French Destination Wedding-Lake Annecy

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

French destination wedding, Lake Annecy, French Alps
Abbaye de Talloires, Lake Annecy

Wedding season is beginning to start up again as newly engaged brides look to the web for inspiration. This past year we had some really beautiful weddings and more will be posted shortly. But I am finally ready to post my own wedding.  I was fortunate enough to have an intimate destination wedding in a beautiful hillside town in the French Alps at the Abbaye de Talloires in Talloires France.  Honestly, it's the most beautiful place I've been and I can't wait to return.  The Abbye is an old French Monastery set on Lake Annecy (the cleanest lake in Europe)  With that back drop, there is not much you have to do but enjoy the view. When we returned to the NYC we continued the celebration at STK Rooftop with just some of my husband's 200 cousins :)

As a New York City wedding planner, I tend to be quite busy and like to micro-manage things, what bride doesn't like to micro-manage :) With overseas destination weddings, sometimes you have to leave things up in the air, at least that's how I felt.  I had 7 of my friends from France helping me with the planning, yet I still felt like I didn't quite have a tight handle on things. In the end,  it was all that I could have ever dreamed of and more.

I walked down a chiffon rose aisle escorted by my eldest son, where we met our other 4 children, my sister the maid of honor and Walter, my husband's best friend since kindergarten as the best man. We shipped in gold crushed taffeta linens and added an ivory rosette linen as our centerpiece table accented with mercury glass, crystals and candles. Our intimate wedding of 30 people encompassed a large square so it was easy to see and talk with every one of our guests. To show our gratitude, each of our guest received a gift bag decorated with vintage lace and stuffed with a small bottle of wine, local cheese and French accented paper goods. Custom menu cards with a Swarovski crystal embellishments, gold chargers, mercury glass and ivory accents adorned the table.  Custom wish tags with a map of NYC showing where my husband and I met was marked with a red glitter heart. Our guests wrote us a special message on the tags and added it to the tree behind us. And of course any where else I could add a little bit of sparkle, I did- the card box and the glitter flag drink stirrers. :)  We ended our night with a beautiful pièce montée (French wedding cake) macaroons and a send off with our heart shaped sky lanterns.

First, I have to thank the amazingly talented group of people that helped me pull this off,  Abby Caldwell Photography and Keith Claytor of Time Frozen Photography are 2 of the most gifted, down to earth, feel good people I know. My photos could not have turned out more gorgeous!  Jeremy White, owner of Fairfax Films-cinematographer extraordinaire, well his talent speaks for itself.  I am so blessed and thankful for this team!

And now on to the video and photos:


French Destination Wedding, Lake Annecy, Talloires, France

tination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy, Annecy, French Alps
Abbaye de Talloires, Lake Annecy

French Destination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy, Annecy
View from the Abbaye de Talloires
Blush wedding, blush and ivory wedding invitations, ring bearer box
Blush and ivory wedding invitations, mother of pearl ring bearer box
blush wedding, custom wedding shoes, blush wedding flowers,
Custom wedding shoes, blush and ivory wedding bouquet

French Destination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy
French destination wedding
French Destination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy
Rose chiffon wedding aisle with blush and ivory wedding flowers

France destination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy, Annecy, French Alps
Blush and Ivory French Destination Wedding
Ivory bridesmaid dress and grey suits, Talloires, France
Ivory bridesmaid dress and grey suits
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Blush wedding hair piece
Destination wedding, glitter wedding details, wish card, tination wedding, Talloires, France, lake annecy, Annecy, French Alps
Glitter drink stirrers and wish tags
Destination wedding, wedding jewerly,  wedding centerpiece
Wedding centerpiece, wedding jewerly
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First dance outside under the trees
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Sky wish lanterns

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