Christmas Wedding Inspirations

It is pouring with rain here this morning in Spain, and very dark, so here I am with coffee, browsing ideas for our fabulous weddings and got slightly sidetracked with beautiful Christmas Wedding Inspirations.   

Sadly here in Spain we do not get many Christmas weddings but that does not stop us dreaming of creating and designing them!!  

These images are from Green Wedding Shoes and I can imagine this beautiful set up in a dark Spanish stately home or one of Seville's glorious tapas bars with the dramatic reds and golds, touches of lace, sprigs of berries that could easily be olive sprigs and those dramatic amaryllis.  It seemed a shame not to share and do check out the gold oreos!

A Gorgeous Christmas Wedding Photo Shoot from Ireland

 

Here at Reviva we are getting into a very festive mood and are in love with this gorgeous Christmas photo shoot organised and styled by one of my previous and all time favourite brides :)

 

Claire tied the knot with her gorgeous hubby here in Marbella in 2010 and I was delighted to be hired as her wedding stylist, florist and decorator, we have since become good friends and Claire left Marbella well and truly hooked on wedding world. 

 

 Upon Claire´s return to Ireland, as a happily married woman, she set about spending a year training to become a fully qualified wedding planner setting up her dream business, a fabulous wedding and styling company White Sage Events.

 

With Claire´s attention to details combined with her natural flair for style she really was suited to becoming a wonderful wedding planner and I have enjoyed watching her flourish as she has worked tirelessly to set up her successful business and is now reaping the rewards of working for herself and you can see she is totally devoted to her profession.

 

Do head over to Claire´s website to have a look at her fabulous work.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this Christmassy photo shoot Claire´s company recently put together, it is so festive and beautifully styled, the deep berry Christmas reds combined with the soft greys are a perfect winter wedding palette.  Claire´s attention to detail will ensure you have a wonderful wedding and this photo shoot just reinforces her wonderful sense of style.

 

We absolutely love it and are rather jealous we do not get many winter style weddings as there are so many wonderful decoration opportunities, but here in Spain all our brides wish to get married in the wonderful Mediterranean sunshine and who can blame them as Spain is known for it´s wonderful climate.

 

However with the exciting opening of the Marbella Club´s latest venture in the Sierra Nevada, the El Lodge Ski and Spa we are holding out hope now that we may indeed get some beautiful snowy winter style weddings to design, plan and host :) 

 

Imagine hosting your wedding in a wonderfully festive and snowy ski resort near Granada and bringing your guests down to the coast with a 2 hour drive for a beach party the next day!  How different would this be :)

 

I have done it, skiing all through the day and sitting in Marbella on the beach in my ski wear in the sunshine enjoying a cocktail in the evening, there are not many countries in the world where you can do this!

 

Claire´s wonderful colleagues involved in this photo shoot were

Claire at White Sage Events Shoot Coordination and Styling White Sage Events

Florist Best of Buds

Venue Dromquinna Manor

Photography Lisa O´Dwyer

Wardrobe Styling Lindsay Moynagh

Wardrobe Patrick Casey and Adah Lynch

Hair Accessories Aisling Maher and Rangoli

Make Up Rosa Ospina

Hair Caitriona of Headrush

Stationery Citrus Ink Launching soon!

Cakes and Deserts Cloudberry Bakery

Models Jacqui Murphy and Sarah O´Connor

Alfie the Dog :)!

 

If you do hire Claire for your wedding planning please do make sure you change your entire colour scheme 10 days before your wedding and email your guest list the night before at 1.30am so she can create your table seating plans, table names and guest placecards ;)!

Glamour and Sparkle Wedding Inspiration

Who does not love a bit of glamour and sparkle, thrown in with a few diamonds of course!

 

We are busy here working away on ideas and inspirations for our 2013 weddings and gradually compiling mood and colour boards for our clients.

 

This involves weeks of looking for that one inspiration to set the next train of thought off and scanning hundreds or actually probably thousands of images as we put together designs and ideas.

 

My problem at the moment as we lead into the festive season is I keep being distracted by glitter and diamonds ;)

 

One fabulous blog I have found is Zsa Zsa Bellagio, if you are in need of some stylish inspirations or just wish to spend an hour looking at glamorous images this is the place to head over too.  Be prewarned you could be on this blog for much longer than an hour :)!

Even more fab winter wedding inspirations!

A fabulous winter wedding board found on Grey Likes Weddings, I love the baby Christmas tree.

Beautiful Winter Wedding

I adore this time of year with so many decorations and found this fabulous winter wedding on Elizabeth Anne Designs, to see more details and the hugely talented list of suppliers involved in creating this wedding visit the blog.

The centrepieces were created with white cabbage florets, snowflake mums, white roses, gold pine cones and twigs. There are so many fabulous details from the Christmas ornament guest book to the snow white winter wedding cake.

Christmas Weddings

It is difficult at the moment with all this rain in Spain to be creative, I feel like (and have been) flopping out on the sofa with my little Twinkle toes (3 year old!), painting, glittering, reading my magazines and making teddy bear beds!

However, having decided to try to gain some creativity tonight, I came across these lovely images from Misty Dawn Photo, evoking a huge sense of fun and festivity for a Christmas themed wedding. Absolutely adore the gingerbread bride and groom and all the lovely details from the candy canes used as table seating indicators to the seasonal table names. I can only imagine what the table names were, Santa, Rudolph, etc. A hugely fun time to have a wedding with all the wonderful themes you could conjour up for a Christmas wedding or party.

I might get round to the Rocky Road cakes tomorrow courtesy of my Nigella cookbook!

New Winter Snowflake range from our online shop

We love our new range of Winter Snowflake collection available on our online shop.

A huge range of snowflake stationery from hot water bottle labels to table numbers. The beautiful guest book decorated with handcut snowflakes and a delicate dusting of tiny crystals adds that extra wintry sparkle. With many matching accessories such as flower girl baskets and ring pillows this is truly a beautiful collection for a winter wedding.

Festive Favor Boxes

With a horrendously slow computer today, I have been patiently scouring the internet for festive ideas and came across these fabulous favor boxes on squidoo.com. Full of lovely ideas for Christmas weddings and parties. Perhaps you don't need a wedding as an excuse to delight your Christmas guests with these beautifully presented boxes.

Ideas for Christmas Weddings

Unfortunately here in Spain we do not get many Christmas weddings, such a shame as today here it is over 20 degrees, clear blue skies and beautiful.

It does not stop us creating ideas and searching for inspirations, here on Not On The High Street.Com we found this beautiful rose heart with a festive touch, we are loving the touches of holly and ivy with the berries and those gorgeous ribbons. A fabulous idea for decorating a festive wedding.