Harbour Island, the Bahamas.

Great, exhausting weekend of festivities.

Photo by Kelsey Sheofsky.

I'm ready to come home.

New Buffalo Wedding.

I loved this wedding. Such great people. So much fun to do the flowers. Check out all the photo's at Alison Events. Have a good Monday!

Image by Thayer Allyson Gowdy.

Best Rehearsal Dinner Ever.

I think I overuse the expression 'the best' pretty regularly. But in this case, it is completely true.

This was up in New Buffalo MI earlier this year and was pretty much a magical weekend.

Mostly due to the fantastic family who kindly hired us and Kelsey Sheofsky of Alison Events.

See the full post here. Thanks Alison Events for bringing me on such a fun project!

All photos by Thayer Allyson Gowdy.

Hello from Michigan.

I've been working in New Buffalo for the past few days with these lovely ladies.

Wow.

What an amazing place. Except for the mosquito's, which the locals are telling us are extra awful this year because of all the rain.

Hope everyone is having a great Monday.

More from the Viceroy.

Good morning!

Here are some more shots from our shoot at the Viceroy.

I love working in Palm Springs, but the heat is definitely something to keep in mind if you are having your wedding outdoors.

To bring in a mass of color without having to worry about something failing in the sun, we made these fabric flowers. To be honest, the were kind of a pain in ass to make. I have sort of a love/hate for all projects Martha (which is where I got the template). Out of her 6 templates online, only one seemed to do the trick, so we just made different sizes and colors.

I also tried to keep in mind the heat when designing the actual flowers. Most people think of daisies and mums as to common, but when put together with a couple other things, it looks fresh and different. Anemone's hold up suprisingly well.

Same with the bouquets- pretty hardy stuff in here-

Baxter I miss you. Please come back from NY. We need our mascot.

All images Jose Villa via Green Wedding Shoes.

Viceroy Palm Springs.

Helloo there.

I'm a little late on my posting today. But I'm super excited to show you these photo's.

I got the opportunity to put together a beautiful table at the Viceroy Palm Springs with Alison Events. The endlessly talented Jose Villa captured the whole thing and Hello Lucky did a fantastic job on the paper goods. Like ridiculously fantastic. Seriously, hire those ladies if you need anything custom. They are out of control.

What do you think?

Fun stuff, right?

You want to know what else- the lovely Joel Serrato took super 8 of our whole party. Yet another super sweet, talented person who makes life dreamy.

Check out the full post here at Green Wedding Shoes. And tomorrow, I believe there is more to come over there.

Thanks everyone for such a fun weekend!

Process.

Style Me Pretty posted a great piece on Lizzie and Matt's wedding the other day. It was a huge collaboration between Alison Events, Lizzie and Matt, and me. It was and will be one of my favorite weddings of all time. Check out the post here with all the details and photo's. I won't bore you with posting them again.

I wanted to write a little about the process on this one because their wedding was so unique and vibrant, both in color and details. And that came from months of exploring lots of possibilities with Lizzie and Matt and Kelsey from Alison Events. Lizzie really had a vision for what she wanted and being that she is so well informed in the design world, working with her was really an education. And I would have never come up with anything close to the outcome if it was just me working on my own.

There were lots of fun meetings and lots of phone conversations between all of us and I remember really trying to sway Lizzie away from black. I was totally scared of black and teal. But Lizzie really had a vision. And we all loved this orangy red - that I'm still obsessed with - but I was so worried that black would be, well, crazy. Not weddingy enough.

I remembered a photo from an old vogue I had ripped out years ago and by the grace of Google- searched for 'lady smoking, teal, black and pearls' and it popped right up.

Perfection, right? Black and teal with a bit of red! Colors are powerful things. I didn't remember that it was Babe Paley or shot by Horst P. Horst, I just remembered how stunning and chic the image felt. As did a bunch of other people, because Google had no problem with the cues I gave.

I was sold. I didn't exactly run around with that tear in my hand showing everyone how great it was and that I was basing my confidence on a women who said 'you can never be too thin or too rich', but I did look at it often during the months leading up to Lizzie's wedding. And it is still my desktop image now.

I guess my point is, everything is a process. And that is part of the fun in planning your wedding. To be able to share ideas and try and translate who you are into a day that means so much is a whole journey. So be brave with your color (or lack of color) choices! Find things that you love and work them into your wedding- if even just a hint of something. That meaning will translate into so much more.

Totally hooked on Lizzie ? Well, you can get a daily dose of her and her amazing eye for all design related things here. Totally blown away by Alison Events? Yes, we all are. Follow what those ladies are up to here.

Totally need an interior designer to help you find the most amazing fabrics? And overnight them to you on the eve of a meeting? Or just need some day to day inspiration? Go here and see my friend Amanda.

Okay, more photo's, less talk next time. Thanks for reading. And thank you Lizzie, for having the best style and teaching me to listen.