The day I decided to start my blog my Sunday morning started as any typical Sunday morning does in the Bradford household. It was early, 7:00AM, (I get to sleep in an extra hour on Sunday mornings). I was not awakened by my loud, obnoxious alarm clock with pounding Church bells like on Monday mornings-NO! On Sundays I am awakened by the sweet sound of my little 5 year old daughter, Ava’s voice with the usual Sunday morning questions, “Mommy, did you bring me wedding cake? What color is it? Can I see it,? Can I see it?” Of course the answers are,”Yes!” and “Of course you can!” I rolled out of bed and off we went together to the refrigerator to see the glorious piece of wedding cake that I remembered (thank goodness) to bring home from my wedding last night. I got home very very late per usual after an amazing Saturday night wedding, tired, but completely excited to spend the day with my family. I did not get to read my daughter her nightly bedtime story last night as I do the rest of the week as I got home in the early hours of the morning, but I did have new stories of the wedding day to share with my family.

The wedding the night before at the Montage Beverly Hills was amazing! Photos coming soon! Young and stylish, Victoria and Jamie from London brought me to tears at the wedding with the Groom, Jamie’s toast in which, from the  middle of the Ballroom dance floor, he included the most heartfelt thank you to me and my wonderful team. Of course, it brought me to tears, tears of so much happiness and pride! The couple just made me feel like a million dollars! Also, the Bride’s Mom, Ophie who was one of thee nicest Mother’s ever with her continuous hugs and kissses throughout the day and night, squeezing me and thanking me and telling me how much she loved me! I cannot tell you how great that feels! I walked on clouds. I had such a happy Bride and Groom and I knew I had done the job that I sought out to do. Make them happy!!!! What a wonderful and playful couple, Victoria and Jamie, with their equally wonderful family and friends! They all had such a great time and it was such a lively and happy celebration of love and family! This wedding was right up my alley and will go down as one of my favorite weddings. The weddings where there is so much love and happiness in the air! The absolutely gorgeous Bride and the very handsome and dapper, Groom just glowed and their families also glowed with so much happiness and pride. The wedding party members were lovely and so much fun to be around the entire day! What a great and memorable night!

I cannot wait to go to lunch with the Bride’s Mother, Ophie to remember the evening together and stay in touch together! I will miss Victoria and Jamie so much as they returned to London to start their lives together. They will be very happy together as they are surrounded by much love and good wishes! My parents live in Connecticut so it will be so nice to have this wonderful Mom to stay in touch with here in California when she is missing her daughter and I am missing my parents!

Later in the morning, I put the finishing touches on transforming my daughter’s bedroom from the innocent baby nursery to now a “little ladies'” bedroom. As the quaint, miniature, crystal chandelier was hung and Ava squealed, “Mommy, I love it! It is fabulous!”, that was it, my baby, now 5 years old, was not a little baby any longer and the transformation was complete!

I kept the walls a cheerful and soothing light lemon color which brought so much peace to me as I rocked my little baby in the moonlight so many nights singing her favorite lullaby, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, but now this room had the added sweetness and charm of a little lady. Even though I did not present it, the color “pink” was found by Ava and is now incorporated into the lemon yellow and light green gingham environment. This room was my favorite room to design and has always has been my favorite room in the house to spend quiet time. However, now the tiny toddler bed and the soft, ivory chenille rocking chair have been replaced with a full size “Big Girl” White Sleigh Bed, a miniature , white Pottery Barn Kids vanity and a miniature, crystal chandelier. The room was now complete and new memories would now be made in it. SIGH! What next?

Then, it came to me instantly…It is time! It is now time to FINALLY start my BLOG. I have to be honest with you the whole “BLOG” thing intimidated me a bit! When I do something I do it all the way or not at all and my life was full with working with my clients to design beautiful weddings and spending quality time with my family. I thought, “How am I going to fit in this BLOG thing?” It seemed like it could be addictive and take over. So, while I want to share the beautiful images from all my weddings, I am not sure if I will make BLOG entries daily, weekly or monthly, but I do know that I can promise to share with everyone all the images and ideas from all the beautiful weddings that I have had the honor and privilege of producing and designing for so many amazing people throughout the years and in the years to come.

I got a very large cup of fresh coffee with lots of extra French Vanilla Creamer, took my daily Flintstone Gummy Vitamins (that, Kat, my darling Pediatrician Bride from Boston turned me onto) and I sat down at my computer surrounded by stacks of CD’s with thousands of images of wedding photos from past weddings and started to type. I have to start somewhere so I will start with some of my recent favorites that I am so excited to share with all of you-very excited! I will start here and see where this “Blog thing” goes from there!

Welcome to my BLOG!!!! Enjoy!

My sweet little Baby! My precious little Lady! (You didn’t think I was not going to sneak photos in of my most favorite person in the whole world, did you?)