Vibrant Colorado Wedding In Vail From Sapphire Celebrations

Our featured Little Black Book members today are Sapphire Celebrations and Jenna Walker Photographers! From the vibrant color palette to the adorable couple, this absolutely brilliant wedding in Vail, Colorado will have you thinking about saying your I DO’s in the great-Colorado-outdoors! And after you’ve taken it all in, you can see SO many more of the details in the SMP gallery here!

See all the gorgeous images by the oh-so-terrific Jenna Walker Photographers in the SMP Gallery!

From Sapphire Celebrations ~ An elegant plum and orange wedding hosted in Vail, Colorado. An outdoor ceremony took place at the Lion Square Lodge. The bride and groom exchanged vows underneath a wooden arch with simple floral accents. After a drive through Eagle County in a classic Rolls Royce for some pictures, Dyann and Dave joined their guests at the Donovan Pavilion for dinner and dancing.

There’s more of this beautiful day over on Sapphire Celebration’s blog!

From the bride ~ Dave and I were engaged for 14 months before our wedding date. For the first 2 months or so, we really didn’t do any sort of planning at all. We allowed ourselves a little bit of time to just be together in our state of betrothal in order to not only get used to the idea of being engaged, but to also allow for some of the initial flurry of excitement to subside. The last thing we needed was everyone bombarding us with questions about the wedding while we were actually going through the stress of planning it.

Once everything calmed down a bit, we really started to get into research and planning mode. Having never really allowed myself to envision what my wedding would look like (I didn’t want to be disappointed if my day didn’t turn out to be just as I had always imagined), we had a great deal of style planning to do. Initially we spent a good bit of time researching what sorts of features we wanted to be present in our wedding. After all, you can’t build a house without knowing what you want it to look like, so why try to plan your wedding without a plan for your vision.

I spent time looking through wedding magazines and websites to find concepts and images of what I wanted my day to look like. This was an excellent way to get started as we were able to use ideas from other weddings to formulate a vision of what the wedding should look like. Local wedding magazines were a great resource for finding vendors and locations that were in our area and fit with our vision for the wedding. If we could not find information for a particular wedding resource, a hair stylist for instance, we used recommendations from the already booked vendors to find what we were looking for. Our reception hall, for example, helped us find our officiant. In that way, all of the pieces just started to fall into place. In making recommendations to future brides, I suggest looking into investing a portion of your wedding budget in a planner. They have established lists of reliable resources and relationships that a first-time planner cannot possibly develop. It will surely save you countless hours of time.

Photography: Jenna Walker Photographers / Flowers: Fleur de Liz / Day of Coordination: Sapphire Celebrations / Event Planning: The Bride, Dyann Eyvazzadeh / Ceremony Location: Lion Square Lodge / Reception Location: Donovan Pavilion / Photo Booth: Booth 66 / Caterer: Vail Catering Concepts / Transportation: Rich Somers / Cupcakes: Batter Cupcakes / Music: A Music Plus / Linens: BBJ Linens / Hair: Cowboys and Angels / Makeup: Sally Freeman / Transportation: Old Autos / Invitations: aLi-g designs

18 Comments about “Vibrant Colorado Wedding In Vail From Sapphire Celebrations”

1. Elena says:

   January 31, 2011 at 10:27 am

   Beautiful....such a perfect wedding. May I ask where you got your wedding dress from? In my head I have a vision of my perfect dress and yours is it!! xx
2. Lane says:

   January 31, 2011 at 10:33 am

   Dyann! What a fun surpise to see first thing Monday morning -- YOU on my favorite wedding blog. Your wedding looks beautiful! Congrats!
3. La Vie le Gage Couture Events Wedding Planning says:

   January 31, 2011 at 11:49 am

   Images are beautiful! Colorado is known for the mountains!
   Joyce Goeppinger
   Colorado
4. Susan says:

   January 31, 2011 at 12:53 pm

   Beautiful!!! I would love to know where the bride's shoes are from?
5. Amanda Forbes says:

   January 31, 2011 at 1:12 pm

   Gorgeous wedding and fabulously talented team!
6. Kathie says:

   January 31, 2011 at 1:55 pm

   The flowers are amazing!
7. JasonG Photographer says:

   January 31, 2011 at 3:24 pm

   Beautiful work Sapphire Celebrations and Jenna Walker!
8. Kamie says:

   January 31, 2011 at 4:13 pm

   Beautiful I love the flowers and the colors!!
9. Shana says:

   January 31, 2011 at 6:02 pm

   Gorgeous wedding! I love that last photo. Such an intimate moment. And I agree, I love the shoes. Would love to know where they're from.
10. Dyann - The Bride says:

    January 31, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    I'd like to thank everyone for their wonderful comments. Dave and I spent countless hours researching, interviewing vendors and pulling all of the details together. It is so wonderful to hear that others have appreciation for the things we were able to put together. :)

    The wedding dress is from Maggie Sottero. It is named Harlow. I purchased it in Champagne rather than Ivory or White as it added the classic touch that I was looking for. The price is not terrible high, but the quality of the many beautiful dresses is. Definitely a brand to take a look at!
11. Dave - The Groom says:

    January 31, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    Thanks everyone! The way our day turned out was absolutely perfect.
    I have to credit my beautiful wife in full with the idea of hiring Sapphire for our day-of-coordination so we could enjoy all our hard work to the fullest.

    One thing that seems to have been left out of the mix was our designer for our custom invitations, programs, table and photo booth graphics. Alison Gile at Ali-G Design (www.ali-gdesign.com) was not only integral to the perfection of our day but she is a pleasure to work with and even more of a pleasure with our budget! And when we had some last minute changes she was able to tackle the request and shipped directly to our venue with time to spare!

    The fantastic thing is that she is able to work with anyone anywhere due to the nature of how she runs her business. We did everything over email, skype, and phone!
12. Lisam says:

    January 31, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    So beautiful! The bride especially looks so amazingly beautiful! Love the photography as well! Everything looks perfect!
13. Claire - English Wedding says:

    February 1, 2011 at 3:15 am

    I love the vibrant colours and details in this wedding. The Maggie dress in champagne is gorgeous.
14. Dyann - The Bride says:

    February 1, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    The shoes were purchased from a Dillards and are Bandolino brand. I also purchased a pair of "comfy" shoes to change into if these got uncomfortable as the night went on, which they did. :)

    I would definitley recommend taking a look at ballroom dance shoes. They are SOOOO comfortable and there are a lot of cute styles. Definitely not cheap, but worth it!!!
15. Monica says:

    February 2, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Love it! Where are the bridemaid's dresses from?
16. Nilufer Soucek says:

    February 7, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    Gorgeous, just gorgeous. I love the colors and the linens.
17. Dyann - The Bride says:

    February 16, 2011 at 11:18 am

    The bridesmaid dresses were purchased from David's Bridal. My two sisters live on opposite sides of the country and buying the dresses from such a major chain allowed each of them to get the dress in their home towns.
18. Vail Wedding Photographer = Jason+Gina says:

    December 11, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Such a sweet wedding in Vail... love looking through these older posts!

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