Lake Tahoe Inspiration | Lovely Lilac

We're putting together some inspiration boards for an upcoming wedding and I thought I would share one with you! I think Lilac is an absolutely stunning color to incorporate into your wedding color scheme. It reminds me of French fields covered in Lilacs and the soothing scent that envelops you, perfect for calming your nerves on the big day!

First Row: We Heart It | Anna Williams Photography | Ellen Silverman Photography Second Row: Karen Mordechai Photography Third Row: Cake by  Maggie Austin via Green Wedding Shoes | Leila Brewster Photography via Style Me Pretty Fourth Row: Tec Petaja Photography via Once Wed

The Weekly Juice from Tahoe Unveiled!

Our sister site, Tahoe Unveiled, is an online resource for the tahoe bound bride and groom seeking fresh, innovative, and inspiring wedding ideas. Complete with a coveted vendor list of Tahoe's super talented wedding vendors, a guide to Tahoe's many entertaining activities, and a juicy blog oozing with inspiration, the site is full of fun and fabulous ideas for a completely unique tahoe wedding. Every week day, we blog about a real wedding, an inspiration board, or helpful tips! Here are some little slices from this week's Tahoe Unveiled posts. Enjoy!

Tents provide lots of protection and a great Plan “B” for potentially inclement weather. With a tent you can provide shelter against rain and cold while keeping....Click here for the rest of the post!

There’s something about a short wedding dress; it’s playful, it’s flirty, and it just feels fun! It’s also.....click here for the rest of the post!

I am totally in love with hair accessories! I just think there is something so romantic and ..... click here for the rest of the post!

With the traditional wedding cake becoming less common, dessert tables seem to be the latest bright idea! Dessert tables are the best of both worlds because.....click here for the rest of the post!

I think a dressed-up farm wedding is so very lovable. Farms remind me of family, friends, and....click here for the rest of the post!

To view any of these posts in full, please visit Tahoe Unveiled. Thanks for stopping by and we hope you have a great weekend!

Lake Tahoe Wedding Inspiration Board | A Pop of Color

We are just back from Sonoma, where we planned the most gorgeous wedding at the CornerStone Gardens! Everything about this wedding was perfect - the cute couple, vintage decorative accents, flowers, entertainment, and the venue! Plus, the sun was shining - we haven't seen much of the sun lately in Tahoe, so we were loving the UV rays kissing the vineyards! As we return to the office with a little sunburn and feeling very inspired by the flowers and greenery in Sonoma, we thought we'd inspire you with some color trends! Unexpected pops of color are one of the top wedding trends for 2011 and how easy yet impactful it is. Regardless of whether you prefer pinks or greens, blues or yellows, vivid flowers will quickly brighten up your bridesmaid's look and lively linens will be the perfect finishing touch for reception tables. We've pulled some ideas using our favorite hues to inspire you to add a little zest to your wedding palette.

Stella Alesi Photography | Martha Stewart Weddings | Meg Smith Photography via Wedding Cabaret

First Row: Jerry Yoon Photographers | Swayspace Second Row: Occasions Magazine | Perez Photography via The Knot | Snippet & Ink | Martha Stewart Weddings

Left : Beaux Arts via Snippet & Ink | Project Wedding | Jamie Hammond Photography via Amorology

Wedding Inspiration | Pink Beach Wedding

I recently created these inspiration boards for a client and just had to share them! During the design process I always get so excited about all of the pieces coming together. This wedding will take place on the beach at the Mourelatos Resort in Tahoe Vista. We have a fabulous large sandy beach as our canvas and the lake as our backdrop! The bride and groom have requested an elegant, slightly casual, romantic setting. The first inspiration board displays the floral inspiration, while the second displays the style and ambiance. In a few months, we will reveal the actual wedding pics!

Wedding Inspiration | Wooden Wedding Accents

Incorporating wood into your wedding decor is a somewhat trendy thing these days. Farm tables are off the charts popular! Hindsight Bride wrote a great two part series on Tahoe Unveiled's blog explaining the many, many different ways you can incorporate wooden accents into the wedding decor. See below for a few highlights, or click here to view the articles in full!

Left: Karen Mordechai via Sunday Suppers and Ritzy Bee Top: Sarah Gray Photography via Elizabeth Anne Designs Middle + Bottom: Simply Bloom Photography via Love and Lavender

Top Row: Emily Steffen Photography via The Sweetest Occassion | Glass Jar Photography viaThe Brides Cafe Bottom Row: Lana Lou StyleTop Row: Braedon Photography via Snippet and Ink | Glass Jar Photography via The Brides Cafe Bottom Row: Braedon Photography via Snippet and Ink

Inspiration Board | Simply Chic

We recently posted this lovely inspiration board on our sister site, Tahoe Unveiled, and thought it was quite perfect for One Fine Day's blog too! It is a collage of simply chic, pretty, and slightly modern wedding images. I often find that many people think Tahoe weddings have to be rustic and obsessively natural, but they don't. Regardless of how many trees, mountain tops, and pine cones surround your venue, you can still incorporate a more elegant or even modern theme.

Inspiration Board | Organic Elegance

We put together this inspiration board for Tahoe Unveiled (our sister company) and thought you might enjoy it! This board takes an organic approach to wedding style and shows how natural elements and a little creativity can be used to create a feeling of casual elegance.

Inspiration Board | Rustic Elegance with Whimsical Accents Part II

A few days ago we posted a couple inspiration boards for a client getting married at The Cornerstone Gardens. They are seeking a rustic elegant wedding with various whimsical and unexpected accents. The colors are fresh yellows, greens, and creams; the style is Pottery Barn meets Martha Stewart! Take a look at our inspirational collages:

The bride loves the idea of using mason jars for the rustic side of her wedding, but used in a more creative fashion. She would also like various unexpected accents, hence the book covers with love-words on the book bind and the newspaper flowers. The final style accent in this collage is "romance" - which is where we find the oversized hurricane vases, floating candles, and petals blanketing a path. The remaining images here represent rustic signage to direct the guests, lounge furniture for the cocktail party, and a signature cocktail.

Since the wedding will take place in 3 locations at the Cornerstone Gardens, it is important to direct the guests - what better way than simple wooden signs with white paint? We have toyed with the idea of using benches for the ceremony and then re-purposing them as lounge furniture during dancing in the Barn - the image above shows the benches but dressed with pillows to incorporate color!

As I mentioned in the previous collage, the bride loves mason jars - so I pulled a few examples of using them as vases and water glasses - but adding a simple tag to dress up the look.  The remaining images in this inspiration board reflect the look and feel of the wedding - utilizing wooden farm tables with a table runner, jam as favors, simple table number tags, and a monogrammed sweetheart table. The possibilities are always endless. We shall have to wait and see how all of these details will be refined!

Inspiration Board | Rustic Elegance with Whimsical Accents Part I

I created these inspiration boards for a client seeking rustic elegance with touches of whimsical, unique, and unexpected notions. The wedding is slated for The Cornerstone Gardens in Napa Valley, CA. The venue is a designers dream with three incredible locations for the wedding: the vineyard lawn for the ceremony, the wedding garden featuring an open tent for dinner, and the garden barn for dancing! There are so many creative avenues - I love it! Take a look at some of our ideas:

The bride's ideal colors are fresh yellows and greens. She would like the flowers to look complete and polished, but freshly picked from the garden. Both the bride and groom's style is fun, crafty, and creative hence the incorporation of unique elements including: colorful buttons for decor, a hallway table as an accent piece, a selection of colorful beverages in a galvanized tub, and croquet to keep the guests entertained.

There are oodles of ways to display your escort cards. The bride requested some form of hanging with clothespins. I took this and ran with it. Here we have flower seed packets, antique postcards, gift bags and escort cards as one, and a few more fun styles. In addition, I threw in the seating board, as the colors and style fit perfectly with the couple's wedding features.

Stay tuned for more of their inspiration boards!

Design Inspiration from Wedding 360

As promised, here are a few pictures from the Wedding 360 design seminar I attended a few weeks ago. I don't want to say too much about the first collage, as the pictures speak for themselves. The images walk you through the Museum of Petals dinner, which was held at the St. Regis San Francisco. The theme was 5000 petals, which is the amount of petals used to create this beautiful room. Gloria Wong and her team did a fabulous job.

Clockwise: Top images ~ the entrance to the Museum of Petals dinner. A modern display of white couches, floating candles, silver tables, and pink lighting create a fun and unique setting. The ice bar, courtesy of Chisel It, consists of beautiful arrangements on top of the bar as well as frozen inside the waist of the bar - super creative!

Middle ~ Petals blanket the dinner tables, while floating candles in clear vases add a warm touch to the setting. A man made tree (courtesy of Gloria Wong and her team) stands elegantly in the center of the room with petals hanging from every angle. It serves not only as an eye catching design, but also as the focal point that justifies the surrounding accents.

Bottom ~ Petals carefully sprinkle the linens including the floor-to-celling fabric, which creates a warm atmosphere and soaks up empty space.

A few of our unbelievably inspiring educators. Pictured here: Youngsong Martin of Wildflower Linens, Catherine Hall of Catherine Hall Studios, Tara Guerard of Tara Guerard Soiree, champagne for our tasting compliments of the Henry Wine Group and Componere Fine Catering, the fabulous Jean Marks and Jubilee Lau (hosts of the event and producers of Wedding 360) pictured with Grace Ormonde of Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, our seminar room in the St. Regis San Francisco, and one of the panels featuring Youngsong Martin, Catherine Hall, and Grace Ormonde.

Inspiration Board | Accessories

Oh how I love accessories. There are so many ways to dress up a room/space/yard/estate. One of my favorite roles as an event planner is working with my clients to find their vision and design the colors and theme, while implementing accessories to boost the personality of the event. Here are a few of my latest finds: Simple Whimsical Elements

Implementing nature is a very popular theme today. It is especially great for those on a tight budget. Why? Because there are many things you can collect in the forest, on the beach, in your backyard, etc. that are free. They just require a little crafty DIY!

This inspiration board is made up of fresh accessories that elude an organic feel. The place cards wrapped around a wooden post and held in place with clothes pins is such a simple, yet decorative display; the wooden lantern is used to collect gift cards and decorated with river rocks; a collection of recycled paper hand tied with raffia is used as a unique guest book; potted plants and popsicle sticks create a very whimsical means for seating guests; a beautifully decorated belly belt is used to hold the napkin in place while adding a punch of color to the table; and rustic lanterns hang from tree branches over hay stacks, which are covered with colorful blankets. Each of these images are pretty simple, yet so prominent.

Creative Twist on the Traditional Wedding

Traditionally, weddings were pretty straight forward and the decorations minimal at best. The focus of the wedding was mainly on the ceremonial matters and gathering loved ones together. While these two fundamentals are still huge in today's wedding world, the decorations, theme, and design of the wedding have become almost just as important. You want your wedding to stand out and be memorable - what other way to do so than in your accessories. Thanks to the abundance of magazines, websites, and creative minds there is an infinite amount of ideas at one's disposal. Simple things like signs created out of a plank of wood or chalk boards to direct guests are incredibly trendy at the moment. But, the creative part is not copying a picture, it is implementing this picture and twisting it to reflect your theme, personality, and design. This is the inspiration behind this board. Each item is very simple and somewhat traditional, but they are almost reorganized to produce a fun and different image.

Inspiration Board | Winter Part II

For part II of our Winter Inspiration Board, I decided to focus on the dinner table. More specifically, three different types of Modern - Classic Modern, Rustic Modern, and Modern Glam. Everything shown below represents a different style, yet still captures the warm, inviting, romantic feel.

Classic Modern - the pure and subtle color palette combined with dark wood and candle light creates a soft and romantic feel.

Rustic Modern - incorporating elements of the outdoors while dressing them up with color and sass.

Modern Glam - multi-colored and textured linens, dramatic decor, vivid lighting, and a touch of Hollywood!

Inspiration Board | Winter Part 1

My office today consisted of a desk in front of floor to ceiling windows overlooking Squaw Valley Ski Resort. Whenever I needed a break, I looked up to see skiers and riders carving turns down the mountain - not bad! As I was watching over the joys of winter, I decided to put my view to work and create a Winter Inspiration Board. For whatever reason I feel winter weddings tend to have a much more intimate feel. Perhaps it's the frost on the windows paired with a warm fireplace, or the rich warm colors, or even the comfort foods that are common of a winter wedding. Whatever it maybe, here are a few ideas and images that inspired me today!

Inspired by Green Wedding Shoes

I discovered this wedding today and just had to share it. It's fun, unique, and beaming with style. You can view the rest of the wedding on: Green Wedding Shoes or Erik Clausen.

Inspiration Board | Place Cards of all shapes, sizes, and designs!

After all things great and small, fine attention to detail really does play a huge role in knocking the socks off your guests! It may seem like a simple and overlooked part of your wedding, but displaying your escort cards in a unique and aesthetic manner is the icing on the cake! Here are a few of my latest favorites.

Thank you to brides.com, theknot.com, marthastewartweddings.com, and the following photographers:

A Bryan Photo

Autumn Lin Photography

Mindy Myers Photography

Red Ribbon Studio

Angie Silvy Photography

Kim Long Photography

Inspiration Board | Fresh, Chic, and Timeless!

I have always been in love with the unique, yet traditional floral combination of green, white, and yellow. It's a classic look that never ceases to impress in both simple and extravagant occasions and settings. It's subtle, elegant, and fresh while still providing prominence.

Bouquet: Fresh, definitive, and stunning - compliments of brides.com and Alea Moore Photography.

Table: Rustic with a touch of modern class. The green and white flowers transform this antique table into a modern plateau!. Compliments of Martha Stewart Weddings and A Bryan Photo.

Top Left: A glamorous seaside wedding blending white, green, and turquoise sea glass - compliments of Danny Weiss Photography and Theknot.com

Top Right: Exquisite calla lilies - compliments of Tana Photography and Theknot.com

Bottom Left: A complex yet elegant bouquet - compliments of Martha Stewart Weddings

Bottom Right: A dramatic yet classy entrance for Timbaland and Monique Idlett's wedding - compliments of Mike Colon Photographers and In Style Weddings

Quintessential modern arrangements - compliments of Martha Stewart Weddings.

A natural collection of flowers and a contemporary floral ball - compliments of Redtree Photography, Thia Konig Photography, and theknot.com.

If you would like to see a particular collage of bouquets, centerpieces, decor, specific colors, etc. let us know by leaving a note in the comment section.

Inspiration Board | Lakefront Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of a wedding I am currently working on. The following displays our inspiration photos. I am super excited to see how this wedding unfolds. It will be beautiful!

This couple is looking for a non-traditional wedding with sass, fun, and lots of surprise elements for their guests. Although I don't want to reveal too much, here are a few tid bits and links!

Decor ~ We will decorate the outdoors with lanterns and lights to create a romantic ambiance. The inside will have a candle-lit fireplace, chandeliers hanging from the tall ceilings, and low floral arrangements decorating the long tables. To honor the bride's Chinese culture, we will have accents of red, which symbolizes good luck!

Flowers ~ The very talented Bellissima Floral is creating a unique place card holder made out of tall reeds and floating candles and flowers. The bride's bouquet will be elegant with subtle creams and peaches.

Food and Beverage ~ Instead of a formal plated dinner, guests will be served a BBQ cuisine "family style" in large dishes by Blue Onion Catering. To emphasize the unique theme, guests will be served beverages in mason jars and greeted with a self-serve infused water and juice station.

Inspiration Board | Fabulous Martha

You have to love Martha Stewart for her fabulous creativity. Here are a few of my latest favorites.

1. Elegant program pockets ~ hanging on each chair, these programs perfectly incorporate the couple's invitation design while serving as a pretty accent to the ceremony setup.

2. Ribbons for boutonnieres ~ what a classy and simple way to bring color and uniqueness into the groomsmen's attire.

3. Branches for bouquets ~ these snowberries are booming with originality. Better yet, you don't have to worry about the flowers dwindling or staining your dress!

4. Program Fans ~ useful in multiple ways and great for an outdoor wedding in the heat. I especially like the colorful print on the back of the fans.

5. Fruit for Flowers ~ I love the idea of utilizing fruit for centerpieces. It creates a fresh, colorful, and casual setting for your guests. To top it off, this couple incorporated a yellow themed menu. This look is especially aesthetic on long dining tables.

6. Herbs for decor ~ fresh, natural, and simple. Utilizing bunches of herbs is a lovely way to decorate the aisle. I love this color combination of dark wood chairs, fresh green rosemary, and cream ribbon.