Wedding Treasure Hunt

 

Last month I planned a wedding for a funloving couple who wanted to have a scavenger hunt into their wedding!  I thought this was a really cool idea and had a lot of fun thinking of ways to incorporate it into the guest experience throughout the night.  Please excuse my poor quality iPhone photos, the photographer, Gia Canali is sure to have some much prettier shots, but I just wanted to share the logistics of the game for now.

When guests arrived at the ceremony they received their program with a large personalized pencil.  The back of the program was the answer sheet for the scavenger hunt and the pencil doubled as a flag that guests waved when Emily & Joe recessed down the aisle.  The answer sheet explained the game at the top and included the first question

Clue 1:
"Joe and Emily met in a bar named after this type of tree"

  

 

After the ceremony guests headed into cocktail hour where waiters passed drinks with cocktail napkins that contained clue number two.  The cocktail hour was inside the Conservatory of Flowers so the clue was meant to lead guests to a plant in the special exhibit "Wicked Plants" which also happened to be where the bar and music were playing and so had a lot of foot traffic.

Clue 2:

"Which wicked plant from the genus Strophanthus is known for its effects on the heart?"

  

 

We put a big flag on the plant to help direct guests to this clue "Kombe":

 

Next guests were invited to dinner and Clue Number 3 was written on their Escort Card:

Clue 2: "What do all the table names have in common?"

This clue forced guests to walk around to the other tables to see what the other names where, can you guess the answer to this based on the escort cards below?  The bride and groom thought it would be clever to have every guest seated at Table Number One so the tables were identified by the word "one" in all different languages. 

 

The next clue was on the table number itself, a word scramble:

Clue 3: "Unscramble the letters to reveal your secret message YBASHYOUROUTOKE

_ _ _ _ _       _ _ _ _    _ _ _ _ _"   

Can you unscramble it?  "Shake your booty" !

 Finally on the desert display guests ran into the fifth and final clue, the tie-breaker clue,
 
Clue 5: "Guess how many candies in the jar?" 

They were then instructed to find the white birdcage and place their clues inside.

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the full birdcage but out of 150 guests there were at least 30-40 total entries - not bad!

Here's the winning card, above!  Fun!

11.11.11 Mission Wedding & Trash the Dress Session

This wedding was such an absolute pleasure to be part of, so quirky and fun and outside the norm.  April and Sam decided that instead of having one big wedding they would have three small weddings all over the world!  The first was in Bali, the second in Venice and the third here in San Francisco.

April & Sam live in the Mission and wanted to give their out of town guests a real taste of the city.  They love art, fashion & technology, and dig the Mission graffiti style so much that they commissioned an artist to use the foyer & staircase to their amazing loft as a huge canvas to go wild (above).  Check out pictures of their amazing place:

That's me going over the wedding plan with the groom, his sons & his Dad

The Bride designed this dress for her friend to wear

Obsessed with the Bride's closet!!

April's amazing Alexander McQueen dress and incredibly cool and daring veil!  Not to mention her drop dead gorgeous Maid of Honor, Anastassia who's wedding I planned this past summer.

Guests were told to come to a parking location and were picked up on a bus and transported to the ceremony site, a chic Mission loft that we transformed into a beautiful ceremony location.

That's me getting the Bride down the aisle!

Guests were then taken downtown to Water Bar for a delicious meal with views of the bridge.

Then on to the afterparty at the couple's super cool apartment.

The next day, a trash the dress session with their incredible photographer they flew out from their Italian wedding, Mauro Pozzer

So different and so much fun, thank you April & Sam!

This week at Shannon Leahy Events

Feeling a little like Carmen San Diego this week.  If you ever wondered if I travel for events, the answer is a big, fat YES (and it's less expensive than you may think!).  This week took me to New York City for a client meeting, Greenwich, Connecticut for a site visit and back to Los Angeles for a small event.  

It was so gorgeous to see all the Fall leaves in New England this time of year.

So glad to have my assistant, Claire, back in San Francisco to hold down the fort.  Here's a shot of her on her wedding day in North Carolina!

Black & White Wedding Inspiration

 Hope you're having a great week!  Enjoy these black and white inspirations spotted on Pinterest....