Style me Pretty
Posted by Moscha on February 6th, 2012 | Leave a comment
It is certainly one of the biggest joys for us to start the year with one of the greatest accomplishments for StellaAndMoscha. It is our second time to be to be featured on the one- of -a kind, every bride’s most inspirational blog Style me Pretty but this time for one of our personal weddings a romantic wedding in Venice!
Have to admit to you when organizing this event, it never crossed my mind that it would be of such an interest to this top wedding blog Style me Pretty. It was such a fun project for me! After all these years of planning destination weddings on the Greek islands, browsing on so many different inspiration boards, managing the logistics, and putting them to life, this was truly magical and challenging at the same time.
Andrea & Marcus made the feature possible! A special thank you to Andrea for making this possible. Moreover, if it wasn’t for their stunning, fashion editorial-inspired photos this magical wedding wouldn’t be able to show it’s true magic. The whole team of two photographers, one videographer and an assistance, was great on the day, most importantly they never spoiled the moment with getting in the way of things and were the greatest guests.
Couldn’t have selected a better team than this one: Andrea my wedding planner for whom I have talked about on my previous post is the best planner a planner can get and what has become a great friend! Andrea is also our affiliated partner for weddings in Italy! Astrid is a true professional in all its sense. She created all special details for the wedding from stationery, to table holders, to tailor made plexi glass stirs. One of the most inspirational persons I have ever met, organized, punctual, meticulous I could go on for another paragraph. Marie is a fairy lady, who when inspired to tailor made a special wedding bouquet creates magic!
Here is my wedding inspiration board on Pinterest. It really helped me gather all my wedding related details to create my Emerald Green – Sapphire blue Jewel as well as peacock inspired concept and communicate it over to my great team.
Please go over and check out the whole feature on Style me Pretty Destination Weddings -Venice Wedding by Andrea and Marcus
Warm island Greetings,
A Greek island gem San Nicholas Cave House Villa
Posted by Moscha on February 4th, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Last week we had the pleasure welcoming -on the Greek island-Santorini- a beautiful lady from Japan Sayo Aizawa! Aizawa is a popular Japanese model from Hokkaido. A special thank you to Media Co FSS for making it all possible!
photo taken from my iphone
The reason i am sharing this experience with you is because Aizawa gave an interview earlier this year in one of Japan’s largest TV Channel Sky TV. On her interview she quoted that “Santorini is one of her favorite places on earth”! Do you blame Her? More surprisingly, the TV producers, not only they agreed with her moreover they organized a cast to visit Santorini island and show the rest of Japan a “winter” taste of Santorini and a Greek island gem San Nicholas Cave house Villa.
photo by http://www.absstudio.gr/| design StellaAndMoscha
Aizawa except from her stunning looks, is a very warm sweet kind hearted personality! She visited our brand new Signature property San Nicholas Cave house in Imerovigli and had a small talk about what this hidden Greek island gem has to offer.
Aizawa was excited when she saw the spacious open wardrobe which you can see right below.
the Master bedroom at San Nicholas Cave House Villa photo by http://www.absstudio.gr/ | design StellaAndMoscha
Aizawa was over the moon happy when she saw the inside jaguzzi at the well-apointed bathroom offering a soothing spa experience.
Inside Jaguzzi photo byhttp://www.absstudio.gr/|design StellaAndMoscha
San Nicholas Cave house villa-a true Greek island Gem
This extraordinary home has been restored to welcome new guests with effortless elegance and magnificent views. Years of meticulous research were spent to preserve the structure’s authenticity. Skilled local craftsmen recreated its traditional Santorinian architectural style, elements of the cave were incorporated into the design, and eco-friendly materials were used throughout.
the Master bedroom at San Nicholas Cave House Villa photo by http://www.absstudio.gr/ | design StellaAndMoscha
Arrange your Wedding, Honeymoon or rehearsal dinner barbecue with a view
Between its spectacular Caldera scenery, gracious living spaces and verandas, the Villa is ideal not only for honeymooners but for entertaining as well. Your wedding or dinner reception can be arranged with all food, drink and equipment provided.
With its traditional wood fire Santorinian oven, the Villa’s lower terrace is ideal for a rehearsal dinner barbecue. While your guests marvel at the changing face of the sky, sea and Caldera during one of our Santorinian sunsets, a professional griller can prepare a variety of delectable foods.
a wedding reception at San Nicholas Cave House villa photo by http://www.absstudio.gr/| event design StellaAndMoscha
While on San Nicholas Aizawa was over the moon when she saw the beautiful handmade wedding bouquet made from silk satin and Swarovski brooches by Emici Bridal. This was my wedding bouquet, which is now used as a decoration, and held it for what she quoted “bring her good luck”!
photo taken from my iphone
Enjoy some more pictures from San Nicholas Cave House Villa by clicking here
Warm Island Greetings,
Trend Alert Inspiration for your Greek island Fete
Posted by Moscha on January 24th, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We ‘re in the middle of winter however this White Hat and pleated white dress “whispers” summer oh summer to me!
source by Tuula
As promised on my last blog post this is a trend alert Inspiration for your Greek island Fete. Enjoy!
One of my favorite wedding dress for 2012 by Marchesa
Fell in love with this Wedding gown by Marchesa! It screams Greek Island Beauty with its draped tulle and illusion neckline so hot for this season. All I can think of is a warm island breeze and bells ringing I’do!
source: Brides
Colour palette The Big Blue
Deep into island waters the most refreshing, mystical enduring color -the Big Blue!
source: Fashion squad
Wedding Gift by Ipanema
What a better way to greet your guests on your Destination wedding than these great Ipanema flip flops. They come in an array of colors and designs and would perfectly complement a welcome basket, a gift to your bridesmaids or even your stylish beach outfit!
source: The Lela New York
Hand-crafted DIY present
How unique are these hand-crafted necklaces? With the help of your bridesmaids you can create one of a kind gifts for all important women on your wedding, from your maid of Honor to the flower girl!
source: Pretty little weddings
Have you become a follower of Stella and Moscha on Pinterest? We, like most of you, have spent countless hours pinning the best wedding inspiration on the web. From our favorite Stella and Moscha’s favorite to Reception ideas, our boards contain plenty of inspiring ideas.
Have a wonderful day!
Get the Skinny A wedding planner secretly getting married
Posted by Moscha on January 16th, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Happy new year to all! Hope New Year brings you lots of love and happiness. The arrival of January is also the beginning of the wedding planning season. I am sure that all you “brides-to-be” are already looking for your dream wedding dress, looking into the latest trends for 2012, some of you even getting inspired from all the Golden Globes beauty trends, browsing on several blogs to get ideas about your reception décor and so many other great tips out there. Have so many ideas to share with you, which I know will help you a lot start putting things into perspective.
Will only share a few with you here and promise to post some more on my next post. Have really enjoyed this blog post were you can have a look at some 2012 wedding dress trends!
Loved the Monique Lhuillier dress! You can also have a look at this folder were I have gathered many more wedding trends for 2012
But first of all I would like to share with all my readers my personal experience of getting married on December 2011 in Venice! Much excited and Jumping from Joy my wedding will be featured on Style me Pretty! Stay tuned for my next blog post! Until then here is a small preview just for you!
photo: by Andrea & Marcus Get the Skinny A wedding planner secretly getting married
What does a wedding planner do when “I’do” arrives? Is an intimate elopement the way forward? Is she any different from a normal bride? How does she plan her wedding? Is it so difficult to plan a wedding? Will get to all those answers straight away!
What does a wedding planner do after the “ I Do”? Being a wedding planner with an experience to both intimate elopements and large scale weddings gave me a good idea of what I really wanted as a bride. In my opinion the most important thing about a wedding is to be able to evoke both the groom’s and bride’s character. It has to be all about the couple wishes, hopes, dreams, character. So we decided that a “secret” Intimate destination wedding would make us both happy!
Is an intimate elopement the way forward? Well I am sure most of you have come across millions of blogs and magazines analyzing this term. An elopement according to Wikipedia is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving hurried flight away from one’s place of residence together with one’s beloved with the intention of getting married.Neither my husband nor I wished to have a large scale wedding and all that it entails. What do I mean secret? It was only us and two maids of honor (which came on board last minute)! We really wanted to be able to enjoy the ceremony ritual and feel like having beautiful moments in a beautiful place! I know some of you will already start wondering: no family? No friends? Well choosing to have an intimate wedding means that you have to let go of some positive and negative aspects of having family and friends around! Choosing to do so meant that I had to do everything on my own. Meaning no second opinion about the wedding dress, the flowers, the decoration or hair and makeup! We took the decision not to let anyone know in order to be fair to all our family and friends. Deep down I knew that all our family and friends would be really happy!!!!!
Is she any different from a normal bride? A wedding planner does differ a lot from a normal “bride to be” but they have one thing in common “They both want a “dream “wedding in their own sense. Now this is so difficult to accomplish as I can reassure you that not everything goes as planned at a wedding! Why? For several reasons: family complications, a good friend cancelling last minute, make up artist getting sick, vendors not there on time, a bad experience with your wedding dress rehearsal; the list is endless! What experience has taught me -which makes me differ from a normal bride- is the awareness of all the above! This is something I always tell our “brides-to-be” and something I reminded myself: Stay positive and don’t let anything ruin your day! That’s because if you stress out then your whole energy is focused into negative feelings. This is what I did. Stay positive and my wedding was like a fairytale!
How does she plan her wedding? Of course in the hands of an experienced wedding planner! Looking for a wedding planner is no easy job! Yes I totally agree. I think I must have sent up to 30 or more emails to several wedding planners in Italy and overseas. My suggestion to you is to follow your instinct and go with the one that you feel confident with and the one you feel you can trust. I was fortunate enough to have an affiliate partner in Venice! At first I couldn’t use her contact as my wedding was a secret and my sister and mother are the co-owners of StellaAndMoscha. At the end I decided to confide in her and ask her to keep my story a secret. The most important thing for me is to find a person I can communicate with! Andrea my wedding planner had 3 very important things for me: She was a good listener, She would never give me an answer before investigating well into the matter, she had back up plans (I love back up plans)! You can imagine that being a planner I had a pretty clear picture about everything I wanted: Photographers, design details, orthodox wedding logistics and so on. Andrea was able to make me feel like a bride for one day and not like a planner!
Is it so difficult to plan a wedding? Let me rephrase this question: Is being a bride that difficult? Well……Yes and No! One tip I would give to every bride to be is: do not let anyone get to you! What do I mean? We all know that the wedding industry is a bit saturated. There is so much information out there about what a bride should, must, could do. Anywhere from the wedding boutique, to the jewelry shop people will start telling you about the protocol of a wedding. There is absolutely no rule nor protocol about a wedding dress, or a wedding band or a wedding cake! Everything should be the way you wish! Should I have not being through this experience I would never have thought that this is the case. However sad enough “protocol” still exists.
Dear readers have you had a similar experience? How did you find your wedding planner? Would you prefer an Intimate Elopement or is a large scale wedding your preference? What is your dream wedding? Have you thought about your ceremony and reception decoration?
A great Celebration!
Posted by Moscha on December 29th, 2011 | Leave a comment
A great Celebration.
This is our last post for this season and we would like to share all the happy moments we are grateful for with you: “our readers”.
We had the opportunity to coordinate beautiful weddings, meet so many couples in love ready to share their new lives together, get to know their wonderful families and create numerous & unique wedding themes.
Feeling lucky and blessed to have been able to work with couples from so many different cultural backgrounds, blending their customs and personalities, to create unique celebrations. One of these fetes was our first Indian Wedding which was our first blog post for this year.
Most importantly our new website Stella And Moscha as well as our new blog have just been launched and we are more than excited to share it with you!
We’re so thankful that our wonderful couples and colleagues have supported us and it’s a thrill to be able to celebrate it with our friends!
We would like to end this post with one of our biggest accomplishments this year, being featured in Style me Pretty.
It is a true honor that one of the weddings we organized this year has been described as “All designed and planned to absolute perfection by Weddings in Santorini (now Stella and Moscha), this is one soiree that is guaranteed to leave you smiling (and humming love songs) for the rest of your week”.
Style me Pretty is every bride’s stop blog for greatest inspiration on her wedding day. The wedding planners and vendors picked to be published there are specially selected. We are more than thrilled to be included in this fabulous blog! Read the Submission here
This has been an amazing year for our team…
Can’t wait to meet all our 2012 Brides and Grooms!
Russian from Aegean Films on Vimeo.
New Kid on the Blog
Posted by Moscha on December 16th, 2011 | Leave a Comment
New Kid on The Blog
Welcome to Stella & Moscha’s Greek Island Wedding Inspirations! We’re so excited about our first ever blog, and can’t wait to share the stories of all our wonderful couples and their Greek Island fetes.
My name is Moscha and will be posting all inspiring ideas for your Greek island fete and so much more.
We’ve had the honor of planning so many amazing weddings this year that it’s been hard to choose which to feature. Since this is our first official blog post, we decided it would be fitting to show you Stella & Moscha’s very first Indian wedding, which we organized this summer.
Dimitri and Seema were married at Rocabella hotel, and had 2 different weddings. The first day they had the Indian wedding and the second day the Greek Civil wedding. They were both designed by our in house wedding designer Evangelia Mendrinou.
They chose Santorini as their location because it spoke to their style and personality. We had so much fun helping them to plan a wedding that captured their style, honored tradition, and highlighted their location!
On the day of their Indian wedding early in the morning they had a spiritual ceremony which was held by the bride’s family. It was so emotional and inspiring. Here are some preview pictures.
photo Poole Brothers London
photo Poole Brothers London
Greek Civil Wedding on the second day
photo Poole Brothers London
Here you can have a look on the wedding gallery and their wedding video . We are still pending the full wedding Gallery from the amazing photographers so stay tuned for some more!
Even if as a couple you come from different religious and cultural backgrounds, like Dimitri and Seema, why not incorporate some of your customs into your wedding ceremony?
Share your ideas with us!
Warm island Greetings,