I am SO EXCITED to share this modern garden purple and green styled wedding shoot with you all today! I’ll be honest, when I first looked at the photos, I thought it was a real wedding. It looked that real. I was surprised when I read the description and discovered that it was a brilliantly styled shoot, put together by an amazing group of vendors including (the venue) The Oaks at Salem, (the florals) Tre Bella Florist, (the paper goods) Sealed With Appeal, (the overall design) Prevoir Special Events, and (the photography) Prevoir Photography. I was so impressed by every last detail they thought to include from the exquisite florals, to the gorgeous wedding gown, to the  elegant and beautiful tablescape. There’s also a gorgeous bride and her maid of honor, a handsome groom and his best man, even a dapper French Bulldog in a green bow tie named Claude. All in all, this wedding shoot is exactly the kind of shoot we at Heart Love Weddings live, love and long for. Enjoy!!

{Behind the Design with Erin Costa of Prevoir Photography} This styled shoot was planned keeping the modern, elegant bride in mind. The setting was at the beautiful Oaks at Salem in Apex, NC, and included four wonderful models, one four-legged model, an Excalibur vintage car, and beautiful floral arrangements. The bride and groom, Lauren and Dustin Prusik were married this past summer and were more than excited to relive their special day. The bridesmaid was the lovely Kim Barber and the handsome groomsman was Alex Warren, both of Raleigh, NC. Our four-legged model, Claude, the French Bulldog, joined us for part of the shoot, and was quite the heartthrob! We had been experiencing a blast of very warm weather down in North Carolina for March, but that warm weather decided to go away on the day of our shoot. You would never be able to tell from the models, but it was about 45 degrees outside. Dustin and Lauren especially enjoyed the afternoon, as if it was their wedding day all over again.

Stacey and I own an event planning company named Prevoir Special Events, LLC. I am also a photographer and work under the name Prevoir Photography, LLC. We often do even planning and photography combined for our clients. Our name means to plan, to anticipate, to foresee in French.

Stacey and I (Prevoir Special Events) have a September bride at The Oaks at Salem, which is a fairly new venue around here. We went out for our site visit and instantly fell in love with the venue. April, who owns the venue, is the definition of pure Southern charm and hospitality because we ended up staying and talking with her for over three hours! We mentioned that we would love to have a styled shoot out there and she was all for it! We had a theme in our heads of something modern, simple, beautiful and elegant, yet realistic to inspire our brides. We picked our color scheme out of green and cream, and then decided to bring in the pop of deep purple. The tea light place holders and menus were designed by Adger at Sealed With Appeal.

As we got all of our wonderful vendors on board, everything just fell into place. We told our florist, Tre Bella, what we were envisioning for the shoot and they just blew us away with their floral arrangements! The French Bulldog is Stacey’s pooch :) He did a great job and looked oh-so-charming in his matching bow tie! We had such a fun day on the shoot and the models were so relaxed and it just made for a really great day. The models all went to high school together, and the bride and groom were recently married last July – they are definitely still in their honeymoon stage and it showed in front of the camera. Everyone loved posing with the Excalibur provided by Classy Transportation! We photographed all around the venue from the staircase, to the porch, to the fireplace, you name it! The photo ops were endless!

After you’re done oohing, aahing, sighing and swooning over this shoot! Head on down and leave a comment to tell these vendors just how fabulous you think they are and this shoot is! We love it so much and couldn’t thank Erin enough for sharing it with us today!! xoxo