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Are you looking for a hotel in Santa Barbara near the beach? Located in the trendy West Beach neighborhood of Santa Barbara, The Eagle Inn is a romantic bed and breakfast hotel in Santa Barbara that provides comfortable accommodations just two blocks from the beach and a short stroll from the harbor, Stearns Wharf and State Street.  Intimate and peaceful, [...]

“Santa Barbara event planners work closely with audio visual firms when planning elegant weddings…”   Merryl Brown Events, an award-winning Santa Barbara event management company, specializes in planning and presenting elegant weddings, corporate events and social events. Unparalleled creativity makes Merryl Brown Events one of the best event management companies in Santa Barbara. Merryl Brown Events specializes in full-service wedding planning and often works [...]

Although our winter season was very busy, sometimes we just need to have some creative fun with friends! Photographer Joan Allen and I had been speaking for several months about creating a moody, dreamy Santa Barbara wedding shoot that also incorporated bridal fashion, poetry and art.  We designed and produced this wonderful wedding photo shoot [...]

I was looking back over some past Santa Barbara weddings, that we have done and came across these boho chic wedding style shots, which are no longer featured on my website. I just love the simplicity and purity that the talented Melissa Musgrove captured in each of them. Laura Sangas from Cody Floral Design also did [...]

I recently visited  the fabulous shop P o r c h on Santa Claus Lane, where I came across magnificent sustainable garden designs by Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture.  I love his masterpiece “Out of the Box,” which was designed as a demonstration at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens. Smith’s combination of rugged salvaged materials [...]

At an International Special Events Society (ISES) meeting in LA, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting an inspirational woman, Paula Estes, who is a talented botanical artist and floral designer who combines imagination and creativity to design unique, one-of-a-kind special event stationery, greeting cards and green wedding invitations. Her company, Petalos di Pauli , [...]

I have just recently discovered the work of talented decorator, watercolor artist and stylist Marc Normand Gelinas and I am so amazed that one person could have so much talent. Here are some photographs of his work that I thought were very beautiful and tasteful.