Our Trash The Dress Wedding!

I fell in love with this couple as soon as I met them!  They had that twinkle in their eyes, were fun and I just knew their wedding was going to be different from the fact that everyone was wearing flip flops, including our lovely bride (I was impressed with this and was sold!),  to the magical sky lanterns later in the night. 

Daniele and Mike from California wanted to have a small and intimate family wedding here in Spain.  They had already done some research and booked the villa and the fabulous Cornel Catering Team for their wedding and wanted someone to tie up the loose ends and for us to be there on the day, plus of course decorate and style their wedding, Mike is a designer so they knew exactly what they wanted which is always easier.

With a hot pink and touch of lime theme in place, Carla was on hand to recommend and book all their other suppliers and to coordinate the wedding so that it was all ready for their arrival.  We were all looking forward to this day in July when they would fly over from the States to celebrate their marriage here in Spain.

In order to design the hot pink and touch of lime look, we created some fabulous bridal flowers, using dolce vita and hot pink roses for Daniele's bouquet and hot pink gerberas for the bridesmaids. 

We dressed the chairs with fuchsia sashes, provided an arch and much needed parasols and paddle fans for the ceremony.  Using our pale green and white table linens added a more relaxed, romantic feel to the tables with white Moroccan style candles and scattered pink bouganvilla completed a very simple but elegant and pretty style. 

Pink, silver and white lanterns were hung in the gazebo area above the tables and we decorated the pool area with lots of candles and lanterns and some white and pink lanterns in the archways by the pool.

What a day it was, it was a beautifully hot Mediterranean afternoon and evening, lots of lovely cocktails being made up courtesy of their obviously well trained guests!, wonderful hair and make up, fabulous food from Cornel and a great crowd, least of all the lovely cupcakes and American baseball groom's cake made with a combined effort of Mark at Cake Marbella and our lovely Fi.

I do have a confession to Mike and Daniele I scoffed one of the lovely cupcakes :)!  I can never resist Mark's Red Velvet :)

Here are some fabulous photos taken by their friend April, a professional photographer in the States who had some awesome cameras with her.

The day ended with a Trash the Dress!   Most of the wedding party ended up jumping into the pool :)  Fabulous day guys and thank you for sharing these wonderful photos with us :)  Amazingly the dress survived albeit Daniele had already written it off!!!

Our lovely couple from California's testimonial

We were delighted to receive this testimonial this morning from our lovely couple, Daniele and Mike from California. 

After much travelling around Europe, after their beautiful wedding here in July, they are now back to work in the states and sent us this lovely email.

Laura and Carla,

As we were planning our wedding from rather far away (California), we picked our wedding planner/decorator purely on the response we received to our "feeler" e-mails for information. Right away, we knew that Laura was going to be awesome. Although we were not working with a huge budget, her excitement made us feel that our wedding was going to be spectacular and it was! It looked fantastic from the lights to the paper lanterns to the flowers. Our guests had so much fun releasing the sky lanterns as that is not something they will ever get to do back home. We really could not have asked for more.

 

Carla was so great! She really went out of her way to make sure that our day was perfect. She thought of things that I did not even notice or realize could have been potential issues. The vendors that they recommended were spot-on (Dee for the mobile mani-pedis, Caroline for make-up, Karen for hair). We can't thank you enough- our wedding day was just what we envisioned....beautiful, unique and fun!

Sincerely,

Daniele and Michael Le

 

One of Daniele and Mike's friends was a professional photographer and was here for the wedding and taking the photos with an awesome camera, so Daniele has promised us the photos as soon as she gets them, we cannot wait to see the pool antics and the Trash the Dress as she launched herself off a high diving board apparently later!!!