Thursday, August 21, 2008

Baby Shower Invites!

Not totally wedding related but it's still something worth sharing. After all, who doesn't like cute and original stationery?! My friend Sara who owns Stinkerpants Designs hadn't started her design business back when I got married. But when I saw all of her adorable illustrations I knew I wanted her to design my baby shower invites.

Check it out!

Sara and I were also grabbing lunch a few weeks ago and I was telling her about this cute little church I was at for a wedding set up. After talking more we discovered that we shared the same clients because she made Thank You notes for them with the picture of the Church! She just posted pictures of them on her blog.


Sara does all sorts of hand dandy work - I love the Save The Dates and
Thank You Cards! I also heard she does Invites now.




You can see more of her illustrations and examples here.


Monday, August 18, 2008

I & C

Irene and Charles had their ceremony at Golden Gate Park and their reception at the Marine's Memorial Club in San Francisco. Their colors were pink and green!

Bridesmaid Bouquets

Bridesmaid Bouquet Close Up: Roses, callas, freesia and spray roses



Bride's Bouquet: Roses, callas, green cymbidium orchids and freesia

All the centerpieces in my studio. Centerpieces had green hydrangea,
roses, stick, spray roses, dahlias and spider mums.



The Commandants Room at the Marine's Memorial Club




They made a great seating chart.
It had the Menu also displayed whichwas a great idea!


Photo Montage of them growing up


Congrats Irene and Charles!

Monday, August 11, 2008

A Birthday Celebration!

I ended July with a birthday celebration for my Mother in Law - Trudy. It was a 60th Birthday Celebration so it had to be fabulous (since Trudy is pretty fabulous herself). I had Lisa from Bellissima Weddings help out since my pregnant belly slows me down these days!

The food that we ordered was some barbecue from Armadillo Willy's so wanted to do a nice version of a outdoor picnic. The colors we used were chartreuse, yellow and white.


First I made the invites. I designed the invite on my computer and
bought supplies from Paper Source.



We had the party in their backyard so we rented some tables, chairs and
linens from Classic Party Rentals.


For the centerpiece I made a small floral arrangement, filled a vase with
some limes and made a small pomander with daisies.

I loved these little pomanders!


It was a small affair (30 guests) so we treated each linen napkin
with an orchid and berries.



We decorated the fence and trees with some paper lanterns.

The tall branch arrangement I made for the appetizer table.
Do you see the red cooler in the background?
That was instantly removed once I saw it in the picture. :)


As a surprise for Trudy we hired a Caricaturist to draw some pictures of the guests.
Here is grandma and Grandpa with their picture!

Here's the picture drawn for Ben and me.

Hope you enjoyed your birthday Trudy!

Thursday, August 07, 2008

N & R Wedding

Nancy and Robert got married at the SFO Westin Hotel in Millbrae, California. The Westin has this beautiful ballroom with hanging chandeliers from the ceilings. Unlike most hotels, the carpet and walls are pretty neutral in color so you can really dress the room up the way you want. The couple's color combo was pink and brown - a personal favorite of mine!


Bridesmaid Bouquets with pink mini calla lilies


Nice detail with personalized water bottles for the out of town bags.


Bayshore Ballroom where the ceremony was held.

Programs that the weddings party made together with Nancy.

Close up of the tall altar centerpiece. Sorry it's a little blurry!

Some bouts and corsages


Groom's Bout: 2 mini pink callas with hypericum berries


Groomsmen Bouts

Sunday, August 03, 2008

C & D Wedding

Caryn and David got married at the cutest little church in Tiburon, California. It's the Old St. Hilary's Church on top a of a hill that over looks the bay. They had their reception just down the hill at the Corinthian Yacht Club.

Caryn's colors were hot pink and kelly green and she wanted to use limes and gerber daisies to make things look fun and colorful.

I love this picture with all of the reception centerpieces together.

Close up of bride's bouquet

Bridesmaid Bouquets:
green hydrangea, shades of pink roses and spray roses



Flower girl pomander with hot pink carnations

Mom's Posy


Church Pew Decorations


That's my friend Caroline in the background. She helped me set up this wedding!

Caryn made these cute "Reserved" signs

Altar Decor with curly willow branches, hydrangea
roses, green spidermums and gerber daisies

Look at the cute programs Caryn made!


I love this layered look. Caryn loved how they turned out but
said it was a pain to make :)

Reception Centerpieces

The gerber daisies remind me of puppies. So cute, happy and friendly!