Mariellen and Blake - Union Hill Perfection

What can one possibly say when you are blessed enough to work at the unbelievable Union Hill Inn in Sonora, CA. Without adding a dash of anything, the venue speaks for itself. However, when you have a couple that was lucky enough to slide in for this date on a cancellation, you collaborate with their styles and magic happens. I really have no further words to describe the details...I believe this décor speaks for itself....

Nothing but Nature - Ahwahnee Hotel

This was such a refreshing wedding to plan and design. I would have never guessed how much fun I could have with only designing with foliage and some acorn branches. Lindsay and Santiago had a small, intimate wedding in Yosemite National Park at the Ahwahnee Hotel. The wedding party only consisted of the two of them and after the ceremony out in the meadow they gathered on the East Terrace to enjoy an outdoor luncheon. The rich greens and the natural wood vases and hints of acorns are so simple and so gorgeous to compliment the environment.

Birch Logs and Herbs

It is always so fitting to represent elements that are a reflection and compliment to the surroundings of the venue. Kate and Tyson chose The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite for their wedding in July and they had such terrific choices for decor that was so perfect for their day. Their colors were lavender and sage so we designed with dried lavender, scabiosa, olive branches, blushing bride, astilbe, ranunculus and moss. The centerpieces were designed from birch logs that were from a tree cut down at her parents house. The guest favors were my personal favorite, Nature's Leaf which are actual leaves dipped in silver to make the perfect ornament. They used vintage Yosemite post cards for their table names and we polished off designing the cake making olive/lavender wreaths along each tier base.

Chelsea and Joe ~ All the fixin's

Talk about a great way to utilize your resources, Chelsea and Joe completely killed it with all of their details! Chelsea had a vision from the start and each element pulled in to make the event better and better. Her family made all of the wood boxes for the centerpieces and also the insanely gorgeous doorway frame at the Altar. Her mother grew all of the succulents that I was able to use in the wedding party flowers and made all of the centerpieces and guest favors with them as well. We mixed some ferns and hydrangeas in galvanized buckets, loaf pans and even an old tackle box that belonged to Chelsea's grandfather. They made each place setting with a paper doily glued to scrapbook paper, gathered a collection of lace doilies to use under the centerpieces, pulled together some old vintage books with always works well into decor details and arranged the table names to be based off of old flash cards. Each guest had a different pattern of china to eat from. The Cigar Lounge was the ultimate with the way all of the rusty old chairs worked in with the mustard yellow couch right down to a cigar shaped pillow. Who wouldn't love such a lovely setting at The Vista in between the vineyard and the reception?