Something I bet you guys didn't know. For my own wedding, I asked our florist to cover anything and everything in glitter. Clear, delicate glitter that would catch the light of the chandeliers perfectly. And she did! She actually rolled our vases in glitter so that the sparkle would light up the whole room. And it was magical. I get that it sounds completely tacky, but you'd have to see it to really believe how pretty it was. Well, this next soiree satisfies all of my girly, glittery, full of...
This next little soiree is pure love. Pure, unabashed, wish-I-was-there kind of love. It's one of those weddings that can warm up even the most discerning wedding aficionado, where beauty and personality come shining through each and every detail. Photographed by Meredith Davenport for Christian Oth Studios, I think you guys are going to fall pretty hard for this bride and groom...
What do you get when you put Jose Villa, Jill La Fleur, Flowerwild and Mar of TEAM Hair and Make Up in a room together? You get this. A crazy beautiful, overflowing with inspiration, pick your jaw up off the floor photoshoot where beauty and style is...
Sometimes it's a perfect detail that really gets me. Other times it's a fabulous dress, a gorgeous photograph or the most lovely cake on the planet. But today, it's the story. It's a tear jerker for sure but one that I think we can all learn from. Plus, it's one of the sweetest, prettiest weddings we've seen and is overflowing with steal-worthy deets. Pink, peony filled, totally girly steal worthy-deets.
I've literally spent the entire morning poring over this wedding. Trying to figure out how in the world I was going to format it so that you fell as absolutely in love with it as I have. The kind of love that makes you drop all of your wedding plans thus far and copy every last detail of this perfect day, captured beautifully by Augie Chang. I know, we're cruel here at SMP. Plus, the wedding happens to have taken place in my old San...
It's no secret...I love me some SmogShoppe. It's one of my all time favorite venues, with a totally eclectic but ridiculously chic vibe that goes well with just about any bride. It's the kind of place that makes you want to kick up your heels and stay awhile. And celebrate your wedding with a sense of cool that just comes with the territory. Such is the case with this next little number photographed to perfection by...
In wedding-blogger-land, there is nothing better...I repeat, nothing better...than a bride who doesn't take herself too seriously. A bride that isn't afraid to throw a little Carrie Bradshaw into them mix and design a wedding with totally unexpected style. Such is the case for this next little number. The bride is one part fun, one part fabulous and the day that she and her hubby crafted...well, it's total SMP bliss. Photographed by...
Oh Australia. We seem to be falling quite hard for you and your gorgeous weddings these days. One picture perfect party after another, overflowing with style and charm, overflowing with that effortless elegance that makes our heart flutter. And this next one, sent in by the drop dead gorgeous bride, is the epitome of Australian gorgeousness. With every perfect detail being so utterly personal, this wedding is going to get your wedding goosebumps going.
I'll never forget the first wedding that we featured from photographer, Yvonne Wong. That wedding has become one of SMP's most loved affairs and I'm pretty sure that this next one will creep high up on your list of favs too. Sent to us by the beautiful bride and her equally dreamy hubs, it's Napa Valley at its finest, with pretty pops of color...
I am a bit at a loss for words for this next feature. Which is rare considering that I spend my life coming up with just the right words to describe every perfect wedding detail that we share on SMP. But this one is different. It's a collaboration between three people that are kind of like the Queens-of-All-Things-Gorgeous, and I literally dropped my jaw when I saw what they had come up with. Event designer Lisa Vorce of...
It's easy to design a pretty wedding. A few beautiful flowers, a lovely white dress, maids dressed perfectly all in a row. The hard part is designing a pretty wedding that is also deeply personal and unique. The kind of wedding that guests remember for years and years to come.The kind of wedding that was built by a bride and groom who wanted their day to reflect their own unique vision and style. And yet those are just the kind of weddings that have us swooning here at SMP...and it just...
I'm pretty sure that heaven looks exactly like this next wedding. All lightness and love and sweet, airy goodness. With perfectly gorgeous shoes. And perfectly pretty people, with a perfectly pretty style. Yep, this is heaven all wrapped up into one lovely little wedding. And if ever there was a talent to capture it beautifully, it would be New Zealand based photographer Kate MacPherson.
Now that I have fully admitted to stalking Jose Villa on a daily basis, I thought I should tell you WHY I love him so. It's that there are very few people on this planet that can capture a perfect wedding, a perfect detail, a perfect moment...with such clarity. His photographs are so far from your standard wedding photojournalism fare. They are art. Gorgeous works of art that I can pick out of a stack of thousands any day of the week.
Let me preface this next wedding by saying this...if I wasn't friends with Jose Villa, he would DEFINITELY be a little scared of me. Every time I get one of his weddings, I automatically become a class A lunatic, gushing like gushing was going out of style. I don't know whether he is simply the world's best photographer and can make any wedding look spectacular or he is blessed with super cool clients that know what style is all about...
And speaking of the fabulousness that is Laura Hooper...apparently, good taste runs in the family. Since we are celebrating Laura's soon-to-be nuptials, we thought we'd also share with you this little shindig that Laura and Beth Helmstetter put together for her sister's rehearsal dinner. It's gorgeousness defined and yet another example of just how talented these two...
I'm a self professed Laura Hooper stalker. I love, love, love her calligraphy work and from the looks of it, everyone else does too. I bet that if we crawled all of the past events we've featured on SMP, Laura's name would come up the most because, well...she's just that good. So when I heard that she is getting hitched in a few months, I just about burst with wedding joy. And if her engagement party, designed by the fabulous...
I couldn't have asked for a better back-to-the-trenches wedding than this one, photographed by one of our all time favorite duos, Erin Hearts Court. It's beyond. Seriously beyond. And it has single-handedly inspired me to dive right back into all of the wedding goodness that I left when our newest addition came along. So brace yourself for some serious gushing people...from the insane color palette that screams style, to the vibrant...
Well. Although it's been 12 perfect weeks of baby bliss, I am finally ready to crawl out of my little baby hole and get back to all of this wedding gorgeousness that I've been missing. William is now a strapping 12 pounds, 6 ounces and although he surprised us by coming 5 weeks early, he has settled quite beautifully into that three month old, chubby goodness. So before we get to today's weddings, I thought I would take a moment to formally introduce the newest member of the SMP family...
We want to take a moment to fill you in on an AMAZING fundraiser organized by Marcus Bell, an extremely talented photographer from Brisbane with a big heart. As many of you may have heard, there was devastating flooding in Australia throughout late December and January and as a result, many lost their lives and many more lost their homes. In an effort to help, Marcus Bell is...
Gorgeous bride, check. Rustic details that make you absolutely swoon, check. Perfect flowers, sweet styling and a couple that is madly in love? Check, check, check. Photographed by the oh-so-talented Caroline Ghetes, this wedding is the epitome of SMP style. But honestly, what we love the most is the fact that the couple looked no further than their own relationship, their own love, to infuse their wedding with such personality and...
