Posted on: Monday, January 18th, 2016
I just love it when I can incorporate my two fave locations in S CA, and so lucky I actually get to do it quite often. Tala and Raj were doing a two day event, incorporating two cultures and traditions. We chose to do the Indian Celebration/day at the St Regis and day 2 for the Persian Celebration at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna. Lucky guests getting the best of the OC for the celebration of this fab couple and really lovely parents.
As you can see Tala wanted different colors to the traditional Indian wedding colors (my Indian weddings are rarely traditional colors), we used the existing rotunda at the cere site as the mandap structure and it worked really well. Our groom arrived on a Rickshaw for the baraat, in the picture above the guests are congregating for the milni. The tables on the Grand Lawn is where the guests went for lunch after the Indian ceremony was over. Now what you don’t see/know is there was a threat of rain for the ceremony/lunch time, so the night before we draped a portion of the dinner room as ceremony backup and with the chiavaris I have to say it looked awesome. The decision to move inside had to be made as 7am, so who could sleep right, I was up at 4am driving downtown Dana Point and the roads was slik, hmmm. At 6:50am up again looking out my hotel window, talking to the florist who was at the property, and we made the decision to stay outside. I saw father of the bride while I was having breakfast at the hotel and he said to me, in or out, out I said, he smiled. And again, on my watch, all was good, in fact it was quite warm/hot towards the end of the ceremony and luncheon!!
Then the evening sangeet. We reused the draping we were doing as ceremony backup and moved it (again the importance of vendors who work together a lot and will do things spur of the moment when needed/will make it work for me).
On Day 2 we had a bridal party, and how elegant they look.
Great shot of the back of Tala’s gown on Day 2, and the sofreh with a pretty spectacular backdrop!!
Tala was not a Persian bride wanting large/big florals, for the ballroom everything was low for the reception/dinner/dance for 300, when you do low florals in such a big ballroom they get lost in pictures, but believe me the room looked beautiful, elegant and calm, just like our bride. We had the space in the Grand Ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna to do a mix of long and round tables which is always fun.
Thanks to Frank Salas for the above photos, to White Lilac for being a great partner for two days and creating such beauty, David Medill/videographer great to meet and work with him for the first time, Flawless Faces for beautifying the girls for both days, and to my favorite Persian officiant, Shahrzad Ardelan – I refer her to everyone and am always sad when a couple doesn’t go with her. To the teams at both St Regis and Ritz-Carlton Laguna as always, we create beautiful dream weddings together, I appreciate you all. xoxoxo
Till next time
Lisa
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