The Decor Plan that Started with a Tapestry
Our first wedding of 2026 was built, in large part, by the bride.
Riana wanted to honor her Jewish ancestry, so she and Brennan married under a chuppah — and she hand-painted the canvas herself. She crocheted the tapestries that hung from the bar: two figures in blue, a woman mid-turn in a long dress and a man mid-step. She sewed the blue handkerchiefs that sat folded on the family seats.
Then we designed everything else around what she'd made.
The palette followed her lead — a coastal Italian garden party with vintage flair. Peach and sunset orange, golden yellow and white, dusty blue running underneath. Olive and sage greenery. Beige neutrals, French blue accents, wood and rattan and glass. She wanted framed paintings hung in the windows, so we hung framed paintings in the windows, and the January light came through them all afternoon.
During the ceremony they shared wine from a Kiddush cup they brought with them. At the reception, their guests lifted them both off the ground for the hora, and the room went the way rooms go when nobody is being careful anymore.
And the dress: long sleeves, a cathedral veil, a silhouette that belonged in one of the paintings on the windows. From Elevated Bridal in Tyler, Texas.
It's rare that a wedding carries one person's hand all the way through. This one did — and our whole job was to build a room worthy of it.
Every wedding at Sainte Terre includes your planner, florist, chef, photographer, DJ, cake designer and day-of coordinator. One team, four meetings — not forty. And when a couple brings something they made themselves, we plan the rest around it.
Photography by Marli Johnson Photography.
Florals by Botanical Occasions.
Cake by Sweetie Cakes.
Design and coordination by Hillary Moss, Sainte Terre.
Gown from Elevated Bridal, Tyler, Texas.