Alright, we’re back in town from WPPI, which we’ll talk about later. For now we wanted to update you on Chris and Katy’s wedding. It was held at Tenaya Lodge – very beautiful place, up past Oakhurst, CA. You would expect it to be cold  and snowy at the elevation past 5000ft. But that day was not like that. We had a perfect weather throughout the day – it felt as if it was 70F outside or so. Besides great weather, we enjoyed being around all those wonderful people. Great, emotional ceremony and a wonderful reception, that was crowned with Katy’s dad’s speech made the day! Seriously, that was one of the greatest speeches we’ve heard on a wedding day – impressive!

Nevertheless, here is a short review of the day in photographs – let us know what you think…

Do you like to re-use, recycle, and re-purpose? If you do,  you’re a big part of us then. I think its cool to find use for things that had been outdated, thrown away, or are broken, so Anthropologie has been a huge inspiration for us. Its just so amazing to see the creativity in the things that they use throughout the store. Yana has been dreaming about rethinking and remodeling some of our stuff. I’ll have to wear my artist, painter, and craftsman shoes to be able to accomplish all that. In fact, we noticed that there are too many businesses that would build and sell that kind of furniture and accessories. One of the very few that I know is ReVive. Its a relatively new business that specializes in building custom art and furniture out of recovered and discarded materials. My good friend Tim Schulz is behind the wheel of this whole thing. Tim is a very passionate about creating and re-purposing old, and unused materials into art. If you like this kind of stuff – he is the guy to talk to :)

Below are the photographs from a wedding that took place at Sunnyside Country Club. The weather was very uncertain that day. In fact, when we left home it was raining in our part of town. However, by the time ceremony started it still looked gloomy, but no rain and at the end of the ceremony we were even rewarded with some sunshine.

Daniel and Catherina are a gorgeous couple. We’re honored to know them and were blessed to be part of their celebration.

Today, we wanted to introduce to all of you an incredible artist Anastasia Mikailenko. Art is the only word that comes to mind when you look at her cards. Just as in photography, or any other industry, we highly value people who step out of boundaries, try new things and express themselves through what they do. And Stacey definitely falls into that category of people. So, you are welcome to go and visit her web page at: http://anastasiamariecards.com/blog/

photo credit to Daniel Usenko