Kasia & David: Vintage Polish Love.

Last fall I had a pleasure of working with an amazing couple. (I have to disclaim this also because I am lucky enough with our team to work with a lot of amazing couples). Kasia being 100% Polish and always being involved in local Polish community (as much as even dancing in a Polish Folk dance team) knew that Polish theme would be a big part of her wedding. She also loved vintage elements and wanted to create a very cozy reception for her guests. Obvious choice for a venue was the American Polish Cultural Center. She ended up picking the new section of the banquet hall that is a blank canvas and she wanted to bring the vintage elements in through our decorations. We did something very daring because we actually picked very dark navy table linens and instead of going with traditional light colored chair covers with picked even darker chocolate ones. Only our centerpieces were white with champagne and gold accents. Kasia also wanted to bring in the peacock theme into our color combination and we did that in a very delicate way. There were only few  nudges to the theme, such as table numbers and in few places peacock feathers. Being really busy with preparing this 350 people wedding I completely missed the window for taking my photos and just got few that were not acceptable to share. Thankfully Marek Dziekonski, totally saved the day by taking amazing amount of detailed photos from the reception. Below photos with exceptions of maybe two are all his! (Yes you will know which two I took....) Also Marek has quite a few photos on his blog post - be sure to check those out as well.

First and formost is Kasia's bridal bouquet. All white and champagne with some greenery and lots of texture. The stems were wrapped in lace and antique crystals and pearls.




Bridesmaids had bright royal blue dresses so in order to create some dramatic pop of color we chose to go with also very textural bouquets with shades of white and champagne and few greenery.



Here is entire bridal party standing in front of St. Florian church in Hamtramck.



If you have never been inside of St. Florian, it is truly amazing and very vintage looking.



In a true Polish wedding there has to be a flower girl! And head wreaths / wianki are very common for the girls to wear. I love creating little details like this little head piece for Kasia's flower girl!



The view of the room in American Polish Center right when guests started coming in.



We created two different types of centerpieces for Kasia and David. This one is a manzanita branch centerpiece with gold accents, crystals and candles. On other tables we had tall floral arrangements filled with flowers.



A detail of the head table. We dressed it up with a mixture of vases, branches and candles. In the back you can see our vintage frame design with peacock feathers.



Oh and did I mention the head table had three layers or tables?



We've designed little details such as the notes above to give more vintage charm to all the elements.
The photo on the left is actually on of the mom's bridal gown! We had it hanging right outside of the reception room. (I mean how amazing is it that both moms still had their wedding gowns? Talk about a perfect occasion to showcase them.)



Polish table is a must at Polish wedding! This one was truly awesome. That's where you could find pierogi and also variety of other small-plates-type of snacks.



Kasia and David cutting their beautiful wedding cake!

Kasia and her Oczepiny! Very Polish tradition. Here done by Czarny Dunajec, our amazingly talented local Polish Folk Dance team.

And here Czarny Dunajec performing for all the wedding guests. (How cool is that?) Back in the day when I was starting this business I remember there were quite a few Polish weddings that used to get Polish Folk dance groups performing at weddings. I have to say this was the first one in a really long time that I have seen. Maybe it's coming back? Let's hope! 



I truly think our beautiful couple had the time of their lives on their wedding day. Our entire team is wishing Kasia and David countless years of happiness and 100 lat of love!

Venue: The American Polish Cultural Center

Ceremony: St. Florian

Table Number Design/ Favors: Goizzy

Photographery: Marek Dziekonski Photography 

Cake: Srodek Bakery

Flowers/Linens/Chavari Chairs/Chargers/Drapes: Goizzy

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Winter Wedding: Peacock inspiration.

Caitlyn & Andy, November 2012 

 

So again I have fallen behind on my posts. I need to really get on top of it since there are still event from 2012 that haven't been posted. This wedding that we designed for Caitlyn and Andy was really different and charming. Caitlyn picked out a beautiful location, because the ceremony and reception took place at The Whitney downtown Detroit. Caitlyn wanted to stick to pretty clean color palette with ivories and whites but she wanted to add peacock feathers as a theme element to entire wedding. In order to pull everything together we decided on navy color with gold accents. Our centerpieces were variety of different sizes of manzanita branches. Our branches had crystals and hanging candles from them as well as a touch of flowers. For the ceremony that was set up on second level we had pipe and drape with golden fabric draped on it that was surrounded by lots of candles. Seating for guests was set up with the use of mahogany chavari chairs. Caitlyn was a unique bride because she didn't want to wear white. Her dress was a magical dark navy sequence dress. Entire day was chilly yet filled with love! 

Below is Caitlyn's bridal bouquet with a little peacock feather accent. 

Below are wonderful photos from Alix Photography to see more of her work or more photos from Caitlyn and Andy's wedding please visit her site! 

Her is our beautiful couple. 

 Here is second floor ceremony. 

You can see below the officiant, Denise from Perfect Day Celebrations and she was truly great to work with. 

One more photo from the reception rooms. 

Here is our beautiful happy couple. 

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Peacock-Themed Wedding Table Sample

This was another one of our sample tables at our Engagement Ball few weeks ago. We know that a lot of brides are inspired by peacock feathers, so we wanted to show what could be done with that idea. We used shimmery, royal green table linens. Gold chair covers with purple ribbons and artificial flowers. We had plum/purple napkins that were folded into a shape of peacock's tail. As far as flowers, we had a pretty good variety of deep colors. There were lots of Bells of Ireland, burgundy Snapdragons, raspberry Roses, fuschia Dahlias, blue Orchids and to accent, of course peacock feathers. Details, like table numbers, place seating cards and programs were gold and deep purple. Some of them had prints of peacock feathers on them as well. All these wonderful detail pieces were done by Robyn from Meant to Be Sent. So if you are looking for anything peacock, Meant to be Sent is your place.

Once again, above photo composition was created with use of photos taken by Agnes Photography and Maciek Photography. Thank you, once again!

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Sherrie and Clark

September 26, 2009

For the past few months I had a pleasure of working with Sherrie in creating her vision of what her wedding day would look like. Her inspiration were peacock feathers and we wanted to utilize them in our arrangements. She knew she didn't want darker shades or purples, she fell in love with idea of using antique lavender. Finally, this Saturday Sherrie and Clark tied the knot and her vision came to life. I am attaching few pictures from the hall and the details of the arrangements that I created for Sherrie and Clark as well as few shots from Nicoloff photography from the actual wedding day. Beautiful, romantic photos, there will be more coming soon on Nicoloff blog. Sherrie and Clark are off to their honeymoon, congratulations and enjoy the sun!

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