Location Spotlight: The Spanish Garden Inn By: Felici Events The Spanish Garden Inn is a quaint bed and breakfast experience boutique hotel located in the heart of Santa Barbara, blocks from downtown State Street.  This location evokes Spanish architecture with serenity and upscale amenities. This is a hotel use only, overnight accommodations for you and [...]

You may recall the last video we shared from a series by Zenadia Design and featured on their blog, created to illustrate the wonderful hand-crafted behind each custom piece that the studio creates. Now with the second in the series, Heidi is revealing the behind the scenes process for Letterpress printing. Be sure to visit [...]

Table and Floral Design: Louloudi Design This crisp, clean contemporary table design is the perfect combination of cool and warm hues for your Summer event. If you happened to be a foodie this minimal design will also help to compliment a variety of menus rather than distract with fussy decor.

Kristan & Scott Santa Barbara County Courthouse – Mural Room Photography by Kristen Grinnell Photography This might be one of my all time favorite courthouse elopements . . .

Location Spotlight: Earl Warren Showgrounds by: Felici Events The Earl Warren Showgrounds was originally developed as the permanent location for the Santa Barbara National Horse and Flower show as well to attract and support other equestrian and agricultural events to the Santa Barbara area. In 1950, a site at the corner of Las Positas Road [...]

Santa Barbara is a magical place to get married, which also make it favorite for celebrating anniversaries and vow renewals like this sweet 10 year renewal at Bacara Resort. What a lovely family moment! Photos by Vita-Bella Photography

The wondrous moment of our meeting . . . I well remember you appear Before me like a vision fleeting, A beauty’s angel pure and clear. In hopeless ennui surrounding The worldly bustle, to my ear For long your tender voice kept sounding, For long in dreams came features dear. Time passed. Unruly storms confounded [...]

Stephanie & Greg San Ysidro Ranch Photography: Mary Jane Photography Officiant: Miriam Lindbeck

Location Spotlight: Casitas Oceano by: Felici Events   This is an accommodation location only. Casitas Oceano is a charming vacation rental property, located on “The Mesa” in Santa Barbara, featuring two cottages. Bridal parties or out of town guests will be amazed by the beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean and Channel Islands.   Recently [...]

  Heidi Jimenez of Zenadia Design is known for her unique custom invitation design. Many of her pieces include methods like laser cutting, letterpress and other labor intensive processes that can almost seem magical in the result but sometimes are difficult to explain how much work is behind each hand-crafted piece. Now Heidi is revealing [...]