Rustic travel:: Windale + Alma

Apparently I have lost my sanity by booking the California wedding and two weddings within two days upon touch down. With no time to nurse our jet lag and my euphoria over the California wedding which you can see here, we come home two days before these Saturday loveliness. I bought home apart from the lovely props you see in the following photos, a bottle of margarita to put me to sleep and sync my body clock to Philippine time. I shouldn't have bothered. There was no time to sleep and when it was doze off time, we didn't need help. Teehee!
And so of all craziness, we started out weekend with Windale and Alma's travel themed wedding in a rustic appeal.

I love love love my globe from the World Market. I was in doubt if it would fit my box and was relieved when the mister was able to disassemble it and let it fit in the box. Come to think of it, this travel themed wedding of Windale and Alma is very close to our hearts. Most of the things we used were acquired from our previous travels. The plane, globe, luggages, crates, W+A, lanterns, writing boards? Yay!

And before I go on and on about us, the couple are actually travellers. The groom sails while the bride flies. A fish and a bird? Teehee? Well you can put it that way. Hmmmnnn... no wonder they had this theme.

My black wooden globe has to be my loveliest find on our recent trip. 

Map wrapped glass vases and paper airplanes. Sigh!

Congratulations Windale and Alma, wishing you lots of journeys together, sail the world and let your love fly you to great heights. Much love!

Casa Romantica is LOVE:: Erika + Phil

I am speechless beyond words with this wedding. It felt like and still feels like we are still on a roller coaster ride for this loveliness.

I already knew before then that we were just allowed two hours to ingress... That is for the ceremony and the reception. Gosh! You can only imagine how I feel prior to and while working on this. I insisted on having a YouHaul rented as my workspace. Ha! Ha! The pressure was on, escalating every minute. We just had to measure up for this wedding as the couple and their family are close to my heart. And for the fact that this was our first off shore.

The volume of flowers we had was overwhelming, the phalaenopsis and peonies were so crazy beautiful!






I asked why didn't we have foliage delivered, and the answer I got was that I use the hydrangeas as fillers! Right, as fillers! Can I go Californicacious and say gosh again? Gosh!











Those signs are actually very true. Phil is a surgeon while Erika is a lawyer. Yay! Power couple right there.






Did leave some sea shells in unexpected places which made the guests go crazy. Lovely!


























I found the one my heart loves... And for the moment that had to be my sparkling cider.
























That was a lovely input by the couple.











Very very lush arrangements as the sweetheart table's backdrop. As if the very picturesque Casa Romantica wasn't enough. Teehee!



Erika's bouquet was huge mix of peonies, dolce vitas, blush roses and gardenias. We just had to have the gardenias even if it meant the trouble. I now know why. Sigh!

And so in this side of the world, sore feet and all I just had to share this loveliness. What do you think of our first international event styling folks?

Venue:: Casa Romantica, San Clemente, California
Caterer:: Iva Lee's
Cake:: The Cake Boss
Floral and Event Styling:: Kit + Ace of Ava's Cakes
Mini cake favors :: Ava's Cakes
Coordination:: Courtney Clifford of Courtney Hellaine Events

Denmark in a day!

We went camping yesterday and of all surprises, I never expected it to include a lovely day in Denmark. Oops, I mean in a Danish community in Solvang, California.

Everything was so lovely, every nook and corner of the town was oozing with loveliness... And with that I can go on and on.


Yeah, we went out. I observed that Danish architecture had low ceilings. And the use of wood, bricks and ceramics were abundant. Their roofings were gorgeous.





My little one insisted we stop at the bookstore. Yay! All LEGO books in display. He wanted to bring them home, but then of course mommy had to say no.















The signs were all so Danish! And the phone booth? Sooo cute!


If I ever move in here, I could work here or open our own Ava's Cakes Solvang? What a dream! I actually have crazy dreams fueled by friends egging us to do so. Or with just telling us that what we do measures up with what they see in here. Yay! I feel loved.











Lovely place isn't it? Sigh! If it would have been closer, I'd seriously consider going back and scour all the stores in this little town. Another time perhaps.