Spring has sprung here in Charleston! Weddings are in full bloom this season with bright, lively designs and cheerful colors. Check out a few of our favorite inspirations for the season, and feel free to share your own!
Happy New Year to all of our beloved friends, vendors and clients. We’re all excited about what the new year has in store.
Congratulations to those that are newly engaged over the holidays! We’re sending you our love and the wish for all things in the coming year to sparkle as much as this beautiful wedding exit…
We’re loving this beautiful Fall wedding put together by our Catering and Design team. Abby was the lead designer and created this elegant and luxurious draping in the pavilion and you really can’t go wrong with a sparkling exit!
If you haven’t had a chance to look at this month’s weddings that have gotten some airtime on wedding blogs click the links below and check out these adorable couples and their beautifully detail studded weddings!
http://www.fabulouslywed.com/2012/08/real-wedding-charleston-wedding-kendra.html
http://www.borrowedandblue.com/charleston/weddings/sarah-jared
It’s that time of year again…Fall wedding season! We can’t wait until the crisp fall weather sets in and we cozy things up with warm colors and lots of candle light. Check out our inspiration below and tell us about yours!
Meet Kari and Pete. We loved working with this couple at the rustic cottage on the creek!
It was February of 2009, Pete was in Iraq serving in the US Marine Corps and Kari was in San Diego working as a health educator. Kari had moved in with a friend, Renee’, who’s husband Tom was deployed with Pete in Iraq. After some serious scheming by Renee and Tom, Tom encouraged Pete to add Kari to his myspace (yes, myspace) – he did, and Kari and Pete began e-mailing every day for the next 3 months until Pete returned to San Diego. Two weeks after getting back, Pete had completed his contract with the Marine Corps and moved to Charleston, SC…they kept talking and that fall Kari was accepted to nursing school in Charleston and the rest is history!
Duvall is so happy to have been a part of this couple’s amazing story and wedding! Cheers to a lifetime of happiness!!
Check out some of these great food shots from the Monroe-High Weddding at Legare Waring.
We had a beautifully Southern inspired menu that included a to-die-for chef bar with three amazing small plates! How much do you love those fried green tomato and pimento cheese napoleons?!
1. Invite fewer people for a more intimate setting
2. Buy a vintage wedding dress
3. Consider using beautiful branches instead of blooms
4. Look for decorative details on etsy, ebay or at fleamarkets
5. Have small dessert bites instead of a wedding cake for everyone
6. Use minimal blooms and have small decorative herb gardens
7. Using bigger flowers means using fewer flowers
8. Keep your wedding party small
9. Instead of buying individual bouquets for each bridesmaid- pin one blossom onto each of them
10. Use potted plants as both centerpieces and party favors
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Inspiration. It comes from the oddest of places. A thunderstorm (the mix of grays and whites for a new color palette); a fresh box of local produce (what a great centerpiece!); an outfit worn by someone next to you at dinner (the contrast of varying metallic shades). For this designer it often comes from music. How appropriate, I thought, to share with you the Once Wed blog post from the wedding of one of my favorite musicians.
Mat Kearney and his new wife had a backyard wedding in Nashville, TN where the couple exchanged vows under the Tennessee sun surrounded by close friends and family. With a mix of southern elegance and vintage inspired fashion, this wedding was celebrated in style.
While the post doesn’t show many of the decor details and other traditional elements we expect to see, it’s a great representation of a style that is depicted through fashion and family. Some of my favorite elements include the different colored suspenders on the groomsmen, haphazard string lights over the dance floor, the bride’s gorgeous short reception dress… I could go on, but look for yourself! Click here to see all the details from Once Wed.
- Megan Click, Duvall Event Designer
