I love this soft and romantic color palette with its delicate grays, soft pinks and aquas… Quite simply chic… Would you consider it for your wedding day?

I’m so in love with this adorable pink and aqua wedding photographed by Beaux Arts Photographie.

For the ceremony, the bride made a backdrop of floaty pink and aqua fabric, that swayed in the breeze…

The bride’s bouquet was made up of garden roses, peonies and hydranga. For a keepsake of the day, a clock engraved with the couple’s wedding day was carried by the groom.

Brass bells were hung on aqua board for guests to ring after the couple’s kiss.

Pink and gold tea cups make a pretty vignette and aqua striped wine bottles are given as bridesmaid’s gifts…

The bridesmaids wore flowly pink chiffon dresses with greek sandals, hitting the perfect relaxed garden vibe…

Seating cards on lines of twine and elegant calligraphy is used for signs…

Pink dahlias, delicious flatbread, champagne, and a gorgeous pink cake all make for a relaxed and beautiful wedding reception…

Neon seems to be popping up every where.. I love the idea of a wedding design with touches of neon that is still really, really, elegant (it would be such a fun design challenge).

How rad would a neon wall be for a ceremony backdrop? SO RAD.

For the Tea Tme Editorial, 33 Jewels kindly lent us a number of vintage costume jewelry and we just had to take a bunch of detailed styling shoots with them. Above the detail of a choker…

The incredible purple Miriam Haskell necklace…

 Here it is styled with Tricia’s tray and a cigarette case I bought at a thrift store.

I loved these elegant gold and white studs… You can find similar pieces at 33 Jewels.

Gotta love these super feminine pink badgley mischka d’orsays! PS… they’re on sale right here.

I love making bouquets… there’s just something so fun about making the bride’s most important accessory on her wedding day. I personally, love bouquets full of color and texture. For the the Vibrant Winery Wedding I used orange lollipop dahlias, pink garden roses, scabiosa pods (love them), sweet veronica, and pink garden roses.

What kind of flowers would you carry on your wedding day?

I love  a wedding full of vibrant color, and this wedding I designed last year had one of my favorite color combos: turquoise, orange, and hot pink. For her bouquet, I used pink garden roses, orange dahlias, sweet veronica, scabiosa pods and maidenhair fern and then wrapped the stems with a deep turquoise silk.

Their ceremony was held under the oak tree at Gainey Vineyards. The bride had a thing for hearts (she actually wore a heart shaped necklace on her wedding day) so I created a big heart out of orange rose petals.

I used the couple’s bird and heart logo on their seating card chart (I actually printed a large copy of it and then used an exacto knife to make a stencil out of it). A collection of vintage fans were placed in wood boxes filled with more orange rose petals.

For her tabletop design, I used a burlap runner as the base to pop the colorful flowers off of. A mix of hammered containers, petite mason jars and aqua glasses from Anthropologie held an assortment of garden roses, cafe au lait dahlias, orange lollipop dahlias, orange roses, tuberrose, geranium, and a bit amaranthus. I bought a bunch of old books and tied with them with more turquiose silk, sort of like old book satchels. At each place setting I hand braided torn silk strips to use as a napkin ring. I also switched out the usually white plates for orange ones to add even more color. I love the vibrant, playful look! You can see more of this wedding over on Style Me Pretty, right here.

A wedding I designed last year was featured on Style Me Pretty last week. I loved the colorful palette and the vintage school yard theme we did. More on this wedding soon…

And The Rainbow shoot was featured on The City Sage. Enjoy!

Have you heard about Lover.ly yet? Its a new place to browse and “bin” all your favorite wedding inspiration from your favorite wedding blogs in one place. Its got a similar vibe to Pinterest, except the content is pulled only from the best wedding blogs, which means the quality of images on Lover.ly will always be the best of the best. With over 100,000 images already in the database, its the perfect place to start putting together the inspiration for your wedding design.

To meet the team behind Lover.ly and some of my favorite bloggers, I headed down to Manhattan beach a few weeks ago to get a sneak peek. It was so much fun to hang out with Kathryn of Snippet & Ink, Cathleya from Weddingbee, Leila of Inspired by This, Shawna from Maharani Weddings, Summer of Grey Likes Weddings, Amy & Jocey of the Wedding Chicks, Chandra of Oh Lovely Day, Emarie of The Collection Event Studio, and of course have my photo taken by the incredible Elizabeth Messina. If you’d like to request your beta invite you can do so right here. Happy Lover.ly-ing!

Vendors who made it happen:

Event Production: Be Inspired PR

Photography: Elizabeth Messina

Location: The Shade Hotel

Flowers: Dolce Designs Studio

Desserts: Cupcakes Couture of Manhattan Beach

Dessert Table Backdrop: Jesi Haack

Champage: Nicolas Feuillatte

Linens: La Tavola

Stationary: Cherish Paperie

Gift bags: Wedding Chicks

Photo booth: Mobile Photo Booth

Tomorrow I’m heading out to London to design and attend my little sister’s wedding. I’m SUPER excited to go antiquing & prop hunting, not to mention visiting the always inspiring Fortnum & Mason, my beloved Cambridge where I studied abroad, drinking loads of cream tea and eating bags of Walker’s salt & vinegar chips. Posting will be light while I’m away, but I will have a full re-cap of my adventures when I return. Until then, cheers mate!

Photos, clockwise from top left: 1. James Waddell via This is Glamorous 2. David Cleveland 3. Alexandra Grablewski 4. Jim Franco