I love when I get to see the official photographer's photos......especially from this amazing art deco jewish wedding at The Four Seaons, Boston. Just had to share photos and a few words from my friends at Snap Photography. Thank you guys, amazing work!!!
It’s not every day that we suggest to the bride that we would like to take a portrait of her in the powder room. but then again, we don’t always find ourselves in such pretty powder rooms, thank you four seasons! i absolutely love the photo of jolie perched on the couch, she looks too lovely to be real. jolie and gio allowed plenty of time for photos so we were able to take advantage of all the fun furniture, art, and architecture of the hotel. thank you jolie and gio! i love the glamorous evening hotel weddings, everything is so sparkly and dramatic. speaking of dramatic, jolie’s stunning bouquet, florals, and event design were done by chad michael peters. how cool is the entry way for the ceremony processional? talk about setting the stage. coming up next in post 3? reception details galore and lots and lots of dancing!
Settling in to my sketch pad for me is a great escape. I can put all my worries in this world at bay for hours as I sit, visualize and start the design process of a gorgeous wedding. The past couple of days I have been working and working on the design for Tess and Erik's springtime Bermuda wedding. God, I got so close the day before yesterday until I started to draw the grooms face and head. Oh boy, that sketch was ruined. I could have done some Photoshop magic, but the process I like to keep a bit more pure than that. So with that practice under my belt, I was able to hit the pad again and to work on the "finished" sketch for this project. My bride is in love the color of the water in Bermuda. How could you not be ? It is a rare turquoise that I have not seen in my many travels to warmer weather. It is a perfect inspiration to this fun and elegant destination wedding. I chose to fill in the back of my sketch digitally and of course I just had to get the perfect shade of Bermuda pink to compliment the details. It seems that everything at The Fairmont Bermuda is Pink, for a gay guy it does not get much better than sippin' swizzles under a pink and white stripped umbrella. That is mostly a fantasy, like the sketch I guess. I know that I will be running all around, and of course taking the trolley, to make sure that everything that we have planned and designed is perfect!! With a design map in place, we can get to work on the Save the Dates and finding a perfect bow and pearl necklace for the ducks.
I LOVE the work of Person and Killian and just had to share with you a blog posting that came along this morning.....
We were delighted when our dear friend Chad Michael Peters referred his wedding clients Laura & Bob to us! The couple ended up booking Person + Killian Photography over the phone and Lauren had the pleasure of meeting them for the first time last Sunday.
The second Lauren met the couple they instantly clicked. Laura & Bob were sweet, funny and very cute together! Much like all of our clients, Laura & Bob feel in love with our candid approach to photography and wanted to make sure their engagement pictures had the same feel. So, with glasses of champagne in hand, we set off to capture their beautiful Cape Cod engagement photography.
Lucky for Lauren, she got a sneak peek of the couples tasting and table presentation with Chad Michael Peters. Their wedding will take place this September at one of our favorite Cape Cod venues, The Chatham Bars Inn. We are always in awe by the beautiful work of CMP and this time was no exception. The gorgeous presentation was filled with a mix of glass, crystal and antique silver trays and was certainly a Chad Michael Peters signature design.
A Big thank you to Chad for introducing us to this fantastic couple and to Laura & Bob for being a fan of our work and trusting us to document such an important day in your lives. See you in September!
This post was written by Lauren M. Killian on May 20th 2010 and is filed under Cape Cod wedding Photographers, Cape Cod engagement sessions, Chatham Bars Inn Wedding, Cape Cod - Chatham Ma wedding venues
When I was a little boy, I dreamed of gorgeous parties and girls in romantic dresses. Glittering candles would light up the ballroom of a five star hotel where guests waited anxiously for the bride and groom to make their entrance and to dance their first dance as husband and wife.
That dream came true this New Year's Eve at the incredible Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The wedding of Brian and Sarah took place with romance, excitement and anticipation against the magical backdrop of historic Boston frosted with snow. The Hearn family, gathered in a suite at the hotel each one of them looking beautiful, dashing and sophisticated, just like their daughter and sister, Sarah, the bride.
I had a chance to talk with Mr. Hearn, who reminisced about his family and their time in Boston as he looked out the window of the suite into a winter wonderland. He was so excited to see his second daughter married and to have each of his ten brothers and sisters with him to celebrate this First Night.
We made our way along with wedding party to the church in Wellesley where Brian and Sarah were married in a candle lit ceremony. My company's transportation services were in full gear and on high alert as we shuttled the guests, the wedding party and the parents from the hotel in the city on roads that were icy and covered with snow. I have to admit I was nervous for all of these people to be out and about with the weather as bad as it was. In the end, the timing, the service of my staff and the staff of the hotel, the church, everyone and everything was just flawless.
I was happy to have everyone back to the hotel safely so we could capture the romance in the formal portraits for the bride and groom. I have to say, the photo of Sarah and Brian in front of the chandelier at the hotel, is amazing, regal almost.
The ballroom at The Four Seasons glittered filled with candles, crystal and mercury glass. The flowers, modern and romantic at the same time came to life from the sketchthat I had first presented to the bride and groom. Sarah, the bride attended culinary school in Paris, so it was no surprise that the menu served to her guests would be sophisticated and pure bliss to the palette. I had the salmon with baby root vegetables in cream sauce......magnifique! To finish the evening a personal friend of the bride made her cake. A mountain of cake, filled with creme' anglaise and covered with coconut shavings. As I stood close to the cake my senses were on overload and my mouth was literally watering from the heavenly scent of the cake.
So many people ask how I am able to do all of the things that I do. I don't know the answer, but do know that I would not be able to do it with out the help of my own staff and the staff of the fine hotels and resorts where I am lucky enough to work. With this wedding I added a little something extra with my Flip Video coverage of certain parts of the night. It is nearly impossible to view the night from behind the camera and flip phone, but in the end I am so glad that I captured the snow falling and special insights into the day.
My love of flowers continues to grow. I want each wedding to be unique, sumptous and to reflect the taste of the bride and the groom. Of course, I love white flowers, the headier the better. To come in from the cold to the warm candles and heavely scent of gardenia is an experience that I will never be able to do justice to with words.
In looking at the photos I love the mercury and silver and stark white of the vases that I chose. It immediately makes me think of winter and now will forever remind me of this very special New Year's Eve.
As midnight approached the waiters and butlers at the hotel passed out hats, tiaras and noise makers to all the guests, so perfect in white and silver. I have to specially thank my friend Lois, the mother of the bride when she so proudly had told me that she had gone out and gotten all of the favors for the celebration.....all in black, not so good for the color palette that I had been working on for the bride. No sweat for this professional mother of the bride, she happily returned all of them to get the silver and white that I was looking for. In the end, it makes for stunning photos so I am so happy that she did this for her daughter. Thank you Lois.
My assistant and I gathered all of the guests to the dance floor for the "countdown". They all looked so elegant in their eveing clothes and tuxedos, really a surreal look. Five, Four, Three, Two, One.....and the bride and groom kissed, champagne glasses in hand and love in their eyes. Bravo!
A very special thanks to the entire Hearn Family, you could not have been nicer or more gracious. Second to Sarah Kovel at The Four Seasons Hotel for her amazing attention to detail and natural grace. Third to my first cousin, one of my best friends and photography assistant, Misty. I love you, your work is amazing and I am happy to have you work with me on these most amazing weddings. Last but not least to my unflappable assistant Bethany, the rest of my floral and planning staff and my boys on the transport home front, Thank you, thank you.
Happy New Year everyone. Brian and Sarah, this night will be the most special for the rest of your lives. I will never be able to forget just how gorgeous you both were in the romance of the evening. Thank you for having me and my company be part of the memory.
"Who doesn't like being greeted by a handsome red-coated doorman outside our own little Versailles ? I love that the hotel has many different venue options, from the stately wood panelled oak room, to the Oval room, with it's gorgeous trompe l'oeil cloud ceiling, to the absolute majesty of the Grand Ballroom. J'Adore."
There is nothing better then to hear that your work is being featured in an editorial for a bridal magazine. The newest issue of Boston Weddings is featuring the wedding that I designed. I was thrilled to also work with Lauren from Person and Killian for the producers of The Bachelor, on this project named "Hitched or Ditched". There was as much drama in the production of this wedding as there was in the episode which aired with the title " Cheater in Beantown". In the end I love the coverage and still think that Anissa, the bride was one of the prettiest to walk down a CMP aisle in a long time. Thank you Fairmont Copley, give Katie Copley a pat on the head for me.
Wedding planners and designers spend a lot of time on the phone. It seems to me that I start at seven or so in the morning and I can still be chatting away at ten or eleven with clients from across the country. So much of my time on the phone is spent multi tasking and drawing away the thoughts that are in my head for projects that I am working on, or just sometimes, fantasy sketches for dresses and flowers that I am conceptualizing.
I thought that you might like to see one of the dresses that I drew this morning. I love the flouncing, linear detail to the styling of the dress. Of course every great bride's dress has to have a stunner of a bridesmaid dress, so I took the some of the detailing of the bride's dress as inspiration, cut the hem a little shorter and added a flounce floral detail as straps to this cute empire cut.
It has been a busy few weeks here in my studio and offices. I always want to be on top of getting out the gorgeous photos from the weddings and parties that I work on, so you too can see how amazing some of these details are, sometimes writing the stories that go behind the photos comes a few weeks after.
I got the great chance to work with long time Rochester friends on the wedding of Mary and Barrett. It was so fun over the course of the year and a half planning out her details such as flowers, and menu, chit chatting about this escort card style and what type of table numbers should be laid out for the guests. As a wedding planner I always want the details to be beautiful AND reflect the personalities of the bride, her family and the groom. This wedding was just that. With a love for sailing and a backdrop of the Beverly Yacht Club and the groom's amazing sailboat as a backdrop for formal pictures it just all came together so amazingly well.
I first want to thank not only the staff on our floral and decor team but also our ever faithful staff at CMP transport and their late night efforts to get the bride's guests home safely. We rolled out the vintage Rolls Royce to transport the bride and the groom, a shiny ten passenger limo for the wedding party and our shiny town car for the parent of the bride. Seamless, effortless and gracious service. Thank you CMP Transport.
Of course it goes so well because of the incredible vendors that are involved with such an event. It was so my pleasure to call on Russ Morin and his fine team to deliver a world class meal by world class staff and the cake, the cake that they baked was literally one of the best morsels of food that I have ever had in my mouth.
And last but certainly not least to Lauren from Person and Killian Photography. Her photos which are showcased here in this story are just amazing. The weather was not working with us that day but she managed to get the photos out on the boat for the bride and did so with amazing work. She and I had such a good time chit chatting and styling bridal bouquet photos in the house while we were waiting to send the bride off to the church to be married.
Planning a destination wedding is a dream come true. To do it again in Provincetown, Massachusetts was just thrilling. I knew that it would be beautiful. I just wondered what might pop up in this artsy, east- coast gay community. When Dottie, Julie and I started planning this wedding, we knew that the disco chic vibe would be perfect at the famed Crown and Anchor Resort.
We all felt strongly that if we were going to show off P-Town, we were going to do it in a way that have never been done before.
The weekend started for the guests on Thursday with a welcoming dinner at a local restaurant. From there, Friday night's rehearsal dinner showed off the best of the area, the local seafood, with a lobster bake for family and friends.
Saturday night was the night that all the stops were pulled out.
This was all about two ladies and a celebration of love, happiness, family and fun, all with a disco vibe. We had started working a year ago to make sure that the disco vibe, was still pretty. I am excited to see my original sketch of the two gals and to see it against the finished work of their wedding. I could see it in my head all along, drop dead gorgeous, disco fabu.
The brides chose the Crown and Anchor to host their ceremony and reception. Famed for their drag performances, this club brings world class to campy entertainment. Of course, we could not have a wedding there with out surprising the bride's guests. Cher (Thirsty Burlington) stole the show in her stunning Mackie inspired gown and showstopper performance of Sonny and Cher's "I got you babe". She was amazingly gracious as Cher and really brought that 70's glamorous, anything goes, feel to the party.
The room looked so amazing with bold, bright summery colors. With the modern clear chairs and disco lighting touches. We could have been in any major nightclub around the world. Just short of coming in like Bianca Jager and famed stories from the heyday of Studio 54, these ladies gave their guests an amazing night that I am sure they will be talking about for years to come.
OMG, we had so much fun shopping for the dresses that made up the "outfit change" portion of the celebration. When you are a disco diva, you change to impress your guests. These dresses were to die for from the moment that we saw them. The guests went crazy and the party went to the next level the moment that these married gals made their grand re-entrance. Who would have known that Ms. Cher would end up inspiring the look to these dresses. I love that they are vintage, but look so today. Ladies, I told you that you would look stunning. GO Girls!
Of course there is no better way to end the evening than with a sweet treat. This double trouble bridesmaid looks stunning against the display of yummy pink candy. We had a blast when we got into Provincetown checking out the local penny candy displays in the stores. We got just the perfect blend of pink, orange and a touch of blue to carry out our color way. Love the pashmina and the hint of blue in the compostion.
Many thanks to Bryce Vickmark for his incredible photography of this world class wedding. His photos of Cher, the candy bar and the gals in thier disco frocks leave me wanting more. He has put together a slide show that will knock your socks off, to view it please click here. I am just in love with his photography and I am happy to call him a friend and a signature partner here at my creative firm, chad michael peters. I so look forward to working with him again soon !
I know best of class when I see it. Bryce Vickmark brings his own style to world class photography. His amazing eye and ability to capture light and emotion has left me speechless. I am so very proud to announce that he has become a signature partner here at my creative firm, chad michael peters. It is with great pride that I give Bryce my CMP thumbs up, way up! He has put together a slide show of this fabulous wedding in Provincetown, Massachusetts. To view it please click here.
