Tropical Modern Holiday Inspired Wedding at the Historic Walton House

After an amazing styled wedding shoot that practically went viral (click here to see more), some of the vendors including Monica from Events with a Promise and Angie from Angie Lilian & Co reached out to me to ask if I would partake in another stylized wedding shoot. Of course, my answer was “Yes”. In less than a week, we all gathered together at the Historic Walton House to capture everyone’s beautifully crafted details.

Keeping it simple, I incorporated the blooms from the groom’s boutinniere and the bride’s bouquet into the invitation suite. A graphic floral envelope liner was added to the blue euro flap envelope to surprise guests with a fun pop of color. The gold trim added a nice touch to both the invitation card and rsvp card, not to mention the floral belly band as well as the matching red rsvp envelope.

Another fun detail to add in was a wax seal with my logo on it. More than anything, I’ve been wanting to include something branded into suite shots without it being super intrusive like a digitally added logo. I’m kinda in love.

Another fun detail created for the shoot was pearlized ornaments with each guest’s first name written on them.

Vendors

Venue: The Curtiss Mansion

Planner + Event Design - Events with a Promise

Photographer: Angie Lilian & Co.

Videography: Modern Love Productions

Florals: Sugar Collections

Specialty Rentals: Rumbas Event Rentas

Tableware: A Table of Love

Bridal Attire: Brides of Florida + Dora Sasu

Groom Attire: The Lapel Project by My Groom’s Room

Hair & MUA: ENV Makeup

Stationery: Only One Mark 😘 💌 

Cake: T'antay Miami

Models: Lizandra + Yasaph

Alejandra + Daniel - A San Francisco City Hall Elopement

Not every wedding project I take on is traditional. This was the case for Alejandra. Her fiance, Daniel, and herself had made plans to elope over in San Francisco, California and she wanted to have a special detail for her special day. Having seen the leather jacket I painted for this styled shoot elopement, Alejandra wanted to have similarly designed. These are the results.

If you want have your breath taken away, go check out more details on Dipp Photography's blog. I promise you will be gushing over them too.  

Yalina + Josh - Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina

Trust me when I say that this year has been filled with a lot more "firsts" both in my personal and career life. Let's talk about this gorgeous place card detail....on a capris shell!! 🐚✍🏻

Photo Credit: Erica Melissa

Go ahead...jump over to gush over the romantic details found on Erica Melissa's blog. #swoonworthy

Vendors

Venue: Pink Shell Beach Resort

Hair & Makeup: Ulta Beauty

Rentals: SLE Vintage & More

Florals: Events by Zeiry

Shell Lettering: Only One Mark Inc.

Bridal Gown: Alfred Angelo

Bridal Cape: Champagne & Grit

Cake: Sandra Rodriguez

Our Wedding - 11.11.11

Unless we are friends on Facebook, there is something I've never really shared with the world. You might have heard all of the funny stories, scares and precious moments during a meeting between sips from your coffee cup. But honestly, I can't believe it's taken this long to share it. 

Family, Friends, Blog Visitors - I give you some photos from our wedding.

Yup. The day 10 years in the making, 7 years dating; November 11, 2011 was the day that Gus and I were married.

According to Gus, his day got started with waking up at 5:30am. He was so excited, he couldn't sleep anymore. So instead, he ran laps around what would be our apartment complex to try to get tired but that didn't work. 😂  The rest of his day was spent hanging out with his friends at what would be our apartment, playing video games and hanging out. Once they were ready to go, he gave his groomsmen their gift (a flask with their favorite superhero on the front) and took a celebratory drink.

Back at my parent's house, I spent all day watching my favorite Disney Movies and spending time with my bridesmaids. My youngest sister even made a sign for the front of our house. Once we were all ready to go, we headed out to our venue.

Our wedding was themed after the movie Aladdin. We kept the main colors navy and gold with accents of other bold colors that reminded me of all the treasure found in the Cave of Wonders. We had place card holders that were small golden elephants, Moroccan lanterns centerpieces instead of flowers, and my favorite detail, a magic carpet that we would be married on. And another detail we decided upon was dressing up our ring bearer and flower girl as Aladdin and Jasmine. I'll let you keep scrolling to enjoy the magic that unfurled that night. 😉 ✨

One of the major snafoos but one of the funniest moments of our wedding was that unfortunately, the DJ could not play the song I had chosen to walk down the aisle to. When they tried to play it, a loud boom screeched over the sound system 💥  and my poor ring bearer ran back up the aisle screaming for his dad. Thankfully we had a backup song from some Disney themed instrumentals that we had playing prior to the ceremony. So a lesson for all: have a backup plan and don't stress if something goes wrong. It will just forever be part of your wedding day story. 😅

And WE GOT MARRIED!! The rest of our night was filled with lots of laughter, dancing, and more memorable moments. 

And there you have it...our big day in a nutshell. It was a day we will never forget.