Museum Wedding Inspiration

Happy New Year, my friends! Since all the gorgeous blogs out there are already full of beautiful new year’s imagery, I decided to do something different. One of my clients plans to get married in a classical museum, and she inspired me to create this wedding mood board for you:

This style direction was created with  a design-conscious bride in mind; someone who loves classic elegance but likes to make a statement through a few bold, sophisticated glamorous accents. Wouldn’t this beautiful Greek-inspired classical gown perfectly reference a museum venue, especially if the space showcases antique statues such as the above Venus de Milo?

I would definitely like to feel warm and comfortable at my own wedding, and I imagine a museum atrium to be a bit on the chilly side! Therefore, I was drawn to this (forgive me, holiday-inspired) table scape accented with cozy sheepskin over each chair, and chose a stunning silk bouquet to complement the table’s shape and texture.

Though I’m not a wedding designer, I love design and can help personalize your celebration with your own unique, tailor-made wedding illustration. For example, together with the prestigious German fine jewelry designers at Code Royal, I can devise a one-of-a-kind fine jewelry piece for you and your partner, such as the above cuff links, rings, or a pendant, all featuring your own illustration or monogram!

You’d have a super memento of your love for years to come. I wonder what your guests would say? Just drop me a line if you’d like to hear more!

CREDITS:

1. Gown: Nicole Montenapoleone, Alessandra R Spring 2011 collection, via Wedding Inspirasi
2. Hand made silk floral bouquet with Swarovski crystals by Emici Bridal, see more on wedluxe.com
3. Home of Jamie Laubhan-Oliver and Larry Oliver. Photo: by Manny Rodriguez for D Home Magazine – see more on Simply Seductive
4. Aphrodite of Melos, replicated by and seen on statues.com
5. Personalized fine jewelry by Code Royal

Wedding Illustration Making Of: The Headless Couple

Welcome back, hope you had a great week! In last Friday’s post, you may have wondered why Audrey asked me to illustrate her and her fiance, Nathan, without their heads. I wondered, too.

After Audrey fell in love with the illustrated wedding invitations (and actually proposed to me), she shared her plans to use her design again for other elements of her wedding. I was delighted!  Especially when she asked me to add heads to their wedding illustration and solving the headless-ness mystery in the process.

Audrey & Nathan’s wedding was to be a surprise!  They intended to throw the guests off with a headless illustration of themselves on their engagement party invitation (other details will be revealed next week…I do love a mystery!).

We started out with her preferred bridal hair style. She sent me these elegant up-dos for inspiration:

And also these:

Audrey doesn’t have a sense of humor. She was dead serious (and still without a head in her illustration).

Well, almost. I decided to ignore her craving for a wedding day hair disaster, and suggested these looks for her illustration (these are still a rough illustration preview):

In the first hair style, I designed a hair accessory that matched her wedding gown pattern (5). In the second suggestion, I used a few of the flowers from her bouquet for a more playful hair accent (6), since they were having a semi-formal beach wedding.

Come back next Friday when I post Audrey and Nathan’s real wedding photos, their finished wedding illustration, and how it and their surprise wedding all came together. Want to take a guess? How and where do you think they used their design at their celebration? How would YOU love to use a wedding illustration, if you were to have one?