It's Gonna Be a Bright, Sunshine-y (Wedding) Day!

This has to be one of my new, favorite color combinations for Spring, Summer, and even Fall!  While I wouldn't immediately think of purple and orange as being a great color combination for the wedding, I absolutely LOVED how this couple used their color palette!   The tables included our purple and crushed sand-colored linens, alternating between which color was swooped on top and which alternating napkin colors were used as well.  While we provided the mirrors, they provided these gorgeous centerpieces!!  Some were shorter (pictured left) with orange slices and bright, sunshine-y flowers, while others were tall (pictured right) with similar types of flowers, but no orange slices.

  

















For their favors, they provided each guest with orange or blackberry Izzies, which looked great on the tables!  They really thought about every element of their wedding and ways to tie the colors and citrus flavors into it!  Their cake was also beautiful, a chocolate, four-tiered creation with a little bit of greenery and orange flowers to brighten the cake up a bit!  We loved being a part of this gorgeous wedding!!




















Congratulations to this wonderful couple!  We loved the way you used your beautiful color scheme throughout the room!  What do you all think?  Love it as much as we did?

Sweet DIY Romance!

   We had the pleasure of working with a wonderful couple, but the bride in particular was fun because she had so many personal, handmade touches for the wedding ceremony site and reception area!  Before the ceremony, she hung beautiful tissue paper pomanders from the aisle chairs and in the gazebo itself!  We completed the look with our drapings and bows in her colors!  Take a look!  It looked so romantic on that Saturday afternoon!  They also had a wonderful "guest book" where guests could add their fingerprints and sign their names so that they looked like balloons!

The cake display was also really fun because they had mini cupcakes rather than a large cake.  While the guests were each able to grab the various flavors of mini cupcakes, the couple had a larger cupcake in the middle which they cut and shared!  How cute!

The room was beautiful with rose-colored linens interspersed with the blacks.  The centerpieces were all provided and made by the brides, except for the mirrors which are provided by Tapestry House.  She had tall, candelabras with pink tissue paper flowers and feathers as well as little black vases with the same tissue paper flowers.

The patio was also really beautiful as well!  For cocktail hour, they made tissue paper pomanders to hang from the ceiling!  The the bride also made beautiful coffee filter, pink-dyed roses to go under various sized glasses, just like something out of Beauty and the Beast!  This wedding was absolutely beautiful and we were so glad we could be a part of it!  Congratulations to the happy couple!

Bedazzled Vintage Wedding!

     Over the summer, we had the pleasure of working with a couple who had a ton of extra special touches that they wanted to add to their day!  Their colors were very whimsical with pinks, oranges, and bright greens.  The bouquet on their sweetheart table was fun because it had a giant "B" for their last name that was bedazzled with tons of jewels!  It looked great!  Their guest tables also incorporated in the pinks, oranges, greens, and browns and each brown guest table napkin had a little green fern leaf on it.  Each little touch helped to tie the whole room together.

     Not only were the bedazzled details and floral centerpieces great touches, but we also loved the vintage feel that this wedding had!  On all of the cocktail tables, the couple had displayed vintage love-themed postcards that they had collected from friends, family, and thrift stores.  The cake table was my personal favorite part!  Since they had a couple different cakes and desserts to display, they created a very unique cake stand.  The base of each stand consisted of stacked boxes that looked like mini-suitcases.  On top were special pieces of china to hold each dessert.  They even had a vintage-looking tea pot!  Single-bud flowers were placed around the table as well to incorporate their colors on the cake table!  It was a wonderful display!!

Pictured left are the cocktail tables.  They had some elderly guests that they knew would want a seat, so we set out some extra chairs on the patio for them.  Pictured right is the beautiful cake table display!  We loved how special and different it was from anything that we'd seen before!  The bride created it herself!

We want to wish this couple a huge congratulations and thank them both for choosing Tapestry House to take part in their special day!  We wish you both many, many years full of happiness and love!

Caramel-Covered Creativity!

     Back in August, we had a very bright, fun wedding here at Tapestry House.  The couple was absolutely wonderful to work with and we loved so many of their personal, added touches that made the reception room pop!  First of all, their colors were blue and red which really lent itself towards a wedding reception party!  The vibrant colors made the room pop and come alive as they toasted, ate, and danced!  The bride's friend made all of the favors herself...and they were caramel apples!  She took a lot of time out of her busy schedule in order to cover each and every apple with a coating of caramel, placed them in cute plastic bags, and tied each with a personalized, stamped tag and ribbon!  They looked beautiful on the tables and the guests all really seemed to enjoy them!

     Another fun aspect of this wedding was the beautiful, delicious cake!  The cake had so many cool details on it and perfectly matched this couple's color scheme.  They displayed it between two large wooden branches which held some hanging flowers in their colors.  It was a great way to frame the cake!  We'd love to know what you think about this color scheme and the favor idea!!  Leave a comment below to let us know!  Congratulations to this lovely couple!

Origami meets Mariachi!

Recently, we had the chance to work with a couple who both came from very different backgrounds!  The bride and her family were all from Japan, but the groom and his family were all from Mexico!  It was such a blast to learn more about both cultures and see both of their traditions incorporated into their reception!  Here are a few of the fun things we were able to experience during this reception!

-There is a Japanese legend that says that cranes are good luck, and that 1,000 paper cranes symbolize longevity, fidelity, and good fortune!  As a favor for all of this couple's guests, the bride and her bridesmaids made paper cranes that sat at each place setting.  They were absolutely beautiful and in so many different colors!

-It is also customary in Japan for the couple's friends to perform in some sort of way for the couple.  The bridesmaids at this wedding sang a karaoke song for the bride and groom and then the groomsmen put on monkey masks and did a little song and dance for them as well.  It was definitely a party!

-The Japanese also honor their parents, traditionally during the reception by the reading of letters to them or in very personal toasts.  In this case, the bride read a letter to her mother and father in Japanese while the translation was placed on a projection screen for guests to read in English.  It was a very touching part of the evening!

-In Mexico, wedding meals traditionally consist of some sort of rice, beans, tortillas, beef and chicken.  This is exactly the sort of meal that the couple and all of their guests were able to partake in.  Family members of the groom made all of the food and brought it in to be served by Tapestry House staff.

-It is also tradition to have a Mariachi band play at the reception and/or ceremony.  The couple brought in a Mariachi band to play music throughout the evening.  It consisted of trumpets, guitars, and drums and was a great way to bring in aspects of his culture to the day.  Everyone was on the floor dancing and they did some great dances that almost all of the guests knew or learned!

To view pictures from their wedding, follow this link to our Facebook page to view the album!