Ojala Floral Wedding Gallery for Olivia & Ashwin
Flowers were designed in a range of mustard gold, crimsons, rust, copper and green tones to differ from table to table, and were arranged within aged terracotta garden pots.
a beautiful and wild entanglement
The school is nestled in the foothills of Carpinteria, once a mecca for flower farms. Now, a different kind of flower farm reigns there and the fragrant buds can be detected by the most insensitive of noses on the winding road pointing away from the sea. Marrying at the Cate School was a natural choice, and an honor, as alums.
Olivia and Ashwin reconnected after their time at Cate when their young love and spirit sent them on a year long journey through Central America in a van. Olivia collected a number of treasures including a trove of serapes in a range of hues which I used to wrap bouquets and boutonnieres, she used to make bow ties for the groom and his men and the rest dressed guest’s tables. We chose traditional Mexican blooms including dahlias, marigolds, strawflower and coreopsis layered with passion vine and wild herbs. Flowers were designed in a range of mustard gold, crimson, rust, copper and green tones to differ from table to table, and were arranged within aged terra-cotta garden pots.
The ceremony was set on the campus path where Ashwin first saw Olivia. Guests took their seats within an open courtyard situated between a sparkling summer sea and green mountainscapes of Rincon. The site was decorated with oversized clay pots from which red geranium poured and scented the grounds. They were married on regal, concrete steps between two stately benches decorated with local queen anne’s lace, passion and a mess of adult babies breath start from a nursery down the road that, over time and without disturbance, had been allowed to mature into a beautiful and wild entanglement.