I love a daring bridal look and so when I saw Karyn & Fernando’s wedding I was immediately drawn to one thing – Karyn’s amazing headpiece. Go big or go home I say! Being a milliner, the bride designed and made it herself. She also designed her own wedding dress alongside Toronto-based dress designer Thein Le. This was all very significant as it was actually Karyn’s hat business that first brought the couple together.
“Fernando was looking for a place to take a trip. To help him decide, he threw a dart to a map. It landed on Toronto and so off he went”, explained the bride. “On his last day, he was wandering the streets and he saw Lilliput Hats. As a lover of hats himself he went on in, and we met. Our romance didn’t happen so quickly though. We kept in touch for a while, and eventually met up again when I decided to invite him to be my ‘casual +1’ at a friend’s wedding. After that, we started talking even more, and eventually decided to meet up in Chicago, where we fell in love. We were in bar called ‘The Violet Hour’ so we actually used this (sunset) as a theme for our wedding. We used the sunset colors of dark pink and orange, with some hints of purple here and there. We also kept the hat theme with some girls from my shop coming down and bringing some of my hats along for people to try on at the reception!”
The reception also had a subtle sugar skull/day of the dead theme which ran through the homemade invites, handkerchiefs, cake and temporary tattoos! Their motto was ‘Love Happens’.
Gorgeous. Thank you to Karyn & Fernando and their wedding photographer Yaritza Colón for sharing with us today.
