REAL CELEBRATIONS: dana's bridal shower

It is incredibly flattering when another special event professional chooses you to work with them on their personal and professional projects. Even more so when you are a huge fan of their work. This is certainly the case with Elisabeth, owner and designer of Blush Floral Designs. This past winter I had the pleasure of designing the holiday cards for Blush, and just recently I was able to provide the invitations and various other paper goods for the Tuscan themed bridal shower she designed for her sister in law Dana. Elisabeth had an amazing spread of Italian food, gigantic sunflowers in metal containers, burlap accents everywhere and homemade biscotti favors! Incredible. In addition to the Tuscan themed invitations, Tulaloo designed coordinating recipe cards, thank you notes and bookmarks, which were tied to the bags of biscotti.

REAL CELEBRATIONS: molly's 40th

Can I just say that I LOVE when people throw beautiful parties? It makes me so happy to see people celebrating life and enjoying the company of their family and friends. These gorgeous photographs (by the amazing and talented Stacy Ideus) are of Molly's super fun 40th birthday party.

We had the pleasure of providing invitations and custom wine bottle labels for the party. Molly chose a starfish theme for her paper elements, and everything was created in a red, ivory and taupe color pallete.

I love the strung lights above the party area - so pretty! And the ocean concept was carried throughout perfectly without being over the top or making it feel like a THEME PARTY; it is just enough to tie it all together.

Did you notice the awesome coral centerpiece? And the little bit of coral applique on the pillow (you can see iton the wicker chair behind Molly)? Everyone looks like they are having a lovely time!

Happy birthday Molly! Thank you for sharing your day with us!!

REAL WEDDING: melissa and greg

I was so excited to find an email today from former Tulaloo bride Melissa, with wedding pictures attached! Melissa and Greg were married last June and we were lucky enough to create an array of stationery pieces for their wedding.
Melissa and Greg chose our Melbourne design in pink and green and the Belly Band style. In addition to the invitations we also created save the date cards, menus and seals for their favor bags.
Their baker used the vine imagery from the wedding stationery as inspiration in decorating the wedding cake.
Don't these chocolate covered pretxelrodslook delicious?! Mellisa says she made 45 extra, just in case, and people loved them so much they were all gone by the end of the night!

Thanks so much Melissa and Greg, for sharing your wedding pictures and for letting us contribute to your special day! Congratulations!

REAL WEDDING: laura and elliott

When Laura described her plans for a grey and white wedding, with subtle color accents, I was really excited. REALLY excited. I've been wanting to work on a super elegant grey/white wedding since October of 2008. So yeah.... I was pretty stoked to work with Laura and Elliott. They chose our Aberdeen wedding invitations, and we recreated the stationery for them in shades of charcoal, light grey and white, with a soft pink envelope liner (picture of that pretty number coming soon!). I love how her invitations turned out and so did Laura (her exact words were "dreamy and fabulous!").

You are going to love these shots from Laura and Elliott's wedding. My jaw literally dropped the first time I scrolled through their wedding photographs - no lie. Gorgeous venue, amazing flowers and killer photography by Rustin Michael. Of course, a beautiful, obviously in love couple helps too!

I love a good "getting ready" shot. And I love a great pair of heels.

Laura and Elliott were married and held their reception at the Palos Verdes Country Club.

Possibly the prettiest bouquet I have ever seen. Flowers by Flower Art.

Elliott is a firefighter, and the ringbearer carried the rings down the aisle in his helmet. Afterwards, Elliott's helmet was placed on an empty seat next to Laura's father in rememberance of her late mother.

See this moment? THIS is what a wedding is all about.

We were honored to create Laura and Elliott's ceremony and reception stationery as well their invitations. In addition to the placecards shown above, we designed ceremony programs and small cards for each guest with information about Habitat for Humanity (donations were made there in lieu of favors) along with the lyrics to "That's Amore!" (there was a spirited singalong at the reception!).

Did I mention that Laura is a fashion designer? And that she designed and created her own amazingly beautiful wedding gown? Yeah. She did.

Laura and Elliott singing "That's Amore!"

A grand exit. Honestly now, don't they look like fabulous celebrities here?

Congratulations again Laura and Elliott! It was an absolute pleasure working with you!

Thanks to Rustin Michael for the photographs. Check him out here.

REAL WEDDING: eadaoin and daniel

I mentioned Eadaoin once, back here, and showed you her really lovely photograph of the wedding invitation we created for her and her hubby Daniel. Lucky for us, we now get a little peak into their big day too! I'm including a few of my favorite shots here, but for lots more of their vintage style wedding goodness check out City of Blackbirds and Dandelion and Grey.

The wedding took place at Holycross Abbey in Ireland, where Eadaoin grew up.

Thank you for sharing your special day with us!

All photos by the super talented Shane O'Neill.

REAL WEDDING: rachel and diego

I first shared Rachel and Diego's wedding in this earlier article about bilingual wedding stationery. I may have also mentioned that Rachel proclaimed me an "Invitation Goddess" (her exact words. I plan to have that printed on my business cards). Now, check out their gorgeous wedding photos, compliments of Erica Eichelkraut of City Lights photography in Buffalo, NY.

First, their wedding invitation - our Orleans design in a pochette style with black linen and charteuse:

I can't get over how beautiful this veil is!!!

Rachel described this incredible moment from her wedding: "My favorite moment from our wedding might have to be our "goosebump moment" from the ceremony. The ceremony was delayed due to impunctual flower delivery and a missing heirloom handkerchief. Looking back, what seemed to be a serious wedding day snafu turned out to be truly serendipitous and blessed. The morning started as a really beautiful fall day with crisp autumn air and a bright sun in a clear blue sky. The flower delivery delay and missing "something old" stalled the ceremony 20-25 minutes! Once we got inside the sanctuary, the rain started to come down. It was such a calming sound as we knelt for opening prayer. The ceremony was lovely and finished with the string quartet playing George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" just as planned. Then a truly magical moment occurred as the ushers opened the large wooden doors just in time for us to see the last of the rainfall and the sun shining down outside. People later asked how we were able to afford the magical string quartet that could command the weather! Every second od the delay, caused by unplanned events, led to the most inspiring and breathtaking part of our day"

I love when bride's add a punch of color with their footwear!

Rachel and Diego had a school bus, decorated with Mexican papel picada flags and a cooler full of drinks and snacks, as the transportation for themselves and their wedding party. What a fun idea!!

A bright and beautiful day for a fantastic couple. Congratulations Rachel and Diego, and thanks for sharing your pictures!!

GET WED: tulaloo on style me pretty

I was beyond excited when I found out that the unbelievably beautiful wedding of Lauran and Carlos is featured on Style Me Pretty today! I had a great time designing all of their weddings stationery, from the invitations to the programs, escort cards and table numbers! Head on over to Style me Pretty to see more images and the story behind their amazing backyard wedding.

REAL WEDDING: margeaux and doug revisited!

You may remember Margeaux and Doug from an earlier "Real Wedding" feature here on the Tulaloo blog. Margeaux and her hubby Doug were just super to work with, and I just found out that they are up for a chance at a two page wedding annoucement spread in Wedding Belles Magazine! This is a big deal for Margeaux and Doug, as Wedding Belles is a really fab publication in Georgia, where they are living happily ever after. If our lovely readers could help out a fellow Tulaloo client, and hop on over to Jenny Evelyn Photography and vote for Margeaux and Doug I know she would really appreciate it! Check out some of the other photography while you are there...definitely worth the visit!

REAL WEDDING: lauran and carlos

Happy New Year everyone! I'm so happy that 2010's first post gets to be some gorgeous photographs from the wedding of one of my favorite brides! Lauran and Carlos were an absolute dream to work with and I knew their wedding was going to be incredible. These are just a few of my favorite images from her wedding, shot by Meg, of Creative Image Collections.

Elisabeth at Blush Floral Design created the beautiful bouquets and centerpieces. I'm not normally someone who even notices floral arrangements, but Elisabeth's work makes me swoon. Reception stationery, including the programs, escort cards, table numbers and a few other goodies not pictured here, were all created by Tulaloo. I especially love how they skipped the traditional tented place card in favor of elegant flat cards tucked into baby artichokes! Genius!

There is much more to see on Meg's blog, so run on over and check it out!