Santa Barbara Wedding by Joy de Vivre + Mark Brooke Photographers
Hold onto your hats ladies and gentlemen, because I have a feeling you are just going to love this beauty of a rustic-meets-elegant barn wedding captured by Mark Brook Photographers. The Santa Barbara gem of a celebration embodies all that is beautiful about countryside weddings, and Joy de Vivre really hit the ball out of the barn with the design on this one. Have no fear, there is more to see in the full gallery.
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We also got our pretty little fingers on their amazing highlight film from Gina & Josh at LOLA Video! Feast your eyes on even more loveliness from the day!!
Santa Ynez Wedding ~ Coquelicot Winery ~ Kate & Frank from lolavideo.net on Vimeo.
From the darling Joy de Vivre… From the moment we began planning their wedding, Kate & Frank knew they wanted a barn reception. Since the Santa Ynez area has lots of barn, we began looking around for something large (and cute!) enough to hold the reception, as well a something close enough to the historic Old Mission Santa Ines where the ceremony would be held. We checked out a few barns and eventually fell in love with Coquelicot Winery.
The ceremony was held at the beautiful old Santa Ines Mission where flower girls held flower wands as they walked down the aisle. The bridesmaids all wore different blush hair pieces and taupe and blush dresses. Their bouquets which were made out of garden roses, peonies and dusty miller and lambs ear were all wrapped in burlap. The groomsmen wore clean black tuxedos with sweet argyle socks, and twine wrapped boutonnieres. After the ceremony guests were shuttled to the lawn at Coquelicot Winery for cocktails. Franks Mom found the most amazing mariachis who serenaded guests until dinner. The mariachis lead the group to the barn on foot.
Guests sat at 16 foot long tables on either side of the 32 foot long bridal party table. The guest tables were covered in La Tavola Linens Tuscany Natural linen with sweet white hemstitch napkins and rosemary placed at each setting. We chose silverware from the Tent Merchant in this amazing, heavy, ornate pattern. All the tables had tons of mercury glass and sweet fleur de lis votives running down the center around tall blue mason jars holding pillar candles. The flowers were nothing short of amazing. Florette Designs created the most stunning arrangements of garden roses, peonies, runnunclus, dusty miller and sweet peas in beautiful distressed wooded containers. To help guests find their seats, Tracy from Lazaro Press hung the most amazing little tags complete with the couples signature skeleton key motif from rusty nails on an old farm fence. The complete the look, Tracy lent us some very cool rusty iron table numbers backed on weathered wood.
To warm the barn up, Lani from LBPS Events placed about 20 amber hued up-lights around the perimeter of the barn and hung three amazing crystal chandeliers over the bridal party table. Lani also put up some beautiful ivory chiffon drapery that framed and softened the barn door entrance. To give the bar some special light, we hung mason jars from rustic twine at different heights over it. Kate and Frank gave their guests vanilla saltwater taffy as they left for the evening. The taffy was placed in cute mason jars topped with burlap that was tied on with antique lace. They also set up an amazing smores station outside for guests to enjoy once it got cold!
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im drooling over the gorgeousness!
can someone tell me how the menu (glass in frame) was done, or from where it was purchased?
Absolutely stunning!! Where was the flower girl wand found?
This is wedding is a dream! Absolutely stunning!
Thanks Ladies!!!!!
This is rustic goodness everywhere! Gorgeous!
Thank you ladies!!! It was such an awesome wedding!
Lauren, the menu was actually super easy to make! We found a neat old window at an antique store, printed out the menu in the awesome, "Nelly Script" font, placed that behind the window and traced over it with a white pen made for printing on dark paper.
i want to see the video!!
I am in love with every aspect of this wedding. I would never have thought to hang elegant light fixtures in such a rustic setting, so beautiful!
My dream wedding location. It is absolutely beautiful. Would it be too much to ask of my guests to drive up 2.5 hours for my wedding?
Where did you get the flower girl hair pieces? They are perfect!
Love the blush tones and elegant/relaxed style of this wedding! Does anyone know who designed the bride's dress?
This is absolutely gorgeous. It has pretty much every characteristic I want for my wedding in June. Amazing job!
her gown is gorgeous and love the centerpieces and chandeliers!
Such a gorgeous wedding, every little detail. Can I ask where you go the little burlap pillow for the ring bearer? Or did you make it from scratch? Thank you.
Where were the wooden boxes to hold the floral centerpieces found at? I have been searching at every known vintage store for this idea, I will buy them off of you. :)
I's in love with this wedding. Beautiful. Very similar ideas to what I'm going for in mine. Thank you, I'm super inspired!
I love this....the barn is amazing.
Oh geez...it's all so gorgeous. I love the dusty miller, the chandeliers, the rectangle tables and the green mason jars. LOVE.
Natalee- the wooden boxes were from Barreveld international, they only sell to wholesalers. :(
Gorgeous! Burlap done right
that window menu is genius!! I have Nelly...thinking about copying this idea :)
What a beautiful wedding!
Love the rustic elegance of this wedding. So lovely and unexpected.
Joy you have outdone yourself!! I love it!! :)
OMG I love EVERYTHING about this wedding! The bride's hairpiece for one is absolutely gorgeous - LOVE the bouquets and boutonniere, the little girl's paper flower, and the big rustic barn with all the pretty little lights hanging from above. I could go on and on - just STUNNING!!!
desperate to know where the bridesmaid dresses are from?
O! Those chandeliers!! What a perfectly gorgeous wedding- left me speechless and staring!!
OMG that venue is so beautiful! I love how everything twinkles, its so romantic. Gorgeous.
I can't get over the barn. The chandeliers are incredible, what a way to spruce it up.
Does anyone know the name/style number of the Bride's Shoes?
This is just about my dream wedding!! So GORGEOUS - every detail is perfect!
Wow. What a beautiful and rustic wedding. So romantic! I LOVE the table and decor. So gorgeous!
Thank you all so much for your great comments! Joy and all of our vendors were amazing. Frank and I wanted a rustic romantic wedding and we got that and more. It was a blast and all the hard work really paid off!
Here are some answers to the questions. Hope I got it all!
Window Frame for Menu - After HOURS of searching, Frank found this at a junkyard in Silverlake (LA,CA)
My Dress - Watters and Watters, Style Cabo 4043B
Bridesmaid's Dresses - David's Bridal (Each girl wore a different long style in the Champagne color.)
Ring Bearer Pillow - I made this myself using burlap for the pillow, and burlap, lace, and linen for the flower. I found instructions on how to make the fabric flower on Martha Stewart Weddings.
Shoes - LOVE these ;-). I found them at the Jimmy Choo outlet at the Cabazon Outlets near Palm Springs. I will try and find the style #.
Flower Girl Hair Pieces - These headbands with the oversized fabric flowers are from Forever 21.
My Hair Piece - This was handmade by my good friend Natalie.
I didnt get the Super 8mm film back from the lab in time to make the submission, but here is a link to see the highlight reel. Joy & Mark did an excellent job together on this wedding!
http://vimeo.com/19585783
Enjoy!
-Gina
any idea where I can find this font? I cannot seem to locate it anywhere!
THanks
This is the most beautiful wedding I have ever seen. Joy de Vivre, you are so talented! I love the rustic look but you keep it all so beautiful and elegant with those amazing chandeliers! Love it!
Hi Emma - I finally found the style # of my shoes. It is 094 Lavelle, Jimmy Choo.
Hi Kate,
I absolutely LOVE your wedding. I am hoping to plan something similar and I love this venue. Can you give me an idea of what your budget was? You can email it to me privately if you'd like. I would really appreciate it :)
Hi Erin - I would love to help. What is your email?
Thank you so much! My email is ECConlan@gmail.com
hello kate,
your wedding was absolutley brillant! i, like erin, want something similar, espeically the lighting. could you let me know as well what your budget was. i just got engaged and have no idea what i am doing:)
thanks for sharing your speical day!
bridget.blitsch@mtvstaff.com
Kate and everyone who made this happen...i am planning my wedding now, and keep coming back to this page for inspiration. You are clearly a muse for a lot of brides-to-be....
I would love to know your budget, if you are willing to share.
caseytadlock@hotmail.com
All the best to you and your "new" husband.
Hi Kate,
I'm seriously considering having my wedding at Coquelicot (mainly because I fell in love with yours!) and would be so appreciative if you could share your budget with me. My email is wengle86@gmail.com. Thanks!!!
- Whitney
Wow! What an interesting and unique theme for a wedding! I love the rustic touch, so classy yet original. Santa Barbara has so many wonderful places to have weddings, I love it. I have been to so many there (all my friends love getting married these days) and it's always a great time. I was just in town and had a wonderful time; I stayed at the South Coast Inn (www.santa-barbara-hotel.com). So elegant and the perfect place to escape all of the chaos of downtown.
The details and setting are amazing! With a cool couple picking all those unique details, any good photographer would be drooling, knowing they could just kill it.
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