Archive for July, 2010

Wedded Whimsy

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

DYING DYING DYING DYING DYING DYING DYING.  That’s all I can say.  This wedding was unbelievable in every way.  Perfect clients.  Perfect family.  Perfect vendors.  Perfect location.  Perfect design.  I was in love with every step of the way.  Our inspiration began with a kite.  Then we started seeing kites popping up all over the blog-o-sphere, so we kind of modified it a bit to everything cute paper.  Let me just break down some design aspects for you:

Invitations:  We started with a kite.  And BOY, did Posh Paperie NAIL it!  They even were complete with a cute kite “tail” that came off of the invite!  LOVED THEM!

Tables: Crisp, white linen scattered with colored bird houses, and vintage milkglass full of whimsical florals by JL_Designs.

Dessert Display:  Sweet and Saucy’s amazingness (as usual) with a backdrop of helium filled balloons creating our color scheme and funky decor style.

Guest Book:  Hand crafted kite, covered in vintage fabric.  We also cut a bunch of strips of fabric for the guests to “sign” and then tie to the “tail” of our kite.  LOVED IT.

Ceremony Magic:  TONS of handmade pinwheels, flowers, kites, and more covering the altar.  Sweet floral print fabric lining the aisle and pinwheels on sticks lining the chairs.  Mr. Haack was KEY in the ceremony decor installation.  It would NOT have come together so beautifully without him.

Party Favor:  You wouldn’t have known it, but this was a 4th of July wedding, so I snuck in some fun party blowers.  I also sneakily handed them out to the bridal party to blow loud and clear when the newlyweds had their first kiss in the ceremony.  It ended up being one of my favorite aspects of the wedding!

ALSO, Green Wedding Shoes featured this wedding today, so go over there and check out their AMAZING post!

VENDOR LOVE:

Photography: Ashley Rose
Venue: Chateau Le Dome at Saddlerock Ranch
Hair and Makeup: Heather Donahue (Guy Matthew’s Salon in Agoura)
Bridesmaid Dress: all the girls picked their own (Maid of Honor’s is Betsey Johnson)
Hairpieces: Custom made by Jesi Haack
Groom Suit: Tommy Hilfiger, Ties: Countess Mara from Overstock.com
Cinematography: Doug Traer
Event Design + Planner: Jesi Haack
Floral Design: JL Designs
Invitations/Paper Goods: Posh Paperie
Cake/Dessert Table: Sweet and Saucy
Music: Epic Entertainment
Catering: Monrose Catering


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Homemade Paper Flowers

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Ok, so I have had an OVERWHELMING response to these paper flowers.  I was sitting on my couch, brainstorming a way to make a backdrop for a wedding to match the brilliance that Posh Paperie created for one of my clients.  I wanted to match the funky yellow flowers in the corner of the invites.  I dipped into my craft garage and pulled out some construction paper and a stapler.  I just started cutting some shapes and ended up figuring out these fun flowers.

Here is a DIY for all of you asking!

SUPPLIES:

Poster board

Construction paper

Scissors

Stapler

STEP ONE:

Trace out a shape of your leaf on the thick posterboard.  Use the poster board as the larges layer of leaves as it will provide a sturdy base for your flower.  Any shape will do, I just tried to match the flowers on the invites, so that is how I came up with this particular shape.

STEP TWO:

Cut out your leaf and use it as a stencil for the rest.  Cut out as many leaves as you need for the flower (I used five leaves per flower).

STEP THREE:

Do the same with all of the other sizes and types of paper you have.  I used poster board for the large petals, construction paper for the medium petals and tissue paper for the small petals.

STEP FOUR:

Place each paper leaf on top of each other in order of size.  You can use several sheets of the tissue paper leaves to create dimension and fluff.

STEP FIVE:
Fold the base of the petal like a taco and staple.
STEP SIX:
Repeat steps 1 through 5 for all of your petals.  Then staple each petal to each other to complete the flower.
COMPLETE:

Some places and ways I have used these flowers:
Utterly Engaged Issue 10 cover
Fun backdrop for April Wedding:
And my most recent whimsy fantasy wedding:
photo by Ashley Rose

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Orange Crush

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Orange.  Blue.  Who would put those together?  Well, we went for it, and I think I fell in love!  Katie and Cameron were AMAZING and just let us loose with our ideas.  DREAM. COME. TRUE.

Orange, the color AND the fruit.  Oranges as seat assignments.  Oranges in the bridal bouquet.  Cuties in the bridesmaids bouquets.  Kumquats in the groomsmen boutonnieres.  Hand crafted, urban “orange” tree as a guest book.  Orange clusters on our ceremony backdrop.  Orange circle carpets scattered about.  Striped orange aisle runner.  Hanging oranges from the chairs.  Oranges in the centerpieces.  Oranges EVERYWHERE!!!

LOVED every minute of this experience.  To see it featured on Ruffled Blog go here.

AMAZING vendor team:

Venue:  Fullerton Arboretum

Photography: Aaron Shintaku

Dessert Display: Kelsey Richards

Event & Floral Design: Jesi Haack Weddings

DJ: Epic Entertainment

Paper Goods: Rachel Simonsen

Dress: Maggie Sottero from Ferndales Bridal

Bridesmaid Dress: Anthropologie

Bride hair piece: Ban.do

Hair & makeup:  Bellagio Salon Newport Beach

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