Category Archives: Event Design

Nov 08, 2017

bride-and-groom

This sweet couple celebrated their marriage with a traditional Jewish affair surrounded by friends and family on Runnymede Plantation. We had worked with the groom’s mother on his sister’s wedding, and other affairs, so it was even more special getting to know these two as a couple. Navy, silver, and white was a great color palette for the time of year as they allowed for big impacts in creating a formal and traditional affair. All photos by Squire Fox.

printing-collage

Lettered Olive worked with the couple to create a custom monogram (both of their first names start with “J”), and a navy and white pattern to add dimension to their design.

runnymede-sign

Runnymede Plantation is one of our favorite Lowcountry event locations. There is a lot of space for us to create whatever we want for our clients, and jawdropping river and natural views. We designed this sign for the entrance to the plantation for easy guest traveling.

bridal-collage

There were lots of special accessories for the bride.  We embroidered her bouquet ribbon with the new monogram; an heirloom handkerchief was embroidered and gifted to the bride, and she carried her family’s antique prayer book. For her something blue, the wedding details were embroidered to the inside of her dress.

bridal-portrait

bride-card

A custom card with the length of time they had been together accompanied the groom’s gift to the bride- I really loved this sweet sentiment.

flower-collage

Anenomes were the perfect bloom for the navy and white color scheme, and full and lush garden roses and ranunculus filled out a bridal bouquet.

wedding-party-collage first-sight

This couple elected to do a “first sight” moment with the two of them before the ceremony.

ceremony-accessories-collage

A table was set with Yarmulkes and cards for guests to write wishes to the couple as they were waiting to be seated for the ceremony.

ceremony-collage

Large urns of magnolia branches fashioned in urns lined the aisle leading to the magnolia branch chuppa. A family piece was used to create the chuppa topper.

ceremony-shot

bedeken

The couple and family celebrated the marriage with a traditional Bedeken ceremony after the wedding.

guest-card-collage

Tree branches made for a lovely and “natural” design element for the dinner escort cards.

cocktail-hour

Guests enjoyed cocktail hour in living room sets overlooking the river banks.

tablescape

The dining room was set with a glamorous vibe. Silver suede linens made for a cozy and upscale fall feel, and platinum banded china and crystal were a beautiful background for dinner.

dining-room-collage

The dining room glowed with a masse of candles… A Traditional Challah cutting took place at the head table.

dessert-collage

The wedding cake and many kosher dessert stations were set and served throughout the after dinner lounge.

outside-lounge

An outside lounge was built off of the dinner and dancing tent for guests to enjoy dance breaks under the stars.

horrah

getaway-collage

The couple departed to sparklers and a fireworks display… Mazel Tov!

11.08.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
Bridal, Bridal Style, Charleston, Event Design, Event Planning, Reception, Stationery, Invitations and Pretty Papers, Uncategorized, Weddings | Comments >>

Photo by Corbin Gurkin

In honor of our recent appearance in the Martha Stewart Weddings feature on creative table numbers, we wanted to share a few ideas from our weddings that were a bit hit. Because, you know we can’t resist every little detail. For a fall wedding in Aspen, Colorado, die cut wooden cards were perfect for our sophisticated rustic wedding. Lettered Olive does all of our printing (and can do yours as well), but you can also find many of these on Etsy.

Photo by Liz Banfield

Many years ago (before you were readily able to find agate slices) we found this green agate at the gift market show in NYC. So, we scooped up enough to have our caligrapher hand paint the table numbers on them.

Photo by Liz Banfield

One thing we always have to think about when designing our tabletops is how crowded they may end up- for example, if we do offer bread service we incorporate it into the meal because there is never room for the b&b plates!  To eliminate crowd on these tables, we ordered metal house numbers to hang from the overhead chandeliers…

Photo by Liz Banfield

For a beachfront wedding in September that was high on style and metallic accent colors, we had sheets of metal cut and our calligrapher painted the table numbers on them. These marble card holders in a neutral color we found have proven to be so useful and versatile.

For a golf themed wedding hole flags printed with the table numbers were a thoughtful addition to the tables and offered a bit of height in the tent…So cute, right?

Photo by Liz Banfield

For those that prefer something a bit more along the traditional route, cards that were painted with the numbers were draped by ribbon from the chairs.. We just hot glued button mums to the ends of the ribbon to hide the cut ends and jazz them up a bit. You could use many different flowers or other decorative items here.

 

11.07.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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We are so excited to see the new issue of Charleston Weddings Magazine out on newsstands now. Our “glam” bride’s wedding was featured, and in the coming weeks, we’ll share some of our favorite photo outtakes from this wedding as well. See the full feature here.

11.06.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
Bridal, Bridal Style, Charleston, Event Design, Press, Reception, Spotted!, Stationery, Invitations and Pretty Papers, Uncategorized, Weddings | Comments >>