Earlier today, Crave Los Angeles featured the kindest little blurb about Lauryl Lane designs on their blog! You can check it out {here}.
Thanks, Crave!
Wedding at Oak Canyon Nature Center
When Kristin & Brandon said that they wanted to do something really different, they had me hook, line and sinker. I LIVE for clients who want to push the envelope. The suggestion of raw cotton sealed the deal for me. All of us have worked in the wedding industry for years and had never seen raw cotton used before. We knew it would be unique, but we had no idea we'd be starting such a trend!
For Kristin's bouquet, I wanted something rustic, funky, and still incredibly happy... to suit Kristin's aesthetic and her personality. I used raw cotton, balsa wood flowers, lily pods, green berzillia berries, silver brunia, eucalyptus pods, astrantia rosea, and lots of dusty miller along with other assorted sticks and pods. I finished the bouquet off with a wrap of burlap and raw cotton puffs adhered with wrapped twine.
The pièce de résistance of the ceremony were the many, many, many feet of raw cotton, strung on monofiliment wire and suspended high along the aisle way. Kristin & Brandon & I came up with this idea during our initial consultation, and it really defined the aesthetic for the rest of the wedding decor. I won't tell you how many hours I spent stringing the cotton... but each piece had to be pierced twice in criss-crossing directions (to actually hold the four "puffs" of cotton onto the pod) and tied off with a double knot to hold it in place. I strung several hundred cotton balls and it took me about three weeks of stringing off-and-on in the studio to get it all done. I also hung strung cotton from the wooden arbor that served as the backdrop for the ceremony.
At the reception (held in the tented backyard of a private residence), I decorated the massive head table with an utterly amazing tablescape. The other guest tables had burlap runners with alternating bud vases filled with different types of flowers and twigs, and mini mason jars with candles. There was seriously something different to look at every where you turned.
Kristin and Brandon, I wish you a lifetime of happiness together.
CREDITS | Photography: Jasmine Star | Floral Design & Styling: Lauryl Lane | Coordination: Red Velvet Occasions | Desserts: Sweet and Saucy Shop | DJ: Atmosphere DJ | Videography: Shade Tree Films.
Golden Corn Bread
1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar (or 1/8 cup honey) if desired
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup oil (we usually use about 1/3 to make it moister)
Combine dry ingredients, add rest of ingredients and beat well. Bake in greased 8" pan at 425 for 20 minutes.
Wedding at Cypress Sea Cove
Sunshine and Gary were first wed at Burningman, but what a delight to design their formal wedding for them! I loved getting to know them and tailoring their floral decor to suit their personalities. It was particularly special to decorate the archway knowing that it had been designed and built by the groom. We went with a palette of white, green and yellow for the ceremony and then added in lots of vibrant color for the reception: reds, pinks, oranges! There were wooden boxes, lots of fresh moss, and tiny sea shell details. Every moment of this day was beautiful, elegant, and full of love.
CREDITS | Photography: Ryan Phillips Photography | Florals & Decor: Lauryl Lane | Planning: Avesta Carrara | Venue: Cypress Sea Cove, Malibu.
FEATURED | Grey Likes Weddings.
Hip Hip Hooray!
I finally got Samuel switched over to my auto insurance, and took out a renter's insurance policy so all of our "stuff" is covered! I feel terribly grown up now.
A long way from this, eh? Ah, how sweet it must have been though, having not a care in the world. Never needing to think about money or insurance or really anything else. Not caring that my thighs were so huge.
Perhaps my Mother should have been thinking about not letting me eat batteries instead of taking pictures, though...
Damn, I was cute!
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Baby!!
2/1/2006 2:49 PM chix0rgirl (message) block delete reply
Ya wanna banner?
2/2/2006 4:54 PM chix0rgirl (message) block delete reply
'Ey, IM me - I'm online. chix0rgirl
2/2/2006 7:15 PM chix0rgirl (message) block delete reply
Icky.
Periods are stupid. I skipped mine last month since it was wedding/honeymoon time, and now I'm wondering why I don't just skip it all the time. It would make the BC pills more expensive because a month's worth would only last three weeks, but... anyway, I feel crampy and sluggish and a bit miserable today.
I decided to visit The Crossings for the first time in awhile, and realized that I could get access to the Married Couples and Married Women forums... it was a bit traumatizing, actually. For some reason, I could joke and talk about sex in detail easily before I got married... now it seems like a breach of trust. I don't understand why... sex-wise, nothing has changed... but now that he's my husband it seems a bit more sacred and sharing all the "details" with my girlfriends seems wrong. Well, the Xings couples apparently think it's the only thing TO talk about. I just learned so many things that I didn't want to know about so many people... even one of my girlfriends, who I would have LOVED to talk to about sex, but she's never said a thing about it (I know she was a virgin when she got married)... and now her husband has posted all this stuff online... and I'm just a bit grossed out. So, I don't think I'll be going back to the Xings for awhile. I just don't want to know that much information, thank you. Especially from/about people who think that having sex before marriage is evil and wrong and then have such an incredibly flippant attitude about it after they get married. I suppose it also has something to do with posting it up on the internet. Sharing sex stories can be funny in person, with close friends, but I don't want the whole world reading about my sex life, thank you very much.
Okay. Whatever.
[edit: i'm not saying it's a bad thing to be a virgin when you get married... it's just the holier-than-thou attitude that i despise. i don't understand how signing a marriage license can make a difference... and i think it's weird that so many of these gals think sex is a dirty word before marriage, but feel free to share every intimate detail after marriage. for me (and most of my friends) it's been the opposite... sexual escapades are fun and amusing and worth talking about when you are single and living it up... once you are married and have made a life-long vow to only have sex with one person for the rest of your life, there seems like there's an unwritten vow that your sexual experiences will be sacred, spiritual, and personal-- INTIMACY. "intimate" doesn't mean something you write about in detail on the internet. seriously.]
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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Walk on Pt.1
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Icky.
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Hahahaha you gotta realize, doll, that for some people all they've got goin' is mediocre lukewarm sex to talk about. XD Yeah, I don't get why their desperation to make sure we all know they're getting some. At this point sex is kinda something fun to poke a bit of good-natured fun about (for me), but I really don't like it, yeah, when people go into too much detail. It's like being invited against your will to view them on mental webcam. None of them are pretty sights.
2/1/2006 2:49 PM chix0rgirl (message) block delete reply
Exactly! It's like, ewwww, I SO did not need that mental image. Gross me OUT.
2/1/2006 3:28 PM lauryllane (message) delete reply
ewy! ati people talking about sex! please no.
2/1/2006 6:09 PM xgollyxsandrax (message) block delete reply
Do they do it, or do storks really exist?
2/1/2006 7:16 PM chix0rgirl (message) block delete reply
If you go on nuvaring you only replace it once per month and you can skip your periods. I did that for two years :)
2/3/2006 5:49 AM niffmarie (message) block delete reply
Oh, and btw, I think at least some of the sex talk is for girls who were virgins when they got married and don't know what to do afterwards. :\
But actually I agree. For a while it seemed ok, but then over the past year I've definitely been skipping the TMI posts. lol. I don't want the mental image. Didn't need to know that. :)
2/3/2006 5:52 AM niffmarie (message) block delete reply