Wedding Decor - Gloria Wong Design

Hi friends! Today I wanted to share one of my most favorite weddings of all times, and I was lucky enough to be a guest at it! Leslie and Jeffrey are two of my very dear friends and I was thrilled to find them on Style Me Pretty! Leslie and Gloria of Gloria Wong Design worked closely to create the amazing look and feel of Leslie and Jeffrey's wedding. The attention to detail, the color palette, the personal touches were unreal and made their wedding so incredibly special. Please head on over and take a peek! Here is a teaser photo for you - the photos are from the incredibly talented Lisa Lefkowitz!

Photo source: Lisa Lefkowitz

Sonoma: Vintage Wedding Photo Shoot + Video

I love wine country, and I especially love wine country weddings. But yes, sometimes it is a pain to get married at certain venues among the vines with the 10pm curfews and beer and wine only restrictions. Despite all the little things - it's still wine country!! And slightly hidden in the hills of Sonoma is one of my absolute favorite venues - Beltane Ranch. It must be the southern belle in me (I can seriously watch Gone with the Wind a million times over) as this venue and its wrap around porches and huge oak trees remind me of a plantation in the south.

So why I am I yapping about Beltane? Well, in searching the web for visual inspiration on vintage details, I found this image:

Back in 2009 Style Me Pretty featured this photo shoot for Northern California Brides Magazine at Beltane Ranch and I think it is so darn fabulous that I wanted to bring it back in 2010. It reminds me of Spring-time and all things happy with soft colors, vintage charm and pure loveliness.

Here is an awesome video from Andrew at Studio MSV of the behind the scenes footage from the shoot. I thought it would be fun to share the vintage vibe and see all of the amazing work these vendors (and many more!) put into a shoot for a major bridal pub. Take a peek and enjoy!

The shoot was styled by the talented Gloria Wong and photographed by Lisa Lefkowitz. The cakes were made by Cake Coquette and the flowers by Nancy Liu Chin. I had the pleasure of meeting Gloria and Nancy at Wedding 360 and love their work!

Beltane Ranch - Behind the Scenes from andrew msv on Vimeo

Photo Source: Lisa Lefkowitz

Wedding 360 - Design Showcase

One of the best parts of the Wedding 360 conference was all of the amazing event design. From Gloria Wong's spectacular Emerald Underworld and Museum of Petals to the incredible Designer Showcases featuring Tara Guérard, Aisel Design, Grant & Company and Nancy Liu Chin.

All of the designers spoke on a panel about their designs and we learned a little about what inspired them.

I grabbed some photos with my trusty Nikon so I can share the four galleries with you. I'll start with Tara Guérard. First of all let's just say I want to be her. Her events are right up my alley and embrace everything I think a wedding should be. Not sure if that means I should pack up Trisha Dean Events and open an office in the South but I may need to do just that.

We learned from Tara that her box of goodies to create her showcase didn't arrive from Charleston in time. So at the last minute she worked with some San Francisco vendors to try and pull off what their team had envisioned from their original idea. I think the room is very rustic chic. The table tops are snakeskin with wood edges and the antler's that hold the place cards are very cool.

Tara's events tend to be on large Southern plantations where the home and backyard is incorporated into the wedding. The "tent cities", as she calls them, are built and then draped in fabric in the backyard. This last year she did a wedding for 1200 people and designed a 2700 square foot tent in the backyard of this home. They even had to build a tented cafeteria on site for all of the staff that was working on this wedding! I asked her "Who knows 1200 people?!" and she laughed and said they actually invited 1500. Can you imagine!! She is hilarious - I could listen to her talk for hours.

Aisel Design did a more modern piece with metallics, mirrors and succulents. The room was incredibly modern and chic yet had a subtle romance about it. One of my favorite things was the table numbers. Hanging in glass bubbles with silver bebes - loved them. The bouquet was also amazing - the detail and use of the greens blew me away. And the "wish" cake - LOVE!

Grant & Company was able to capture two of our five senses...the moment you walked into the room - the smell of gardenia surrounded you! This room was elegant, classic and timeless. The tapers and the lounge area were two of my favorite elements.

Nancy Liu Chin's room originally started out as a concept inspired by the movie Avatar. She wanted the room to glow. The blue lighting in the room really does make a nice soft glow. To me this room embodies modern romance. The stunning flowers blow me away! I also love the bubble theme repeated throughout and the clean lines of the all white furniture.

These rooms were all so inspiring - the designers were amazing to listen to and each room was so unique. Thank you to all of them for the great eye candy at Wedding 360.

Photo source: From Trisha Dean's personal collection

Wedding 360 - The Academy for Planners and Designers

The last three days I have been hanging with the wedding industry's finest at Wedding 360's Academy for Planners and Designers. The event was held at two beautiful venues - The Four Seasons and The St. Regis in San Francisco. I have so many fabulous things to report from the event that my head is swimming with excitement! While I take a day to figure out where to start, I wanted to leave you with a peek into the opening night cocktail party "Emerald Underworld" designed by the amazing Gloria Wong. Thanks to Andrew at Studio MSV for the fantastic video!

Academy of Planners and Designers from andrew msv on Vimeo.