Some clients come to me with very clear ideas of what they want their wedding to look like. Some weddings evolve stylistically over time. Kristene and Travis’ ethereal beach wedding in Gimli was actually a combination of both!

Kristene did have a pretty clear picture of what she liked: the colour palette of blush and light blue with lots of white was planned and set. The Gimli venue was booked and dreamed about. But Kristene was looking for a month-of wedding coordinator, as the wedding was somewhat of a destination wedding, and I happily recommended Emily from Feast & Festivities. She took care of the wedding coordination, and Kristene also hired her for event design, and that’s when the visual side of this wedding really started to come together. Emily took Kristene’s ideas, my plans for the florals, and made some serious magic happen.

Pretty in pink - and a bit of pale blue, as well. You know when you hear the phrase “cotton candy skies” and you can picture exactly what that sunset looks like? That’s what we were going for here.

Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: garden roses, ranunculus, locally grown lisianthus, delphinium, rice flower, and Queen Anne’s Lace with varied foliages.

When you’re getting married at the beach, the plan is, of course, to get married at the BEACH. But sadly, this day was not the best in the weather department. The skies were stormy most of the day, so the majority of the festivities were moved indoors. I’m so glad they managed to take some portraits outside though - wouldn’t you agree that the stormy blue gray skies are just the perfect compliment to this colour palette?

And as far as I’m concerned, the fireplace at Johnson Hall at the Gimli Waterfront Centre is quite a good backup for a ceremony space. The original design plan had the fireplace as the backdrop for the couple’s head table, so we had already planned for a thin eucalyptus garland along with the candles on the mantle. Simply moving in the floral arrangements that were designed for the ceremony in front of the fireplace was the only change that needed to happen! Kristene really liked the idea of the arrangements looking like they were growing out of the my wood stands (by the way, you can see much of my rental inventory here!), so I opted to use a very low design tray instead of a larger vase or urn.

The flowers in these arrangements were ALL locally grown here in Manitoba, complimented by imported foliage.

I really love the way that Feast & Festivities designed this room!

Emily does a beautiful job of conceptualizing floor plans and creating interest and movement throughout a room. It’s always a personal favourite of mine when we get to work with multiple table shapes and centrepiece styles.

We decided to design a fuller compote style arrangement for the long guest tables, complimented by simple candle clusters on the round tables. Kristene really loved a lot of crisp white, and the way Emily designed the entire room around that was quite breathtaking - and especially because the room itself is so nice! I think she layered something like 3 or 4 different white linens on each of the guest tables so that there would be a lot of visual texture. The round tables had a bit of a shimmer lace visible underneath, while the long tables were lined with a gauzy runner - the difference made simply by paying attention to the linens is huge!

I also love that the place settings pull in other elements from the wedding design - the smoke gray charger plate, the blue cut glass water goblets, and the sweet little vials of sand for each guest!

Vanessa Renae Photography ~ Feast & Festivities ~ Gimli Waterfront Centre ~ Planned Perfectly ~ C&T Rentals ~ Stone House Creative ~ That fiRst Spark

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