From Inspiration to Reality: The Design
I’ve been working with Viola at chewing the cud for a long time. She is the talent behind our new logo, our header and so much more. So, although I wasn’t terribly surprised that her From Inspiration to Reality shoot turned out this spectacular, I was still completely and totally blown away. I think I actually cried a little bit. Together with vendors like Atelier Joya, Stacy McCain and Blonde Tulip, she crafted a little piece of avant garde heaven. So without further ado, here is Annie’s inspiration board transformed into one of the most beautiful shoots I have ever seen.
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Drawing inspiration from portrait silhouettes commonly seen in weddings, we took it one step further and used animal silhouettes to create a surreal black and white fantasy. By selecting a loft space, with black steel beams and rugged brick walls as the location, we set a sophisticated, sleek stage and worked from there to infuse the feminine, whimsical elements that created the perfect balance between masculine and feminine.
The three-dimensional black on black invitations emphasized the graphic language and the various butterfly, bird and plant icons that appear later in the decor and details. The sleek yet feminine typography added a touch of glamour to the overall look.
We carried the same visual language to the 2-tiered black and white cake, by Sugarcoat it Studio, reflected the same icons as the invitations. Dimensionality was created by creating inset white butterfly outlines on the fondant, balanced with similar cutouts in black and white. This play on cascading butterfly silhouettes was also translated onto the tablescape.
Guests were invited to write their well wishes for the couple on butterfly cutouts and hang them on the perfect canvas: a blank white wall. In the process of adding their butterflies, a beautiful art installation was being created and made for the perfect event backdrop. Displayed with the butterfly cutouts was a perfect little white teacup adorned with a graphic number, black pencils with white caps, and a vintage glass dome that housed a petite nosegay of ranunculus, black painted poppy seeds and tiny strands of black butterflies fluttering about. Alongside the bouquet sat two lovely black striped knobs calligraphed with “bride” & “groom”.
Check out Design*Sponge for even more pics and deets on the butterflies!
Coordination and Planning: Stacy McCain Event Planning / Event Design and Florals: Atelier Joya Event Design and Floral / Invitations and Concepts: chewing the cud / Photography: Lisa Neighbors/Blonde Tulip / Cake: Sugarcoat it Studio / Gown and Fashion accessories: Amy Kuschel / Hair Accessories: KAutumn / Jewelry: Ashley Morgan Designs / Make-up: Darlene Carlson Hair and Makeup / Hair: Jim Avila and Associates / Lighting and Piping: Got Light / Linens: Classic Party Rentals / La Tavola Linens / Chairs: Design within Reach / Model: Look Model Agency
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Love the black + white!
So exquisite! The streaming butterflies remind me of Neiman Marcus AND I love that these have an edgier feel since they're in a flat black!
Beautiful job! This is definitely one of my favorite features :)
Love, love, love!!!
What a way to make black elegant for a wedding.
Oh wow! I'm blown away by this board. I absolutely adore the menu and place settings idea. Do you know if the font used is the beautiful Burgues script?? Really lovely designs - one of my recent favourite boards for sure.
O! M! G! I'm not quite sure where to begin as I believe I may have just been struck speechless!! This is stunning beyond words and is truly the epitome of a style drive, fashion forward wedding feature with just the right amount of old world detail. BRAVO!!! :O)
The wall of butterflies is stunning and so original for best wishes.
What a beautiful layout and I absolutely adore the butterfly wall - what a great idea for the guests to participate in and for the bride and groom to keep forever. Great job!
The word that comes to mind viewing these photos is "pretty". Gorgeous! Love the butterflies and would have never expected them in the bouquet - so creative and LOVE it.
love the black and white! Great work to the SF based team!
Blown away seems to be THE word of the day. But more than that, this I to R shoot seem so do-able! Love it.
Please please tell me about those plates in white??? I have seen them on the Anthropologie website but only in gray (which is beautiful) but I have not seen them in white before this.
Yeah! So happy to see my photographer & friend Lisa of Blonde Tulip on SMP! congrats ladies, beautiful work
Hi Jeanette, the plates are actually the same ones you saw... in light grey. Guys, we are just bowled over by your comments, thanks so much!! xoxo
Viola and team - I LOVE what you did with my inspiration board. Glad I could help to inspire this gorgeousness.
Those butterflies are so whimsical one almost expects them to fly. Lovely work, ladies!!
I am so in love with this shoot, and all the amazing ideas that you can take from it! I love the Butterfly Guestbook Installation! I posted it on my blog (http://prettysimpleblog.blogspot.com/ ) with a link back to you - Thanks for the inspiration, so beautiful and clever!
Every single idea is AWESOME! I want to make all of those projects - so fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
This would be a great set for a photo booth rental. It could be set up for an hour or so, then everyone who wanted to could take a photo with this creative set up. I saw some other ideas on this blog that would make great photo booth sets as well. Thanks everyone for you great ideas!
Love the butterfly wall. How did you "hang" them? Thanks.
This is so gorgeous. Im getting married in August and knew I wanted to do black and white but I was kind of having a hard time visualizing what it was i wanted to do. This is it! I have bookmarked this page and am going to style my whole wedding based on these photographs! Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
This is so gorgeous. Im getting married in August and knew I wanted to do black and white but I was kind of having a hard time visualizing what it was i wanted to do. This is it! I have bookmarked this page and am going to style my whole wedding based on these photographs! Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
the butterflies to put notes on are fab can i have info on how to buy them thanks louise
Wow those black butterflies are just so amazing and inspiring.... gorgeous
I adore how graphic, modern, and feminine this feels. Just beautiful!
It's so nice!!! Love this photo shoot. Love butterflies!!!
XzRTTw Good post.
Great inspiration piece and I'm going to borrow the idea for a photo booth background. So much fun!