Our friends at Charleston Weddings Magazine are celebrating their 10 year anniversary, and we are so thankful to have been featured over the years, and in the anniversary issue. The classic navy and white wedding featured took place at Hibernian Hall and was shot by Corbin Gurkin, Jim Smeal did the textured wedding cake. We’ll share more images on this week’s Wedding Wednesday post.
This beachfront beauty took place at the amazing Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, SC. Glam gold accents dot the seafoam and teal greens taken from the bride’s favorite Van Gogh painting. Lettered Olive did all of the pretty paper, wedding cakes are from Jim Smeal, and Liz Banfield captured everything.
One part of the design process I most enjoy is personalizing the details of the wedding.. I love getting to know my clients and the things they love, the common interests they share, the places they have lived or travel. All give me inspiration on how we can find small ways to make those into details- sometimes even surprises for the couples.
For this client we created a custom monogram with Lettered Olive to use throughout on printed items.
The bride’s family had a custom of having matchbooks printed with their photos.
We always like to do surprise details for the couple.
The bride’s hometown has a store that is famous for chocolate covered cookies that many people have as favors for their weddings. So we had them wrapped in her wedding cookies and created monogramed stickers for the packaging.
For this couple’s Oklahoma City wedding, we personalized the welcome bag full of local hometown tidbits and gifts for the guests as well as the bride and groom’s favorite treats.
It was hugely important to this couple to incorporate their Australian Shepards somewhow. We knew that there would be plenty of cake leftover so we created “doggie” bags for guests to take home with outtakes from the couples’ engagement shoot.
This couple was marrying under an antique Oak tree, so Lettered Olive created this image which we used on the cocktail napkins, ceremony programs, invitations, and dinner menus.
We custom printed sleeves for the getaway sparklers out of the same paper and pattern used throughout the wedding with a sweet little wish for the couple.
For a couple that loved wine (the groom was a collector) we set up a wine bar using bottles from his personal collection as well as finding a bottle that he wanted to add to his collection and had all of the wedding guests sign it in lieu of the guest book.
Recognized as one of the nation’s leading tastemakers, Tara Guérard has earned a widespread reputation for her ability to create spectacular settings celebrating life’s most anticipated occasions. As the visionary and founder of Tara Guérard Soirée, she is best known for her distinct style that honors the storied traditions of Southern hospitality paired with a modern aesthetic and flair for the unexpected.
