I know it’s been a while since we posted a Color Story.   Between our big move and one extremely busy wedding season, we just couldn’t find the time to do it right.   But finally, yesterday, we (Taylor, Alyssa and myself), along with Donna & Keith from Beautiful Blooms, Claudia Seyler from Claudia Seyler Beauty, Rian Winther from Eventions and of course, Marie Labbancz (our amazing photographer) joined forces to pull off our best photoshoot yet!

Our photoshoot for the next round of color-stories took place at the newly-opened Elkins Estate.   This place is amazing.  It was designed in the last decade of the 1800s and was built in Italy and France, then brought over here piece-by-piece.  The estate sits on 42-acres of gardens, rolling hills and ponds and was once the country sanctuary of Philadelphia entrepreneur William L. Elkins. In the 1930’s the Elkins family sold the retreat to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci, who maintained the Estate as a women retreat for for 75 years.   Now, under the ownership of the Land Conservancy of Elkins Park (having been rescued from development and revived through delicate restoration efforts),  the Elkins Estate is a peaceful wellness retreat and a magnificent venue for all kinds of celebrations.  

Because of its phenomenal grandeur and gorgeous unique spaces, we chose Elkins Estate as the host of this season’s photo shoot (covering the color stories for the months of July, August and September).  They were our extremely gracious and accommodating hosts and were a pure pleasure to work with!  We’ll be posting the first color story next week – I’m SO excited!   

Here are some photos Leila snapped of the areas where our photoshoot took place — I guess you can think of them as “before” photos.   

Without giving anything away, here is one of the final shots that Marie took after our long photo shoot ended (it was really hot!).   I think Rian (from Eventions) was just a little slap-happy from the long day of hard work and heat!

So, we’ll be posting July’s color story next week!  Stay tuned.

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