Thursday, June 30, 2011

REAL WEDDING - SARINA & ERIC

When we were recommended to cover Sarina & Eric's stunning city chic wedding on the rooftop of the Rydges Hotel in Brisbane by one of Australia's leading wedding stylists we knew the event would be a glam affair in vintage chic style.


View more of our wedding pics below & over 4 pages in the current winter issue of Wedding Style Guide Magazine on sale now.

Bris-vegas here we come...Sarina prepares for the big day with her bridesmaids in Newfarm.


The Style Salon were flown in to create the incredible vintage chic theme. Thank you to Rouba for bringing us on board to capture all her works of art.
The couple chose to say i-do underneath a beautiful canopy of flowers.

Sarina chose to wear four different dresses throughout the day.


The softest colour palette of peach, pink, ivory, gold & blush were used throughout the flowers, light fittings, chairs, vases and candle holders.


Blue & White ticking tablecloths, gold tiffany chairs and crystal glassware adorned the tables.

The light was perfect for the photo shoot with Sarina & Eric.

The brides spectacular dress (number two) was by Elie Saab. The grooms suit was by YSL.


We love the delicate feather detail in Sarina's hairstyle for dress #2.
A romantic champagne toast for two on the bridal table. Sarina in dress number #3 with another gorgeous crystal hairpiece.

Intricate detailing on the wedding cake above & Sarina and Eric celebrating the cake cutting with a perfectly timed fireworks display off the rooftop.

The bride changed into a stunning midnight blue gown to party into the night.

Eric flew in Guy Sebastian as a surprise treat for guests and Sarina.

It was so much fun working on your day Eric & Sarina. We wish you the very best for a fun filled and exciting life journey together

Oh yes, now's the time...

Email ido@theweddinglibrary.com now -- appointments are filling up!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Another testimonial :)

As we finish our busy June we are getting so many thank you cards and emails we are delighted to have created such special days for our clients and most of our weddings will be uploaded onto the blog when we receive the photos but here is a lovely testimonial received today from one of my bride´s mother. It was a gorgeous wedding at the Finca de la Concepcion for Chris and Faye and our congratulations goes out to this charming family whose day we shared with many fabulous details created over the past year.


Hi Laura


I just wanted to thank you for making Chris and Faye´s day so amazing! The sheer beauty of everything you created took my breath away, especially the beautiful flowers. So many people have complimented on the decor saying they had never seen such uniqueness. All the hard work paid off and it was a pleasure dealing with you, exchanging all the emails, ideas and finishing touches. Also a big thank you to Anoulka, I know she contributed to a large part of the creativity!


Thank you so much for all that you did to make the day so memorable, it was everything that Chris and Faye wanted and so much more.


Lynn x


Fabulous photos to follow soon ;)

Delightful Shabby Chic Style Wedding in Benahavis, Marbella, Andalucia

Rachel first contacted me at the beginning of this year as she was setting up a company specialising in villas for wedding particularly around the Benahavis area and was also planning her own wedding.

It was at this time she found the fabulous Cortijo de los Cabellos and started her unenviable project of updating this venue.

Talk about a busy lifestyle, having just had a little girl that has just turned one, Rachel seems to grab both horns and get on with it with the most amazing sense of energy, style and taste, and I am thrilled to have got to know her over the past 6 months and do admire her artistic eye.

Nothing surprised me when I showed up to do the twinkly bits at her wedding to see her in her bikini and sarong bustling around and doing the last minute touches to her own wedding day, is was beautiful and she had emailed me a few times to ask my advice, in particular the last few touches of adding the fresh green to the blue colour scheme she already had in place.

The end result as you can see was beautiful and so shabby chic, so much style had been bought into her wedding from the bowls of granny smith apples to the fabulous cupcakes by Lola´s cupcakes to the charming bowls of turquoise heart shaped chocolates and the beautiful birdcages she had created.

In fact the list is endless, there were die for table covers in a pale blue rose organza, another detail queen for me to revel in which was fabulous!
We love the photos taken by Anna of this glorious day and all the lovely details to share with you of Rachel´s hard work and our twinkling bits! I think there will be a job here for Rachel should she decide she wishes to use her skills, but she did email me thanking us for our input and also mentioned she had no idea how I did this day in day out with the heat!! There is a magic wand waving all the time here on the Costa del Sol albeit I get hot!

Anna, thank you for the lovely gift but still cannot bring myself to test it until I have a clear week!

Weddings Fresh on Style Me Pretty!


Good morning, ladies!  I am so excited and proud to announce that Weddings Fresh is being featured on Style Me Pretty this morning!  It's the big reveal of a our Romantic Urban Wedding Shoot!  Check it out for all of the stunning details!!



I was so thankful and blessed to work with an amazing group of talented wedding vendors here in Portland:


Photography: Diana Marie Photography
Floral Design: Quince Flowers & Events 
Cakes: Jessicakes
Hairpiece: Austie Eckley
Invitation Suite:  Studio Olivine
Hair & Make-up: Destiny Taylor
Model: Charlotte Roehm
Tableware: Pottery Barn


Wedding Library Opening Party

I was thrilled when my friend Darcy Miller at Martha Stewart Weddings offered to host a "housewarming" party for my new salon and office in NYC. I also appreciated that it created a renovation deadline to get our place ship-shape for the over 200 industry guests who arrived to check out our new digs. Our wonderful new neighbors at Rouge Tomate were the most amazing hosts of our cocktail party with delicious hors d'oeuvres, specialty cocktails and sweets for the discerning crowd -- and wowed everyone with their chic concoctions.
Our friends at Smock designed this fresh invitation, perfect for our start-of-summer soiree.
Read more about the event on the Martha Stewart Bride's Guide Blog.
A surprise visit from Martha Stewart was a highlight. She stayed to tour the salon, listen to music, sip cocktails and shop for jewelry!
Darcy and I are flanked by friends and guests.
The party space at Rouge Tomate was packed -- everyone had fun in the photo booth and catching up with old friends.
The calm before the storm -- the freshly painted office is party-ready.
Our new bridesmaids salon has room for more changing rooms and the 300+ samples we carry from 12 designers. We definitely need the extra space!
We offer fine and costume jewelry from Dana Michele, the perfect bridesmaid's gift (or gift to yourself...)
Our friend Sandy Patangay at HennaStudio bejeweled guests all evening with her amazing henna tattoos. A great idea for a bridal shower or bachelorette!

Special thanks to Darcy Miller, Malia Stevens of Rouge Tomate, Smock, The Blooming Quill, Sugar Flower Cake Shop, HennaStudio, Bella Cupcake Couture, Elan Artists, NYC Photobooth, Eduardo Patino, Carlos A. Varela and all of our industry friends for making this a night to remember!

Monday, June 27, 2011

A PIECE OF ART

Two years ago we covered her sisters wedding in beautiful Mollymook on the South Coast, NSW and last month we covered her spectacular Sydney event at Establishment.....meet Louise Beale......

Dressed in a striking Vera Wang gown and Nerida Winter hairpiece we think Louise would make a perfect covergirl. It takes a confident and visionary bride to choose black blooms and a hairpiece as striking as this one....definately two of my absolute favourite shots of the year showing a bride that works with her own style and creates an extraordinary result....

Saturday, June 25, 2011

BRIDAL MUSINGS - ANNA & QUANG

We are having a wonderful week of magazine & blog love this week. Will try to post about everything featured over the next few weeks. Today wanted to say "thank you" to Elizabeth from Bridal Musings in the UK who posted a lovely story on one of our favourite weddings in Sydney with clients Anna & Quang. If you would like to see the post click here for Part One & here for Part 2. Happy Days x

Friday, June 24, 2011

Reviva Weddings Planning Service

Reviva Weddings was set up by me at the end of 2007 and it filled a huge gap here in the market specialising in styling weddings and events offering a complete service including decorations, linens, flowers, stationery and all the lovely accessories it takes to make a special day perfect.

What makes us different? We are not florists that also do funerals and deliver flowers and leave, we specialise in weddings and events and are with you throughout your planning and helping you to create your individual style. No wedding is the same, every special day is unique to that couple and reflects their personalities, their dreams and of course their union as a couple which is a very special moment.


It is this high level of service that lead Reviva onto planning weddings, and it all started with the Los Monteros hotel shutting suddenly. Because I was working closely with some of our brides there to create their dream days it was me they turned to when this disaster happened asking me to find them new venues and desperate for help. I am a creative person and did not trust myself to become a ´planner´so I asked Carla, who is hugely organised and efficient to help me and the rest is history.


Carla took over the weddings and reorganised them all with a huge success and since this day she has been by my side eversince as the extremely organised and super efficient wedding planner managing many weddings for Reviva and I don´t think there is a better wedding planner on the coast here than Carla, albeit she can be quite bossy with me now and tells me off when I am slacking on the paperwork!


I know most of our suppliers here all say the same thing and rave about her which is lovely.


As this side of our business was launched two years ago, I think it confused some of our clients as we are of course still known as the wedding decorators, but to the delight of our suppliers and our very happy clients over the past two years, we are growing at a super fast rate and overseeing some lovely weddings with our planning and coordination services which Carla now heads up full time. We have even being booked to fly up to Barcelona to manage weddings there which has been interesting, very exciting and very successful.


Carla and I, together, are quite a formidable team and are completely devoted to creating our stunning weddings here with our fantastic team behind us and word is spreading fast! We both have extremely high standards and this is obvious in the weddings we create and manage.


We have received a lovely testimonial from Fady and Antonia who had organised most of their wedding here in Elviria at the end of May but just wanted a few loose ends tied up and someone there on the day. It was a stunning wedding set in a private villa with some fabulous suppliers such as Roberto Silvosa and these fabulous photos from Anna Gazda.


We do not tie our clients into any other services, including our decorations, and are happy to be the planners for the day, Fady and Antonia were already thrilled with their chosen florist and had all their details already organised, and seeing Roberto´s work and the result you have to agree was stunningly beautiful.


Here is their testimonial about Carla´s services for their day.




We are so glad we had Carla as our wedding planner, she is utterly reliable and dependable and always responding quickly and thoroughly to our requests. She has many contacts so finding a band or a photographer is trouble free. Most importantly she is really lovely and flexible, making organising our wedding hassle free, personal and as pleasant as possible! Even if you can manage without a wedding planner to help you organise your wedding, I would really recommend having someone like Carla there on the day itself, she took all the hassle out of being the host, from dealing with suppliers, managing timings and sorting out the inevitable unexpected issues. It meant we could just really enjoy our wedding day and not worry about a thing