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Written by: Susan Hart Hellman
Photography:   Norma Lopez Molina
Set Designer:  Linda Pittelli, Linda Pittelli’s Eventful

Event producer Linda Pittelli refers to her Your Wedding Day Moulin Rouge Event Design as “romantic, elegant, lavish, rich, traditional, chic, and fun.”  We refer to it as ooh la la!

In creating this design, Linda explored Paris’  “Moulin Rouge era,” the late 1800s, and says Moulin Rouge cabaret offered a unique combination of burlesque, carnival, and sensuality. This was an era of “rich, vivid colors, textures, feathers, satins, lace and lingerie. . .  Sometimes dark and very mysterious,” Linda says, and her goal was to capture that era’s heart and soul and transport it to the twenty-first century.
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Location, Props & Chandelier:
     20th Century Props
Gown: Anne Barge (Style #313)
Floral, Chandelier Design & Feather Fan:
     Asiel Designs
Invitations & Papery (menu card/fan): Mimio
Linens: Wildflower Linen
Fabric Design & Draping: Revelry
Flooring: Barker Décor Service, Inc.

Fabric designed napkin: Revelry
Guest book: Creative Touch 

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Location & Props: 20th Century Props
Floral: Asiel Designs
Cake: NancyKay’s Confections
China, Stem/Flatware: Classic Party Rentals

Gown: Romona Keveza

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To accomplish this, Linda found inspiration in feathers, flowers and frames. “Feathers were a big inspiration for me,” she says. “Feathers everywhere, tickled your imagination with thoughts of the Can/Can.” She maintained this theme throughout her décor, including a wall of mirrors, frames, photographs, including bygone weddings, showgirls, French Aristocracy, and love letters, reflecting the diversity of guests frequenting Moulin Rouge’s  show-stopping performances.

And Linda created some showstoppers of her own, including a six-foot crystal Eiffel Tower, to which place cards were attached with trinkets, pearls, rose buds, and ribbons; menus created from feather adorned antique-look carved wooden fans; quintessentially French table settings with an abundance of gold, clear crystal, and red-accented china; and linens comprised of layer-upon-layer of tulle with an overlay of ostrich feathers hand-affixed to the silk undercloth. 

Of these pièces de résistance, however, the single pièce de résistance may have been the custom-constructed chandelier. Reminiscent of a Moulin Rouge showgirl’s opulent headdress, this showpiece, with golden branches and pink antique roses, and heavily bejeweled, was then further-adorned with countless feathers.

This wedding, Linda says, is for couples who “love Paris, a bit of adventure, have a hidden fantasy for risqué….but who are also traditional and romantics at heart.”  They, especially, will say, c’est magnifique!

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Location & Props: 20th Century Props
Gown & Wrap: Romona Keveza
Invitations & Papery (menu card/fan): Mimio
Linens: Wildflower Linen
Flooring: Barker Décor Service, Inc.
Floral: Asiel Designs
China, Stem/Flatware: Classic Party Rentals 

Cake: NancyKay’s Confections
Art Direction: CathrynVanBreene
Production & Set Directors: Peter Schroff & Yosi Dori
Location & Props: 20th Century Props
Fashion Styling: Cathryn VanBreene, THE studioagency, assisted by Helen Nishimura
Hair & Makeup: Erica Harding, Sheila Stone, Stephanie Stone,
Trina Duarte & Cathryn VanBreene, THE studioagency
 
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Tips
  • #26 MARRYING MINDFULLY
    Creating the “perfect wedding” can easily overshadow what is really important about getting married—creating a sacred and lifelong bond with your beloved. Your wedding is not a “to-do” list. Take time to tend to your relationship and to yourselves so that you enter into the celebration relaxed, joyful, and with a full heart.
    Carmina McGee, Skin – Health - Well-Being

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  • #31 FLORAL DECOR
    No wedding is complete without flowers. Try updating the traditional centerpiece by using masses of your favorite flowers in a variety of complementary tones for added texture and interest. For instance, if your bloom-of-choice is the gerbera daisy, try one centerpiece with dozens of red gerberas, another with orange, and another with fuchsia-colored bunches. Let your imagination run wild!
    Ariel Yve, Ariel Yve Design

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  • # 6  RECIPES FOR FAVORS
    Gather together the favorite recipes that you remember as a child. They could be special family recipes, holiday menus, etc.  Have them bound in small books, affix a wedding label on the front with your monogram and date that you were married. And there you have it, a unique favor that your guests will use again and again. Also, it is a wonderful way to acknowledge grandmothers and mothers.
    Melissa Lee, Events of Santa Barbara   

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