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Showing posts with label hotel palomar. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Mimi & Martin


Hotel Palomar is a brand new Chicago hotel on State & Illinois.  They just began hosting weddings, and Gerber+Scarpelli has had the honor and privilege of doing three of the only four weddings held there.  It's a fantastic space and for the right sized party it's the perfect location for a downtown Chicago Wedding.  

Mimi and Martin overcame a number of obstacles leading up to their wedding day.  While planning for the big event, Mimi was assigned a project in Sweden so she had to do most of the planning over the phone while trusting Martin's judgement on making sure it was executed the way she'd envisioned.  Not only that, but the Palomar hadn't even been finished by the time they booked it!  When it came time to sign Martin and the fabulous planner Melissa Philips were standing in a concrete room with hard hats on imagining what the room would look like while imagining how their decor would fit in.  Needless to say, they did a great job.  One of our favorite things about this wedding was the super long 40 person table for their whole party.  Not only did it enhance the feeling of everyone being a family at the wedding, but it was surely something different than most of their guests had ever seen.  It was a fabulous event with a fabulous couple.  Thanks to Mimi and Martin for having us be a part of your day!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Jenny & Alec



It was like a story out of a movie; Jenny and Alex met while studying literature in Bristol, England.  They fell in love and maintained a long distance relationship between Jenny's home in Illinois and Alec's in England.  After a big move to the United States, Jenny and Alec had their wedding at the brand new Hotel Palomar!  We were so lucky to shoot there, because this hotel has only had three weddings so far.  The space is beautiful, but not as much as our couple!

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