Wedding Table Linens & Chair Covers

Sparkling pink table linens, really beautiful and fun! The golden chairs with the mini bouquets and pink sashes on every other chair also seems to go great all together. Very chic yet still doesn't stray far from the wedding banquet hall feel.

 Don't you just absolutely love this?! I mean I love outdoor weddings to begin with - especially with nature-related decor like those floral-like linens! Then with the  crystals hanging from cascading leaves from the trees and some in the glass vase centerpieces, it gives it an even classier finish. From the sizes of the tables though I would say they were probably meant for cocktail hour. I wonder how the actual reception was! 

                         Sheer and shiny and frilly voluminous chair covers. Love love LOVE!!

Pale pink wedding chair covers. Very creative and lovely!

Mother Nature

Nature provides endless inspiration. Fresh, airy, enchanting, natural and frolicsome are some of the        words Susie Coelho uses to describe a Garden wedding in her book.                            

I mean, just this one photo above says it all-a picture says a thousand words, right? It literally looks like twisted vine trees straight from some wild forest or jungle actually grew and shot up from within the table! It all looks so fantastic and surreal but really all they had to do was just simply look outside to make a fantasy come true.  

I also came across these breathtaking photos:

                          

Again, the many elements of nature being used as part of wedding details-this time in a slightly different direction-the wedding dress. I just love this-It can't get more real than this unless you actually use real flowers on the dress-which it actually may even be. Unfortunately I don't have enough info on this dress although I really wish I did, and I'm not going to attempt to guess. However, I can talk about and wanted to point out actually how first off the whole setting is of course no where else but a forest! Then, the white horse fits in so beautifully especially when the model is up against and on it, even with the different contrasts of whites (the dress being more of a cream). And whether the rose-filled train is sprawled across the grass bed, or magnificently cascading down from off the horse like a waterfall of roses it's a gorgeous sentiment to nature.  

Faerie-Garden

         What do you think of when you hear the word 'faerie'? Now envision that incorporated into a wedding (not to be mistaken with a fairy-tale wedding) "A faerie-garden themed wedding". A theme is one of the key foundations of planning a wedding, I believe, since whether you purposefully have one or not, it is centered around the wedding itself. 

         One of the four brides on an episode of TLC's "Four Weddings" had that exact title for her wedding. She wanted and succeeded on having a garden feel to her wedding because "that's where faeries would get married." Matching the theme, her colors were soft pastels, mainly pinks and whites which included her bridesmaids' dresses and the little white laced parasols they each carried. Other key elements to both her faerie theme and to any wedding, really, were first, the centerpieces, that consisted of hanging lanterns surrounded by flowers and lit candles, sitting on top of what seems to be a circular and slightly blinged mirror, to which circling that were miniature faerie figurines and her favors (which would be the second key element) on every table. Her favors were little heart-shaped jars that were each filled with a pink sugar scrub that she called "blessed sugar". 

         Other cute extra touches that she had each included vital ingredients to her overall motif - one of which was "faerie floss" also known as cotton candy! For example, she had a sweets table that included little baggies of pink cotton candy scooped onto wafer cones and adorably hung off a little tree.                    Another cute extra touch that also included the "faerie floss" was the cotton candy martinis - how fun are those! Even the cake had the right details - it actually did look like it was sprinkled with "faerie dust" as the girls pointed out! 

          When you throw in the whimsical looking gazebo laced with vines and flowers in an already beautifully flowered and lush garden, twinkle lights and more lit candles all around, it becomes the picturesque fairy-tale a faerie-lover would always dream of! 

An Enchanted Dress

I was scrolling online through some new designer wedding dresses put up by one of my fav boutiques, when I came across this! It's a pretty simple A-line tulle gown, but for some reason as soon as I saw it I fell in love! Alright so I admit there are some pretty obvious fairy-tale like qualities to it that makes the dress easy to love if you're into that type (and obviously I am), especially with the all the feathers; but there is more to the dress, I think, than the whimsical ambiance. One look at this dress and you can invision yourself in any setting where you feel at one with nature-maybe deep in the middle of a forest with tall moss-covered trees, lush dark greens all around and maybe even a heart encircling the initials of two lovers (i.e. J+R) engraved on the trunk of a nearby tree. Wow, I totally just got lost in that little apparition of mine! 

   I could definitely picture myself having a wedding like that with this dress or one similar to it. Also, I can imagine the dress actually working well with a lot of body types, and wonderfully complimenting the bride especially with the way the feathers on the bodice are artfully put together forming a sweetheart neckline, then later emerging-scathered at first, then more vigorously-out and around the hem leaving a trail of it that follows you around! And lastly, the stunning gathering just below the bodice that makes it seem as if somebody hand-weaved it leaving a wreath of some sort gives it that tiny extra something.

    Other than seeing it as just a tree-hugging rustic type of dress, I also see a wedding dress that fits into the categories of classy, chic, fun, trendy, exotic...and more.  A flow-y hair style and a really cute feather headpiece with a long thin tulle veil, or a gorgeous rustic wreath would be nice touches that would really compliment  the dress. The above is the type of wedding I would tie with this dress, and also right now my dream wedding : )       

David Tutera (love of my life) Tuscany-Themed Wedding

OH EM GEE!! So, who watches - what I think is one of the best shows EVERR - "My Fair Wedding with David Tutera" ?!??!! 'I DOOO'!!! Lol! But really, he has always been, and always will be, I think, my absolute fav, generous most versatile, wedding planner with the best sense of not only style, but etiquette ever!
   So one of the new episodes in this new Season (season 5) is about a bride who wants to replicate a Tuscany wedding, here in Malibu, Ca. Of course, David Tutera steps in to help, changes this and that and adds his little magic touch and wall! The bride and groom have their dream wedding more elaborate, wonderful and BIGGER than any dream they could actually possibly ever dream!
   I don't really get why they didn't do this from the very beginning what with it being a TUSCANY-themed wedding, but they had booked their venue at this pretty nice country-club like location, and David moved it to a gorgeous vineyard! I mean there are a lotttttt of things that Cali does NOT have in comparison to amazing Tuscany, but Vineyards (and an abundance plus gorgeous ones/of them too) we DO have! So thats always step one for me, thats extremely important to get out of the way-the venue-because they book up fast, and at LEAST 6 months to a year in advance (and if its a really nice and popular place...especially really public, then with that timing, you'd be lucky if you actually got it!)!
    She already had a beautiful wedding dress that just complimented her and even the theme really well, but the bridesmaids dresses had to go. The color and style of the bridesmaids dresses he picked were first off, between a Ruby Red that they kept referring to as "Merlot", that was strapless and a bit below-the-knees short; a  long deeper burgundy-ish color that was referred to as "Cabernet", which was a bit more formal/eloquent, and my fav, a one-shoulder design thats deep purple called "Vineyard" that was once again on the shorter side. He ended up going with the "Merlot", but you in planning a Tuscany-themed wedding in Cali like this or anywhere for that matter, you can definitely go with either of those colors, and have all kinds of fun with the designs!
   One thing you should remember about this type of wedding, is that the theme flower is definitely a Sunflower. The way David incorporated and just brought them to life is by making the colors really pop. The way to do that is to contrast them along with a flower or plant thats both more subtle in nature, and in color-he used lavenders-and together with twisted grape vines all along the aisle and alter at the ceremony, and just all around (including in the centerpieces themselves) at the reception, and already you have a very vineyard Tuscany feel!
   Brass candelabras with real green and purple grapes, candles on top and around, sunflowers and other flowers and plants and potted lavenders at the centers and edges of the tables, is what David and his team put together as far as centerpieces go. The tables they put these on were like picnic tables, almost, made out of beautiful woods that some were covered over with gorgeous linens, and some not. Add more greenery, lights, gorgeous chandeliers hanging from trees, and a four-tiered off-white cake with grapes and sunflowers in certain areas on it, and you have yourself yet another classical, perfectly-themed and dreamy David Tutera wedding!!!


I really do hope people who have not had a chance, or are not able to, for whatever reason to actually watch this episode, might kind of benefit from this-just a person who combines her love for writing and weddings (esp David Tutera weddings!) to kind of translate into writing what I actually watched. Or perhaps if you're planning a wedding and you happen to stumble across this and if it actually does serve to be helpful at all, please, please leave a comment just to let me know just so I personally know!
Thank you!

http://www.wetv.com/shows/my-fair-wedding/video