Indian Inspired Destination Wedding Vol. 5

I can not stress enough how important it is to consider what your spaces will look like as your wedding day goes by.  While your ceremony may be in complete daylight, your cocktail hour may be in daylight and dusk, and your dinner and dancing may begin with just an hour of daylight and then lighting is required.  For this reason, make sure everything that is going to be seen in natural sunlight also works with the fixed (and designed) lighting.
Here is the Indian inspired wedding spaces later in the evening:

I hope you've enjoyed this series!  Special thanks again to Deborah Cull Photography and Signature Florals.

Indian Inspired Destination Wedding Vol. 4

After the wedding dinner we moved from the clear-span tent to the dance tent and Indian lounge.  The afterglow took place under the riverfront pavilion and lawn.  Here is what I will say "made the space": Lighting and tons of furniture with accent pieces.

 You might notice that there are some Moroccan pieces in these spaces I designed.  I am absolutely about making it all come together and look good.  That's the point right?  Sometimes that means you design with what works and not what is.  In this post I'll show the daylight photos and in the next post I'll show you what these same spaces looked like after sunset.

You can catch this entire series by clicking here. One more post to come...

Indian Inspired Destination Wedding Vol. 3

As much as I want to just sit here and type away about this wedding, I think the pictures tell the story quite well.  Just a bit of background though.  The brides family was from India, and that is where the Indian comes into the picture.  Some of the details, like the table runners and favors, we purchased and shipped from India.  We tried to be authentic when at all possible.  For the dinner, we had as many American dishes as we did Indian dishes.  My favorite of course was anything and everything with curry!

Notice the chairs are missing?  We moved the ceremony chairs over during cocktail hour.

We used different table types because the tent was so large.  It made it not so overwhelming.

Each guest received a wood box with a message embossed inside.

These lanterns were hanging everywhere.  Just one of the details that warmed up the space.

The ever popular photo station was a hit.

Little details DO count.  Even the tealight candle holders.  Imagine this table with your standard glass votive.

We hung these stars everywhere we needed to add a touch of color.

These cupcake stands almost didn't make it!  The heat that day was off the charts!

Grooms choice, Red Velvet cupcakes from Masons.  They were so good.

I just love this picture. Gorgeous.

There's just something about this view that is so intriguing. Or maybe I'm just hungry.

There's more to come (so many great images to show off).  Click here to see what you already missed.  Oh, and you can see more pictures in the Fall issue of Destination I Do magazine (you can also follow them on twitter)!

All images by Deborah Cull Photography

Indian Inspired Destination Wedding Vol. 2

Now I'd like to highlight the star of this wedding.  The flowers.  Oh my the flowers.  Signature Florals nailed it.  When I said red, orange and gold and I needed to avoid a tropical feeling...she found a way.

The aisle treatments later filled the dinner tent

The Bouquets

We purposefully didn't overwhelm the dinner tables with flowers.  The tables were designed for a more dinner party feel.

These 3 arrangements are what made this space a bit more intimate and finished. It doesn't appear as just "white" in the background of the ceremony. This often happens with waterfront ceremonies.

On the round tables, we added the "aisle" arrangements from the ceremony tent.

 Click here to see all of the Indian Inspired destination wedding posts.
Who took all these lovely photos?  The fabulous team at Deborah Cull Photography.

Indian Inspired Destination Wedding Vol. 1

This was one of my favorite destination weddings to design because I was able to incorporate all that is rich and lovely about the Indian culture. Oh the color!  I just adore all the deep reds and golds and orange.  This wedding took place at a venue so expansive, we were able to transition four times: A Pre-ceremony cocktail hour, ceremony, dinner and finally the after-glow, each in a new location on the groungs of the Burroughs Home in historic downtown Ft Myers.  I was so fortunate to work with Deborah and Matt Cull for this wedding.  They really took the time to photograph each detail with such an appreciation for the surroundings- never trying to "escape" the palm trees or the Edison Bridge.  Because its photographing these environments that make all weddings unique and the memory of the experience true.

This custom designed aisle took about ten hours to hand paint and then petal.  Each petal was hand glued!

I love how traditional this ceremony was,embracing the history of The Burroughs Home.

Pretty  much always my favorite "aisle" photograph

There's something about a groom in a white jacket that I just love.

This picture with all the hundreds of guests was quite the undertaking, but so worth it.

 There will be 3 (maybe 4) volumes in this series...read them all here.

Sneek Peek at some real weddings coming up

I can't help myself.

Beach Ceremony.  Simply pretty.

Same room as below!

I'm still dying over this cake wreath

The Italians love to parade after the ceremony!

I love downtown weddings (and blocking off the entire street)

The biggest inspiration board ever

This week the kids went back to school, and so I find myself with a bit of time waiting at the bus stop.  I am forever trying to be as productive as possible (sometimes failing and falling into procrastination). So I am doing a twitter series while I wait called #BusStopShots. You can follow along with the same hashtag.

What I wanted to share with you here though was what I do after I rip all these pages of pretty things out of the wedding magazines.  Introducing the biggest inspiration board you've ever seen, the WBS studio bathroom:

See any of your pictures in here?

Hopefully one day you'll have a chance to stop by and browse our studio library.  And if by chance you need to visit this room...it will hopefully be the loveliest little wedding bathroom you've seen. If you do see one of your pictures here; I love it.

Yes, there are ALOT of pictures!