SF Dream Wedding Giveaway | Today!

I am so excited that today is the wedding for Vanessa & Mike who won a $100,000 wedding giveaway through SF Dream Wedding Giveaway! At 4pm on the 7th floor terrace at Hotel Vitale, their dreams of having a beautiful wedding will be fulfilled. Myself and approximately 40 other vendors came together and donated our time, products and services to the well deserving couple. Vanessa has been battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and they have been such an inspiration to me. Anytime Vanessa and I got on a Skype call while she was in her hospital room receiving treatments, it always brought me back to reality of what is truly important.

This couple has a true love of family and friends and cannot wait to celebrate with them here in San Francisco. I will be sharing photos from Lilia Photography as soon as they are up, but hope to get a few sneak shots in while we are setting up. Since Vanessa said from the start she wanted a very simple wedding, we have made sure that is exactly what she is going to get. Her color palette of yellow, soft grey and white will be so crisp against the nude colors of the Vitale.

I'm looking forward to sharing images and stories from this wonderful celebration!

Happy Planning,

SF Dream Wedding Giveaway | Linens

We have picked out the linens for the SF Dream Wedding Giveaway, and I'm so lucky that I had so many great ones to pick from through the sponsor, Wildflower Linens. We are using the yellow linens outside for the cocktail reception, and inside for the napkins and cake table. We are using the grey linens for the dining tables and side tables. The chairs will be silver and white outside for the ceremony, and white on white inside to make the grey and yellow really stand out! Vanessa and Mike are very simple with their tastes, and I think this wedding is going to emulate that really well.












We are off again to work another wonderful wedding this weekend in Yountville at the lovely Villagio. Looking forward to sharing some photos soon from our spring weddings on the blog. So many fun things to share, including a guest blog feature from one of our current brides, we can't wait!

Happy Planning!

SF Dream Wedding Giveaway | Invitations

Now that the design elements have all been put together, the invitations needed to be sent out to Vanessa and Mike's guests. Astrid Mueller graciously donated her time and services to create a lovely and simple invitation that the bride and groom are getting ready to send out this week! I love the way they came out, and after getting to know Vanessa, Astrid put together an invitation that was exactly to her specifications. Vanessa was able to choose the final version, which is this one, and she couldn't be happier.


We are so excited that the wedding is a mere six weeks away! More to come on the plans of this memorable wedding...

Happy Planning!

SF Dream Wedding Giveaway

I feel so fortunate to have a career that I love so much, and giving back was on my list of things to do this year. I have started that with signing on to be the lead wedding designer for the SF Dream Wedding Giveaway for a very deserving couple, Vanessa and Mike. The couple found out they were winners on Valentine's Day, and the design team got right to work on our design. I was able to Skype with Vanessa to find out her likes and dislikes, and get an overall feel of how she will want her wedding to be.

Her original color selection was red, black and white. This could work almost anywhere, except the Hotel Vitale. This hotel is only five years old, has a very muted color palette and looks like a West Elm catalog. It is lovely! After realizing those colors weren't going to work, we came up with a muted grey, soft yellow and crisp white. It is coming together nicely, and will look great with the backdrop that the Vitale offers.

I will posting throughout the planning of this wedding of our progress on the design elements. The wedding is coming up quickly on May 14th, but for now, here is our inspiration board that got us started. She already has her gown, bridesmaid dresses and invitations picked out. Linens have been selected and rentals ordered. I'm working with Nancy Liu Chin and Leighsa Montrose on the
floral design, so you know it is going to be beautiful!

Happy Planning!