New York City Wedding by Dave Robbins Photography + Hatch Creative Studio
When modern meets New York, it’s always a match made in heaven and then when you add in a fabulously creative couple with their own Film Company and design and styling by Hatch Creative Studio, the wedding turns into a total home-run. We’re talking right out of the park, Babe Ruth style. Creativity is bursting from every little inch of this fête, including an amazing installation of paper chains, a flash mob during the ceremony and a cool as can be logo representing the water towers above STUDIO 450 where the festivities took place. Dave Robbins Photography snapped all the goodness from beginning to end and believe me, you’ll want to take a trip to the gallery for the full day. It’s New York at its finest.
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From the Bride…We fell in love with the venue because it was a beautiful all white space, and we wanted to embrace the stark whiteness of it, the blank canvas, but add some accents and warmth. Lots of little candles everywhere. We wanted to express the beauty of the urban environment, and take advantage of the rawness of the studio space in a cool industrial chic way. But still beautiful, and a little unexpected. We wanted our guests to feel a sense of delight. We wanted the venue to feel very New York, but “our” New York.
On the roof of the venue (Studio 450) there are two giant water towers, and water towers became a design element that we used in our Save The Date, Invitations, Website, our ‘logo,’ and embossed by hand on the cover of our programs. It’s hard to explain why we like watertowers so much — style, functionality, and unexpected beauty. They invite you to look up, and once you do, you see the city in an entirely new way. There’s a metaphor in there for marriage somewhere!
The paper chain idea was to make a beautiful mess of paper chains behind the ceremony space. We like the symbolism of the chains, joining links, as we join our lives together, as a couple, but also with our family and community. But we also liked the idea of taking a very common and humble material like paper and transforming it into something unique and beautiful. Barb and Nelson took this little seed of an idea, and transformed it into an incredible installation that far exceeded our expectations. It wasn’t just a backdrop for our ceremony … it became part of our ceremony. It became a representation of our community, and all the different friendships and relationships that had collectively brought us to this moment in our lives. What started as design idea has now taken on a life of its own. After getting married we formed a production company together: Paper Chain Productions. The name now represents to us not only our wedding, but our partnership, our connected community of friends and family, and the idea that you can build something beautiful and inspiring, from a simple scrap of paper.
We were engaged for a year and a half, which is a super long time to be in the ‘planning stage’ of a wedding. By the time the wedding rolled around, we felt pretty planned out! So we decided it would be fun to have a moment of ‘planned spontaneity’ during our wedding ceremony, and we invited our lovely and fearless friends to help us execute it. Two days before the wedding we sent out an email to a group of our friends, asking them to participate in an impromptu performance smack in the middle of our ceremony. We didn’t know what to call it at the time, but a ‘flash mob’ comes close. We didn’t ask anybody to rehearse, and we had no idea how many of our friends would actually participate, let alone if the idea would work. But that wasn’t the point. The point was to do something fun, and utterly in the moment. It was wonderful, and is one of our favorite memories of the day. At the end of the readings, a friend stood up in his chair, and belted out “It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.” Followed by 15 or so of our friends standing up and joining in “Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah!” This happened twice, and the entire thing lasted maybe 30 seconds. It was perfect. Looking out to see our friends and relatives bravely standing up and “doo-wah-ing” and dancing their hearts out, seeing the surprised and delighted looks on every one else’s faces, and hearing the explosion of laughter…it was such a sweet release, and connected everyone with each other for the more serious moments that followed.
Wedding Planner: Just About Married, Rebecca Joyce / Event + Floral Design: Hatch Creative Studio / Wedding Photography: Dave Robbins Photography / Photo Booth: We Love Photobooths / Invitation Design: Mother of the Bride / Officiant: Friend of the Groom / Ceremony + Reception Venue: STUDIO 450 / Lighting: Lightworks Interactive / Catering: Marcey Brownstein Catering + Events / Wedding Cake Decor: Hatch Creative Studio / Hair + Make-up: Face Time Beauty Concierge / Wedding Dress: Saja Wedding / Bride’s Shoes: Stuart Weitzman / Ring Box: Bride’s Great Great Grandfather’s Snuff Box / Logo + Map Design: Mark Stinson (Groom’s Step-Brother)
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This wedding is gorgeous and fun! I love the flash mob idea and the image Dave Robbins Photography captured of it happening is fantastic. The surprise look the faces of those not involved is priceless. Definitely a home run for sure!!!
I love the flowers used in this wedding. I like how it was a mix of paper and real flowers. And the color scheme was executed perfectly!
Gorgeous! I especially love the incorporation of paper accents into the live floral arrangements.
This wedding is beautiful...love the gray and yellow and I have to say the paper chain is AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing!
Yes, yes, yes!!! I love every detail, especially the fun logo & cool paper chain. This wedding is PERFECT!
So GORGEOUS! great colors and I LOVE the handmade paper accents! So fun!
simply awesome!!!
This is an amazing wedding! So fresh and fun!
Thanks everyone for the nice comments! It's so great to revisit the day and share it with you. So many of our family and friends described the look of the wedding as totally 'us' -- and that's a huge complement to Barb and Nelson at Hatch Creative Studio. They're amazing, and we had such a good time playing with them! A special shout out to my brother-in-law, Mark Stinson (@stincity), who designed our water tower stamp and logo!
Fantastically charming down to the very last detail.
Could you share where you ordered the floor decal? Thanks! What a wonderful wedding!
Fantabulous!!! Gorgeous! Dave Robbins Rocks!!!
Everything is so awesome! I'm super excited to hear that your family and friends participated in your "flash mob". :)
I am IN LOVE with all the contemporary yet whimsical paper flowers - I need those! Were they DIY? Where oh where can I find out how to do that?!?!
I second Katelyn- please, please tell us where/how those flowers were done. I'm desperate to do something just like that!
That deco!! I simply stared! How amazing!
So glad you all enjoyed this wedding. We had so much fun designing with Julia and Jim. They had some amazing inspiration and really wanted to create something that truly reflected them. In answer to some of your questions... The decal we made through one of our printers. Let us know if we can help you get one made. All of the flowers were made at our studio. We love paper flowers and were so excited that Julia and Jim wanted to incorporate paper into their wedding. We're happy to make more or help you make your own. Feel free to get in touch with us directly. Until then...happy wedding designing.
I love all the paper flowers and other uses for paper in the decor. I love the symbolism of the chains. Congrats on a beautiful wedding and new business!
Is that an aisle runner of your logo on the ground or a huge sticker? Same thing with the windows! Where did you get it printed? I love the size.
I am obsessed with the paper flowers! I found a site on how to make the kusudama flower: http://niftythriftythings.blogspot.com/2011/01/origami-flower.html
The modern touches are great. The touches of gray are so unexpected and cool.
Love the vases...willing to share where they came from??? Pretty please!
The simple white room looks soooo great with the little color, simple is better:-) the bottom photograph is fab!
Hi Phoebe - The logo at the end of the aisle was a giant decal, as was the one on the window. We didn't have a runner. Barb at Hatch Creative had them done at a print shop from a design that my brother-in-law created. There was an extra one printed that we didn't use, so now we're trying to figure out how to frame it in our apartment. A great memory to hang on the wall! Julia