On Wednesday Nico Cervantes, owner of Nico Designs and I put together a totally impromptu photo shoot to celebrate Spring and the Easter weekend!  Brion Hopkins was amazing enough to come out on super short notice and shoot for us.  I have to say, I was completely blown away with the pictures he took.  It was a beautiful day and he captured the sun and the warmth of the table in the most amazing way.  His work is beyond fabulous, and I adore his website! Check him out here.

The lovely Liane from the Santa Barbara Wedding Guide (for those of you not familiar, it is hands down the most amazing wedding resource in Santa Barbara) was sweet enough to post the pictures today on her blog.

The details:

We set out to create a super cute, colorful, and fun table for an early afternoon Easter dinner in the garden.  To keep it casual but sweet, we opted to use a short coffee table with pillows to sit on, rather than a table of regular height.  Everything we used for the shoot we either bought at a thrift store or had in our homes, making the look really easy to reproduce.  The tables were dressed with antique lace placemats, Chris Madden Stoneware from JC Penny, and sweet honeycomb cups and saucers filled with moss and plants.  We used mismatched antique silverware, and emerald green glassware found at a local thrift store.  From potted plants Nico took small cuttings to create floral arrangements in antique bottles.  The result was an affordable and beautiful table with lots of happy garden flowers.  Between the arrangements we placed glass terrariums I made out of apothecary jars, rustic garden urns, and playful figurines of bunnies and ceramic birds.  A gold-framed mirror displayed the menu, which we wrote with a neat white pen.