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From Alchemy Fine Events & Invitations…Inspired by the recent royal wedding, we wanted to create a modern and fresh interpretation of how we see young royalty. In collaboration with Isari Flower Studio, Sweet Cheeks Baking Company, and Luna Photography, we modernized and re-created an updated royal worthy wedding at a private estate in Rancho Santa Fe.

Bold purple and cornflower blue hues were combined with geometric and peacock inspired contrasting patterns to create this modern yet elegant and regal feeling wedding invitation. Thick cotton paper was letter pressed to create a tactile and luxurious experience in the recipient’s hands. Rich hues of cornflower blue and royal purple, accented with tones of gold and silver, create an elegant and regal theme truly fit for a king and queen. For the bride and groom, we paired a modern white high-gloss table and white wing-backed chairs for a fresh, modern look. Replacing the traditional linen runner, welayered opulent tiles with gold patterning across the table. Richly ornate gold and periwinkle hued china from Bloomingdale’s was placed atop the tile runner and fragrant candles were offered as gifts for the lucky guests.

For a truly majestic atmosphere, Isari Flower Studio created a lush centerpiece consisting of cobalt blue Anemones enveloped by a rustic gold crown which sat atop a crystal cake plate. Surrounding the grandiose centerpiece were mercury footed bowls and striped votive cups containing purple Vanda from the far East andfine magenta Orchids accented with white coral, emanating a fun, electric texture. At the foot of the table lies more of the cornflower blue Vanda while featuring cobalt Anemone and light blue Delphinium billowing in the background.

Other than an ancient chateau, what else is more royal and extravagant than rich, lush, and abundant gardens? To create a stylish dessert table in the royal gardens, we took advantage of the manicured hedges for a rich, green backdrop to hang atrio of mirrors. Keeping with the royal theme, Sweet Cheeks Baking Company designed clusters of cornflower blue and gold desserts inspired by the invitations that were elevated on cut-crystal cake stands and footed silverbowls. We combined the modern Lucite candleholders with the traditional silver candelabras to achieve interplay of classic and modern styles.

Event Design, Styling + Invitations: Alchemy Fine Events & Invitations / As seen in: The Knot / Flowers + Bride and Groom Styling: Isari Flower Studio / Wedding Photography: Luna Photography / Cakes + Dessert Bar: Sweet Cheeks Baking Company / Furniture + Linens: Concepts Event Design / China: Bloomingdales / Tiles: Waverly Tile / Wedding Dress: M Bride / Hair + Make-up: Shampoo Too

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Post tags: Alchemy Fine Events & Invitations, Bloomingdales, California Weddings, Concepts Event Design, Isari Flower Studio, Luna Photography, M Bride, Photo Shoot, Rancho Santa Fe, Royal Wedding Inspiration, Shampoo Too, Sweet Cheeks Baking Co., Waverly Tile
Post categories: California Weddings, Traditional Elegance

A perfect e-session by lunaphoto

Doily inspiration on True and Wesson, image by Ashley Ann Photography

Designed by Styled Creative, photographed by Marie Labbancz

Lots more inspiration coming up next!

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Post tags: Ashley Ann Photography, Innove Events, Luna Photography, True and Wesson, Valentine's Day
Post categories: Little Black Book Blog

And Amy and Matt’s wedding, sent to us by lunaphoto is one that anyone would love, filled with a simply elegant style and sweet but utterly sophisticated details.

From Amy…Both my husband and I have two sets of parents and we really wanted them to feel included, so we decided to have a moment during the ceremony were they all came up and made a circle around us and vowed to continue to love and support us as we join our families together. This became especially important to us since 10 days after our wedding my husband’s step-dad passed away. We are so thankful that we were able to have such a special and intimate moment with him before he passed.

For our wedding favors we decided to give different types of trees for our guests to plant. Instead of having a guest book my mom had a great idea of making us a quilt, so we had a table where guests wrote little messages to us on squares of cloth to be sewn into the quilt. It will be something that we can keep forever and as my mom put it “feel surround by love”.

From Amy…

Our caterer (Primizie) and baker (Coco Paloma) are small companies that we found locally in Austin; and the best part is that they both only use the freshest most natural and/or organic ingredients! We saved a ton of money by doing a dessert table instead of a big wedding cake; we had a small 8 inch cake, different sized cupcakes, cookies, 2 pies and a big bowl of fresh fruit. Our invitations (made by Viola from Chewing the Cud, who I found on SMP!) were made using all environmentally friendly products, and we had a local artist do the calligraphy on the envelopes.

We chose to not do the traditional cake-cutting, flower and garter tossing, etc so that we could have more time to spend with our family and friends, particularly because most of them flew in from all over the United States and even Singapore! There is so much that I could write about our wedding; everything went so well and since we were planning everything long distance we hired Aimee Villa with Lizze Belle Event Management to help us bring everything together, she did such a wonderful job of helping make our wedding magical for us. Along with hiring Aimee, one of the most important things that we did was hire amazingly talented photographers; Mike and Paula Luna of lunaphoto were a joy to work with and did such an incredible job of capturing such a special time in our lives.

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Thank you so much to Amy and Matt for sharing their day with us!! We have a pretty awesome giveaway coming up next and later, find out who won the Sarah Darcy Giveaway!

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Post tags: Allen House, Amy and Matt, Austin, budget, Coco Paloma, Lizze Belle Event Management, Luna Photography, lunaphoto, Primizie, Texas Weddings
Post categories: Budget Beautiful, Casual Elegance

Ahh…I can just breathe a sigh of pure happiness when I look at these photographs. They were shot by Luna Photography and do an absolutely brilliant job at conveying the soft, pretty elegance of the day. Here are a few more details from Amy…

We recycled everything that we could and along with having some yummy micro brewed beers we chose to get a keg of my husband’s favorite organic beer to cut back on the waste (and cost). For a year we collected glass mason and milk jars, some vintage and some spaghetti sauce jars to use as vases and candle holders. All of our candles were hand made by a local man who only uses soy and chemical free products. We wanted our flowers to have a “hand-picked” feel and we brought down a bunch of potted herbs that we planted ourselves. This was a big money saver for us and now the herbs are growing in our garden and in some of our family and friend’s gardens too! The day after our wedding was Mother’s Day so we decided to take our left-over flowers to a retirement home so that the flowers could be enjoyed by the mothers there. We hated the idea of just throwing them away!

All flowers were done by Bouquets of Austin and event planning was done by Aimee of Liz Belle. More on the way!

Oh and here’s a hint about the upcoming giveaway…we are officially calling June, Green Wedding Month, so think super chic, super green, unbelievably awesome.

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Post tags: Allen House, Amy and Matt, Austin, Bouquets of Austin, budget, Liz Belle, Luna Photography, Texas Weddings
Post categories: Budget Beautiful, Casual Elegance

Paula and Mike of Luna Photography are the talent behind the gorgeous photographs. Although they aren’t a budget studio, Amy and Matt saw the beauty in their work (and so did we, as we’ve asked them to be a part of our Little Black Book!) and were able to sacrifice in other areas to book this duo and fly them out from San Diego!

Here are a few words from Amy, the lovely bride…

There are a lot of things that are important to my husband and me; a couple of the most significant are family, healthy living and the environment. With those things in mind, when we started planning our wedding neither of us wanted to do anything too wasteful or meaningless, so we strived to make our wedding simple yet elegant and as meaningful as possible. We really wanted our wedding to feel more like a family reunion or garden party. In choosing our vendors we tried to find people that have the same ideals we do and it was really important to us that we support small and/or local companies. We wanted our money to go towards helping support fellow artists (my husband is an artist) and people trying to make a living doing what they love.

So much more on the way! Oh and guess what…we have THE BEST GIVEAWAY today. Seriously, you are going to die!

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Post tags: Allen House, Amy and Matt, Austin, budget, Luna Photography, Texas Weddings
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Sounded reasonable enough to me! So, I sent out a twitter (or a tweet, however you are supposed to say it) and ended up getting some pretty fantastic budget friendly affairs! This one, sent to me by the incredibly talented Paula of Luna Photography, made me actually squeal with glee!

Before I show you the wedding, though, I wanted to share these ADORABLE pictures of the bride and groom outfitting the Allen House in Austin, Texas, for their big day!

With a couple this cute, and this chic…you just KNOW the wedding is going to be good!! Back tomorrow with all of the incredible details!

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Post tags: Allen House, Amy and Matt, Austin, budget, Luna Photography, Texas Weddings
Post categories: Budget Beautiful