Dream Wedding in Carmel

The first week of June I spent 7 days in Pebble Beach / Monterey working on a wedding. Now for those of you that really only know me through my motorcycle antics you may remember that I work in the Event / Entertainment industry doing theatrical lighting. Part of that business on occasions includes weddings. The compnay I work for does weddings all the time, but I don't usually do them unless they are on the high end, and have money to spend. This is one of those occasions.
 The bride and groom were not anybody of note, nobody famous just lucky to be apart of some successful familes that can afford the best. When I say the best they started by hiring the world most famous wedding designer Preston Bailey. It all goes down hill from there. Hartmann Studios built a small tent with clear walls and ceilings, and covered the tent floor with an amazing wood panelling. It was my job to make the place look magical. We had many meetings and hundreds of emails, and still it was a death march to pull it off.
 The design had two sections. Inside the tent, and outside. The trick was that the designers wanted it to be a seamless transition from inside to out, and since the walls were clear what you could see outside was apart of what you could see inside. the original concept was to cover the outside of the clear tent with mini light strand nets, the kind you see at christmas covering peoples hedges in front of their house. After 2 days of struggling with making that work I made the call that it wasn't going to give us the look we wanted. So on Friday I ordered white mini light strands from Colorado and had them overnighted to Monterey, as well as cleaning out the stock that Hartmann had in their warehouse. I'm really glad I made that decision, and wish I would have made it a day earlier. The rest of our lighting consisted of making the foliage, trees, ect .. around the garden area as pretty as possible. Preston's crew hung candles in lanterns around the trees (I can't believe they pulled that off in California) and the end result was a very pretty event. So those of you I know in the motorcycle world might find it hard to believe that I do "pretty" pretty damn good.
 It was a tough event as working in a clear tent is like working in a green house, and the logistics of the jobsite were challenging as well, but working with all the different teams was a fun challenge and the end product was exceptional.

Here's a picture in the tent.

Here's a close up of the tent top

A view from the stage

A view of the garden