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! :)