California Halloween Wedding from Focus Photography + Artsy Heartsy Events
Let the Halloween festivities continue LBBers, this time with a gorgeous Dia De Los Muertos inspired fête! The stunning bride is the lady behind Artsy Heartsy Events, and she concocted this Halloween beauty from start to finish. The couple loved the bright colors, paper products, and multitudes of flowers synonymous with the Dia De Los Muertos, so they made sure to incorporate as many of those kinds of details as they could into their big day. It’s definitely my favorite way to celebrate Halloween – with a romantic love story, instead of the traditional horror. Click here for more of this fabulous soiree, captured by the oh-so-talented Focus Photography, Inc.
And for those of us who aren’t quite done yet (guilty!) click here for the fab Same Day Edit.
Right off the bat, I knew I wanted to have a super creative, unique, and FUN wedding… and like nothing my guests had seen before, so I decided to design the day from scratch. Being super crafty anyway, I was thrilled to craft our wedding by hand. I was going for glamorous, funky, and really romantic – and I wanted our guests to have a blast!
I was inspired by the colors and textures of Dia De Los Muertos (the day after our wedding) but didn’t want to have skulls all over the place. So our wedding was full of bright colors, feathers, and tons of paper flowers and poms! All of the flowers (made of tissue paper) were handmade by me and my sweet friends. We also glittered lots of different sized pumpkins and set them among centerpieces, and put together a candy buffet that matched our colors. It was on Halloween, after all! I also made our hair fascinators, bridesmaids’ bouquets, flowergirl wand, bouts, and corsages. It was so special to see all the people we care about wearing one of a kind pieces!
My then-fiance and I realized that puzzles are a significant part of our love story, so we incorporated them into lots of our decor. (Years ago, when we were broken up for a few years, I knew Scott was the man I was going to marry… though he definitely didn’t know it yet. For Valentine’s day, I mailed him a handmade heart shaped puzzle that simply said, “Love is patient,” when put together. And how true that turned out to be! We also both love to do puzzles- something we didn’t know about each other.) Our escort cards were puzzle pieces – guests turned over their puzzle piece to see a pattern, and then searched out the other 9 people with the same pattern. Once the pieces were fit together, the puzzle revealed their table number! Secretly, it was also a fun way to break the ice and get everyone chatting with each other. We also included puzzle pieces in lots of other places; you’ll find them peeking out of bouquets, boutonnieres, programs…
We included what we call our “power couple” name – Scigitte (Scott and Brigitte) – in a lot of our wedding elements. We custom-designed Converse shoes for Scott and his groomsmen with Scigitte on them, and we even had our wedding website at Scigitte.com. To this day, our friends still call us that!
The very best part of our wedding day by FAR was our first kiss – when we got back together, we decided not to kiss until our wedding day. It was hard, but it was well worth it. It was the most incredible, special thing, and definitely the crowning jewel of a perfect day. Although I’m sure our guests would say the best part was the photobooth! We also got to have one of our favorite bands, the Pawnshop Kings, come and perform our first dance song called “You and No Other.” Our Same Day Edit was also amazing and had all our guests in tears. There were so many incredibly special things that happened that day, its hard to pick a favorite!
We left the reception through an aisle of sparklers waved by our friends and family. Our getaway car was a gorgeous 1930′s Rolls Royce – a very sweet surprise from Scott!
It was an amazing day – perfectly us from start to finish, and the best way to start a marriage to the man I’m more in love with every day.
Venue: Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club / Event Planning & Design: Artsy Heartsy Events / Photography: Focus Photography Inc. / Cinematography: Threaded Films / Cake: It’s All About The Cake / Invitations: Minted / Photo Booth: Poetry Photo Booths / Band: Pawnshop Kings / DJ: Generations Entertainment / Hairpieces: Brigitte Scigitte / Bridal Bouquet: Desicra / Dress: Allure from Mon Amie Bridal Salon / Hair and Makeup: Lashes to Locks / Necklace: White Owl
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Dang, finally someone does Halloween to classy perfection! It's so refreshing to see this theme without any of the macabre cliches. Beautiful!
The attention to detail really made this wedding stand out.
What a blessed day and We both were happy to share it with the two of you... Happy Anniversary!!
So happy for the two of you! Congrats Scott and Brigitte on the feature, you deserve it!!!! And Janel, you're photos rock!
One of the most memorable weddings I have ever attended. The love story is inspiring......makes me want to get married again!!! (Can I do that?) It's even more special that the design elements came from the Bride herself! I also agree with the other commenters how refreshing it is to see Halloween done classy! Thank you Style Me Pretty for sharing this wedding!!!
Love this wedding! Where did the bride get those gorgeous shoes?
THANK KATHY
Thank you for all of the sweet comments!! We had such an incredible time putting this day together. It was a really fun challenge to turn a day known for dark, creepy things into something colorful, fun, and romantic! Thank you so much to all of the incredible vendors - every single one rocked it and helped to make the whole thing perfect. So thrilled and grateful to be on Style Me Pretty - the first of many more I hope!
P.S. To Kathy - thank you! Those shoes were from Target of all places... $14!
I love these pictures. The wedding cake is absolutely stunning and I love the deep purple color theme. The bouquets are so beautiful and I must say, I love the flower girl's purple tutu...just precious.
I love the bridesmaid dresses, where are they from?
The 'maids dresses were from Nordstrom. :) And the flowergirl's tutu was custom made by Etsy seller Tutus Chic - http://etsy.me/tKFL4c . Who doesn't love a little girl in a tutu??