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Rustic Romance – Wedding Design for Banff Brides!

January 26th, 2012

It has been a BUSY few weeks!  I spent some time in Los Angeles (posts coming soon!), and when I arrived home we had 1 day to finish prepping for the Calgary Wedding Fair. I was thrilled with how our booth turned out, so I wanted to share some of the images, and walk through the design! A huge thank-you to Tessa Perkins Photography for all of the beautiful images of our booth!

Following on the heels of the Royal Wedding we decided to infuse elegant and romantic with some rustic flare. I’m really loving warm gold tone right now, so I wanted to the booth to feel really intimate and comfortable. I purchased fabric and had custom drapery created to get just the right feel! We also installed dark hardwood floors to give the feel of a rustic mountain venue.  The team at Stardust Event Group got the lighting just right!  Now when I tell you how important lighting is at your event, you’ll know what I mean.

The whole booth was designed around a GORGEOUS lace linen from La Tavola Fine Linen in California.  The fabric looks like an elegant wedding dress! I adore the contrast of the lacy ivory linen with the dark wood chargers and mahogany chiavari’s (the chairs, and lots of the bones of the booth came from Special Event Rentals). We accented the booth with pale pink Krinkle linen, also from La Tavola.

Ok, I was SO excited about this stationery! A Canmore local illustrator, Jocey Asnong, created this beautiful custom artwork for our menu’s, place cards, and table number.  Jocey is uber talented, and I just adore her work!  The possibilities for custom stationery with Jocey are endless! Once the artwork was done The Social Page put the whole piece together ( how fun is the hint of gold sparkle with the wood grain kraft paper?)

For the place setting we used amber hued glasses, and gold cutlery ( on a side note, cheesecake feels significantly more fancy if eaten with gold cutlery), as well as plates with wood grain, on top of dark wood chargers. Each place setting had a mini floral arrangement in a gold mercury glass container.

A beautiful close up of the lace linen – isn’t it amazing?

The super creative Joanna from Lil’ Pink Daisy florals created all of the flowers in our booth.  We really wanted a unstructured, romantic feel.  I loved the pale ranunculus and roses combined with the super romantic deep plum hanging amaranthus. Joanna added some wax flower and Italian ruscus and it was just perfect!

Our custom bubble chandelier was a huge hit at the show!  We constructed this piece onsite, covered the frame with Italian ruscus, and hung glass bubbles filled with ranunculus, ruscus, and roses.  If I was to create this for a wedding, I would likely add candles to the mix as well. The chandelier was unique and romantic!

This is Clare and myself at the end of the show.

Did you stop by our booth at Wedding Fair?  What did you think?

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