THE BRIDE'S CAFE: Real Wedding: Sarah & Nick

It's "Color Palette Thursday" and today's featured wedding is Sarah & Nick. I received the sweetest email from Sarah and she asked if she could share their beautiful wedding with us and she thought it would be a perfect "fit" for "Color Palette Thursday"...and she was right. Their wedding is simply gorgeous and the bright and yummy hues of yellow paired up with black..oh-so-perfect! Sarah is the owner of Truly Smitten...a couture wedding paper company.....check out Sarah's blog! Let's get started with Part I...Enjoy!!!

Our charming couple...Sarah & Nick!

Sarah shares their vision..."My taste in design style has always been described by friends and family as simple, yet sophisticated, modern and charming....so naturally, coming up with our wedding theme and decor was very easy. We wanted to go for something simple and elegant and incorporate nice contrasting hues of yellows and marigolds paired up with black. I also designed clustered patterns of Ginkgo leafs on all of my printed materials such as programs, invitations, signage, etc....it is a personal favorite tree of my dad and I knew he would find this charming."

Sarah is truly a beautiful bride!

Sarah shares a little insight with us on her amazing "Style Team"

Floral Designer - Grace Ha-Kim of Vale of Enna - My friend Grace is a fantastic floral designer. We worked together to come up with low and lush centerpieces for the reception. I told her that I wanted a "Spring Garden" look to our wedding and she chose lush, wide blooms in hues of yellows and whites and lined each vase with sliced lemons. Our tent ended up smelling so lemony! Grace also used tall dogwood branches and tulips for our ceremony altar arrangements and place card table. My bouquet consisted of beautiful creamy white ranunculus and rice flowers with a black sash and my bridal party had gorgeous eye popping green centered yellow-orange ranunculus.

Invitations & Printed Materials - Of course...that would be ME..... Truly Smitten - I designed all the invitations and paper materials with the Gingko leaf patterns. We have a Ginkgo tree growing in my parent's back yard so I took a leaf and digitally illustrated it and voila! I had a pattern for my letter-pressed invitations, programs, signages, menus, etc...designing my invitations was my favorite part about my wedding!

Photographer - David Turner Photo - We had a fantastic photographer and assistant that captured everything so well! I highly recommend him! They were a joy to work with!

Bridal Attire - My dress is actually a generic "no-name" design. I had my Aunt alter the design of it and I attached the black sash to it. To compliment my dress and sash, I wore black satin d'Orsay heels, a simple silk and feather vintage floral hair piece and a waist length veil. My bridesmaids dresses were from Vera Wang and I had all of them wear bright yellow flats during the reception and cocktail hour and wear their formal black heels for the ceremony only. The groom and groomsmen wore classic black and white tux with black ties.

Thanks Sarah for sharing your beautiful wedding images with us today...check back later guys for Part II of their "picture perfect" wedding...you will love it!