Lemon Wedding at Zagaleta Casa Club, Spain

 

Earlier this year we were contacted by a charming couple who were organising their wedding here at the Zagaleta Casa Club and we were delighted to be hired not only to decorate the wedding with this fabulous zesty lemon theme but also as their planners and coordinators for their day here.

 

As they live in Dubai they felt they needed someone on the ground here that they could work easily with and that they could trust.

 

We have not shown actual people here as it was a private family wedding but we are delighted to share some of the fabulous details of this wedding to share and inspire you if you are planning a lemon themed wedding. 

 

The bride is a designer and created some delightful designs for the stationery which really made this wedding fun, from the pretty confetti bags and Order of Service to the rather novel wedding colouring books which I thought were a fabulous idea!

 

The favours were all lemon themed with lemon sherbets for the girls and lemoncello in cute bottles for the men.  There were a lot of ideas bounced around and the final details that went into this wedding were created by our bride and her sister.

 

Our piece de resistance at this wedding was our coconut shy which was organised as a surprise for the groom!  I loved creating this, we had the stands made earlier this year by a local ironmonger and as the wedding was a zesty lemon, blues and a soft grey theme I created a grey striped backdrop and decided to use haystacks to create an area to give it more form and create that country fairground feel to it. 

 

Behind it we hung our bare lightbulbs to give even more of a fairground feel and I think the final result was very pretty.   Anoulka, my design assistant extraordinaire even tied lemon and grey ribbons to the coconut posts which finished it off beautifully.

 

There were certainly no coconuts left the next day or any wooden balls, so can assume a good time was had by all and we do laugh as apparently the local stags and deer had eaten two of the haystacks within 3 days, so I could not return them to the hirers?!  At least we have happy animals unless they were the ones that ate the wooden balls!

 

The rest of the decor was kept simple as it is such a stunning setting so along with the lemon and ivory bridal bouquets we created table centrepieces using lots of candles in glassware to give more light, zingy yellow florals along with fresh lemons.

 

Fi created this gorgeous wedding cake, also inspired by our bride and the final result was a stylish and fun day in a glorious setting with perfect Spanish weather.

 

Our thanks to Anna Gazda for sharing these gorgeous photos with us.



Fun Begins on the Costa Del Sol!

I have to confess I love weddings, now there is a surprise! The fun and silly season is here on the Costa Del Sol and has begun in earnest, which is hugely exciting.

We have got off to a wonderful start with some fabulous weddings, photos to come, and all our new ideas that we have all been working hard on all winter are now coming into fruition.

I just had to share this photo with you though, from Jeremy's new photo booth which BTW was supposed to be a 5 minute pop up job, but having watched Jeremy and Jenni on Sunday, I am sure it took at least 10 minutes of wrestling but sure it will be a sleek job within the next month ;)

But well worth the 10 minute wait as the photos are brilliant and such fun, you must check out the link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeremy-Standley-Photography/54532672389 to see what fun was had with this photo booth, a must now I think for any wedding here!

We also created a fabulous candy bar, amongst many other things, and did make the hotel staff, I am sure quite alarmed when we started jumping and clapping excitedly as we switched the fairy lights on, it was a bit like the Oxford street Christmas lights, perhaps not quite the same but we were thrilled.

I have to also mention whilst on this blog subject, that this wedding was at the Cortijo Bravo in Velez Malaga, the staff at this hotel were absolutely charming and helpful.

Our thanks to Moira at Perfect Spanish Weddings for being a huge supporter of our wedding styling, flowers and decoration service and to Rob the DJ for constantly and tirelessly keeping our weddings on their feet, in fact I have yet to meet a man that can eat so many liquorice allsorts in one night along with Jeremy ;) That is a feat believe me!

Camping Inspiration for a Wedding?!

I just love Twitter it is throwing up so many fabulous websites and links, it is a bit like picking up a magazine and reading so many creative articles by so many talented people, that otherwise would go missed!

This one caught my eye tonight, A Camping Inspiration for a Wedding?!

Posted on Love and Lavender's site, I had to go and check this one out as I could not think of anything worse than camping and did wonder what on earth would make someone want to do this theme for a wedding! However I was pleasantly surprised and fell in love with the lace tent and lanterns, the rustic candy bar and all the other glorious details which you must go and check out.

Perhaps my view on camping could possibly be changed and it is not all about damp sleeping bags, being attacked by cows in a field and waking up to one with it's head sticking in through the tent door, plus 100 plus mossie bites?!

It would still take a lot to sell this to me though and I do recall a few years ago my sister was invited to a hippy style hen night that involved sleeping outside in posh tents and she elected to pay extra for a bedroom inside the house with central heating and carpets ;)

A Rustic Autumn Wedding at Finca de la Concepcion, Marbella

As October arrived, again the weather was beautiful for this enchanting wedding with a combination of a beautiful autumnal rustic theme, the A team and held at one of our favourite venues La Finca de la Concepcion here in Marbella.

Lorna had already chosen her flowers with Holland Flowers but needed a wedding stylist to help her with all the extra delightful touches and details, which of course is where we came in. I think at this point is to highlight that we are wedding and event stylists of which flowers play a large part of our decoration service but we are unique in that we provide all the extra delightful details to make the day extra special and personal to our weddings and events.

This was very important for Lorna that she had all the elements put together and someone on the day to make sure that everything was put in place and generally overseen by a creative eye with attention to detail.

We created wooden rustic table numbers to blend in with the woodland theme, designed and printed the stationery and menu cards, supplied wooden personalised fans and an elegantly placed box of cigars, tied the napkins with raffia and matching place cards, decorated the children's area with colourful balloons and cute personalised party bags and provided the magical sky lanterns for the finale to the evening's events.

I did giggle at this wedding though as my creative team and I started squeaking with delight when Holland flowers bought in these fantastic rustic centrepieces, we were a bit like the mice in Bagpuss, if any of you remember this programme! They were gorgeous, and we loved them :) It was an exciting moment which I think rather alarmed the poor chap that was delivering them!

The A team were out in force, which is always lovely as we all work together so well and are like a family! This charming wedding was overseen by Heather who also provided the catering for the evening, Kathryn Parr with her stunning bridal hair and make up.

I wish I had been around to see the evening unfold as the entertainment was provided by the hugely talented trio, Tres Divos singing waiters, followed by Ian Preston, a master of toasting, hosting and fabulous DJ, the host with the mostess perhaps :)

An of course my continuous thank you to Jeremy and Jennie for more gorgeous photos!