inspired piece invokes the quality of hand wrought artifacts of an earlier period, by Prismera Design; $106.00

Wear layered cherish bangles.. These delicate yet sculptural pieces are best worn layered and are now available in sets. Pile them on and combine the bronze and sterling silver bangles for a stunningly unique look with your gown, by Prismera Design; sets from $130.00 – $250.00

The Setting: Set the table with handmade plates created from vintage plates and stencils, DIY instructions via Bloesem.

A true Indie-pendent bride will be sure to serve her guest fair trade coffee from stylishly hand illustrated ‘to go’ coffee cups sure to make those boring Starbucks cups envious.

Feb

25

Part II: Love Notes Wild Seaside Garden

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In case you missed our wild seaside garden infused with song lyrics and love ‘notes’ on Ruffled, we have been posting all the photos again (see Part I) plus some new additions. This day was filled with romance set on the sunny seashore, and surrounded by a plethora of overgrown twisted trees and a garden of wild flowers…

A “message in a bottle” – The Police, made it’s way into this romantic day…

Cake Table – Another love ‘note’ made an appearance with “How sweet it is to be loved by you” – James Taylor. The table was adorned with a peach cake accented with textured flowers and an antique silver pitcher filled with a wild gathering of peach and rose toned blooms. Also making an appearance were sweet little ants on a log made of gourmet chocolate truffles.

A Book of Love was also propped on the sweets table, with another love ‘note’. “I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything. I love it when you sing to me And you, You can sing me anything The book of love is long and boring And written very long ago It’s full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes And things we’re all too young to know But I love it when you give me things And you, You ought to give me wedding rings And I, I love it when you give me things And you, You ought to give me wedding rings” – Peter Gabriel, Book Of Love

Gift for Him: Serenade your sweetheart with this great gift idea: make a piñata out of old music sheets! Really play up the love ‘notes’ theme by having him channel his inner child and hit the piñata until actual love notes flutter to the ground! Love was literally floating in the air with this gift. Handwritten notes like “will you be my valentine?”,  favorite love song lyrics and inside jokes will make this the most personal and thoughtful gift you could give, while allowing your sweetheart to channel his inner child. Ren and Kiptyn could not contain their giggles as he wore a pink velvet blindfold while blindly swinging.

Gift for her: Her heart was fluttering as gave her a key box with a note that said ‘you’ve got the key to my heart – pull here’. At the end of the pink velvet ribbon she found her gift, a gorgeous vintage bracelet.

The texture of Ren’s soft pink hued Alisa Benay gown dreamily resembled the fluttering love ‘notes’ of the delicate pinata.

For dessert Kiptyn was given a bowl of sweet passionate peaches that read “You’re the cutest thing that I ever did see, I really love your peaches want to shake your tree” – Steve Miller Band

Pinata DIY - blow up balloon (the oversized balloons work best), soak newspaper strips in water and glue, then cover the balloon in them. Cut music sheets into squares and curl the ends of them around a pencil (this will give them the curled shape). After the balloon dries, cover it in the cut music sheets. Pop the balloon and cut a small section to fill up with the love ‘notes’. Reattach the cut piece and cover it with the music sheets.

This day truly hit a high note!

Between both posts, how many song lyrics/love ‘notes’ can you count that made an appearance into the day?!

Feb

24

Part I: Love Notes Wild Seaside Garden

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The Beatles said it best with “All you need is love, love, love is all you need.” Whether you are dating, engaged, or getting married, it is all about sending the right message with good old-fashioned love notes. Hit even higher notes by playing on love notes by infusing musical lyrics into your sweet wedding weekend. We created a play on Love ‘notes’ by handwriting actual song lyrics throughout the day.

The Bachelorette’s, Kiptyn Locke was our groom in training for this special Valentine wedding shoot with a little help by our gorgeous model, friend and stand-in-bride, Ren. Helping to make single ladies out there swoon and beg cupid for a just a little pinch…

The Setting: For this Valentines Day Inspired Soiree we created a romantically wild seaside garden with overgrown roots, driftwood and birch wood in a forest of twisted trees overlooking the pacific blue. This was truly a sweetheart table for two. The white washed wood and birch leg table was covered in anemones, spray roses and dusty miller leaves. Simple candles, sticks, shells and old keys were placed in the center for a dreamy, romantic effect. The menu sang it’s own love song with items labeled:

To Drink: Love Potion #9 “I didn’t know if it was day or night, I started kissing everything in sight” – The Clovers
To Eat: Cheeseburger in Paradise “Heaven on earth with an actual onion slice” – Jimmy Buffet
For Dessert: Cherry Pie “Tastes so good make a grown man cry, sweet cherry pie” – Warrant

To maintain the wild seaside garden setting, instead of placing all of the arrangements on the table we placed a birch log on the ground covered in pale peach carnations, dusty miller leaves, tulips and ranunculus.

Ren was blushing in pinks with rosy cheeks. Cupid shot her with his arrow as she clutched a bouquet of tulips, carnations and orchid root, while wearing a dreamy ruffled peach hued gown and adorned with rose quartz jewelry.  Kiptyn wore a cream suit and chocolate brown bowtie while looking debonair with a boutonniere of petite champagne roses with branch accents and a bleached peacock feather.

A rustic teak trough on the side of the table was propped on a moss covered frame and served as the wine bucket. A decanter was perched on a sea of beach rocks and filled with strawberry wine with a hand written love ‘note’ tied with twine around the neck that read “My first taste of love oh bittersweet, green on the vine, like strawberry wine” – Deana Carter

Even the tree was adorned  and accessorized with a blushing bouquet and a fan made out of old music sheets.

Feb

22

Save the Dates

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For these ultra chic and sophisticated Save the Dates we wanted to achieve a level of luxury while still having fun. The gorgeous textured cream card stock was set off by intricate silver foiling of a baroque bold pattern and a modern large typeface. The same baroque pattern was also repeated in a light transparency onto the dark chocolate brown belly band along with silver foiled accents.

Photography: Sarah Yates

What made these Save the Dates so unique was the way it was read. To add a level playfulness about it we created a vertical belly band that covered all of the event information below. When the recipient held the piece in their hand they read “SAVE” from the foiling on the card and then on the belly band it read “your memories for toasting”, “your voice for laughing” and “your feet for dancing”. Then when the belly band was removed you would read the entire title of “Save the Date”.   How about some other fun ideas you could translate this design into? Like “SAVE: Water…drink champagne!”

Feb

19

Custom Bouquet Giveaway Winner!

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It’s time to announce the winner, but first a little bit about the designer… The stunning Diamond Willow bouquets can be purchased  in both natural and bleached bouquets of any size. Kristi also designed the hair pieces and bridesmaid adornments for her wedding. Additionally she has a Prim Collection that would be perfect for extra fabulous fashionable bridesmaids!

Kristi said of her collection, “my own wedding has inspired me to make custom feather bouquets.this timeless elegance will be treasured by you and your family as a piece of art that you can pass down, or selfishly keep all to yourself…”

The bouquets are unique, eco-friendly and keepsakes. If you look at your dress and jewelry as a treasured piece to pass down, why not your bouquet too?
We had Kristi, the designer of Diamond Willow choose the winner of the custom bouquet giveaway contest.

She loved every comment and finally chose Syliva who said “I absolutely died when I saw this bouquet! Jason and I are trying to compromise on our bouquet expectations. He wants something lush that we will keep as a memento; I don’t want a bunch of dead flowers to hold onto for the evening! This is the perfect fit for us. It will look at home with our outdoor/nature focused wedding and we will have something beautiful to keep as a memento (that isn’t dead flowers)!” Sylvia was chosen because Kristi designed this bouquet for the exact same reason. She did not want dead flowers after the event, she wanted a keepsake.

Contact Kristi immediately to add a bit of drama to your wedding ensemble, an eco-friendly piece and a treasure to pass down to loved ones..

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