A stylish, smart&eco cool wedding in the woods

Cassandra and Ignacio's beautifully designed wedding in Topanga on Friday, July 15, was effortlessly eco friendly just by being creative. Of course, as the bride is Chrysalis Couture’s Creative Director and Designer Cassandra Stearns, a new emerging designer in the textile and interior design world, the concept was carried out perfectly.

The table runners are Cassandra's design. The table setting: Golden chargers, (Ikea) old fashioned restaurant plates, whimsical vintage plates. Vintage water glasses. Brass bowls and vases from Thrift and Antique stores... Blue candles with LED lights... Everything is re-usable and fun, like...

 ...the hand made napkin rings. Cassandra even created her own cake stands with trucs trouves: she glued whimsical glass plates onto brass and porcelain candle holders, which made the eclectic look of the cake and dessert display unique and fun.

Her new Argentinian relatives had cooked and baked for many hours, trucking in delicious chocolate mousse, flan and pies, we rarely had so much fun setting up the dessert bar.

 To keep it within the looks they hand wrote their table numbers and even the candies matched...

For the chalkboards vintage frames were re-used by painting the inside with chalk board paint. The Happy hour before the wedding invited everybody to a fun and sometimes funny/spontaneous ceremony and heartfelt celebration. Cassandra created her beautiful dress from two separate articles of clothes and chose a bouquet entirely made from Kale.



Everybody played with masks and created a mini carnival for the photo booth to honor the Argentinian wedding tradition.

The Topanga stars twinkled over a unique celebration.

Weddings in Los Angeles

 

We are all so busy doing events that blogs have to wait for some of us. I am looking forward to  professional pics of Debra&Greg's colorful bash in May at the Upper Las Virgines Ranch...

 

 

 

Lesley&Geoffrey's theatrical Mid May wedding at the Inn...

 

 

 

.... not to forget Christopher&Suzanne's naturally green wedding at the Malibu Nature Preserve or

Pei& Marina in late June who convinced me to create 130 arty cup cake plates...

... Sasha and Lee's  joyful celebration in July, one of their highlights were Cake Monkey creations.

and Jessica&Adam's amazing architecturally inspired June wedding in the Natural History Museum...

.... so many pictures to look forward to.

Be inspired, vintage rentals

We love to hunt for wedding decor treasures in thrift stores but then one has all this stuff, what to do with it? Renting might be the best solution even here and the guys from Archive have the coolest stuff from 50 ties to old fashioned looks, type writers to rustic signs.

Found is another great find...

Organic wedding in Topanga

Organic food, local wines and an organic wedding cake greened Melanie and Ray's reception at the Inn in Topanga on February 26, 2011.

Read on...

Succulents for the Bride

In the world of eco cool succulent bridal flowers Flora Grubb swung themselves up to inspiring heights.

Once worn bridal beauty

One of the recent brides inquiring for my services told me that she would have to look for a used wedding dress as her expenses are overflowing her desired budget. Help is near, as in an eco friendly world this is not a disaster but can actually be fun.
Three companies came to mind immediately selling once worn contemporary designer dresses often half off.
Once Wed
Encore Bridal
White Chicago
You can find interesting designs like the Cymbeline dress on the photo, which just sold.

Green Weddings - Literally

As more and more catastrophes are hitting the planet people are thinking greener, as in: what can we do to avoid further environmental damage. Green Weddings are a great and very personal contribution. Some take the green literally.

And what better time to remind us of all shades of green with St Patricks day coming up on March 17.