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| WRITTEN BY: Alisa Jennifer Kay PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Alyssa Nicol Photography Coordination, Production & Set Direction: Cobalt Events Event Design Direction, Draping & Linen Fabrication: Tabella Designs & Linens Event Rentals: Town & Country Event Rentals Floral Design: The Hidden Garden Paper Products: Celebration Cards |
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 Spring evokes a sense of new beginnings, when flowers are blooming, passion and romance seem to fill the air, and bright sunshiny days fill our hearts with happiness. Imagine getting married and kissing your sweetheart under a beautiful garden gazebo. For over 5,000 years earthly paradises have been created by placing gazebos in beautified gardens. Gazebos are the most prevalent outdoor garden structures in the world. These freestanding, roofed, usually open-sided structures provide a shady resting place and with this gazebo, Nicole Hirsty of Cobalt Events dreams up a fresh twist with bright blossoming flowers, and illuminating chandeliers casting a soft glow. “I wanted to create a romantic, whimsical feel,” says Hirsty. Her inspiration started with the wrought-iron structure, “and we built everything around it,” says Hirsty. Renting a canopy, bar, furniture, and other unique items such as a gazebo, can be a reality. Town & Country Event Rentals provided their distinctive gazebo for this romantic and soft wedding setting. The new wrought-iron gazebo is from their “Savannah Collection,” which also includes a variety of wrought-iron furniture such as benches, tables, spires, and flower planters. “The Savannah Collection evokes the glamour of the Old South while providing a fresh look for our clientele,” said Laird McClure, Event Director of Town & Country Event Rentals. “The gazebo can also be easily adapted to create a Victorian sensibility or a Vineyard look.” McClure adds, “The French floral experience of a Mille Fleur-design can be beautifully and easily executed with this gazebo collection, too.” Hirsty was inspired by the “timeless look” of the wrought-iron from the gazebo, but to give it that modern approach, she incorporated a contemporary color scheme of bright pinks with hints of greens. “A  special time for a wedding is always springtime because it is so luminous....so I wanted the colors to be vibrant, but also inviting,” shares Hirsty. To extend the springtime sentiment, soft white draping was affixed to the gazebo which not only allowed the unique structure of the gazebo to be emphasized, “it also brings visual delight as the white drapes will move in unison with the soft wind,” concludes Hirsty. Most people think a gazebo is used traditionally as the centerpiece for a bride and groom’s ceremony. Today’s weddings planners are thinking outside the box. A gazebo can be multi-functional and have many uses that are very untraditional, but very exciting. The gazebo shown here can be absolutely used for a ceremony, but also moonlights as a lounge, a candy bar or a cake table. Very unique uses would be to put the guestbook under the gazebo, have favors there, or even the designated area to have escort cards, programs and seating cards. These are all very unconventional, but creative ways to use a gazebo in a wedding. “Different ways in which the gazebo can be used in the design of the event are for the entrance, as a sweetheart table enclosure, to set off a cake table, a place card table, a disc jockey, or a small lounge. The possibilities are endless for the gazebo to be used. Basically, they are perfect for whatever the wedding couple wants to “frame” as special to their unique event,” said McClure. |
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