Purple Bride {The Set Up}

{Purple Bride}

I really enjoyed this wedding.
The colors were great, the bride was totally kick back.
We actually planned this all on email! She's out in New Jersey and so she trusted me with her colors based on email so I have to thank her for her faith in me. :)
The Argonaut Hotel was reeeaaallly nice.
Check out this lobby area.

How cool is that concierge desk?
This fireplace is pretty sweet too.

If you don't know by now the hotel has a nautical theme. It sits right at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco and it's located in the cannery. It's a pretty spectacular hotel and the rooms are bananas.

The tall centerpiece looked really nice underneath all the compass chandeliers(there is a name for these but I can't remember)

It was super romantic in there with the dim lighting but let me tell you, it made taking pictures quite a task for me.

I just could not capture the purples, like Sprout said, it comes out red. :(

The crew that came to set up the chair covers were so sweet!
I commented on how much I actually loved the chair covers because they were not the typical polyester chair covers, they were fitted damask and they felt spectacular.
I will have to find that business card to give her a little shout out!

Here are the brides maids bouquets and the flower girl halo before they were delivered.

My friend Stella, helped me out for this wedding, and not only is she am Orchid genius( knows all the names, care and handling) but she is also a calligrapher. I always write out my own cards and silly me forgot she was coming and forgot to ask her to bring hers pens. So naturally I handed her the shi***st pen, probably a cheap papermate or something, and asked her to label the corsage boxes.

Her is the lucky grooms boutonniere, a black magic rose, a purple calla and a black calla.

The mothers and fathers had matching lavender and white corsage and boutonnieres.

The groomsmen had the black magic roses, with ivy.

Then it was time to deliver the bouquet to the bride. How I wish I could have caught her in her dress. It was gorgeous. I hope to God I get a picture of her in her dress because I was so smitten with it.

One of the bridesmaids was ready so I got a bit of her dress in the picture with the bouquet.

So all in all, I had a blast :)
The bride was super nice on email and in person. She totally trusted me and she gave me the biggest compliment ever.
When I delivered her flowers she said
"Brenda, oh my God, they are exactly as I pictured them in my head. They are perfect!!!"
In my head I pictured myself running and hugging her to the ground, but in real life I was cool , like "oh good, I'm so happy!" so you know, I kept it professional, lol.

{ And they lived happily ever after...in New Jersey....}

Indie Part 2- The Set Up

The Details:

I received an email from the bride that her pro pictures from Emily Heizer over at HeizerPhotography came in and I will share a few here with you.

Aren't they great?

The Reinhardt Alumnae House at Mills College. It was gorgeous and I highly recommend it for a wedding of say 150 or so with a garden look and endless locations to take pictures.
So here is the room when we started. It's the inside of the house that opens up to the lawn. Its separated by floor to ceiling glass on one side.


Here is the Photobooth setting up.


Justin from Photoboof was awesome. Extremely nice and fun, he projected the pictures on to the side of the house for everyone to enjoy as the pictures were taken and it was a big hit. I had to ask him for a business card because he was such a cool guy and very easy to work with!

I walked by a table and had to snap a shot of a corsage, the picture, and the place card.


I have vases that I brought with me to line the walkway to the house. I wanted them to go in a high to low formation. I added dahlias to the highest vases and at night they looked spectacular with the floating candles lit.
Josh did an awesome job setting up, no?



I personally climbed a few trees and stood up on chairs to get these puppies to hang down.
Ribbon, Mason jars, led lights = beautiful



Recognize the house????eh? eh? Its my card box house that I used for my wedding, I just used her engagement photos in the "window slots"

Recognize my manzanita tree? Thnis truly was a GREEN wedding with all the stuff we recycled :)

See the velum lampshades on the wine glasses?

Too, cute. The bride knew it would be chilly in Oakland so she wrapped ribbon around these white blankets that were put to use ASAP.
I have never seen people snatch up blankets that fast!

ACK! I never thought I would fall in love with teacups!



Cupcakes came from Love at First Bite and I heard more than one person commenting on how great they were and I snuck one in(okay two)and they were YUMMY!
The topper was used at his grandfathers wedding in 1947!!!!

Table tops



The final shot with the floral arrangements I made in her lounge area.



I worked from 7am on the finishing touches on the flowers and one arrangement went overboard and had to redone. Flowers delivered at 10:30am. Reception site to meet and direct vendors(catering, photo booth, cake, D.J., servers ect.) from 11:00am -5:15. Cocktail hour from 5:30 -6:30. Greet couple and get them through entrance, dinner, greeting, cake, toasts, and first dance from 6:30 to 8:45pm/ Start to clean up and pack away stuff at 11pm.
Go home, wish I had the energy to blog, but happily go to sleep exhausted at 2am.

{It was awesome}

The happy couple was smiling and kissing all night and they lived happily ever after............