We've been involved in a few interesting projects this year which I am just starting to blog about.  The first one I wanted to mention was an inspiration photoshoot entitled "Bright Star".  This began in the creative mind of Arielle Doneson, of Arielle Doneson Photography!  She already had some ideas down in a pinterest board and one day when I called her to check availability for a wedding date, she said she was just about to call me to see if I was interested in joining her!  I was thrilled to be a part of this exciting project.  I worked with her on choosing our venue and completing our vendor list and design, which included:
 

I find many of my clients oohing and aahing over the charm of mixing the rustic, vintage and elegant styles.  It was so much fun bringing in the John Keats poem with the navy blue, peach and stars at a beautiful venue complete with horses!  A few highlights from the shoot are:

• my daughter Sadie as the "flower girl" baby model and wearing the most perfect headband that Karen from Something White suggested for her!
• an 80 degree day in March, in Ohio!  Amazing!
• our amazing models -- Curtis and Laura, who both work at Walden.  Laura is recently engaged now and will make a beautiful bride, don't you think?!
• meeting and working with some awesome vendors who I had not worked with yet (and some old friends too!)
• last but not least ----> having our shoot featured on the most visited wedding blog, Style me Pretty!!!  click here to see our feature.

 

Greetings Blog Readers!  Sorry it has been so long since our last post.  I can promise you we've been hard at work at some fabulous weddings this year and we can't wait to share with you what we've been up to!  We've also done some other cool things besides weddings so will share those with you as well.

Are you on Pinterest?  Make sure you follow Kirkbrides at http://pinterest.com/kirkbrides/.  We are also working on some amazing and fashion forward 2013 weddings as well!  A few styles include an Eastern Garden Hindu wedding and a Chevron Patterned Coral/Teal/Champagne/FUN wedding!  Be sure to check out some ideas we've found to start the designing with our lovely brides.

New wedding pics from 2012 to come soon!


pic by Arielle Doneson Photography

I hope you are recovered from Friday's festivities! Joe and I are working on R&R ourselves, sitting on our patio on the beach waiting for breakfast...
it's beautiful here in Anguilla.

I just wanted to write and say thank you for everything you and your team did leading up to and including the wedding. Joe and I had a wonderful time, because everything looked and tasted great and went so smoothly, and all of our friends and family agree, at least those who could speak thru their hangovers on Saturday. I know it takes a lot of effort and planning to make a party like that come off, and I also know I wasn't nearly as helpful (or timely) as I should have been, so I appreciate all the more how things turned out.

I feel bad the day rushed by so fast, I keep trying to grab on to memories, and there are so many guests I hardly got to talk to...let alone say a proper goodbye to Lindsey and you when you left - so please excuse me for that. What can I say? I was having too much fun!

In any case, I will follow-up in more detail with you, Scott, Arne, Lindsey and Maria when I get back. If Scott is still speaking to me - I think the party got a little obnoxious at the end, so I hope I don't have any bad guest behavior to account for. Ditto at the Wyndham!

So, again, a million thanks. Please email me if there are any loose ends that need immediate attention, and enjoy the rest of your year. Personally, I think you ended your wedding season on a high note!

Jill (and Joe too)

PS Joe LOVED having JT and The Chosen Few there, the surprise worked, and he got a huge kick out of the golf ball I Heart U - thanks for that!

Pictures courtesy of Lindsey Beckwith Photography