Drape your wedding in garlands
I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend Jinah’s wedding. One thing about decorating for a friend is that you don’t want to disappoint — but at the same time, you don’t want your friend to be a drill sergeant, barking orders about how to do this, or do that that way. Luckily for me, Jinah has given Caroline and I pretty free reign on what to do, mostly just telling us she wants the colors to be silver and gold. Hey, that works for me!
Problem with that approach is now there’s too many possibilities! But when I think about the house where Jinah is going to get married, all I can think of are all the horizontal and vertical lines there are — all the balconies on the second floor, the height of the portico, the top of the portico, not to mention the pool’s fountain. There are so many surfaces to decorate! So I naturally began to think of garlands.
Have your wedding at someone else’s house
As I alluded to recently, I am going to be helping a friend of mine who is getting married in April at a Malibu home. The mission: decorate an ultra-modern Malibu home with balconies for miles in silver and gold with lots of candles and lights.
Forgive my terrible Photoshop job on splicing together two photos to demonstrate how much balcony I’m going to be working with. Every house is different, which means there are unique challenges to decorating each one, for each individual bride. The bride, by the way, is my AAJA-LA co-president Jinah Kim (and NBC reporter), here in red. My partner in crime to help with the planning and decorations is Caroline Paras there, standing next to Jinah. The owner of the home is Jon Hoffman, in blue.
