The talented Aaron Tuttle of Lab A Entertainment captured us the other day before an event – here’s your chance to meet Brad, Kaleb and Jennifer (the elusive Lynn and Lisa were in hiding).

Meet the New Bella Signature Design Team

Our sister company, Varmala Wedding Design, designed Holly and Sachin’s  beautiful wedding last year at SODO – we just had to share!

Holly+ Sachin: The Montage from cabfare productions on Vimeo.

This beautiful Winter wedding at Sodo park was SO fun to work  on! I had the joy of working with Tiffany and Jon for almost 20 months before their wedding – we had so much fun designing!  From the wintery feel of all the candles, to the stunning Color Palette of lavender, mocha and gray, the details such as eggplant chargers, mercury glass votives and gray duppioni linens…

I will let the beautiful pictures by the talented Laurel Mcconnell speak for themselves…

• Wedding Photography: Laurel McConnell Photography, with Rebecca on second camera
• Wedding Venue: Sodo Park in Seattle, Washington
• Floral Design: Bella Signature Design
• Wedding Coordination: Holly-Kate and Company
• Officiant: Stacy Sprando, A Friend of the Bride & Groom
• Wedding Cinematography: Cabfare Productions
• Catering: Herban Feast
• Wedding Cake: The People’s Cake
• Wedding Invitations + Programs: Nicole Mae Paper Design
• DJ: Seattle Parties
• Coffee Favors: Etsy
• Transportation: British Motor Coach
• Espresso Cart: Espresso Elegance
• Ring Bearer Bowl: Paloma’s Nest
• Wedding Dress: Lazaro via Marcella’s La Boutique
• Shoes: Vera Wang Lavender
• Bride’s Necklace: BHLDN
• Hanger: Lila Frances
• Hair + Makeup: Erin Skipley
• Bridesmaids’ Dresses: J.Crew
• Groom’s Suit: Hickey Freeman via Nordstrom
• Men’s Ties + Belts: Costco
• Engagement Ring: Kwiat via Nordstrom
• Wedding Bands: Fabuluster

Sneak Peek of our fun session with Glen and Chris!! Clane Gessel was extra fabulous as he shot this couple all around SODO Park – we can’t wait to see the rest!!!  Can’t you just feel the love?!  Being around these two just made everyone giddy – the cutest part was them tying each other’s ties..well, Chris was doing most of that actually..More fun eyecandy to come!

Glen and Chris

It’s always such a pleasure to visit with New Day Northwest! We had a great time talking about DIY bridal bouquets with a focus on a Pacific Northwest favorite…Tulips!

We loved designing and creating Herban Feast’s Spring Garden Party & Tasting this last week – what a great turn out!  We’ll go over more details in the next few posts with fabulous pictures from the great Clane Gessel, but for today I wanted to show you part of our creative process!  A few times a month, the Bella Signature Design creative team sits down and plays, creates, & designs.  We throw out ideas, mull over colors, and sketch things out.  For the Herban Feast event, we came up with several color palettes, design ideas, sketched them out, and then continued to design. I love Brad’s quick sketches, and his detailed renderings are sublime – more on those next week!

This first section was the “living room” area of Sodo park, and since our overall hue was chartreuse, we went for a bold yellow to really make this area pop! We loved making the custom pillows (we have them in so many colors now!) and I have to admit, yellow is not such a bad color after all!

I love the first signs of spring – and all the loveliness that goes with it.  This arrangement, which we made in 2009 for a magazine shoot, is still so timeless and relevant – I love the romantic feel of it, and the yummy Magnolia blossoms.  Right now we have a ton of 8 foot tall magnolia branches in our studio waiting to bloom any moment with the help of some TLC and direct heat.  Yum!  Can’t you just smell spring around the corner? What are your favorite spring time blooms for spring weddings?

I love how this model looks with our magnolia flower clip – wouldn’t they be great after the veil comes off for a reception accessory?

We had so much fun being back on New Day Northwest  – everyone is so sweet to work with!  Here’s our clip – it shows the really cool new product we found  – Floralgrid!  More about that in tomorrow’s post!

I so enjoyed working with Tiffany over the last 18 months – we designed her beautiful “rustic but elegant” wedding at the fabulous Sodo Park. No professional photos yet, but here is a sneak peak of her  personal flowers!!

Snoberries, garden roses, calla lillies and Scabiosa pods were featured in Tiffany’s bouquet, while the bridesmaids bouquets had scabiosa, dusty miller and gray bersilia berries.  My favorite were the berry boutonnieres!

Our good friends and fabulously talented photographers Ken and Tanya Sheppard from Azzura Photography were out and about at the wedding show furiously capturing everyone’s art. Here’s a few shots of the booth design we created for Herban Feast and Sodo Park! Our “edgy enchanted fairytale” booth featured overgrown branches, whimsical birds and butterflies, lots of moss, and a subtle “earth to sky” color palette of earthy chocolate, moss green, turquoise blue and navy.  For a subtle pop of color we HAD to throw in 2012’s Pantone Color of the Year, Tangerine!

Thank you, Azzura, for capturing our art!