I haven’t featured this shoot yet, since I knew it was scheduled to run sometime soon on Poptastic Bride and they wanted exclusivity. So this might be your first look at it (unless you happened to see it on Facebook!). 🙂
Back in late May, Desiree of Penny Blooms Floral Design and Alyssa of Hybrid Photography and I met up for dinner. Desiree had worked with us both and thought we’d get along well and wanted to introduce us. Sure enough, it was as though we’d known each other forever – just like when I first met Desiree, we couldn’t stop chattering about projects we’d do together!!!
Alyssa was planning to have a booth at a bridal show in early July and wanted to style the booth after a shoot, so we started throwing around ideas. I have to admit that our first idea had to be put on hold, as our venue didn’t work out during the time period we needed, but we had so much fun creating this faux elopement!!!
I created the announcement (with a kind of graffiti-inspired vibe and lots of black!) and did a lot of the styling; Desiree did a ton of spray painting in addition to the florals (and you’ve never seen peonies like this!!); Ashley from Unbridled Beauty created a fun retro look with the makeup. Unique Vintage, Pettiskirt Style, Whole Foods Hillcrest, and Serendipity Party Shop rounded out our look (the latter the night before the shoot – thanks ladies!!!) And of course Alyssa did a fantastic job with the photos! Our models (especially our “bride”!) were troopers, as it happened to be an extremely cold June morning at Centennial Park!!!
My favorite element, I have to admit, was the snack cake “wedding cake.” I’d been wanting to do something completely nontraditional for a while, and this was the perfect venue. We used a drum (that happened to have pink flames on it!) that I’d purchased for my husband’s classroom at a thrift store topped with an old record, and three different types of snack cakes stacked precariously on top of each other (thanks to judicious use of toothpicks!). I had waaaaay too much fun styling it!!!
Check out our whole feature on Poptastic Bride!
Rock & Roll Elopement Picnic Shoot Vendors:
- Location: Centennial Park, Coronado CA
- Photography: Hybrid Photography
- Styling and Stationery: Events by Elisa
- Styling and florals: Penny Blooms
- Hair and Makeup: Unbridled Beauty
- Dress: Unique Vintage
- Pettiskirts: Pettiskirt Style
- Straws: Serendipity Party Shop
Events by Elisa 