Holiday Wedding Inspiration by Lucinda Wesson
Today is another sparkly, glittery, all together lovely day on Style Me Pretty. Since weddings are winding down for the year, we thought it would be fun to feature a stunning, holiday inspired photoshoot that a handful of our favorite vendors designed just for SMP.
I have a huge soft spot in my heart for our Connecticut Vendors as they are just this rare little group of designers who are continually putting out some of the most incredible work in the industry. Today, we get the sheer pleasure of devouring a photoshoot that Lucinda Wesson of Chocolate Creative Design designed, along Sarah True and Yumiko Fletcher of Hana Floral Design and a whole slew of insanely creative professionals (full list below).
A few details from Lucinda… As designers, we are constantly trying to push ourselves. Deeply inspired by an intimate wedding of 50 at Island Farm that I co-designed this past fall, I thought about an intimate winter wedding inside the “Big House” on the Island.
So in choosing a color palette of creams, golds, purples and pops of turquoise, it allowed me to design a non-cliché winter wedding. Using various shades of each color, gave a richness and luxuriousness to the surroundings and by bringing in a multitude of textures and layering them gave it a casual elegance. The fashion was just as important and each piece was carefully selected to add color and sparkle to the table.
I was so fortunate to have teamed up with Tove Vigen of Tova’s Vintage in Westbrook, CT. I love the idea of mixing vintage clothing with modern elements. By combining the jeweled vintage dresses with bright tights it really gave the ladies a unique and modern look. Tove outfitted three of the ladies in her own collection of dresses as well as adding a unique piece of jewelry to each model (including men and kids). The men wore their own suits but were each given a bright silk purple tie to add color to their dark suits. H & M, Children’s Place, Target and the Gap outfitted the children. The girl’s shoes each got a satin ribbon to add more color and texture to their already sequined shoes. The bride wore a delectable lace and beaded strapless gown with hand glittered heels and a real fox stole, cheerfully named Max.
Art Direction/Concept & Design/Styling: Lucinda Wesson, Chocolate Creative Design / Photography: Anna Sawin, Anna Sawin Photography / Flowers: Yumiko Fletcher, Hana Floral Design / Hair & Makeup: Jennie Fresa & Lindsay Milan, Jennie Fresa Beauty Library / Clothing/Styling: Women- Tove Vigen, Tova’s Vintage / Kids and Men: Lucinda Wesson/Crista Taylor, Chocolate Creative Design / Film/Video: Mike Cyr, Buzz Media Company / Food, drinks and dessert: Lucinda Wesson, Chocolate Creative Design / Rentals: Party Rental (three silk linens, napkins and tinted glassware) / Tableware and brooches: Private collections of Island Farm, Hester & Ben Smith and Lucinda Wesson / Models: Nicole Frechette, Crista Taylor, Tove Vigen, Chelsea Tyler, Steve DePino, / Jayson Drobiak, Gabriella Taylor, Henry Sawin and Sophie Heublein
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I love all of these colors, especially the purple stockings!
So glad this got posted! Turquoise and purple are my wedding colours so this makes for a fab i-board.
so great to be part of this project :) Great images Anna!!!!!
that dress is killing me...so pretty.
Fun to see so many familiar faces and names - beautiful work and BEAUTIFUL color palette!
As a January bride, it's SO nice to see a new take on winter pallettes! This is realy beautiful!
Connecticut is such a beautiful state! Great wedding post Abby!
Great vision! Great colors! Great images!
Beautiful images and inspiration....Just a DREAMY scene!
Styling and Photography is BEAUTIFUL!
I LOVE those purple stockings! Where can I get some?! Please!
Their whole theme is playful and elegant at the same time...I love the touches of fur.
The comments warm my heart!! What a collaboration of some of the best vendors in the country!!! My hat's off to you all! Thank you so much Abby for such deliciously kind words!!!
Christina-Those tights are sold at Forever 21. They have the best array of tights around!!
They have fabulous purple lacey stockings at anthropologie, and I actually picked up a really inexpensive pair at forever 21 recently.
The shots of the children are my favorite! Love the photo of the boy and girl under the table—too cute!
The purple is a very nice twist to the traditional winter wedding colors (red, gold, white). Like it!
The wedding dresses are beautiful!
This wedding is completely gorgeous!! It's my favorite yet and I'm an everyday avid SMP reader who tends to swoon over every pretty detail but this is beyond pretty. Her glimmery gold dress and fur accents are to die for. It makes me want to push my June wedding to the chillier season! So pretty!
xo
So pretty! Love the purple! Beautiful images, Anna! What a fabulous collaboration!
Beautiful! except for the real fur :(
Real Fur is hard...I know I'm a real animal lover...but all the furs on the shoot were vintage...One of the white ones (not Max) was my great grandmother's and was later used as a blanket to warm me in my carriage as a baby. It was nice to have her there with me...
*there were no animals harmed in the production of this shoot..
is the dress vintage, or can I track it down? it's GORGEOUS!
The flowers are B-E-autiful!!! What are the flowers that they used?
Stunning images except for the use of real fur. I'm so sorry but I don't think fur in any way, shape or form is anything but an animals life used for meaningless decoration.
I do hope no SMP brides are now inspired to use real fur in their own weddings.
Thanks Lucinda for mentioning the origin of the fur, it makes it much easier to be able to appreciate your beautiful work.
Hi Catherine-Isn't the dress beyond gorgeous!!! I love the way the light hits it. It is from Tove Vigen's personal collection but I'm sure if you contact her or go visit her store Tova's Vintage she could find something similar...
I'm so happy to see how many people are loving the originality and clever spark of Lucinda's vision, go Chocolate Creative Design!
just lovely! happy to be a part of this amazing shoot.
hi Megan~ thanks so much for the compliment! We used various white flowers for table scape, dessert table and such, and those were: spider and football mums, oriental lilies, amaryllis, paperwhites, carnations and roses. Many of these flowers were very popular back in the 40's. I wanted to stay true to the time period of the shoot.
As for her bouquet~ magenta peonies, pink garden roses, plum anemones, tulips, some andromeda and seeded eucalyptus, as well as some sparkly holiday tidbits!
As always, tons of fun working with my industry friends! We were thrilled to be a part!
Gorgeous! I love her dress and all the different colors used-- so unexpected but beautiful!
I got married at Elihu Island last summer and Lucinda did an absolutely amazing job...everything was perfect! I also had the honor of having Sophie, the flower girl in this wedding, as the actual flower girl (along with her sister Xiao-Yin) in my wedding as well. Amazing job Lucinda!
Such a beautiful Wedding! where is the purple dress one of the little girls is wearing?
Hi Jackie! The purple dress is from H&M and we put another silver pouff skirt under it....They have great stuff for girls!!! The two sweaters they are both wearing are also from H & M
I love the palette of this wedding. The furs and the soft hues. One of the beautiful ones I've seen.
I LOVE those purple stockings! Where can I get some?! Please!
Hi Vegas!
Forever 21.....they have so many to choose from!
Please oh please tell us where the gold t-bar sandals with the jewel detail are from??!!!
I LOOOOVe them and have been going nuts trying to find them online!!
Ps This shoot is magical and very inspirational!!
Thank you Didi!!! They are vintage Anna Sui....Tove Vigen's own...They are simply stunning!! But I believe a great pair of shoes and a glue gun can do magic!!
Lauren-I can't believe I missed your beautiful post! Thank you for your kind words!! Your wedding was stunning...who knew that fog could look so spectacular...need to get those images to post on our blog!!
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