Do you love scrolling through gorgeous photos on Pinterest as much as we do? Then you’ll love the new project we’re introducing today: Guest Pinterest boards created by wedding experts – our members! We’ve asked our amazing, Pinterest-loving members Caroline Ghetes, Kacee Geoffroy, Isari Flower Studio + Event Design and Wedding Concepts to create their own guest boards on our Pinterest page, filled with images of what’s inspiring them right now. Each member chose to focus on something slightly different, but equally inspirational. We hope you love repinning their stunning images!
Photographer Caroline Ghetes is well-known for her captivating yet natural images, capturing the most touching, joyful and compelling moments in each wedding she photographs. Caroline’s focus for her Junebug Pinterest board was simply Wedding Photography Inspiration, pinning photos that ranged from exciting and abstract to soft and romantic. See her board here!
Photos above by: Craig McDean for Vanity Fair, Tim Walker, Signe Vilstrup, Caroline Ghetes and Jonas Peterson
As one of the world’s most celebrated full service event planning companies, South Africa’s Wedding Concepts creates distinctive events for clients all over the globe, and they used their world class expertise to pin stunning photos in their Gorgeous Wedding Table Decor board. See her board here!
Photos above by: Vividblue, Garyth Bevan, Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen, welovepictures and Jean-Pierre Uys
Isari Flower Studio + Event Design pinned images for a board themed Beautiful Bridesmaids’ Bouquets. Celebrated for utilizing seasonal blooms with an array of texture and color, Isari creates bridesmaids bouquets are breathtakingly artistic! See her board here!
Top Southern California hair and makeup artist Kacee Geoffroy makes each bride she works with look completely and utterly beautiful, without straying too far from their natural, everyday look. Her Hair & Makeup Inspiration board is focused on soft, feminine makeup and retro hairstyles – the perfect trend for any bride planning a wedding right now. See her board here!
Thank you to our wonderful members for sharing their of-the-moment inspirations! Happy pinning everyone!
A rustic but elegant wedding decor style, matched with sweet family focused wedding traditions, and a handsome man in a kilt, and you’ve got a wedding I can’t help but love! Beautiful bride Lauren shares her Santa Barbara wedding planning experience with us here, along with her fantastic wedding photos captured by Jessica Lewis Photography. Enjoy!
What three adjectives best describe your wedding? Intimate, Enchanting, and Fun
What was your wedding color palette? Sage, Ivory, and Deep Purple
What inspired your personal wedding style, and how did you incorporate your style and personalities into your big day? Dan and I love the natural beauty of California, from the ocean since Dan is an avid surfer, to the mountains where we regularly enjoy hiking.
Our wedding style was about finding the balance between a natural rustic outdoor look and the elegance one can anticipate at a wedding. We also wanted to maintain an intimate atmosphere while inviting my large family to celebrate our day. Our venue provided a stunning Santa Barbara backdrop for our guests to experience first hand what Dan and I love to share as a couple. Since the wedding was in winter, we chose to have the reception in a tent for the comfort of heat. Joni of Santa Barbara Style transformed the tent to feel as if the outdoors came inside. We had picked the theme of National Parks for our table identifications and chose plantable eco-friendly wedding invites and seating cards to set the mood. Everything about our wedding, from the vows to the pie desserts, was intentionally selected to represent who we each are as individuals, but also who we are as a couple.
Were there any family traditions or items incorporated that were particularly meaningful for you? I wore a crystal headband that I borrowed from my sister (which she wore for her wedding in 2009), and a second bracelet which was a gift from our mother that reads A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
My sister was my Maid of Honor and only bridesmaid, which fit our intimate theme. She wore a Paloma Picasso® Love pendant from Tiffany & Co that I gave to her and my mom for their help with the wedding, to always remember how much we love one another.
Dans tartan (kilt) was woven in Scotland with the traditional McTaggart pattern. This is significant because it is the family name of my grandmother on my mothers side. Dan also wore a memoribila pin of his 12 year compainon, Taz, a German Shepard/Queensland Healer mix dog who passed away in 2010. The pin was a gift to him by my sister for the wedding.
Looking back, what are the moments, decisions or memories that you love the most about your wedding?It’s hard to capture just a couple, because we truly loved everything about our wedding. Two big moments could be our first look and the ceremony. I was extremely anxious prior to the wedding and running behind for our first look. But, it was when I peeked out of a doorway and saw Dan smiling at me with tears in his eyes that I felt that the whole world stopped and knew I was with my love; it was an incredible moment for us both. Also, our ceremony was on a hilltop overlooking the ocean with the Santa Ynez mountain range in the foreground. Dan had lobbied from the beginning to have our guests circled around us during the ceremony, so we had set up a circle of chairs separated by four isles. After the bagpiper led us into the center of the circle and I stood there holding Dans hands in such a breathtaking place, it was then that we had this intimate moment when we heard and felt all our family and friends surrounding us in love and support.
What piece of advice would you give to a bride planning her wedding today?Do not be afraid of your fiancé’s ideas. I believe the wedding you will treasure and the one your family and friends will love, is a wedding that was created by and reflects the two of you. Granted my fiance didnt want to get involved in all the details. But, when I worked with him on his vision for our wedding, the contribution of his ideas ended up making the day exactly how it was supposed to be: about our marriage and the start of our lives together.
With its vintage travel theme, intimate dinner party atmosphere, and family-centered celebration, Chris and Hillary’s wedding day could not have been sweeter! I loved hearing about the traditional Turkish touches they included to honor Chris’s heritage, and adore the lovely images from Justin and Mary that captured it all! Enjoy!
The Couple: Hillary and Chris
The Wedding: 4.21.12 – The Webb Barn – Wethersfield, CT
What were the top three priorities for you in planning your wedding?
1) Family – our families helped shape who we are as people. It was important to us to have all of them there, even the young children, to celebrate our big day. Whether it was my nieces and nephew as flower girls and ring bearer or Chris’s little cousin doing the splits on the dance floor, we were so happy we had them there with us.
2) Theme – we wanted the wedding to represent who we are as a couple. We love to travel and so we chose an antique/vintage travel theme. Each of the tables were named after a destination we had traveled to. Our sweetheart table was named Thailand after our honeymoon destination.
3) Size – we wanted to keep the ceremony and reception intimate. We kept the guest list small and were able to spend time with all of our guests. We varied the number of guests at each table to range from 4-6 to help keep that feeling throughout the evening.
What wedding traditions or cultural traditions did you incorporated into your wedding and what did they mean to you? My husbands family is Turkish. We had his cousin provide us with some Turkish songs to dance to. We also did the Money Dance where the guests throw dollar bills at the bride and groom. The kids collected the money and we tipped the DJ. Also, the seamstress who altered my dress was coincidentally also Turkish. She gave me an evil eye to pin inside my dress on the big day.
Where there any places where you broke the rules in your wedding planning? Why and how did you do that? We really only broke the rules in one area…we got married before our wedding. We live in New York City and chose a venue in Connecticut to be married. While not our original intention, our wedding became a destination wedding of sorts. We were doing the hour and half drive almost every weekend leading up to our wedding. As the wedding date got closer, we realized we would have to take one of the very few vacation days we had left to get our wedding license. Instead, we chose to go to City Hall in Manhattan and get married during lunch on a Thursday rather than lose the day.
What was your biggest wedding planning success? I would have to say that accepting my limitations was my biggest success. As much as I wanted to think of myself as a DIY bride, especially with websites like Pinterest and Etsy, we knew with our work schedules and limited time to plan that it would be best to let the professionals take over. We were fortunate enough to find Natalie and Moira at Whim Events to help us create the vision we had for our big day.
What was the most important thing that you learned through the wedding planning process and what would you tell other brides-to-be? I think its very easy to get lost in the wedding planning process. There are so many people out their trying to sell their services to you. It can be extraordinarily overwhelming at times. You can read reviews and research for days on end before making a final selection. In the end, my best advice would be to go with your gut when selecting your vendors. We felt like we had an instant connection with our photographers and planners in particular. While we spent a little more than we had budgeted, you do get what you pay for. We have never once regretted our decisions and continue to look back happily on our special day.
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