Tania and Michael’s Stunningly Draped Santa Barbara Wedding
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re ringing in 2025 by revisiting some of our favorite fall events that featured stunning luxury wedding design.
Tania and Michael’s breathtaking wedding at Bellosguardo in Santa Barbara was a stunning showcase of wedding design with custom fabric treatments, luxury furniture, and a breathtaking venue.
While Revelry Event Designers is no stranger to making custom event decor and soft goods in-house, this design was a tall order! Keep scrolling to see the amount of fabric and sewing it took to create this dreamy draped vision.
The festivities began with a stunning Welcome Party, set half in the garden and half poolside. Guests lounged on a variety of light-wood furniture sets, including our St. Barts Wood & Cane Back Barstools paired with Siena Stand-Up Tables, and St. Lucia Oak & Bouclé Dining Chairs paired with Small Siena Dining Tables.
We also brought a variety of coffee tables including our Bora Bora White-Wash Coffee Tables and Florence Coffee Tables to balance out the different wood tones and amp up the boho chic vibes.
The following day came the ceremony. In 2024, we decided white folding chairs are so out for ceremony seating. So what’s in for 2025? Luxury garden seating with custom cushions!
We embraced this trend by getting creative with the seating arrangements for Tania and Michael’s garden ceremony. This outdoor ceremony featured many fun seating options, including our 8-foot Montecito Straight Benches, Montecito Curved Benches, and Montecito Garden Sofas, all with white cushions and painted frames.
Our Giardino Dell’ Iris Garden Love Seats were also painted white sporting custom-made covers. For extra variety, we included garden dining chairs with custom cushions and mix-and-match white pillows across the 250 seats.
The theme for cocktail hour was black and white, so any furniture that wasn’t black or white got a fresh coat of paint! Guests enjoyed a chic cocktail hour around our Cartagena Black Oak Round Bar paired with a black Boston Barback.
Surrounding the bar, guests lounged in style on a collection of garden furniture including Lost Gardens Porch Benches, Lost Gardens Club Chairs, and Scalloped Garden Chairs, all featuring custom white cushions and black-painted frames.
But the cutest detail (at least we think so) were the Scalloped Love Seats, Garden Club Chairs, and Garden Sofas with black frame and and white awnings.
See the cocktail hour lounge transform from warehouse presentation to wedding day!
Ok, now onto our favorite part—the reception.
The reception tent was draped inside and out with pleated fabric treatments spanning over 100 feet.
It was so fun collaborating with the bride on the wedding design. She wanted a fully draped reception with flowing, effortless fabric. A very modern aesthetic. And while it may sound easy, event draping is an art form so it definitely required an expert touch!
To bring her draped vision to life, custom linens were created to cover almost all the furniture, including lounge chairs, coffee tables, sofas, and dining tables.
Here’s a breakdown of what our soft goods department custom-created for the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception:
229 Custom Cushions
- 199 linen cushions for the Foldable Metal Garden Dining Chairs
- 12 chair cushions for the Lost Garden Bistro Chairs
- 12 chair cushions for the Lost Garden Club Chairs
- 6 bench cushions for Lost Garden Porch Benches
211 Custom Chair Covers
- 82 dining chair covers for chivari chairs
- 84 dining chair covers for Aspen Dining Chairs
- 23 Love Seat Covers for Giardino Dell’ Iris Love Seats
- 14 Banquette Covers for the Pasadena Banquettes
120 Pillows– Mix and match accent pillows for both the ceremony and cocktail hour.
24 Ottoman Covers– For cocktails and reception in an ivory shade to match the fabric covers.
8 Table Linens– Custom-cut fabric sheets tailored to flawlessly drape over tables of various sizes.
While our soft goods department was busy sewing, our carpentry and painting departments were hard at work: creating custom furniture pieces for this reception. We painted our wooden Boston Stage Fronts and Boston DJ Front mahogany to match our brand new 8-foot Santa Barbara Bar. The rich mahogany color looked incredible contrasting against the ivory draping. When the sun set, the reception was lit up with 96 sparkling chandeliers including our small, medium, and large Avignon Crystal Chandeliers.
Enjoy these stunning photos captured by Abby & Lauren!
Want to see how this wedding came to life start to finish? Check out our exclusive BTS wedding transformation reel at below! And for more wedding design inspo, follow us on Instagram.
For more wedding details, check out the featured article in The WED and peek at the gallery on our website.
We hope this gives you luxury wedding design inspiration for the new year! Need help designing a wedding in 2025? We can help!
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