The New-Fashioned Wedding Designing Your Artful, Modern, Crafty, Textured, Sophisticated Celebration

by Appel, Paige; Harris, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780847839889
• ISBN10: 0847839885
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-26
• Publisher: Rizzoli

Summary

The perfect wedding design book for the hipster bride and groom, Wedding Bash features ten stunning weddings, photographed in exquisite detail. With Appel and Harris's trademark wit, they walk the reader through their process, from vision statement and storyboard to colour palette, stationery, signs and logos, centrepieces and bouquets, furnishings, linens, china and silver, aisle décor, menus, and more. The ten extraordinarily beautiful and highly original weddings featured include: Earthy and natural in an urban oasis: succulents, balsa wood flowers, cactus wood, dried wheat, and lots of mason jars on the dinner tables; natural linen, burlap, cotton lace, and fabric flowers for feminine texture. Wildflower seed bombs for favours; A luxurious and textured wedding at the Gene Autry house at the Parker Palm Springs. Palm trees, kumquats, fringe. Neutrals for the ceremony and pops of oranges, golds, and navy for the reception featuring an amazing dance party. A down-home, eclectic Texas-inspired celebration dressed up in yellows, grays and black and white. A sprawling oak tree in the center of the property was the epic backdrop for the ceremony, and a blue grass band played from a wrap around porch above dinner. An eclectic, dramatic nouveau carnival. Bright pops of modern patterns mixed with French Moroccan elegance. A hookah lounge as a nod to the groom's heritage and a tarot card reader and fortune teller, a nod to the bride's whimsical interests. A gospel choir for the processional. Pops of colour in rainbow hues mixed with black and white sophistication set the tone for a playful reception. Art studio reception. Floral containers were wrapped with old typography book pages and words were stenciled on the wooden planters. Oskar Fischinger motion paintings projected on the wall during cocktail hour and a 3D paper installation on the giant easels from their leftover Save the Dates and coloured paper.

Author Biography

Paige Appel and Kelly Harris of Bash, Please began designing personality-driven weddings in 2009 for an artistic and celebrity clientele (Anna Getty, Josie Maran, Emily Deschanel) and immediately became media darlings. They live in Los Angeles and travel worldwide to produce events for their clients. They are also the co-creators of The Cream, a modern, hip, experiential take on the bridal fair.