Palos Verdes Wedding by Tilde Designs
I have actually saved the best for last in our Real Wedding Wednesday craziness. It’s the perfect combination of DIY charm, of unabashed elegance and of total style. Oh and the bride is a long time reader of SMP (which you know I completely love) and has actually launched a stationery line with her cute friend Kate, whose wedding was also featured on SMP. A pretty cool story, right? We thought so! It’s the perfect note to end this day of gorgeousness. If you want to see more from this lovely wedding, click right here.
click here to see the whole shebang!
I did many DIY projects and, with the help of my maid of honor Kate, my fiance, and my mom. Kate helped me design my invitation suite and we had them letterpressed at Studio on Fire, and she made all of the signs we used for the card table, cake table, baskets of flip flops (which you can see all of the guests wearing in one of the photos), bathroom baskets, guestbook, etc. I collected containers for our florals or used ones I already had (white pitchers, old milk bottles, mason jars, crystal punch cups for votives. My mom and I also collected antique keys, which I tied to each escort card and also to some of our florals. Keys were a big element (my husband even gave me a Tiffany key necklace as a wedding gift). I bought flip flops on sale at old navy for all of the guests, which were displayed in apple bushel baskets with a sign that said ‘dancing shoes’ and were so popular we only got a photo of an almost empty basket! So our wedding had some very budget friendly elements as well. I also used etsy for lots of stuff too. I also came up with some creative elements to our wedding (we passed our rings around all of our guests to bless them before the ceremony, which was a big hit, and we had my surrogate grandmother write a poem and read it at the wedding. She is 82, traveled from Ohio to be there, and had our guests in tears from laughing so hard.
My husband and I are high school sweethearts, so our wedding was the culmination of 14 years of working past obstacles, distance, etc. to be together. Because we went to each other’s high school dances and had been together for so long, I made a slideshow which our DJ ran on a loop outside once the sun went down, so that when people wanted a break from dancing they could sit where the ceremony had taken place and watch our slideshow under the stars. We really just tried to include everyone, make them feel like we thought of them when we planned our wedding, and made sure our wedding was a representation of us as a couple- full of love, laughter, and fun! And dancing!
My father passed away 10 years ago, and my mom and stepfather were the victims of a hit-and-run drunk driver a week before my wedding, so that was very difficult as well. My mom was able to travel to the wedding, but my stepfather is still recovering from a broken neck and was not able to come. She and my brother walked me down the aisle, and it was wonderful but emotional. La Venta skyped our ceremony to my stepfather who watched from home. We also had some California wildfires close by, but despite all of these scares or absenses, we had the most wonderful day of our lives. We are still getting notes from our guests that it was the most fun and most heartfelt wedding they have ever been to, which makes us so happy!
Photography: Jennifer Roper Photography / Venue: La Venta Inn / DJ: Danny Farrell of NYC DJ’s / Cake (cupcakes): Vanilla Bake Shop / Catering: New York Food Company / Florals: Greenwich Floral Design (containers were collected at flea markets by the bride and her mother) / Invitations and Paper Goods: Kate Derhake of Tilde Designs, printed by Studio on Fire / Calligraphy: Barbara Kua / Bridal Gown: Melissa Sweet / Hair and Makeup: Flawless Faces, Inc. / Bridesmaids: Lela Rose, Bella Bridesmaid in Chicago / Groom’s Suit: Brooks Brothers / Officiant: Rev. Bob Jabro / Earrings for bride and maids: Erin Gallagher / Hairpiece: clarkanddiversey
Lela Rose is a member of our Look Book. For more information on how members are chosen, click here.
28 Comments about “Palos Verdes Wedding by Tilde Designs”
3 Links to “Palos Verdes Wedding by Tilde Designs”
Leave a Reply
| « Retro DIY Wedding | Purple Passion ~ Photo Shoot From Maine Seasons Events » |
 |
Visit us on Facebook |
 |
Follow us on Twitter |
 |
Subscribe to our RSS Feed |
- More Style Me Pretty...
- February 11, 2012
- February 10, 2012
- February 9, 2012
- February 8, 2012
- February 7, 2012
- February 6, 2012
- February 4, 2012
- All Archives
About
Press
Advertise
Submit A Wedding
Contact
Terms Of Use
What a gorgeous couple! "Fern" will be my dress too! LOVE IT!!!
What a sweet story and lovely couple. So glad her mom and stepdad were able to take part in the wedding. Had me all teary!
This is gorgeous - so fresh and lovely!
Such a beautiful wedding incorporating one of my personal favorite color palettes which makes me love it even more! Cheers to the gorgeous couple!
love the details in these wedding photos! the colors are amazing!
I love how the dresses are light and look very comfortable for the weather. The matching mens socks are a great detail.
I love this wedding! The bride's story is beautiful. I also love the matching mens socks...are they from Brooks Brothers too?
How can you not love a wedding with Hemmingway Mojitos?!
Thanks everybody for the sweet comments and to Abby and SMP for featuring our wedding. SMP was my wedding styling bible throughout my engagement, so I am very honored :)
The socks and ties are both from Brooks Brothers for those of you who asked.
How charming and sweet. All of the printed items are great
Gorgeous theme!!!
Love the detailing involved. More so because of the whole DIY element to it.
Wow - you guys surpassed yourselves yesterday and what a wedding to finish with! I saw the photos and loved it. Read the first paragraph and was seriously impressed. And then read the rest and realised that you can never tell what reality lies below the surface of a perfect picture. Such an emotional story - so glad that everything went so beautifully on the day despite the setbacks!
The stationary is so exquiste, I love it all! And the bridesmaid dresses are adorable!! Beautiful affair!
Yay Chandra! Your wedding day was beautiful :)
This wedding is gorgeous! Love all the little details :)
Such a beautiful wedding Chandra the photos are stunning and looked like you had such a great time!!
I'm wondering if you could tell me where your mom bought her dress? My mom is in love with it and has been looking for so long for something similar. Kristy :)
Arglye socks make me smile. I'm usually not so emotional, but I was crying walking down the aisle at our wedding. When I got to the altar, my husband lifted his pants leg to show me his argyle socks. It made me crack a smile and I quit crying! I love the cards too. The birds are a sweet touch!
Kristy, my mom got her dress at Macy's, but I have seen it at other department stores too and in other colors. I'll tell her your mom liked it because she is really picky and it was harder to find her dress than it was to find mine :)
And thanks to everyone else for your comments. Since I designed and styled it myself, and because Kate and I did all of the paper goods ourselves, it means a lot! All of the paper goods are available on our etsy site that Abby linked to.
Chandra, what a gorgeous wedding! You make such a beautiful bride, and your dress was the perfect choice. I had never seen Lela Rose bridesmaid dresses in photos before, and they look wonderful on your bridesmaids. I just hopped over to your blog to see more pictures, and was so happy to see more of your beautiful wedding. Congratulations!
Absolutely stunning!! Dahlias are my favourite flower of the moment - beautiful details x
Fabulous wedding!! I just have to ask though - what are the program/cd looking cases? How did you make them? They look great!! I am actually giving my guests cds and have been looking for a way to make cd booklets. Everything looked perfect!
ABBride: The CD booklets were also our programs. Each program had a CD in the back of it for each guest. I bought the CD covers from Bliss Weddings Market (they are the 40 cent white cardboard ones) and covered them all in a lace material that I bought at Joann Fabrics. I used the same lace to cover the boards our key escort cards were pinned to. Then I glued the letterpress monogram tags on the front, hole punched them in the spine and tied in the program pages (which I made myself and had printed at Kinkos) with ribbon from paper source. Then I burned all of the CDs, bought labels for them from myownlabels.com, and put the CDs in the back of the program. I made about 150 of these, so they were definitely a big DIY project, but I thought they turned out great and everyone loved them.
Beautiful wedding !!Love the invites... Where were they from ! ?
Ashley- The invites were done by my maid of honor and I. We started a company called Tilde Designs and have an etsy shop. I'm glad you liked them!
how am i only now just finding this??? so so gorgeous, i love chandra and her blog and this wedding is just perfection.