We love it when Style Me Pretty comes calling. We’ve really had a great time over the past many months sharing our goings-on with them. They’re always up for sharing new and fun things with their readers, who, apparently, just drink every drop of Style Me Pretty. And who can blame them. They don’t call it the Ultimate Wedding Blog for nothing!
It truly is an honor to be counted among the chosen few of Style Me Pretty!
This month’s color story features a spectrum of purples and greys.
Step into our ‘secret garden’ – an enchanting and intimate setting where romance blossoms and floral beauty abounds! Welcome to Eclatante’s November fantasy ceremony where the colors of silver, purples and grey illustrate an ethereal story on the grounds of the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Winterthur, Delaware.
Our friend and photographer Marie Labbancz beautifully captures the stunning radiance and elegance of this romantic setting!
To set the stage for romance, a platform was created to line the aisle with purple vases from the Eclatante Boutique filled with a cloud of purple hydrangea by Beautiful Blooms.
At the base of the arrangements, Beautiful Blooms placed silver mercury votives and candleholders of different sizes then covered the base with lavender rose petals for even more ambiance!
This fabulous archway was enhanced with sheer grey fabric with rose petals applied to it!
Our gorgeous bride carried a bouquet created from silver grey brunia berries, dusty miller and magnificent purple hydrangea.
The groom’s boutonniere is made from a plum calla lily with a silver grey brunia berry detail to look like buttons.
This amazing bridal gown provided by the Gabriella New York Bridal Salon is reminiscent of the vintage details that women wore in the 30’s and 40’s. The designer is Matthew Christopher. The style may be formal but placing this dress in such an ethereal setting provided the contrast required to bring all of the elements together.
Claudia Seyler of Claudia Seyler Hair and Makeup styled the top of the bride’s hair to complement the era of the gown. The bottom part of her hair was left down to add a delicate flow just right for this garden setting!
We’re getting in the holiday spirit for our December Color Story! Stay tuned!
We’ve got something old, something new, something gorgeous and something blue for this month’s fantasy party! We invite you to join us at this fun and elegant cocktail party where the colors of sapphire, orange and gold bring to life a festive October Color Story.
The venue for this month’s story is the reflecting pool on the grounds of the lush, glorious and historic Winterthur Museum and Country Estate nestled in the heart of Delaware’s beautiful Brandywine Valley in Winterthur, Delaware.
Photographer Marie Labbancz works wonders with her camera to bring you these breathtaking shots!
As you can see, the bar takes center stage at this sophisticated and extraordinary party!
We created a double-level bar draped in a rich krinkle sapphire blue taffeta. On the lower level of the bar, we used a beautiful Obi Belt made of luxurious orange and gold silk for a runner. On top of this fantastic runner we placed beautiful florals by Beautiful Blooms created from drop dead blue roses inside gold cube vases, along with square votives.
We draped our side cocktail table with gorgeous orange linen with gold accents. The arrangement on the table consisted of a dome vase with blue stones and orange callas.
What’s a party without fun signature drinks in carefully chosen tinted glassware.
And check out the gorgeous dresses our models are wearing – all provided by Gabriella New York Bridal Salon!
Forget the little black dress! Angel Sanchez is the designer of this amazing little white cocktail dress worn by our host model! Douglas Hannant designed the purple cocktail dress that our guest wears.
Claudia Seyler of Claudia Seyler Hair and Makeup gave our model a romantically styled 60’s type hairstyle reflecting the style of that incredibly chic cocktail dress!
Next up: our November story – a stunning and romantic ceremony set in silver, purples and grey.
Our September Color Story offers an escape into a world of the rich and vibrant colors of deep purple and yellow in a magnificent and elegant setting. We love the energy of this stunning story!
This month’s fantasy party takes place at the Elkins Estate on the terrace of this amazing grand mansion. Photographer Marie Labbancz once again showcases her creative genius by capturing these breathtaking images and shots!
As you can see, our unique table design works wonderfully in conjunction with this venue as the simple outside exterior brings focus to the fascinating, customized and complex centerpiece.
We absolutely love this two-tiered plexi-glass centerpiece structure created by Beautiful Blooms with hanging yellow calla lilies and a floral arrangement comprised of bunches of deep purple hydrangea, yellow calla lilies and yellow eremerus on top.
The lower tier of this amazing composition contains a tasteful mixture of purple votives and yellow roses. We chose the linens and place settings in perfect compliment to the mood set by this gorgeous table.
Our table was also decorated with just the right amount of tall yellow vases and small yellow bud vases – all from Eclatante’s Boutique!
Look at the way the light bounces off the yellow colored glass vases and clear glassware creating a modern celebratory feel!
To complement our table design, our bride carried a hand tied bouquet Beautiful Blooms created from deep purple hydrangea, yellow spray roses and bupleurum.
Finally, what can we say about the Pronovias gown provided by Jennifer’s Bridal in Wilmington, Delaware that our beautiful model Paula is wearing – just perfect and absolutely stunning!
Claudia Seyler of Claudia Seyler Hair and Makeup did the styling, hair and makeup for our bride capturing the essence of her beauty with a gorgeous full bun and natural makeup.
We hope you enjoyed this month’s fantasy celebration as much as we enjoyed creating it! Stay tuned for our October feature when we bring our creative flair and event design expertise to the Winterthur!
Our warm and luxurious August Color Story embodies the end of summer and transitions beautifully into the feeling of autumn with its warm, inviting colors created out of hues of orange, red and yellow. You can just the feel the magic in the air with this fantasy celebration!
The venue for this month’s fantasy party was the elegant Elkins Estate, an amazing grand mansion just a few minutes outside of Philadelphia sitting on 42 acres of graceful rolling hills among beautiful ponds and a tranquil retreat center. Our friend and photographer Marie Labbancz worked her magic once again behind the camera to bring you these amazing and stunning shots!
One of the most unusual things about Elkins is the fact that you can actually host hundreds of people for a sit-down dinner within the estate itself – a true rarity among the stunning Pennsylvania estates that serve as venues for the areas most beautiful celebrations!
The foundation for this elaborate table design is a wrought iron structure with soft colorful fabric creating soft puddling and hanging birdcages. We’ve been thinking lately that creating a smaller romantic setting for two within the wedding reception would be perfect for a couple’s first dinner together on the evening of their wedding. And the Elkins Estate was, as you can see, the perfect place to implement this vision!
Rian of Eventions was the master behind the lighting and draping that brought out the magic of the entire design!
We absolutely love the floral arrangement by Beautiful Blooms created out of a birdcage with a beaded dragon fly accent (from the personal collection of Donna from Beautiful Blooms) and filled with lush Alaskan pink peonies, early season virburnum berry, yellow roses and butterfly asclepius.
Our couple’s table was decorated with a painted martini glass from Anthropologie, Michael Weems’ green etched wine glasses, vintage plates and Anthropologie bowls.
Notice the charming monogrammed votive candle from Eclatante’s Boutique placed at the couple’s placesettings.
And how absolutely fabulous is the bridal gown by designer Kenneth Pool, thanks to Jennifer’s Bridal in Wilmington, Delaware! Our gorgeous model, Paula, was styled beautifully by Claudia Seyler of Claudia Seyler Hair and Makeup. Claudia also provided the exquisite jewelry including this perfectly suited dangling drop bracelet and headband.
As you can see, Claudia is a pure genius at what she does! She also did a beautiful job of creating the perfect soft, flowing hairstyle and subtle makeup as the perfect look for this month’s story creation.
Our bride carried a beautiful hand tied bouquet of Alaskan pink peonies and early season virburnum berry expertly created by, of course, Beautiful Blooms!
Next up: our breathtaking September color story of rich deep purple and yellow!
In the heat of summer, we discovered a beautiful and peaceful retreat in the shade nestled in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania where we could drink cold lemonade and sweet iced tea and sit outside with great friends to celebrate one of life’s most important and beautiful rituals.
Reminiscent of the way things are done in the south, we brought in the illusion of cool temperatures with a blend of blues, silver and white to cool things down just a teeny bit.
Our wonderful team came together to create an absolutely beautiful, tasteful and classic celebration at the enchanting Elkins Estate which sits on 42 acres of graceful rolling hills among beautiful ponds and a tranquil retreat center.
Photo from Elkins Estate Website
Photo from Elkins Estate website
Once again, our praise and thanks go out to Marie Labbancz, our wonderful friend and photographer who photographed this color story with her usual love and incredible gift of capturing exactly what makes each celebration unique and beautiful!
The story begins with the classic and tiny details reminiscent of the great parties hosted by gracious hosts back when Elkins Estate was built in the 1890s. An acute attention (and love of ) the “little things” takes this celebration to a whole new level.
We LOVED this beautiful table and benches, place settings and linen provided by Party Rentals, Ltd. These were the foundation of an incredible summer table!
Rian, the go-to lighting guy from Eventions caught our vision perfectly when he hung these great rustic tin stars from the wooden trellis above our dinner table.
The table was very tastefully decorated with centerpieces artfully created by the incredibly talented team at Beautiful Blooms. The large, hand-wrapped moss balls you see here placed on top of tall cut crystal vases were wrapped in silver bullion wire. Miniature white cymbidium orchids and cobalt blue delphinium florets were also attached to the silver bullion wire and strung from the large moss balls. Also adorning the table were floret-size moss balls with crystal accents and gorgeous candleholders embedded with crystals provided by Beautiful Blooms.
We incorporated the truly gracious details of times gone by (that we’d LOVE to see returned on the hospitable tables of hosts everywhere!) These knife rests and salt cellars are classic and beautiful – guests are truly captivated by elements they may never have seen before. But then, the blue and white chopsticks tucked into the napkins require no explanation. All of these little elements are available at the Eclatante Boutique.
We also added a lovely vintage pewter two-tiered tray so that guests would have sweets at their fingertips all evening long. And favors are presented to guests in very interesting and beautiful oragami paper boxes. (The tray and the favor boxes are also available at the Eclatante Boutique.)
Now, take a look at Paula who was beautifully styled by Claudia Seyler (of Claudia Seyler Beauty). Claudia chose the perfect gown (by Manuel Moto of the Pronovias Collection) from Jennifer’s Bridal in Hockessin, Delaware, then created a look with her dress, hair and makeup that was not only stunning, but perfectly suited for the occasion! Finally, Beautiful Blooms created a lovely floral head-ring from moss, clear crystals and blue delphinium blooms.
Our beautiful bride carried a truly unique hand-wired bouquet of white mini-cymbidium orchids, blue delphinium orchids intertwined with moss loops, silver wire and clear crystals.
Stay tuned! Our August color story is coming soon and it’s gorgeous!
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.
. . . Spring is almost here! We can’t think of a better way to celebrate than to present our enchanting April Color Story created out of hues of Robin’s Egg Blue, White & Pink.
Welcome to the first wedding of Spring!
The absolutely adorable “City Garden” of the Please Touch Museum provided the perfect backdrop for our beautiful spring wedding. And, of course, the incredible talent of Marie Labbancz made it possible for us to bring the best of our work to you.
Bill and Donna of Beautiful Blooms really outdid themselves with the very pretty arrangements of tulips, peonies, hydrangea and pink quince in luscious white milk glass containers and white cylinder vases.
We found perfect paper mache robin’s eggs on Etsy, which became very charming additions to the table nestled in nesting straw in milk glass containers.
The boys of VU- Events hung a lovely blue birdcage and metal lanterns and mini painted lampshades from Anthropologie, along with providing exactly the right lighting for our beautiful table.
Two Paper Dolls came through for us beautifully – as always – by creating the perfect invitations to the first wedding of Spring!
The linens were just exactly what the table called for, thanks to The Total Table. And the beautiful place settings were provided by Party Rentals Ltd.
We just adore the bridesmaid’s gown Mary Helen Ranieri (owner of Suky Occasions) styled for our wedding. Claudia Seyler (Claudia Seyler Beauty) styled Oksana perfectly with exactly the right hairstyle, makeup – and amazing jewelry.
And just look at that amazing bouquet created by Bill at Beautiful Blooms.
David Robison, Max & Me Catering’s Executive Chef and Theresa Linskey, the Sous Chef, prepared a divine feast complete with blue margaritas!!!
We hope you’ve enjoyed our April Color Story as much as the whole team enjoyed bringing it to you! Stay tuned for our next installment!
The inspiration for our March Color Story was my own wedding, which happened a few years ago in late March. I’m still thrilled with the colors we chose, but, of course, new twists and turns are part of everything Eclatante does. So, here we go with what I believe is one of our most beautiful color stories ever!
The venue for our March Color Story was the absolutely enchanting Carousel Room at the Please Touch Museum. We all had such a great time in there (how could we not? It’s a real carousel!). (These two photos are courtesy of the Please Touch Museum.)
So, with this as our backdrop, we brought in an amazing team of professionals who, together, worked and played so well until the way-late at night to bring you this month’s color story. We were, again, truly fortunate to have Marie Labbancz photograph our story so that you can see just how beautiful it was!
The drop-dead gorgeous wedding gown (designed by Monique Lhuillier) and the adorable short lace party dress Oksana was wearing were delivered and styled by Mary Helen Ranieri, the owner Suky Occasions. Claudia Seyler (Claudia Seyler Beauty) created the absolutely perfect look for Oksana, our beautiful model.
Bill and Donna of Beautiful Blooms were the ultimate perfectionists creating their gorgeous florals that adorned this fantasy perfectly. The centerpiece consisted of three vases wrapped in white lace paper filled with a mixed arrangement of purple hydrangea, deep plum tulips, blue curiosa roses, purple double lisianthus and muscari. At the base of the vases were smaller vases with lace accents filled with muscari. The whole table was accented with navy blue skinny taper candles.
Two Paper Dolls masterfully stepped up to the plate with gorgeous periwinkle and white lace table numbers and seating cards – absolutely perfectly suited for our story. They always get it right!
The beautiful finishing touches, including all the elegant table top pieces, and those amazing “ghost chairs” by Party Rentals Ltd. and the wonderful and perfectly coordinated linens from The Total Table – made this Color Story absolutely flawless.
Another captivating detail were the multiple streams of periwinkle satin ribbon painstakingly hung by VU- Events, who also did a fantastic job of lighting our beautiful table.
Beautiful Blooms created a lovely hand-tied bouquet of lavender hyacinths, blue curiosa roses and purple double lisianthus with a lace ribbon detail on the bouquet.
Finally, the food and wine were nothing short of phenomenal — created and beautifully presented by the chefs at Max & Me Catering. David Robison, Max and Me’s Executive Chef and Theresa Linskey, the Sous Chef, prepared a feast of Seared Foie Gras with Ginger Cassis Sauce and Silky Onion Puree. Unbelievable!
We hope you’ve enjoyed our March Color Story as much as the whole team enjoyed bringing it to you!
Stay tuned for our April Color Story – another stunner!
When we think of February, our next thought is, naturally, Valentine’s Day. And our favorite February parties are the bridal showers and girls’ soirees we get to throw for our brides with upcoming weddings. So, this month, for our fantasy party, we decided that our color story would be hot and cold running PINK!
Color Palette
Inspiration Board
The team totally outdid themselves this time! And, once again, our praise and thanks go out to Marie Labbancz, our wonderful friend and photographer. It is truly rewarding to see one’s work so perfectly captured.
We shot this gorgeous color story at the enchanting Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park.
(The Septa bus Oksana is exiting from is actually part of the
“Roadside Attractions” exhibit!)
Now, let me tell you how our February story begins – paper flowers. I’ve wanted to have a party with paper flowers forever. So, Beautiful Blooms indulged me and created these really pretty flowers out of white iridescent and soft pink paper that we strung from strands of peach and white pearls over the table. Vic and the boys from VU-Events masterfully hung all the paper flowers and lit our pretty pink table perfectly!
For the centerpiece, Beautiful Blooms filled apothecary jars with layers of rose petals, hydrangea petals, light pink cut glass, white sand, dried ivory roses and pearls. They also filed glass vases with swirled pearls and floating candles. Light pink tapers in footed candleholders completed the centerpieces perfectly.
The gorgeous linens came from our friends at The Total Table. The darling favor boxes were created by our favorite geniuses at Two Paper Dolls. We filled them with a mix of Good & Plenty, Hershey’s Kisses and a variety of pink and ivory candies from The Lil’ Candy Shoppe in Northern Liberties. And the stunning place settings (notice the great glassware), table and chairs came from Party Rentals, Ltd.
Max and Me Catering did a fantastic job of of coming up with food and drink that was coordinated perfectly with the décor. Just look at those irresistible cosmos and glasses of pink champagne and wonderful white wine. They also created a beautiful entrée of Diver Scallops with a Celery Root Puree and Citrus Beurre Blanc. Our kudos to David Robison, Max and Me’s Executive Chef and Theresa Linskey, the Sous Chef. The Girls Only Party was not only gorgeous, it was also incredibly yummy!
Mary Helen Raneiri, the owner of Suky Occasions came by and styled Oksana in a scrumptious pink party dress. Claudia Seyler of Claudia Seyler Beauty did a fantastic job on Osaka’s hair and makeup. Beautiful Blooms created the perfect nosegay of peach spray roses with pearl accents for our guest of honor.
One of our favorite things to do is to design and execute photo shoots. You may have seen the results of many of them – sometimes we do them by request from specific magazines, like when the Knot asked us to create a table for a blue, green & yellow wedding:
Or when we created tablescapes for the Bride & Bloom Magazine:
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we’ve been doing something new. Every three months, we put together a team of the best professionals in Philadelphia to help us execute our designs of three fantasy celebrations we call “Monthly Color Stories” that Marie Labbancz captures in a day-long (or night-long as the case may be) photo shoot. If you haven’t seen them already, you should check out November’s, December’s, and January’s Color Stories.
On Tuesday, January 13th, we shot three of these color stories at the Please Touch Museum. I thought you might like to see a little bit of what goes into setting up a photo shoot. And, as an added bonus, here are some of the people you’ve heard about in our blog. We thought you might want to see them at work (and play).
Here’s our gorgeous friend Claudia Seyler (of Claudia Seyler Beauty) preparing our perfect model, Oksana, for the next several hours. Just wait ’til you see the amazing dresses and gowns Mary Helen Ranieri of Suky Occasions provided for this shoot (and styled). STUNNING!!!
Meet Vic and his guys (Bill and Eric) from VU Events. There’s Bill on the ladder (as usual). Donna (from Beautiful Blooms) and I are sitting at the table folding napkins or something. Maybe fixing the super-skinny candles that would simply NOT cooperate!
We couldn’t resist playing around with the toys all over Please Touch Museum. The beauty of this place is that there’s nothing there you can’t play with! All the fairy tales and fantasies of youth are right there.
That’s me and Scott Swiger of Max & Me Catering on the left, and Donna O’Brien and Bill Schaeffer of Beautiful Blooms on the right.
Eric (who took all these pictures) of VU Events had the most fun of all, I think!
And Vic, in a rather typical posture.
The Max & Me chefs were AMAZING…David Robison, Max & Me’s Executive Chef and Theresa Linskey, Max & Me’s Sous Chef were total perfectionists and took every detail to heart. I was blown away by these guys!
And here is Vic again (and yes, that’s a bus in the middle of the museum). You really should visit the Please Touch Museum — it’s a magical experience (at any age)!
And now for my favorite picture — here’s Marie Labbancz (of Marie Labbancz Photography). You can see she was not thrilled with being on the other end of the camera! In fact, this picture was actually the inspiration for the title of this blog entry (which I thought was a little better than “I’m going to kill Kendall,” which very well may have been the perfect caption for this picture).
Stay tuned for the real results. Marie’s photos of the February Color Story are coming soon! Rumor has it they are absolutely amazing. Personally, I can hardly wait to see them!
Our brides and their moms agree – most of the time – on the vision for the look of their upcoming wedding. But sometimes the very best looks are born when the two have ideas that don’t exactly “square” up. Here, we’ve taken very traditional colors – gold and silver – and created a clean, modern celebration. This way, the traditional mom and the modern bride can each have their wish!
The color palette
The inspiration board
Our inspiration was the very interesting work of Piet Mondrian — a waaaaaayyy-ahead-of-his-time artist whose designs consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal lines and the use of primary colors. You might recognize this canvas he created:
We had a great team come together to implement the design for our story. And here are the gorgeous results (as captured by our amazingly talented photographer & close friend, Marie Labbancz).
The F.U.E.L. House was truly the perfect blend of traditional and modern to host this very chic January wedding. VU-Events hung all the drapery and gave us amazing lighting. Total Table provided the gorgeous gold table runners and Party Rentals Ltd provided the perfect tables, chairs and place settings.
Beautiful Blooms‘ elegant etched candle holders sitting on the mantle of the fireplace is one of those perfect details that set a wedding apart from all others.
And Two Paper Dolls created the perfect touch — menus and table numbers designed around Mondrian’s art.
And now for the Yummy part! Feastivities created a SCRUMPTIOUS dessert for our January story: white and dark chocolate raspberry napoleon with raspberry coulis and pistachios.
Thanks go out to everyone who helped us put together this stunning January wedding. Stay tuned for February’s color story – we have very cool surprises in store!
We love the holidays! So, rather than fight the wonderful colors of winter and gem stones that work perfectly in front of a fireplace, for DECEMBER’S COLOR STORY, we decided to play right into winter’s arms and create a gorgeous Sapphire and Silver party that would put a twinkle in everyone’s eyes!
The Color Palette
The Inspiration Board
The Stunning Results
(as captured masterfully by Marie Labbancz)
Again, the F.U.E.L. House provided the perfect backdrop for December’s fantasy party.
VU-Events hung the gorgeous blue velvet drapes and set the enchantment with amazing lighting. The scroll gobo projected against the bench wall was a great dramatic touch. Total Table provided the super-rich blue linens and Party Rentals Ltd provided the perfect glassware and gorgeous dupioni silk pillows.
We LOVE Beautiful Blooms’ wonderful floral tie-backs made from ivory roses, peonies and navy cut crystals button accents for a regal accent.
The midnight magic was created by candles glowing from beautifully coordinated blue votive cuts and etched footed glass candleholders with sprinkled Swaroski crystals placed on mirrors.
Finally, Feastivites knew exactly what would warm our guests on a cold December night: Kir Royal (Champagne with Cassis), Accented with Golden Spun Shard Garnish on Glass
There’s no use fighting it with pastels – November was created for great rich and interesting colors. And lately, we’ve been craving plums. So Eclatante imagined a wonderful color palette and designed a fantasy table party perfectly suited for a cool and brilliant November celebration.
After creating our color palette,
we came up with our inspiration board:
Once we lined up the perfect home for our photo shoot – the classically modern F.U.E.L. House in Philadelphia — Eclatante could start the design process in earnest.
Our first idea was to design widthwise table runners to be made out of paper. Our dear and talented friends at Two Paper Dolls created these awesome paisley table runners (with color-opposing table numbers) that were perfectly matched with the gorgeous plum linens we found at Wild Flower Linens. We found just the right coordinating glass chargers and tinted flutes at Party Rentals Ltd. The masters at VU-Events flawlessly executed our drapery and lighting design.
Finally, Beautiful Blooms’ amazing floral design: The centerpiece of the table is a vintage green glass container with a dome design of sterling roses intertwined with a cage of plum calla lilies. Green glass rectangle vases are filled with a pave of purple anemones and aqua glass bud vases filled with stems of magenta phalenopsis orchids. Every napkin is accented with a single orchid bloom.
We were thrilled when Feastivities came up with the perfect entrée for a fabulous November party — pan-seared duck breast with olives, braised plum tomatoes and grilled asparagus. YUM.
And the whole thing was expertly captured by the amazing photographer – Marie Labbancz. She is such a genius!
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