So my three year old nephew is a page boy during my cousin’s wedding in December. We were asking him how is going to walk down the aisle and he said “I will be marching”. He then proceeded to say:
How do you respond to that?? LOL!
So a reader, commenter and friend sent me her wedding pictures.
LOVE.
I mean, who else can say their wedding colours were teal and pistachio???
According to the former bride…. The wedding colours were originally teal and pistachio but along the way, she added fuchsia and black.
A little bit of background, I went for an itaara and it hit me… I know who she is… SHE COMMENTS ON MY BLOG! Yeah, totally called her out on this… She was sweet about it 
and the world really is small.
The ceremony was at Nairobi Baptist and the reception at Karen Blixen.
First up: Flowers - Lydia – Wedding and Floral Design Center.
From the bride:
BEAUTIFUL! Very impressed because I sent her photos of cake gazebo and walk way flowers and she reproduced them! From car decoration to our bouquets…I loved loved loved her work! My bouquet was a mixture of white gerberas and roses.
My comments
I am in love with the centerpieces! What! And yes, those are gerberas! So if you have seen a comment by someone named Gerbera – yes, this is her wedding. But back to the flowers…. I must say, I am loving Lydia’s work on this.
2. Cake – Liz @ Cake Art
Please see above pic on the walkway to the cake – the cake is on that picture….
From the Bride
Cake art did very well, beautiful cake…lovely display, and even threw in a teal plate! and teal candles!!! Totally impressive.
My comments
I know I have sung enough of Cake Art. But I am YET to meet a bride who has said that Liz has disappointed. And please, can I just give her props for that colour coordination?! What!
Bridesmaids Dresses – Carol @ Lacasa Designs
From the Bride
They were ok…no major hiccups.
My comments
Can you please check out those bouquets? Love.it. Lydia has restored my faith in her work with this wedding, why even lie. I may even forgive her for the green bows… LOL.
PART TWO of the wedding shall be posted next week. You do NOT want to miss this.
Got this email from our flower vendor. In case someone in interested in attending.
I got this comment this week on my post on photographers wearing jeans to a wedding:
Sag says:
Sorry but i had to comment on this one. Photographers wear jeans because they need flexibility while taking photos. It is Jeans or Track pants. Especially for a female pro. What would you rather she wear. Long skirt or dress, she could trip. Shorter lengths, there is a lot of kneeling and bending and funny angles. Pants will tear if we pose those weird angles. The Tshirt with the name is Tacky but the jeans….darling…i am not hating…but you need to be a pro to realise we even wear knee pads underneath the jeans. Just saying!!!
First, let me just tell you that I am not a fan of condescending comments. They are usually ignored. There is no need to say “darling” . If you are not a fan of a post I have written ……. come out and say what you need to say. I do not need your placation. I stand by my words. Jeans are a NO-NO.
And then you add track pants to the equation? To a wedding? For real?
This may come as a surprise to you…..my dear…. but the whole jeans during a wedding by photographers is a KENYAN thing. And as usual, I am not surprised at Kenyan photographers and their excuses. Our wedding photography standard is so BEHIND international standards and then on top of that you go ahead and try to justify wearing jeans to a wedding. Sigh.
Luckily for you and any misguided photographer out there…. I usually do my research before I write the posts where I am attacking service providers on issues. SO YES, I do have proof that out there, photographers DO go on the ground to take pictures and the same photographers are dressed professionally.
1. A flickr group discusses what to wear to weddings: Click here
2. A forum discusses the same issue
3. One of the photographer I follow shows us what she wears to shoot weddings. Oh my! Is that a short dress??
4. OH MY… another dress!
5. And one of my most favorite photographers……. in a dress AGAIN. And click here to check out behind the scenes video that shows what she wears to shoot wedding. And her husband – who is her second shooter, wears suits! I am not even asking for suits yo!
6. Another photographer I enjoy, wears suit pants to weddings [Scroll to the bottom of the wedding posts].
7. And yet, another photography forum discusses the issue.
Now everyone reading this post knows that there is no Kenyan photographer out there who can claim to have awesome pictures that the awesomeness of these pictures would allow them to be rocking TRACK PANTS to a wedding. So I ask: Is it surprising that the issue of jeans is actually rocket science? This goes to show how far we have to go as a country when it comes to our wedding industry. Our standards are WAY below even average. WAY below.
And as customers and clients, I implore each and everyone of you to demand higher standards, to demand professionalism and demand that this people dress the part because obviously, there is a BIG problem. And that is the truth of the matter.
So Sag, I thank you for the comment because it brings to light some of the issues setting our wedding industry and general photography industry backward. Dressing may sound like a tiny issue to some people but it is a tiny piece of the pie known as “professionalism“.
Lastly, I thank our wedding photographers and videographers for NOT being ridiculously dressed during our wedding [PLUG]. And they did go to the ground. And they were comfortable. And they did an amazing job. Kudos guys! Let us raise the bar in this country of ours.
As let me finish off with these two words: Just Saying.
Malindi
In other news, its 11.11.11. What a fun date to get married!
Have you ever seen a Kenyan bridal bouquet with more than one type of flower on it?
I seriously think that flower vendors in Kenya are not challenged enough. Most of the time we ask them to do roses as wedding bouquets. And we get roses with baby’s breathe. Same type of arrangement that you would get for Valentines. By the way, I have nothing against the arrangement if that is what you choose to go with. But does it not seem as though you are being robbed when your centerpiece only has EIGHT roses [I have seen this by the way - see below]
pic by babes
I feel as though we need to think outside the box when it comes to the bouquets and centerpieces.
source: google images
Yes, my obsession with purple weddings is quite real!
Speaking as someone who has no feelings whatsoever for flowers, this post may come as a surprise…….. but I am at the point where if you are going to spend Kshs 80,000 on flowers, the vendors must be challenged to bring some uniqueness and innovation to the arrangements! Do not forget that one rose is around Kshs 10.
Sometimes when I am channel hopping, I land on Toya: A family affair on BET. No, I do not watch it….. but I can stare at it for five minutes so I was aware that Toya was engaged but I did not know the wedding had come and gone!!!
For those who do not know, Toya was Lil Wayne’s wife at some point. And she tries to rap. She shouldn’t.
Here are the pics if you care.
