Kate Mayfield, Ada Ratna and Gorden Bowen
Gordon Bowen, an artist and co-founder (with Kate) of the Arts Refoundary, made the candle mounts out of forks; they are astoundingly ornate, and served beyond their purpose since they are each so unique and are nothing less than stand-alone art works. The candles were set into wine glasses covered in texts. It was Kate's idea to use shredded bits of romance novels collaged onto glasses to light the walls, tables, and shelves. I spent many an evening with glue, scissors, wine glasses and saucy paperbacks - a different twist on a lady spending nights alone with wine and romance novels.
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photos by Rose Apodaca
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Kate is a writer, editor and designer, but she's also an expert in creating atmosphere. Any event I ever attended at her home always had whimsey and inventiveness in the decorative elements. Kate has a way of bringing disparate things together so that they seem inextricably and pleasingly linked. She's accepted the large task of addressing overall aesthetics for the wedding, added with the challenge of incorporating a floral element without using any real flowers. She enlisted the graphic design talents of Ade Ratna, who will replace the typical flower centerpiece using her more than clever devices. In a big event like this, with so many artists and different points of view, it is important to have someone help to ink it together so that there's a visual cohesion and grace to the evening.
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photo by Rose Apodaca
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I wanted to speak my own toast to the couple through the voices of all the guests. I was going to just write each word on the butcher paper in front of each seat, but Kate conceived of the small pictorial transparencies for Ade to design that each word would be written on. They served as place settings and tied together the imagery from the centerpiece and the napkin rings. They also solved a myriad of other issues to tedious to mention.
- I took over take out the word in bw the role of flowers, to develop a concept for the bouquet toss, and add Kate bwMayfield found Ade Ratner to aid by desiging the table runner add and place settings bwas a substitue for flora beyond the bouquet.
Ade designed the table runners based on my idea to have the flora of the wedding constructed out of paper for the guests to color in throughout the meal. She also designed the small napkin holders that corresponded to the runners. In doing so, the rendered "flowers" would collectively "bloom" over time. The gesture served to spark interaction among everyone in a fun and engaging way, while creating something charming and beautiful for the couple to keep as a memento. Ade graphically worked in personal and meaningful symbols relating to Bec and Ruben using a coloring book, reminiscent of the style of her design.
photo by Tyler Hubby
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photo by Rose Apodaca
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an image from the recreation of the table setting at The Center for the Arts, photo by Hubby
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