Showing posts with label Latin Flavor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin Flavor. Show all posts
Halloween Wedding
Imaginale Design
Remember this crazy inspiration board I created a few weeks ago?



I'd like you to know I'm NOT crazy!! YEP. These colors were pretty much used in this INCREDIBLE Halloween-themed wedding. Only bold (and beautiful) people like this couple could pull this off. Photographed by the, also bold, photographer Angelica Glass. GO see her work -- it is just so captivating and unique. Truly an inspiration (photographs found via Project Wedding).


How Latin and sexy is this?! Her hair!!


















Hope you enjoyed the Latin Flavor of the week :)

Happy Halloween everyone!
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Things that went wrong..
Imaginale Design
I admit... after reading blog after blog after blog of beautiful and inspiring weddings -- they freak me out. It begins to feel overwhelming as though there is some kind of "standard" you should follow. And granted, a lot of it comes from me being ME. I'm an artist and designer.... specifically in photography and graphic work, but I'm not limited to that.

Have you seen my room?! I don't have my own house yet, I currently am a "renter" but am blessed with the HUGE masterbedroom. If you have seen it, you will know what I am talking about. If you haven't -- well, it's my mini-home. I spent time, planning my decor -- I made my curtains, I have one wall FULL of antique frames with photos, pieces of vintage decor color my furniture and make it... me.

So OF COURSE these inspirational blogs put me in over drive! But thankfully, there are some that just ground me :) Some that remind me that the beauty and trends found in other places are meant to be admired and inspired, and THAT'S IT. And I want to share one post I read today that did just that. Even if you're not getting married, or ESPECIALLY if you already have, you must read it.

Who is going to be at my wedding? People who love me. And those people who love me are probably reading this. And those same people have ALREADY experienced this journey of me growing as an engaged woman -- eventually becoming a married woman. They will see the crazy ideas I started off with, to what became real. They won't judge me because in the end... what is in my wedding is all my labor of love. Who cares about what it isn't.

On that note, for my Latin flavor of the week, I created an inspiration board! These colors remind me of a festival back in the 30's, swirled with cotton candy and yummy hues of purple. Yes, I had to include that bolero ;)


top: bolero, flowers, matador
bottom: day of dead table, cha cha cha

And last, what you must read: Things That Went Wrong

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Papel Picado
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found here

Woo hoo! I have officially bought my Papel Picado banner for the wedding. It is a beautiful, deep red, banner with mixed Spanish sayings such as "amor," "felicidades," or "amistad." I bought it on Ebay from the UK (ironically, haha :)

This is the one!



And I am hoping to have these hanging in the "ballroom" section of my venue!

Luckily for me, the venue is beautiful as is :)

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Latin Flavor
Imaginale Design
So I was thinking -- what sets me apart from other blogs? I mean, clearly the "Alejandra" story of this wedding planning... but I realized, there's not a lot of Latin flavor out in the blog world!

And while I love to recap the beautiful images that are highlighted on other blogs, I would like to make a conscious effort to attribute a "Latin Flavor" each week to my blog. At least once a week!

My mom is from Honduras (Central America) and my dad from Uruguay (South America). My first language was Spanish, but all the kids spoke to me in English -- so eventually I was coming home speaking English. Fortunately, my grandmother does not speak English so I was forced to continue speaking Spanish at home. I'm a "complex" fusion of American and Latin culture.

Complex? OH YES. My family back in TX is exactly what you would think of about LH's (Latinos/Hispanics). Loud, loving, passionate, impulsive, emotional, and strong. But seriously -- we have birthday parties every other week (there's that much family), NO ONE is too old for a piñata, we have coffee after cake even though it's 9 p.m., we let the 3 year olds have a sip of this said coffee, people talk WAY too loud, the music is WAY too loud and is always salsa or merengue (or the American oldies my mom loves).

You know that old school song "Shake, shake, shake... shake your booty!" ... my mom told me they used to hear it in Honduras when they were teenagers but b/c they didn't know English, they would sing "Seis, seis, seis... seis de Octubre!" (which means "Six, six, six.. six of October!") -- because it sounds like the English song, though obviously the meaning is completely different.

However, I was the first female to go off to college and experience the "American" culture. I'm the ONLY cousin not living in Texas (those that are in the U.S.) and living on my own at that! A single female (well, now engaged) with my own place. I know that I'm often criticized by my family for detaching myself from them. I was the stubborn child that in middle school said "I am eliminating coffee from my diet because it stunts growth. I will only drink milk for breakfast." And of course my mom, though irritated by my sudden critical-adultish behavior, was also proud of my bold stance. She let me. She let me. And that's the point -- we as LH's have behaviors that people group us into "those" people (all the same)... but we're all complex with different life experiences. Okay, yes, I'm in a salsa crew ... but I also drink ORGANIC MILK. I couldn't be more different than some of my family members and vice versa.

So while I'm sometimes viewed as not "American" enough, and other times as not your "typical" Latina (I was born with blonde hair for starters!) --- I like this awkward fit of mine. Sometimes I don't get the jokes because I didn't watch certain shows growing up or wasn't a part of that American culture as a child -- but what I love is that the people around me embrace that. That's what I love about living here. Embracing the different!

For my first "Latin flavor" project -- I'm going to try and design an invitation around one of my favorite Mexican retro pieces: Jarritos!! They're colorful, tasty, and diverse in flavor :)


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We'll see how it goes. Happy hump day everyone :)
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