Textured & Timeless at Walden Chicago
EV Photography, Walden Chicago, and a fabulous vendor team collaborated to create a textural, timeless ode to Chicago. Set in Walden’s century-old building, this styled shoot oozes elegance, texture, and contrast.
The team curated a tonal, white-on-white color palette, making the perfect backdrop to create elegance by layering diverse textures. For timeless elegance to come through in the photos, color was meticulously dosed out in the details. A touch of gray-blue in the invitations and coupe glasses echoed the same gray-blue hues of the February Chicago skyline. Lively green hues peeking out behind flower petals held the promise of Chicago spring.
The textured details and minimal color palette worked in harmony to pay tribute to Chicago. Industrial rooftops and the hazy Chicago skyline are easily seen in the breezy photos captured on Walden’s rooftop. Other odes to Chicago were more subtle, like the inside flap of the invitation envelope featuring a historic photo of Chicago’s Randolph Street. The breezy streets of downtown and the untamed Lake Michigan shoreline inspired the wave patterns repeated in the hand-painted plaster texture on the invitations, in the ethereal skirt folds of the wedding dress and the three-dimensional wave detailing on the tiered cake.
Switching the beat up some, the team transitioned from portraying elegance through layered textures to showcasing elegance through classic contrast for the reception look. The bridal model donned a vintage pair of black gloves and black-handled utensils, candlesticks and menu cards adorned the dining table to contrast the white linens, florals, and serving ware. In a playful touch closing out the festivities, the models used the coupe glasses to plunge into a vintage-inspired, ornate sweetheart cake, revealing layers of decadent chocolate cake.
Vendors
PHOTOGRAPHER EV Photography
VENUE Walden Chicago
FLORAL & DECOR Styled By Stephanie
PLANNER Evanov Events
HAIR & MAKEUP Refined Beauty Boutique
GOWNS Wish Upon a Dress, Grace + Ivory
FORMALWEAR SuitShop
STATIONERY Ze Design Studio
CAKE The Purple Tulip Cakery
MODELS Dion Tyler and Kaylie Tyler
