An Intimate Simple Traditional Wedding at the Grand Gimeno

Not all weddings are flashy and big full of glitz and glamour. This couple originally were not planning on having an actual wedding at all but later decided to have a small intimate wedding with just family and a few close friends.

THE COUPLE:

SONYA + JEFFERY

THE VENUE

GRAND GIMENO

This couple had such a great vibe and intent that all the vendors wanted to do better to make it even greater them. Their love just seemed so pure!

Sonya and Jeffery focused on tradition and the people instead of all the other aesthetics of a wedding. They treated the vendors as guests as well and were very welcoming, allowing the vendors to eat a mean with the rest of the guests. Overall they were very focused on the people.

And to follow the Korean tradition, they did a Paebaek ceremony as well.

Wedding days can be stressful and hectic but when you’re just handing out good vibes like this couple, it makes the day even better! Congratulations Sonya and Jeffery!

Vendors:

Planner | Paebaek: @livelovecreate

Venue: @grandgimeno

Photo: @arawcollection

Floral: @b.ju_floral

Live Music: @omg.ocdamiamusicgroup

Hair + Makeup: @chialimengartistry

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Surprise Birthday Proposal on Catalina Island

Recently we had the pleasure of setting up a surprise proposal on Catalina Island. Everything looks and was picture perfect for the proposal but what led up to the proposal was insane!

The Couple:

Charley + Emily

The Location:

Zane Grey Hotel

This couple was actually already engaged but the groom to be wanted to do an official proposal and he watned to do it on the bride to be’s birthday celebration, which landed on a Tuesday. Our team took the ferry out on Monday night to Catalina Island with the florist to set up in time for early Tuesday morning arrival. One they arrived on the island…the storm starting coming in.

Early Tuesday morning, while our team was setting up for the surprise proposal, Christine receives a text from Charley saying their boat was cancelled. As they tried to find later boat schedules, the storm began to get worse so everything had to be moved and set up again indoors instead. And then another text later in the day, saying ALL boats were cancelled for that day.

All the decor had to be taken down and reset to try again on Wednesday. Luckily on Wednesday the storm cleared up and the weather was looking great. Everything was set up on the balcony as originally planned and ready to get this surprise proposal going. But of course, we find out that the photographer and the couple are on the same boat!

Charley and Christine worked together to rush the photographer to the hotel while delaying the couple a bit longer for the photographer to have time to set up. And after all this craziness, we had a successful surprise proposal.

A nasty storm, getting stuck on an island for two days, and having the photographer and couple on the same boat, cant stop us from helping two lovebirds get engaged properly. So overall, a total success!

Check out our behind the scene footage below!

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Vendors:

Designer | Planner: @livelovecreate, @christineschang

Hotel: @zanegreypueblohotel

Photo: @joekimstudio

Floral: @theflowerbyyoori

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The Wedding Hustler Premiere

Recently our CEO and founder Christine Chang attended the movie premiere of her upcomming movie, ‘The Wedding Hustler’. Accompanied by her husband and family, she made her first debut into the acting world on the big screen.

In the premiere, Christine shares how the movie was about bringing together the Asian American community by using an all Asian American cast and the great chemistry everybody had with each other on and off screen. Even though this was Christine’s first acting gig, she had such a good comfy vibe with all cast that the rest came naturally.

This movie is about a groom who creates a surprise wedding for his fiancé with the help of the "Wedding Hustler” aka Christine Chang. In the movie, Christine Chang is an Asian American wedding planner who knows her "thang" on bargaining the best price for any event. When she learns about a couple who rescheduled their wedding three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she decides to help the groom surprise his fiancé with the perfect wedding. With barely any money, the groom and the planner navigate through the street vendors of Los Angeles to piece together the wedding of his fiancé's dreams. The very cool part of this is that Christine actually did do their real life wedding prior to the movie as well which inspired the storyline of ‘The Wedding Hustler’.

‘The Wedding Hustler’ will be in select theatres in January 2023 and available on Amazon Prime on February 10, 2023.

Please be sure to check it out and support Christine along with the fellow Asian Americans of the AAPI community featured in this film!