Saturday, May 24, 2008

Hotel Bel Air

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of designing a wedding for Barbara and Greg at the Hotel Bel Air. We met Barbara about a year ago through Sae Lee Photography. Barbara's vision was something fun, bright, and modern. Her bridesmaids’ dresses were jubilant tones of hot pink and orange and thus created her color theme throughout, punched up with an accent of green.

- looks can be deceiving...but this is the calm before the storm




















- Loading up the cargo van (it began as a dark and gloomy morning)


- Setting up the gazebo (and the sun finally came out!)


- Threading a 25ft long orchid garland for the gazebo columns

- Mission Accomplished


- We wanted to do a floral monogram and used the design from Barbara’s invites as our inspiration. I’m glad Barbara gave us so much creative leeway – this was probably the most fun project of this wedding. We use hot pink ‘Ravel’ roses on the edge, hot pink carnations in the center, and white button mums for lettering. We finished off the whole effect with a burnt orange, diamond pleated fabric that we found in the fabric district.


- Originally, the idea was to do three different types of centerpieces on the tables (as you may have seen on one of our mock up galleries) but Barbara ended up choosing two – I’m glad she did!





















- Wish we could have stayed for this!














- After an intermission at In-N-Out, we headed back to the shop (better known as HQ) and prepared for Mother’s Day. That was an adventure in itself.

p.s. thanks Barbara for being so cool!
p.p.s. thanks Jessica for taking these pictures…and letting us drag you around that day! :)

Monday, May 5, 2008

Great Bridal Expo Raffle Winner - Announcement

The Great Bridal Expo

Where can you find a couple hundred excited brides all under one roof? The Great Bridal Expo! What a crazy weekend! Fleuretica was at the Great Bridal Expo held at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles. We spent a few days preparing for the event, trying to come up with interesting design concepts to present at our booth. In the end I think we choose a great color scheme as well as some cool designs that represent what Fleuretica is all about! Fresh, unique, feminine, and fun! It got a little hectic in our studio the night before as we literally taped off an 8x10 foot area in our front consulatation area to do a mock-up of our booth. Talk about tight squeeze!


Luckily our craziness paid off and our booth was a great hit! Here are a couple of pictures we snapped before the madness began!



Our carnation cake!


The frills...




and the flourishes...