The always grand Wedding Salon show is hosting their first New York event of the year – a must do for brides and grooms in the New York area!
April 27th, 2011 4pm-9pm Manhattan Center Studios 311 West 34th Street New York, NY 10001
The Royal Wedding!April 29!
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few months, you’ve surely heard the buzz about the long anticipated wedding of Prince William to his bride Kate Middleton, and the date is swiftly approaching! There are endless sources of online and television coverage leading up to the day, and well as minute-by-minute play-by-plays that will be reported as the wedding day it self unfolds. I personally admit to being totally excited to watch the wedding on TV, and I just couldn’t have a Calendar of Events post for April without including it. Check out their official Royal Wedding Website for more information!
The Wedding: 9.18.09 – Private Estate, Santa Barbara, CA
What three adjectives best describe your wedding?Surreal, breathtaking, fun.
What inspired your personal wedding style, and how were your personalities incorporated into your big day? I wanted to keep the wedding simple and classic. I’m a girly-girl through and through and love soft romantic shades like pink and ivory.
I fell in love with our invitation design as soon as I saw it; we just needed to customize the colors. I knew I wanted letterpress and although Bella Figura is across the country, they were great at communicating with me. My invitations were one of my favorite things from my wedding! To save money, we lined the envelopes ourselves. We got so carried away that we also lined the RSVP return envelopes! We not only customized the envelopes, but I attached a brooch to my bouquet that my late-grandmother left for me. Also, the day before the wedding my mom, a close family friend, my cousins, aunt, my husbands aunt and even my uncle spent all day putting together flower centerpieces, boutonnières and bouquets. They turned out absolutely beautiful and more then I had hoped for. As silly as this seems – one of my musts were black chiavari chairs. I just love the look and style of them.
Looking back, what are the moments, decisions, or memories that you loved the most about your wedding? The entire day was romantic to me. My favorite memories were when I first saw my husband and when we had our first dance – it was all so surreal! Our most sentimental moment was when Shea’s grandfather married us. It was extremely personal and meant so much to have him confirm our marriage. Our best decision was our photographer and videographer. We loved how the wedding pictures and video turned out. Seeing the pictures and watching the video really brought us back to that day. Oh, and my shoes! I LOVED my shoes! I picked them out even before the dress!
Joining families and celebrating cultures and backgrounds, histories and futures, is what getting married is all about, and today’s Real Wedding couple, Abby and Sudeep, did this in the most modern way. They honored both of their family traditions, made them their own, and enjoyed every minute of it!
The Goals:Abby and Sudeep didn’t always plan on having a large wedding, but the more they thought about it the more they realized that they may never again have the chance to bring together all the people they loved. For their event they chose the thoroughly unique downtown Los Angeles venue Vibiana and invited 150 of their nearest and dearest to celebrate with them, combining cultures, faiths and family traditions. The images from Callaway Gable Photography capture the joy of the day so well!
The Design: Abby and Sudeep chose a combination Hindu and Western wedding, and incorporated elements from each every step of the way. With the help of event planners and designers, Blue Lotus Insights, they combined warm, earthy autumn colors with the rich, vivid colors of Indian weddings. They also used the traditional Indian wedding flower – the marigold, along with olive branches from Abby’s family grove as the main elements in their decor. Abby’s mother is an artist and her creative influence was seen throughout the day, including on the invitations, menus, programs and wedding favors (bottles of olive oil also from Abby’s family olive grove) where they featured one of her illustrations. “We wanted to use the traditional Indian wedding flower to tie together the different components, and my mom used one of her own drawings of a marigold flower. So, while we had an Indian symbol, the artwork was actually very western looking. We were combining both sides in every detail!”
The Look: Abby wore two different outfits – a sari and a white wedding dress. The sari, Sudeep’s mom found in India in a rich red color to go with the wedding’s autumn feel. The white dress was a simple short frock that Abby accessorized with vintage jewelry she had fun finding with her own mother and sister. Sudeep wore traditional Indian wedding garb and later a suit, and the wedding party wore beautiful traditional Indian clothes. Sudeep’s mom brought a selection back from India and they all got to pick whatever colors they wanted.
The Moments: Abby and Sudeep chose a “fusion non-denominational-Western/Hindu-Indian wedding” since these were the two traditions that they came from. Since the traditional Hindu wedding can be very long, they found a great Hindu Priest who condensed it down to 45 minutes, but still maintained its most meaningful and essential elements. The Western ring ceremony was officiated by a very close family friend which was extremely special for Abby and her family.
The vows that Abby and Sudeep recited to each other created a moment that was especially emotional and important for the couple. “We both found ourselves completely forgetting that we were in a room full of people watching us at that moment. It was a truly special.” For Sudeep, the most sentimental moment of the day was doing the traditional baraat procession with his family all around him, and for Abby it was listening to her father’s speech.
After such an incredible ceremony, the reception was filled with fun. Along with all the wonderful music and dancing, Indian dancers came in to share some of the latest Bollywood dance moves. For dessert a cupcake tower and cake pops from Blue Cupcake were served and a photo booth from Cube the Moment was a huge hit with guests.
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