I love this photo captured at one of our weddings at the Fairmont Olympic this last summer – the light coming through the Phaleanopsis Orchids is amazing. Marsio Photo out of Indonesia captured some wonderful shots! Still waiting to see all of the photos from the wedding – what an incredible wedding this was – Indah’s three gowns alone were stunning! Definitely one of my favorites of the year – the centerpieces were SO much fun to create!
At Bella Signature Design we LOVE creativeLIVE – it was such a pleasure to work with cL’s team on the Jasmine Star workshop last August, and of course with Laura Marchbanks, the stunning bride who got married that day as part of the creativeLIVE / Jasmine Star lovefest! We are brimming with excitement here at BElla over our fabulous plans and designs for the WPPI Photoshoot that Laura will be a part of, and decided to up the ante by giving creativeLIVE a spot to giveaway!
So, how do you enter, you say?
All youhave to do is enter a comment here on our Bella blog, amd amswer two questions:
1. Why you want to work with Bella Signature design at WPPI 2011
2. What you want to see next out of creativeLIVE
Super simple!
Winner will be announced on Valentines Day – from our heart to yours!
I’m not afraid to admit that I love beauty – beautiful flowers, beautiful photography, and yes, beautiful people. And combining all three, and directing and styling them? Yum. The desert landscape in Vegas needs no introduction, the rich hues and incredible texture will be a STUNNING backdrop. But the focus of the lens will be the models and the gorgeous details that we are creating, so we thought we should introduce them!
Renae is a stunning editorial model that is frequently featured in bridal & commercial work. Renae will have a couture vibe for our shoot.
Laura, a wedding photographer herself (You may know her from her Creative Live wedding with Jasmine Star), is a beautiful model with a classic look – we are going to shake things up a bit and style her as a hip & edgy bride.
Christopher Confero, flying in from Alabama no less, has modeled in various publications and will be our sexy groom.
Scheming and designing for props, florals and set have begun – love my job!
We are so excited to announce an amazing photoshoot at WPPI! You saw Laura and Daniela in Creative Live’s Wedding with Jasmine Star, now is YOUR chance to photograph Model/bride Laura Marchbanks (who just happens to be a wedding photographer as well!) styled by celebrity event designer Daniela Ferdico Faget of Bella Signature Design. Daniela will be styling both Laura and editorial model Renae Hatch, as well as designing lush bouquets for you to practice your detail shots with. Each session will be an hour and a half long, and is limited to 15 photographers each. Additional option to have Daniela submit photos to Junebug Weddings and Two Bright Lights is also available.
Our sessions are scheduled so you will get back in time to see Elizabeth Messina and Jasmine Star speak!
Time & Date: February 21, 2011 1st Session: 10:30am-noon
2nd session 12:30-2:00 pm
Cost: Early Bird $139 (closes February 1) Standard $155
Tickets go on sale Thursday, January 12th! Click HERE or got to : http://wppishoot.eventbrite.com/
We are excited to announce the winner of our wedding design Giveaway! We were moved by Angela Morgan’s story, and can’t wait to sign a butterfly wedding for her and her fiancee Craig!
More to come!
Yep. It’s true. One lucky couple is going to get it. Free wedding design that is. From us here at Bella Signature Design. Yay! (feel free to do the happy dance – in fact, video submissions HIGHLY encouraged!). Here’s the scoop!
One lucky couple is going to get completely free event design services from Bella Signature Design. No strings attached, not even invisible fishing line. It’s our way to give something to those who can’t afford to have a designer swoop in and make everything work together just perfectly and tied up with a pretty bow. (I hate bows though – beware.) We’ve had a wonderful year, and we just simply want to give something back to you (we give plenty to charity too – this one is just for you!)
What you get: Design services, to include:
No, we are not giving away flowers, linens or china. But once we’ve designed it all for you, you will have a pretty little design book you can take to your favorite vendors (will give you a list of our favorites)! How cool is that? This is how all our Bella weddings start out! To see some of our designs, look at our Bella website or do a search on this blog for our sketch to reality posts.
How to enter: Send your submissions in to info at bellasignature dot com – email, pictures, or even a cool video we can post. Tell us why YOU need to win! Tell us about your wedding, yourself, and why you want us to design your wedding. That’s it.
RULES: We reserve the right to not post anything that is icky. We will provide our services in person in the greater Seattle area or over email/Skype for other US or international cities).
Readers can write in their votes!!! We’ll vote too. We’ll assume that you are voting for yourself unless you tell us otherwise. Have fun!
This is not redeemable for cash, any products such as flowers or linens, or our first born child. Just a stunning, artfully designed wedding,
Winner will be picked January 10th, 2011. Wedding must take place in 2011.
Ready, set, go!
Our bouquet of various succulents, grasses, snowberries, leucodendron, bersillia, calla lillies & gardenia
all images in this post courtesy of Sarah Rhoads Photography
THIS was SUCH a great wedding. From the moment I met Kate (the incredibly talented designer/owner of Croak and Hum) and Nick (bassist for Death Cab for Cutie), I was excited and inspired! First, they were SO fun to work with – Very stylish, very creative, and totally trusting of my random, three-am in the morning ideas – like creating a living wall of succulents for their ceremony. We had a few meetings where I could see Nick nod his head trying to visualize, but not quite knowing how it would turn out – thank you Nick and Kate, for trusting in me!
Their super stylish wedding was so full of amazing, personal details – Kate is an incredible graphic designer, so she created yummy paper goodies from invitations with tickets and press badges (as a nod to Nick’s band) to menus, escort cards and even adorable flags for the succulent favors we created for her.
From hearing Zoey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard (lead for Death Cab) sing at the ceremony, to watching Nick and Kate dance under the romantic lights – every part of their wedding was romantic and full of joy, in a stylish, modern way. If my aim is anything at the weddings I help design, is for them to be not only beautiful and stylish, but PERSONAL and full of love and joy. Kate and Nick achieved that with ease and grace, infusing their loves and their personalities into every little detail.
I loved working with all the succulents and mosses – we had a blast! The living walls were a great experience – I’m known for creating at least one piece of floral art for weddings, and this one was just so unique! Thank you, Nick and Kate, we had a such great time working with you on your wonderful day!
Here is Style Me Pretty’s feature…
How Stylish and stunning is Kate? Swoon.
Above, one of the fun Bridesmaids bouquets with succulents,
Crespedia, bersilia, airplants, ranunculus…
Nick’s Boutonierre – I wanted to give him something masculine, stylish & modern!
Nick wearing his Bout, and one of the fabulous tablecards designed by Kate, who is an AMAZING graphic designer.
Fabulous coasters by Croak and Hum -
great play on words, no?
Another bridesmaids bouquet, I
loved these textures and colors together!
Great place settings! Kate picked these beautiful gold & glass chargers and gold flatware .
I love how the pink napkin underneath worked with the gold for the charger to match the menu – perfection!
Succulent Centerpieces on a bed of moss, illuminated by simple votives.
Shows that even a simple design can be stunningly beautiful.
I love this black and white of Kate and Nick!!
My favorite photo of Kate on her wedding day.
Which brings me to the photography – Sarah Rhoads was AMAZING. The details, the emotion, the artistry. We’ve seen a lot of photography over the last ten years, and we are SMITTEN! Thanks Sarah, for sharing your art! And her photobooth with the lush gray ruffled background – too die for!
Although we don’t advertise that we do Destination Weddings, a few times a year we accept a wedding that is not here in Seattle. I LOVE to travel, yet my insistence on perfection and knowledge of every detail of a wedding I am designing makes local weddings, well, more practical. Our two annual destination wedding slots often go quickly, and for 2011 I’m excited to be working with Brittany and Corey on their wedding in Napa Valley. We’ve made several trips to Napa and Sonoma already, for site visits, cake tastings and catering selections – so many wonderful vendors, ideas, and of course, wine!
Corey and Brittany are SUCH a joy to work with! They are absolutely in love, and a joy to plan, collaborate and travel with. Over the next six months, we’ll be sharing tidbits of their wedding planning with you, and then after July 16 next year, we’ll have the big reveal! Subscribe to our blog to follow along!
It’s so fun to see one’s work on the cover at the Newsstand! A up and coming floral designer I met the other night asked me about the inspiraiton behind the bouquet…. The savvy Laura Cassidy, Editor at Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom sent over some runway fashion inspirations, and of course we picked one with a ton of color! The day before the shoot we not only grabbed some amazing blooms we had ordered at Northwest Wholesale, but longingly gazed at the yummy large orange poppies in our neighbors yard. Luckily I have been doing my “random acts of kindness” by bringing by small arrangements here and there to said neightbor over the last year, so despite the neighbors grumblings of “I don’t like to cut my poppies” I was able to land two incredible orange beauties! Off to my garden for some fuchsia garden roses, and a random tree down the street (shh! don’t tell) that held the fabulous long cascading locks of evergreen. I loved the blue of the thistle and the pops of pear green viburnum. Thanks, Laura for entrusting me to create your vision again, and for letting our creation jump off the cover. Totally honored.
I’m still reeling. Despite the intense desire to put all my new wisdoms, ideas and inspirations from Engage10 to work, I have to stop and breathe (thank you David Beahm !!!) to really take it all in. Instead, I triple checked all my orders for next weekend’s wedding, made my list of things I was inspired to do and people I wanted to follow-up with and set it aside. (Not an easy task for me). I just breathed in my kids for the day, surrounded by their yumminess, their laughter and the simple joy of hugging them after being gone for five days. And the world was perfect for a day. I’m finding that ideal balance between work and home. Both spill into each other, and that’s the way I like it. I can dream about how to use all my new inspiration while I snuggle up by the fire with two kids wrapped up around me, and I can work on my blog while my daughter draws wedding cakes next to me. (watch out Sylvia!) One of the many things I was reminded of at Engage was that some professionals separate work and home completely, and some mix it entirely – and both ideas work..you just have to find what works for you and run with it. I love that I check my email at random times and can get back to a bride at 1 am if I want to…or take half a day off just to make sure I can see my daughter jump in to autumn’s first pile of leaves. We work hard in the event industry – 10 hour days during the week, with evening appointments for clients that work, and weekend events. If we don’t take those moments to breathe, we lose some of the joy that comes with the incredible opportunity we have to make people’s dreams come true. So, brides, if I don’t answer the phone, I’m taking a quick breath – returning shortly re-inspired and ready to inspire you.
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