Our lovely couple from California's testimonial

We were delighted to receive this testimonial this morning from our lovely couple, Daniele and Mike from California. 

After much travelling around Europe, after their beautiful wedding here in July, they are now back to work in the states and sent us this lovely email.

Laura and Carla,

As we were planning our wedding from rather far away (California), we picked our wedding planner/decorator purely on the response we received to our "feeler" e-mails for information. Right away, we knew that Laura was going to be awesome. Although we were not working with a huge budget, her excitement made us feel that our wedding was going to be spectacular and it was! It looked fantastic from the lights to the paper lanterns to the flowers. Our guests had so much fun releasing the sky lanterns as that is not something they will ever get to do back home. We really could not have asked for more.

 

Carla was so great! She really went out of her way to make sure that our day was perfect. She thought of things that I did not even notice or realize could have been potential issues. The vendors that they recommended were spot-on (Dee for the mobile mani-pedis, Caroline for make-up, Karen for hair). We can't thank you enough- our wedding day was just what we envisioned....beautiful, unique and fun!

Sincerely,

Daniele and Michael Le

 

One of Daniele and Mike's friends was a professional photographer and was here for the wedding and taking the photos with an awesome camera, so Daniele has promised us the photos as soon as she gets them, we cannot wait to see the pool antics and the Trash the Dress as she launched herself off a high diving board apparently later!!!

A Beautiful Wedding for a Beautiful Bride

Katie and Didi contacted me from Hong Kong as they had arranged to have their wedding at the Cortijo de la Perdiz here in Cancelada near Marbella. 

Heather at Fiestasol was their planner and caterer and they wanted to add some special touches and flowers to their day.  We had a lovely time with Katie listening to her ideas and creating her wedding details and never actually met with her until her wedding day.

 Katie was one of the most helpful and delightful brides I have had this year, she was a beautiful person and delighted in having the children around for her wedding.  Heather had set up a kiddies area in the courtyard for the kids and they put on a lovely show and stole the bridal flowers!!!

We created some country style enamel jugs with some foliage and a few gerberas to add the colour and tied the table names to the jugs with fuschia ribbons.  Katie had a ceremony at the villa with a gazebo set up on the lawn, there is a lovely photo of the girls looking out the window to see us setting it all up on Jeremy's blog.

Our thanks as always to Heather at Fiestasol for constantly raving about us and to Jeremy yet again for some more fabulous photos

Stylish Lilac and Olive Wedding at Finca de la Concepcion, Marbella

This fabulous and stylish wedding took place in June at the Finca de la Concepcion, a beautiful venue close to the middle of Marbella, just 5 minutes drive away from Marbella town centre and you are transported into another world.

We had a last minute panic though Claire, emailed me about 2 weeks before the wedding to say the bridesmaids dresses had arrived and were not the colour she was expecting.  The colour scheme had been pale pink and greens, but quickly we changed it to a beautiful lilac and olive to compliment the girls dresses!

The result was beautiful, a more unusual colour scheme with a lovely stylish vintage element to the wedding.  We used white peonies and panacium fountain spray for Claire's bouquet and a fabulous mixture of lilac stocks for the bridesmaids and the table centrepieces. 

The tables were simply decorated with square table centrepieces wrapped in an ivory lace.  We used some of the local foliage to create cute cocktail decorations, such as the lovely plumbago that grows everywhere here in Spain and it complimented the wedding perfectly.

Our Bali umbrellas, our vintage frame for the table seating plan set on an easel and our lanterns set off the venue beautifully with simple touches that Claire was thrilled with.

We were thrilled to receive such a wonderful email from Claire afterwards and of course were delighted yet again to work with such a professional team, Heather from Fiestasol as the wedding planner and caterer for this event, Mark from Cake Marbella for providing yet again to die for cupcakes and of course Jeremy and Jennie from Jeremy Standley for allowing us to publish such fabulous photos :)

Magical Moroccan Night at Puente Romano Hotel

We had a fabulous time decorating this Moroccan party at the beautiful Puente Romano hotel. One of my favorite venues here in Marbella.

This party was the start of a 3 day event last weekend to welcome guests for a wedding weekend to the Marbella Club.

 It was quite short notice, about 3 days! but we managed to pull it off, only just though as we had another 100 chairs added in on the day so a quick visit to the shops to finish this off, thankfully the rain held off although the following day on the 3rd July here it rained? 

We were allowed in to photograph this before the guests arrived but I did get a phone call at 11.30 that night from one of the suppliers to tell me how fabulous and beautiful it looked once it had got dark, we are hoping we may get a few photos of this in darkness as I had some fabulous lighting and millions of candles here.

Our thanks to the forever cheerful and patient Jennifer Jane from Jeremy Standley for coming along again to photograph one of our events, always with a last minute panicked request from me!

My thanks also to my brilliant team, Izzi and Maddie my long suffering daughters, Susana that has now worked with me for 3 years and our new team member Anoulka, without these fabulous ladies I could never pull off an event like this and thank them for their hard work, reliability and tireless efforts.  Also to Carlos from Lipara Productions, a lovely man I work closely with all the time, without Carlos there would be no staging, lighting and sound!