Planning for A Red + Turquoise Day!

Joanna

Friday Star Blogger: Mints Design - San Francisco

Mints Design is a design studio and a blog dedicated to wedding & event design as well as all forms of beautiful things. Mints is known for East meets West in Style, blending contemporary European and exotic Oriental elegance into floral art.  Their style is intoxicating, new, fresh and stylish.  Thinking outside the box since 2007 this is Mints Design.

Merci Mints for the Inspiration.

Joanna

Bonne Reception: Wedding - Château de Breteuil, France

How could I have missed this elegant wedding reception inspired by an 18th-century pastoral festival, the fête champêtre and set at the Château de Breteuil France.

A New York bride recently had her wedding vision come to life in France and in the pages of Veranda.  The verdant styled reception table was set for 300 guests and was dressed with fuzzy baby almonds, pepper berries, and porcelain doves accompanied by birch-bark vessels and white and green florals.

Respect was paid to each detail, exemplified on the table cards with "oh so" apropos calligraphy as it appeared on the menu cards and the envelopes which were sealed with a wax impression from the bride’s family chevalière, or family crest; and were then banded with velvet ribbon, and embellished with soft a lamb's ear.

The green and white floral arrangements were styled with sweet peas, ferns, mushrooms, dainty grass racemes and then gathered in leaf-lined crystal compotes along with Paris Ladurée's macaroon as favors.

Music filled the seventeenth-century Château de Breteuil located in the countryside near Paris. Cocktails were served in the garden and the candlelit dinner was served on the terrace — at that single long table.  The bride’s bountiful bouquet was full of mixed butterflies, feathers, orchids, ferns, mint, and peonies all tied up with antique ribbons.  The bride's dress was couture and created by J. Mendel.

Be Inspired Mes Amies,
 
Joanna

Bonne Mariage: Pasadena, CA New Years Eve Wedding Winter Wonderland

This New Year's Eve Winter Wonderland Wedding took place a number of years ago but I look at the pictures almost every day. The wedding location was Pasadena, California. The wedding lighting was in shades of blue and purple and also complimented the ice presentations on the terrace. The perimeter of the tent was lined with white light strewn birch trees and giant white-flocked icicle trees flanking the corners.

Guests danced the night away on a clear plexiglas dance floor that covered the family pool. Lovely!

Happy New Year! Dream Big My Friends!


Joanna

Credits: Party Planner , Photographer

Happy Happy Christmas Everyone!

Have a Rosy Pink Day!

Credits: Making It Lovely

Bonne Mariage: Vintage America

Credits: Love Me Do Photography

I was bowled over when I saw this beautiful bride, with stunning red hair, striking face and a vintage gown reminiscent of the early 1950’s. The new and up to date cupcake display is a whimsical sight – red and pink, black polka dot trim - I call this wedding young and fun. The extremely luscious photos are brought to us by Nadine at Love Me Do Photography.

Fleur & Decor: Roses in November

In Canada, my birth country – it is very rare to see roses blooming in November. Look at what’s been going on in Toronto (where I lived and was raised as a toddler). Freshly blossomed roses are springing up in several parks and green spaces around the city. This picture was snapped yesterday - November 26th! - amid all the fallen leaves of the surrounding shrubs.



Credits: Andy Ritchie