Featured in Green Wedding Shoes this week is Madie and Jordan’s wedding! Madi and Jordan’s summertime celebration has Lovelyfest Events written ALL over it! From the ombre hydrangeas and disco balls to the iridescent chairs and neon signs—we are obsessed with this coordination of the couple’s vision and Lovelyfest’s creativity!

Guests were greeted by an escort display at cocktail hour that was not to be missed! The attention grabbing colors combined with the lush and light florals felt like something from another world…or at least another decade (70’s dance party, anyone?!).

Our Grand Lawn was the perfect space for all 400 guests to dine together under fairytale lights. Pinks, purples, and iridescent chairs wowed the guests as they walked over from cocktail hour. A mix of vendors were brought in to create this dreamy setting!

Honoring family and friends was the number one priority for Madi and Jordan. Madi played homage to her heritage through florals and the massive dinner party set up was perfect for guests to mix and mingle with the couple. It also gave guests, no matter where they were seated, the perfect view of Madi and Jordan’s first dance!

The icing on the [neon] cake was the hot pink sign toting the couples newly shared last name! If a pink neon sign doesn’t scream “party” I don’t know what does! Guests thought so too as they flowed into the barn to drink, dance, and celebrate Madi + Jordan!

Check out their wedding video by Steelhead Cinema here!

Photographer: Jenna Routh | Design + Planning: Lovelyfest | Florals: Idlewild | Videographer: Steelhead Cinema | Dress: Miraz Willinger | Venue: Greengate Ranch | Hair + Makeup: The Queens Bees | Rentals: Theoni Collection, All About Events, Got You Covered Rentals | Lounge Rentals: Avenue Twelve, Scout Rental Co | Lighting + Draping: Bella Vista Designs | Linens: Blush Fine Linens, La Tavola Linens | Cake + Desserts: Pastry Chef Whitnie | Catering: Chefs Table Catering | Bar: Copper & Crystal | DJ: Epic Entertainment SLO | Photobooth: Rumor Photo Media | Neon: Sketch & Etch

Another year, another California Wedding Day Best Of awards ceremony! This year looked a little bit different than most—instead of dressing up for a beautiful awards ceremony and dancing the night away with our favorite wedding vendors, we were cozied up on the couch watching the awards virtually. While the night may not have been as extravagant as usual, it was just as exciting as Greengate Ranch was nominated for THREE Best Of categories this year: Best Indoor Venue, Best Outdoor Venue, and Best Overall Vendor! We are continuously honored and humbled by our fellow vendors for the love and support we receive and are super excited to say that we were voted as Best Outdoor Venue for 2020!

2020 has been a unique year to say the very least. During these trying times, it was beyond inspiring and uplifting to see our fellow wedding vendors be recognized for all the hard work they have put in to making couples’ dreams come true. Creating a wedding is a true labor of love, and nobody loves it more than the people behind the scenes making it all happen. We feel blessed to not only have our love for this industry recognized, but to be working alongside the most talented and hardworking people who we are lucky enough to call our friends!

If you could dream up your most extraordinary, one of a kind wedding, what would you do? Neon signs? Disco balls? Ombre hydrangeas greeting you at the end of the aisle? Well Madi and Jordan dreamt up their perfect wedding and it had all of those things and MORE! Alongside the amazing design/coordination duo, Lovelyfest, Madi and Jordan brought their lavender, pink, and iridescent vision to life!

The 340 guests in attendance filled the flower lined peninsula. Idlewild went above and beyond when bringing Madi’s idea of a hydrangea filled ceremony to life. Madi has had a special place in her heart for the flower ever since she was young and visited the Azores, where her great-grandparents are from and where hydrangeas are a-plenty.

The most extravagant escort display we have ever laid eyes on welcomed guests to the courtyard for cocktail hour. Madi and Jordan “had a vision of creating a three dimensional, colorful escort display to match their fun wedding design” and Lovelyfest absolutely nailed it. They went all out for this signage and we couldn’t be any more in love with it!

Guests were seated under a canopy of lights on our Grand Lawn for dinner. The weather was perfect for an early evening dinner, with the space lighting up beautifully as the sun began to set. Dinner on the lawn brings such a different feel to the wedding while really taking advantage of what Greengate has to offer and we love when couples go that route!

Barn transformation, anyone?! We could not believe how all of the vendors came together to bring our barn to LIFE. If those disco balls could be permanently installed, we wouldn’t be mad about it! “The Hines” neon sign brought everyone into the party and the dessert display and great music kept everyone there! Every detail of this barn transformation was so thought out and well executed—and also gave us some serious inspo for the future!

Check out their wedding video by Steelhead Cinema here!

Photographer: Ashley Ludaescher | Design + Planning: Lovelyfest | Florals: Idlewild | Videographer: Steelhead Cinema | Dress: Miraz Willinger | Venue: Greengate Ranch | Hair + Makeup: The Queens Bees | Rentals: Theoni Collection, All About Events, Got You Covered Rentals | Lounge Rentals: Avenue Twelve, Scout Rental Co | Lighting + Draping: Bella Vista Designs | Linens: Blush Fine Linens, La Tavola Linens | Cake + Desserts: Pastry Chef Whitnie | Catering: Chefs Table Catering | Bar: Copper & Crystal | DJ: Epic Entertainment SLO | Photobooth: Rumor Photo Media | Neon: Sketch & Etch