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A Wedding Palette of Chartreuse and Choral

Our StrictlyWeddings.com partner, Jordan Payne, from Jordan Payne Events shared these photos from a recent wedding. She loved designing with a color palette of chartreuse and coral which, to her, spoke of the beautiful combination of summer warmth. The tones were carried from the bride’s Monolo’s to the flower girls wedding wand. It was an intimate affair of 50 guests held at the Joule Hotel in Dallas.

Photography: Thisbe Grace

Destination Weddings: Bayer Estate, Honolulu

Honolulu floral designer, Debbie Hemingway, created this romantic seaside dining canopy at the lovely Bayer Estate. The ocean-inspired scene was captured by the Hawaiian photographer Dave Miyamoto. Shown below are an intimate dining canopy using a distressed wood table, a rustic manzanita branch with Juliet peach roses, seashells, mother-of-pearl chargers, Dupioni silk napkins and a hanging capiz shell curtain. The chandelier and fabrics in sea glass blue add a shabby chic feel.

Source: Pacific Weddings

Wedding Cakes: Stunning Couture Cake Designs

StrictlyWeddings.com found these stunning custom designed cakes in our ongoing search for amazing wedding ideas. Created by The Caketress, Lori Hutchinson who creates beautiful one of kind cakes for her clients from Toronto, Muskoka, and to the Blue Mountain area and is dedicated to providing quality custom designed cakes that are entirely unique.

Might even be the reason to a different type of destination wedding!

The rich flavor of the three tier square cake below was an Opera Cake (top two) and the bottom was a Lemon Cake. Both favorites of the Bride and Groom. The delicate  piping was based on the lovely invitations the bride had choosen, and the falling pink blossoms and coral hydrangeas gave the right pop of colour for their elegant affair.

The bride loved the look of rustic rolled white chocolate for her golden wedding cake. This four tier oval golden cake needed to match the old world feel to her wedding decor. Filled with raspberries and white chocolate ganache, this cake screams decadence. Handed made sugar flowers, each uniquely painted in actual gold, finished this beautiful and delicious cake.

OMG … a Chocolate Lovers Dream

OMG … these photos are definitely over the top if you love chocolate! Today will have to be “break the diet day” and go for the chocolate! These luscious desserts are just a sampling of the creations you can find at Pure Chocolate Desserts by Zach, a unique and sophisticated brand of cakes and desserts in Dallas, Texas.

Zach Townsend’s relationship with superior chocolate began with his close friendship with Michel Jambon, founder of the European chocolate company, Jeff de Bruges. Through Monsieur Jambon, Zach cultivated his love of truly fine chocolate.  He complemented his self studies with courses in baking and chocolate at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, France and is a graduate of the Ecole Chocolat Professional School of Chocolate Arts.

Zach’s inspiration for his artisan creations come from a unique style of pastry design referred to as entremet, featuring multiple thin layers of flavors and textures. He loves to bring his experiences from France back to his clients through his creations.

For weddings, Zach does not do traditional wedding cakes or grooms cakes. Instead, as chocolatier, he creates a sophisticated presentation of unique dessert items, usually in small bites or individual slices, to replace or complement the traditional settings.

Zach was featured in 2009 by cookbook author and editor Tish Boyle in Dessert Professional Magazine and was the featured chocolatier at the 2009 10th annual Stephan Pyles Celebrity Chef Dinner administered by the Wine & Food Foundation of Texas. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times microblog on the topic of Cake.

Accessorize with Left Bank Jewelry

We’ve showcased Chicago’s Left Bank Jewelry vintage jewerly several times and just got these lovely new images from Susan taken by photographer Dawn E. Roscoe. Just something light and easy this Monday.