Archive for October, 2008

Sara and Ben- The William Aiken House

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

 Seeing blue…

Sara received her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her law degree from Duke, so was it any wonder her wedding ended up a chic combination of pale Carolina blue, deep Duke blue and crisp. clean white?!

Custom pillows matched the poppy motif from her printing and looked chic on the white leather furniture. The minimalist aesthetic was carried throughout from the white cymbidium stems in clear glass cylinders to the art deco crystal chandeliers…

   

No detail was spared from the orchid strands on the lanterns to the pale blue rendering of the bridal gown lace on the wedding cake….

 

AND– just to throw in a little “girly” into the mix, the pergola was lit in a hot pink that deepened as the night went on, ending in a simply stunning display as the bride and groom cut their cake and toasted each other as new husband and wife. Cheers!

Visualizations and Transformations…

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

One of the most difficult things we face as wedding designers is helping clients “see” their wedding before it happens! We have to try to show bits and pieces and paint a picture of the potential as, after all, it’s impossible to put all the elements together and show a client exactly what their wedding will look like on the day of.  Storyboards like these are fantastic, but can only take the mind so far…

But here’s a great example of what design elements carefully pulled together can do to a space… Ginny wanted the convenience of a downtown Charleston hotel wedding for her guests, but wanted the space to look like a South Beach nightclub… without any mod hotels in downtown we had to really use lighting, furniture, linen, and decor to transform the space!

Here’s the “before” shot of the Carolina Ballroom at the Francis Marion Hotel:

 

And now what we created for the reception: