Pretty handmade details, freshly picked wild flowers, and a wedding dress designed and made by the talented bride feature in this morning’s wedding all the way from Kibbutz Ga’ash in Israel.
Rafaela is one super cool bride with great taste and very creative hands! I love how she incorporated her and Erez’s names into their chuppah and did you know that she not only designed her dress, but also her bag, hair accessories, and all six of the bridesmaid dresses too!
The gorgeous images come from one of my much-loved Smashing Suppliers, Dror Einav, who’s captured all of the love and details, and with a great sense of humour too. Take it away, Rafaela…
A garden venue in a castle
Rafaela, the Bride: We wanted a beautiful garden venue, but food and indoor air-conditioned dancing was also important to us. When we stumbled across Hatira (which means ‘castle’ in Hebrew), we knew it was the one. The place was gorgeous, with fantastic acoustics and delicious food and we said yes on the spot!
Postcard-style wedding invitations
Our wedding invitations were designed like a postcard, as if we were sending them from holiday!
hair + make up
I wore my hair in a classically elegant style. Aviel & Perry did my hair and makeup.
Designing my own wedding dress
I’m a wedding dress designer so I designed my wedding dress myself. It was really hard to choose the style and I had to do a lot of work with myself till I realised what I was going to design for my wedding day.
Accessories
I also designed my wedding bag and hair accessories.
glittery heels
I wore sparkly high heels covered in glitter by Roni Kantor.
the groom
Erez wore a bespoke suit by Doron Ashkenazi and looked very handsome.
six bridesmaids in outfits designed by the bride
I had six bridesmaids and I designed and made each of their dresses (as well as matching hair bows!) for them especially for the wedding. I designed them in pastel shades to match my wedding colours.
chuppah design
A friend and I made the chuppah, and incorporated our names and the wedding date into the design.
Music
Our wedding song was Arms by Christina Perri. After Erez smashed the glass we played Shout by Otis Day & The Knights, and our first dance song was Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud.
our fabulous photographer
We met Dror Einav, our photographer once and fell in love with everything about him! We loved his work and knew at once that he would be our wedding photographer.
Rafaela & Erez’s little white book
Photography — Dror Einav
Venue — Hatira
Event design — Event design by Amelie’s World — Design your story
Brides’s dress and accessories — Rafaela Kalderon
Bride’s shoes — Roni Kantor
Groom’s attire — Doron Ashkenazi
Hair + Make Up — Aviel & Perry
