Lauren and JP: Art Meets Wedding {LaGrange, Ga}

I’m playing more wedding catch up. This particular wedding is one of my favorites. I’m always excited to work with the truly artistic. It’s so refreshing and lots of fun. It makes my job as a wedding planner so great.

To that end, I give you Lauren and JP’s wedding. Lauren is, quite possibly, one of the most artistic people I have ever met. Seriously. Graphic design, photography, sculpture, paint. You name it. I am quite impressed. Lauren contacted me to direct her fabulously artistic wedding and I was very excited.

A little wedding background: their wedding was taking place in Lauren’s hometown of LaGrange,Ga, where she had also finished her degree in fine art (note some of their photos done in the art gallery where her senior work was on display). Their wedding was relatively small: 80 guests or so. Ceremony at the Methodist church downtown and then reception at her parent’s house. It was a great setting. JP and his family were from Germany, so they had a several German-themed menu items and of course good beer. Lauren had been making origami cranes since she was a child. Kind of a habit almost. So, she decided to incorporate them into the wedding. The bright colors were chosen carefully as well. If there are any designers out there, they will understand when I say that Lauren chose the process colors CMYK as her color palette – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. An homage to her art training. A summer wedding. Bright, exciting colors. Happy, happy couple. It was a good wedding.

I will apologize in advance for the amount of photos that I am about to put up. But, I can’t stop myself. I had the good fortune to work with awesome photographer Matt Miller of Our Labor Of Love – a studio in Atlanta whose work I had been admiring for a while. They have a contemporary style in terms of wedding coverage. The style fit Lauren and JP to a T and one I personally love.

So – on with the show!

Believe it or not, there are some things that didn’t make into this post. Be prepared for the resuming of the posts about invitations and how they relate to the wedding – all coming up! Lauren’s printing was beyond. But, I think that you need a little time to take in all their wedding goodness. Happy Sunday!

Julie