This month, we’re thrilled to feature the beautiful floral, wedding, and event stylings of Rachel Trimarco of New York City’s Bride & Blossom. Jamali Garden: How did you get your start in floral and event design? Bride & Blossom: Prior to Bride & Blossom, I wore various hats in financial sales, public relations, and TV […]

Meet the designer of the social event of the year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala, Raúl Àvila, who shares his designs from the this year’s ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology’ dinner. Jamali Garden: Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get your start in […]

Meet Tara Guérard of Tara Guérard Soirée and have a peek at two of her gorgeous weddings. Jamali Garden: Tell us about your background. Tara Guérard: My background knowledge (and only experience) was in the food and beverage industry (I paid my way through college waiting tables). I had a desire to be creative. So, I took […]

We put some of our favorite beach wedding decor ideas together and they include lots of decor inspiration for the DIY bride and groom. Beach Wedding Ceremony At this pretty beach wedding ceremony, simple stools for wedding guests flank the wedding ceremony aisle decorated with coral fabric and colorful seashells.   At this Montauk, NY, […]

A scientist who worked on the Human Genome Project in her past career, meet Marie Danielle Vil-Young, founder and creative director of À Votre Service Events, a New York based design studio. Jamali Garden: How did you find your way from being a scientist to floral and event design? À Votre Service Events: After years […]

We’ve rounded up some of our best and favorite ideas for vintage wedding decorations, from a vintage wedding ceremony, to vintage-look wedding centerpieces, to the grand finale, your wedding cake. See them all and the sources to recreate these vintage wedding ideas for yourself. Vintage Wedding Ceremony It’s easy to recreate this wedding ceremony backdrop […]

Meet Sierra Steifman, creative director and owner of floral event and design studio Poppies & Posies. Jamali Garden: How did you get your start in floral design? Poppies & Posies: We started our business in 2007 with the intention of offering event planning and floral design services. We then decided to focus solely on floral and event design, […]

This month we’re going behind the scenes with Matthew David Hopkins of Matthew David Celebrations. His mission is to craft great events, moments, and everlasting memories for his clients, focused on “experiences that engage all their senses. Matthew came to New York in the mid-nineties with a bachelor of science in architecture, love of nature, […]