Glitter and Sparkle Glamour at Villa Padierna, Marbella

One of my friends recently asked me if I dream of glitter but the answer to this is I don´t sleep enough to dream, let alone of glitter, so I throw it around in real life instead :)

Who does not love a touch of sparkle and finally, after much posting about this lovely subject, we managed to add in some glitter and sparkle into our styling of the gorgeous wedding of Sarah and Ruben at the Villa Padierna Hotel.

I can´t tell you how excited we were creating signs and table seating plans with glitter, gorgeous table numbers in pretty white vintage style frames (with glitter!) dipping confetti cones in glitter and making tiny gold and pink glitter hearts, we were in heaven!

Sarah had organised her wedding herself, which is a feat from a different country, but needed help to put the finishing touches to her wedding day from setting up a welcome vintage style white table to offer her guests personalised fans, parasols and confetti, to styling her delicious dessert table and dressing the reception tables.

We created lots of lovely details for Sarah and Ruben´s beautiful day and are delighted to share these fabulous photos from Sarah´s wedding photographer for the day, Joseba Sandoval.  Aren´t they all just gorgeous :)  To see more of Sarah and Ruben´s wedding day do hop over to Joseba´s blog.

We loved working with Sweet Things By Fi on the dessert table.  We drooled over the cake and all the lovely sweet goodies Fi created including macarons, cakes pops and meringue kisses.  I had been warned not to even try to steal anything but did manage to sneak some of my bonbons :)  

We provided the sweets to match the desserts including the rather nice vanilla and strawberry bonbons, which were very yummy! along with glass bowls of pastel jelly beans, mallows, chocolate hearts and white swirl lollipops.

Credits to us for some fabulous styling!, on the day wedding stationery and coordination, Sweet Things by Fi for some very yummy cakes (promise I did not steal anything!), Virginia Florists who created the beautiful flowers and Joseba Sandoval from Romantic Weddings for such beautiful images.

Our congratulations to Sarah and Ruben x

A Dream Cultural Wedding in Seville, Spain

A picture is worth a thousand words.

At the beginning of June last year Margot and Sergy hired us to help them plan, coordinate and design what was going to be an amazing wedding here in Seville.   

Having already booked the fabulous Hacienda San Rafael and organising to bring guests in  from all over the world, including Hong Kong and London, Margot and Sergy knew they required help with the planning and styling of their day.

 They wished to make sure their guests were well looked after during their stay in Spain and required assistance in organising other events including a bridal shower, a trip to Ronda to see a Jamon Casa combined with a lunch for their guests, a pre wedding dinner as well as their actual wedding day.

After a year of planning and designing, it was a beautiful day as we travelled up to Seville to help Sergy and Margot host their wedding and what an amazing time this was.

Carla arrived first to oversee the pre wedding activities and with her undue care and attention to detail everything ran perfectly and like clockwork.  

Carla was closely followed by me in a whirl of flowers, origami hearts, signs, parasols, lanterns, candles and all the finishing touches to style the wedding day.

What can we say other than we love this wedding, the guests and hosts were absolutely charming and we thoroughly enjoyed watching the pre wedding tea ceremony.  

There were a lot of sneak peeks and dashing around as all the rituals Margot had explained to us were carried out before the actual ceremony.

The day of fun and games started early with Niki, the make up artist arriving at the venue for breakfast to start the hair and make for Margot and her nine bridesmaids including three different changes in outfits as the day progressed.

A most beautiful service was conducted in the late afternoon by the delightful Lizzie Marriage, followed by a wonderful meal set in the olive groves by the pool.

 Rob Rocks the House had the guests on their feet and a fabulous party was had by all.

Fi at Sweet Things By Fi created a beautiful cake on which sat some traditional wooden figures Margot had bought with her which we loved, a mini Margot and Sergy in traditional costume as Margot is from Hong Kong and Sergy is from the Ukraine.

The Hacienda San Rafael is one of my favourite venues, Anthony oozes charm and is the most magnificent host you could ever wish for, Carla is the most amazingly organised wedding planner and combined with our other trusted and wonderful suppliers we created a truly magical day.

As I mentioned before a picture is worth a thousand words and we are delighted to share these stunning images of such a fantastic day from Ramon at El Marco Rojo.

Here is our wonderful thank you from Margot and Sergy for trusting us to create such a fabulous day and we share many lovely memories with them.

Hi Carla & Laura,

We are finally back in London, and still daydreaming about our wedding just a few days ago.
We would like to thank you both for doing such an amazing job - we really cannot describe the feeling we had during and after the wedding. It really was the best weekend we have ever had in our lives - so much happiness and joy, and just seeing all our friends and family together. We felt truly blessed.
It could not have happened without your professionalism and expertise. I hope you enjoyed it just as much as we did, I am sure there were quite a few stressful moments but everyone was complimenting on how great you were. I hope it was worthwhile for you too picking us as clients!

Thank you once again.

Sergy & Margot

Flamenco in Seville Featured on Junebug Weddings

Today we are yet again squeaking with delight to have one of our favourite 2012 weddings featured on Junebug Weddings.

It is lovely to be transported back to the summer of 2012 and the wonderful Mediterranean hot sunny days and revisit the wedding we created for Charles and Victoria in the beautiful city of Seville.

Victoria and Charles were a delightfully charming couple from London who contacted us at the beginning of 2012 and booked us as their planner and wedding stylist.  When they contacted us they had already booked a venue in Seville and so the planning started but as the wedding drew closer it became apparent this venue could not afford to open it´s doors so three months before the wedding Carla made an emergency dash to Seville to meet with Charles and Victoria with a shortlist of five venues to choose from and El Esparragal was chosen.  I was delighted as I preferred this venue and so the fun bit began.

Victoria and Charles were so up for an Andalusian theme, they had beautiful moving olive oil ceremony followed by a fabulous Sevillian dancing horse flamenco show to entertain their guests during the cocktail.

We styled the wedding using the famous Osborne Spanish Black Bull, the unofficial national symbol of Spain, and combined this design with a heavy influence of flamenco and  Andalusian passion.  From the red and black polka dot fans to the gorgeous red roses, Anoulka´s fabulous stationery we designed, including the black bull wine glass place cards, the bull style table numbers, our Feria style message poster and the beautiful Order of Service fans with a vintage lace detail beautifully set off this unique wedding style.

We loved styling the chill out, albeit I never realised how heavy haystacks were and Izzi was still picking bits of hay out her legs the next day!

I have to admit it was HOT, I don´t think I have ever drunk so many waters in my life! Heaven knows how Carla and Paloma managed to put their black jackets on ready for the evening to oversee the party.  Such an amazing weekend for everyone involved including us, we so enjoyed it and have so many lovely memories.

Our thanks to Anna Gazda for such gorgeous photos and documenting such a fabulous day.