New Year’s Eve.  One of the best days of the year… whether you’re sipping champagne in your PJ’s or dancing the night away on a rooftop overlooking the city.  But the greatest way to celebrate?  A wedding. A stop-you-in-your-tracks, crazy gorgeous affair with love bursting from every moment and a whole lot of bubbly.   Which is exactly what this darling duo had in mind when they planned their December 31st party, complete with the fab stylings of Flaunt Events, romantic I do’s and beautiful gold and green accents aplenty.  See every last moment captured by Dallas Kolotylo in the full gallery.

 

From the Bride… I’m an interior designer by day, so coming up with the perfect decor scheme was extremely important to me. Given that it was a New Year’s Eve wedding, typical wedding colours like pink would not have worked. Even before we set our date, I was picturing my bridesmaids in emerald green, 2013′s colour of the year. J. Crew had the perfect dresses, so I started with that and pulled the rest of the scheme in from there. I’m obsessed with stripes and love how understated yet glamorous a black and white stripe is, so I incorporated it into the table runners. I’m a gold lover so naturally it was my choice for the votives and floral vases. I went with all white flowers to solidify the colour scheme- black, white, emerald green with accents of gold. I feel the overall look was sophisticated, but fun with that added element of surprise in the black & white striped runners. 

Photography: Dallas Kolotylo Photography | Ceremony + Reception Location: Brix Restaurant | Floral + Event Design: Flaunt Events | Event Planning: Chelsea Linton Weddings | Invitations: Bride, Amanda Evans | DJ: DJ Stew Fletcher | Bride + Groom Rings: Harlings Jewelers | Hair + MakeUp: Atefeh Shojaie + Breianne Zellinsky + Isolde Montgomery | Wedding Dress + Veil: Tara Keely from Bisou Bridal | Jewelry: Elsa Corsi | Reception Dress: Frocks | Shoes: Manolo Blahnik + Jimmy Choo | Belt: Blush Bridal | Dessert: Sweet Thea | Boy’s Suits: Hugo Boss | Groom’s shirt: Hugo Boss

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Joy-filled weddings are kind of our business here at SMP, and this Toronto Island affair captured by Reannan Ross Photography?  It’s delivering all kinds of happy.  Happiness in the form of a cultural love-fest at the dreamy Algonquin Island Association Clubhouse, a nature-filled setting more than perfect for this crafty bride and groom, who DIYed almost every detail (here’s looking at you, pretty, pretty blooms) and set about creating a day of sweet celebration for their devoted friends and family.  See every last love-filled moment in the full gallery.

 

From Reannan Ross Photography… The bride is of Irish and Japanese decent and the groom is from India, but grew up in Italy. From kimonos to sarongs this wedding had tons of culture. A do-it-yourself wedding, the bride arranged her own flowers, bought her dress on Etsy and set the scene for an open, friendly, cultural experience on Toronto Island. By the end, we all knew how to Bollywood dance!

As their photographer, I got some inside information on the bride and groom and their hobbies and learned they love portrait galleries. Having lived in places like London, England and Japan, they had seen portrait galleries all over the world. Since they had a small wedding, I was able to take a portrait of each guest for them making for an incredible menagerie of colour, expression and love from their guests.

Wedding Photography: Reannan Ross Photography | Wedding Venue: Algonquin Island Association Clubhouse, Toronto Island | Wedding Dress: Etsy | Floral Design: DIY by the Bride

Everyone needs a little glamour and a bit of romance in their day, and today we are all getting a big dose of both thanks to this super beautiful wedding captured by Mango Studios. Dripping with elegance, yet with the perfect amount of whimsy, it’s an evening designed by Simply Beautiful Decor I’m sure the guests are still raving about today. So grab a glass of bubbly, kick off your heels and join the pretty party in the full gallery of images.

 

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From the Bride…We wanted the wedding to feel like a romantic secret garden. We got engaged in Niagara on the Lake so it seemed like the perfect location to have the wedding of our dreams. The morning of the wedding I was so excited that the big day was finally here. My bridesmaids and I went to the salon to get out hair done and then back to Queens Landing to have have our make-up applied. The morning was calm and exciting all at the same time. We took our pictures before the ceremony,  one of our favorite memories was when we got to see each other for the first time, we both cried and laughed and appreciated the moment only the two of us could understand. We were lucky enough to have some beautiful pictures taken on a magnificent sailboat. The ceremony was in the garden at The Pillar and Post, we wanted it to be romantic but also very light hearted and funny. The aisle was covered in heart shape rose petals and two beautiful flower arrangements stood on mirror boxes at the alter. After the ceremony all the guests headed back to Queens Landing for cocktails and the reception. The lobster grilled cheese sandwiches and candy buffet were a huge hit during cocktails. We had a large wishing tree for guests to sign and a kissing booth to have some fun in. The patio was decorated in hanging birdcages with our pictures on them and big beautiful paper flowers.  Dinner was amazing and the bottomless champagne was a favorite to many. Th room was filled with fresh floral candelabras and hundreds of pillar candles. The cake take was covered in fresh blooms and many complimented us on this. The gold chilvari chairs had a pink wrap on them and the head table had beautiful pink drapery behind it. The speeches were all hilarious and heartfelt, and then came a terrific night of a jam packed dance floor. Cheeseburgers, poutine and onion rings as a night cap put our guests right to sleep. (most of them)

Photography: Mango Studios  | Event Design: Simply Beautiful Decor | Floral Design: My Bouquet | Reception: The Queen’s Landing | Cake: Vineyard Sweets | Invitations: Your Occasion | Custom Stationary: Belle Figura  | Wedding Dress: Ines Di Santo | Grooms Tux: Harry Rosen | Bridesmaid Dresses: Dessy

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