13 Mar
2012

Posted in: A Jubilee Event, Creative Photoshoots, Weddings
By Candice

Nautical Preppy Wedding Photoshoot in Essex, Connecticut for The Connecticut Bride

This past fall we had the fun opportunity to co-create and design a fun, summer editorial shoot for The Connecticut Bride Magazine. Having just come off our fashion obsession of nautical glam, we worked with our creative counterparts to design this fun, preppy, and dressed up version of nautical on the Connecticut shoreline! We worked in your traditional seaside color story– blues, reds and yellows– with a bit of sparkle, lots of stripes and a little kate spade. What I’m also excited about is half my summer accessories got incorporated into this gorgeousness! A huge thank you to our talented team who made the day so fun: Carla Ten Eyck, Beth Chapman, Datura: A Modern Garden, Dana Bartone & Company, A Little Imagination Cakes, Coral Pheasant Stationery + Design, and a HUGE thank you to our dear friend Rachel Edwards at Dreamscapes Design Group for not being just lovely and wonderful, but such a gracious hostess for the day!! An additional thank you to Alison Fischer of The Plumed Serpent in Westport for also participating in this shoot and lending her gorgeous gowns!

{ Dress: Coren Moore / Striped Top; Provided by Stylist / Bangles: Kate Spade / Lockets: Aquinnah for The White Dress by the shore / Wedges: Kate Spade / Anchor Handbag: Moyna / Location: The Griswold Inn / Paper Suite: Coral Pheasant }

I just love this first look– colored shoes, colored jewels, those lockets (! which we all immediately purchased on the spot from Aquinnah and all now proudly own, and hope to not wear all at the same time, accidentally), striped puffy sleeved top, sparkly anchor bag…. love it all! The paper suite that Nichole from Coral Pheasant put together was spectacular. Sign. Me. Up. It was so well executed with so many fun little surprises– which I feel like is her signature.

{ Gown: Rivini available at The Plumed Serpent / Maids Dress: Ivy and Aster available at The White Dress by the shore / Yellow Shoes: Kate Spade / Yellow Sweater: J. Crew / Jewelry: Aquinnah for The White Dress by the shore / Location: The Griswold Inn / Basket Bouquet & Floral Headband: Datura: A Modern Garden / Paper Pennant Banner: Coral Pheasant }

{ First Gown: Anne Barge available at The White Dress by the shore / Second Gown: Amsale available at The White Dress by the shore / Hat: Bijou Van Ness / Anchor Handbag: Moyna / Bangles: Kate Spade / Rope Headband: Etsy / Jewelry: Aquinnah for The White Dress by the shore }

{ Gown: Amsale available at The White Dress by the shore / Bangles & Red Wedges: Kate Spade / Rope Headband: Etsy / Gorgeous Rope Bouquet: Datura: A Modern Garden / Nautical Invitation Suite: Coral Pheasant }

{ Top Picture Gown and Short White Dress: Amsale available at The White Dress by the shore / Red & Gold Bangles, Gold Bow Ring, and Sparkly Bow Heels: Kate Spade / Rope Headband: Etsy / Gorgeous Rope Bouquet & Basket Bouquet: Datura: A Modern Garden / Red and White Bridesmaid Look: Coren Moore / Bridesmaid Jewelry & Second Look Jewelry: Aquinnah for The White Dress by the shore }

{ First Gown: Oscar de la Renta available at The Plumed Serpent / Hat: J.Crew / Second Gown: Elizabeth Filmore available at The Plumed Serpent / Yellow Shoes: Kate Spade }

{ Gown: Ivy and Aster available at The White Dress by the shore /Red Wedges & Large Cocktail Ring: Kate Spade / Locket Bracelet and Necklace: Aquinnah for The White Dress by the shore / Just Married Flags and Nautical Invitation: Coral Pheasant }

{ Top Picture Gown: Amsale available at The White Dress by the shore / Beautiful Blue Bouquet: Datura: A Modern Garden / Bridesmaid Dress: Ivy & Aster / Pennant Flag Banner: Coral Pheasant / Gorgeous Nautical Glam Cake with Rope Accents and Yellow Flowers: A Little Imagination Cakes }

We hope you enjoy! Thank you to The Connecticut Bride for having us be part of their wonderful and inspiring Spring / Summer 2012 Issue!

Credit Reel

Photography: Carla Ten Eyck
Fashion and Styling: Beth Chapman
Art Direction: Candice Coppola
Floral Design: Datura: A Modern Garden
Beauty: Dana Bartone
Paper Design: Coral Pheasant
Cake: A Little Imagination Cakes
Locations: Dreamscapes Design Group & The Griswold Inn on Main Street in Essex, Connecticut

Carla Ten Eyck Photography, Coral Pheasant Stationery + Design, Jubilee Events and The White Dress by the shore are all members of in WHITE: a luxury wedding collective.

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8 Dec
2011

Posted in: A Jubilee Event, Parties & Celebrations
By Candice

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A Jubilee Event: Teddy’s Modern Bar Mitzvah

I’m so excited to share with you today the fun and colorful Bar Mitzvah of Teddy! We had the pleasure of working with Teddy and his all-star planning team at Kathy O’Boyle Events to design a fun party to celebrate with his family and friends. We started off with a nautical and masculine seersucker pattern and incorporated pops of orange, navy, and green to create his cool party. Ryan Designs not only made custom orange chandeliers for our ceremony tent, draped in clean white fabric.. but they also created custom seersucker fabric-wrapped lamp shade pendants for our dining tent which hung above our tables. We used a seersucker linen on the long and round tables, accentuated by brightly colored floral from BLUSH Floral Design which included unique textures like grass, ranunculous, and orange protea. The fun paper, designed by Coral Pheasant, included these elements along with a custom monogram for the navy hoodies that Teddy gave away to his guests. I absolutely love the design that Nichole came up with, which was part colleagette and included some of Teddy’s favorite activities: lacrosse, boating and music. Chris at Culinary Concerts took our color story and incorporated it into the food, serving delicious orange drinks on the table with family style bits when guests first sat down.

During dinner, we transformed the ceremony tent into an fun lounge, complete with a white dance floor, semi-circular white resin smoothie bar, and sleek white couches with orange ottomans from Taylor Creative Inc. Culinary Concerts also designed a dessert bar round our style, creating white and blue seersucker cookies with shots of milk and Teddy’s favorite brownies. A huge thank you to Tricia Bohan photography for these images!

Thanks to Teddy and his wonderful family for the creative outlet– and congratulations!!

Credit Reel

Photography: Tricia Bohan Photography
Catering: Culinary Concerts
Flowers: BLUSH floral design
Design: Jubilee Events
Planning: Kathy O’Boyle Events
Lighting and Draping: Ryan Designs
Rentals: Jubilee Events
DJ and Uplighting: Boppers Entertainment
Tent and Dance Floor: New England Tent
Paper: Coral Pheasant

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30 Nov
2011

Posted in: A Jubilee Event, Weddings
By Candice

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A Jubilee Event: Cindy + Tony, A Classic Old State House Wedding in Hartford, Connecticut

I’m so honored to share with you the wedding of Cindy and Tony, married in April of 2011 at the gorgeous Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut. Cindy contacted me to design and plan her wedding with only a few months to go– and we developed a gorgeous, classic and elegant wedding inspired by her amazing Amy Kuschel gown purchased at The White Dress by the shore. It was such a pleasure to work with her and Tony– their love story is an endearing one… and to hear how they both found one another after hardship and loss was truly inspiring. Their love for one another is real, and their love for their family is incredible. It was so important to them to incorporate their children into the ceremony and did so in meaningful ways. We were all reminded about the important things in life being part of Cindy and Tony’s wedding: love, happiness, and family. It sounds so simple– and it is.

Be sure to watch Jim Altieri’s video at the end of the blog post to see the story of their day unfold. It’s a tear jerker– I must warn you.

Big thanks to my friend Robert Norman for the gorgeous images of this day! xx

Cindy & Tony Get Married from Jim Altieri on Vimeo.

Congratulations Cindy and Tony! We wish you and your family a lifetime of happiness and love. xx

Credit Reel

Photography: Robert Norman Photography
Videography: Vintage Cinema
Planning & Design: Jubilee Events
Location: The Old State House
Catering & Cake: A Thyme to Cook
Floral Design: BLUSH Floral Design
Gown: Amy Kuschel from The White Dress by the shore
Hair and Makeup: Jennie Fresa Library
Ceremony & Reception Musicians: Powerstation
Transportation: Gateway Limo
Calligraphy: Michelle Dowling
Invitations: Two Ems
Wedding Day Paper: Jubilee Events

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26 Oct
2011

Posted in: A Jubilee Event, Creative Photoshoots, Features, Magazines & Publications
By Candice

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Jubilee Events Featured In The Newest Edition of Southern New England Weddings: Destination Edition

Our modern, clean and sophisticated shoot for Southern New England Weddings was so much fun to design. We don’t have anything like it in our portfolio and I had been dying to collaborate on something like this for a while. We were largely inspired by a clean color palette, unique and interesting textures (like metal and acrylic) and a gorgeous Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci dress in my search for inspiration for the story board. Belle Mer was the perfect place to shoot this editorial with it’s simplistic decor, white backdrops and as Carla mentioned in the behind-the-scenes video, amazing light!

As our shoot design progressed it sort of morphed into this obsession with taxidermy and a statement decor piece that we wanted to create. Between myself, Nichole of Coral Pheasant and the incredible Tony of Datura: A Modern Garden, we conceptualized this deer head escort card wall nearly 7 1/2 feet tall and completely covered in over 700 varieties of white and ivory roses (from the most wonderful rose grower, Passion Growers). Radic, right? To date, it is my absolute favorite thing we’ve EVER done at a photoshoot– and it almost didn’t happen! Believe it or not, white resin deer heads are hard to come by. After a fighting match with the folks at zgallerie who couldn’t express ship me my deer head in time (!) we scowered decor stores, online retailers, salvage stores… everything from this side of the Mississippi to procure a white resin deer head. We came up with nothing! Total failure. It was quite tragic… until… Tony came across a discarded taxidermy deer head form the day before our shoot with no ears or antlers. Score! And in true Datura: A Modern Garden fashion that deer head not only had the prettiest Styrofoam ears but also curly willow antlers and was painted a magnificent shade of white!

Some more incredible details from the shoot include the paper suite designed by Coral Pheasant, which included laser cut metal engraved invitations mounted to a python booklet. Whhaaat? Nichole also created laser engraved and hand painted gold / clear acrylic menu cards and escort cards, which was inspired by a decadent acrylic/ghost end table with exposed metal brackets found in elle decor. These are a MUST for us to reproduce at one of our events and is truly an incredible statement piece!

One thing I can’t get over is the insane centerpiece Tony and his team created using curly willow and hanging white curcumin suspended above one of our rentable vases. We used a luxurious linen from Wildflower Linens in a shimmering gold paillettes with gold “saturn” chargers at each place setting from Rentals Unlimited. Each place setting had a neatly folded white silk shantung napkin with an acrylic menu card with handmade paper garlands from Kristina Marie.

Beth Chapman of The White Dress by the shore was our talented fashion stylist and pulled together all the fashion and accessories for our model. She created three separate, modern looks using gowns from UK designer David Fielden, Amsale, and Coren Moore! And now the gorgeous images from the insanely creative Carla Ten Eyck… (be sure to read her blog post too!).

Thanks to such an incredible team for their love, laughs and creativity. We had so much fun on this warm July afternoon and can’t wait to do it again! Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Southern New England Weddings: Destinations to see all this goodness in print. Until next time… xo!