Multi-Cultural Affair by Christian Oth Studios, II
Today’s first featured wedding, shot by the hugely talented Michael Falco for Christian Oth, is all about color and culture. Bringing two different backgrounds and histories together into an incredible celebration of style. Both the bride and the groom are no strangers to design, with their branding company MonkeyThat helping them to approach the wedding with a focus on style and cohesive branding.
Here are a few more pics of the gorgeous couple in action…
From the bride…
We had a vision off the bat and that was to take the very best elements of his Hindu heritage and my midwest Christian background and seamlessly intertwine them into one romantic and beautiful ceremony. It had to be bright. It had to have ritual. It had to be happy. It had to be touching. It had to have humor. It had to have tears. It had to have dance. It had to be raw. It had to have art. It had to have surprise. It had to have delight. But more than anything it had to be inspired… It must be about our story and have heart and soul.
As designers, Ravi and I like to take seemingly unfamiliar things and create an unexpected thread that not only bonds them together but is clever or has hidden meaning… but all without a heavy hand. This was no different except that we were creating it for ourselves. A designers dream and nightmare all wrapped into one happy little package. We decided that we needed a theme… our concept deserved a name. Thus project East Meets West 2009 was born.
Once the naming business was out of the way we needed to set the tone of the upcoming soiree. Create the color scheme, define the overall look and feel, hint at the vibe.. we needed a brand. We wanted to make it clear that this would be something most of our guests would never have seen before, so come prepared. I made a feel book to send with my mother-in-law on her trip to India with colors, fabrics and examples and she came back with the most vibrant fabrics imaginable! We ran with those colors as a guide and added every color in between. Our playground was the entire spectrum from pumpkin orange to ruby red and on into fabulous fuchsia.
About a month before the wedding I got the crazy idea that I wanted to create a video depicting our trek to get our marriage license. I really wanted to make sure that we documented this moment in time, that we are in NYC, because I don’t know how long we will be here and it’s just so full of crazy things. Our friend, Dave Evans, Jr. offered to spend the day with us and film us… what we didn’t know was that he is a kick ass editor as well! He got great shots, found the best song ever and created the cutest video. We screened it at our rehearsal event and everyone loved it. He has since posted it on youtube because everyone has been asking for it. you can find it right here.
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I am drooling all over this one. Fantastic design, incredible couple.
Abby thanks so much for sharing these pictures! They are so exactly perfect! I have been twitchy on how to mix my back-wood Vermont roots with his family's Pakistani/Muslim traditions. Beautiful images like this are hugely inspirational! Thanks thank thanks!
Gorgeous wedding! Yay for multicultural weddings! I will be having a multicultural wedding muself (Filipino and El Salvadorean)- so this is a great inspiration! I love the colours, and the eclecticness of it! Gorgeous bride; handsome couple. Congratulations! Great post as always, Abby!
Beautiful images! I always love cutural weddings!
You can definitely mix cultures!! Get creative and pursue the parts that resonate personally for you and your groom! It will be beautiful and personal and you will love every second of it!! Good luck!
I can not even begin to tell you how much I love this bride and groom! Of course, I have never met them....but nothing screams to me more than PASSION and CREATIVITY and these two have got it in spades. Yup. If they walked into my design studio and started telling me their vision. I would be drooling!
Love love LOVE the orange veil!!
Hello! What a lovely wedding. Thank you for sharing the photos. Could you please tell me where you found that stunning white gown? It's beautiful.
Thanks!
Hi there! The gown is an AMAZING Matthew Christopher gown. He is so awesome! I randomly got to meet him and he was simply fabulous! I found it and it was out of my budget so I kept looking for others but that one stayed in my mind... I kept looking for it and was able to finally find it on sale! It was soooooooo worth it! I loved every second of wearing that dress! I was lucky enough to have a second wedding in Toronto the following weekend that was fully a Hindu ceremony so I wore a Lehnga but I just had to wear the MC dress again at the reception!
The dress is named Moet.
If you go to his website, he is actually the guy in the photos! http://www.matthewchristopher.com/
Good luck! It's so exciting!!
Good article for newbies like me! Can't wait for your next post.
where did you get the orange veil?
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