Malibu Nature Wedding, luxuriously green

Stephanie and Randal who were the first couple partying at the former horse arena at the Malibu Nature Preserve had an amazing time. The ocean view was spectacular especially from the lounge area in front of the tent. We got the locals, Malibu Party Rents to deliver white cotton sofas for a friendly price.



There's always that sports fan who can't do without the ball and the beer...


The local food was market fresh, the Martini mashed potato bar deliciously organic and the fish was sustainable.
The wine wasn't organic but local and brought in by the couple's parents.


Stephanie and her mom made the escort cards, orange paper flowers on long stems holding the cards. Guests hurried to take bunches of them home, they were too cool.



Uptown supplied their shiny metal bathrooms, it was powered by a bio diesel generator which was also used for the DJ and lighting by ELM Concierge.

From happy sunlight to saturated sunset colors into the star spangled night... the lighting was spectacular, nature is the best show, Elm's swirly out side effect were pretty cool too.



200 guests partied with one of the Nature Preserve's best DJ's, Gil Goren.

Malibu wedding tent adventures

There was nothing but a plain huge horse arena with amazing ocean view. Then we came with eco friendly trucks and built a tent for 250 guests.








We worked on this for 9 hours and then we got the lanterns competing with the sunset.

What was

Eco rocks Hollywood's green couples

Rebecca and Harry got married in December of 2008 at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood with a reception following next day at Mountain Mermaid in Topanga. In the meantime the charismatic duo has already vamped up TV shows (Rebecca, 90210), toured the US with a new theater production (Harry) and I have done a dozen amazing weddings, but their unique reception is still in the air.

The amazing letter press posters were treasured give-a-ways.

Angelica Weihs Events teamed up with gourmet caterer Don Kreindler, Curtis' eco concious crew from Classic Party Rentals and Shirvan Design's organic flower creations. We called the center pieces: tradition de-constructed. BBJ had the Burlapp linens, which look like rustic re-claimed coffee bags and would have been a great contrast to the silghtly decadent decor and art deco features of the venue. I had to realize that Burlapp linens are produced for one event and afterwards piled onto a landfill. No re-use? Not for us. We found a very similar but washable solution...


Some of them flattered Rebecca's muses (aka brides maids)

Her cousins wrote a quirky song to accompany the theater play Harry wrote for the reception: in lieu of vows or any other traditional ceremony.


The theater play was about a poor lost fisher man, whose boat sinks in the middle of a storm. He lands in Poseidon's kingdom and falls madly in love with the resistant king's daughter.



The comedia dell arte's happy end is of course the neverending love of princess and the man, who is not lost no more.




The Mermaid mansion with its amazing ball room and beautiful gardens, pool and koi pond, is a haven for creative, arty couples with a sense for the unusual and fascinating, yet edgy history of this house, which, in its wilder days, had seen gambling, illegal alcohol and easy ladies.

The glam of the 30ties and 40ties was all around us.

The dynamic party went overtime again and again...
The amazing team of Docuvitae captured the creative flair of this beautiful power couple in a way that sparks still fly.



Location: Mermaid Mansion, Topanga, Florist: Shirvan Design, Event Planner: Angelica Weihs Events, Photography: Docuvitae, Caterer: Twenty One West