Beautifully elegant wedding reception...with caricatures the whole time!

Another amazing wedding reception on a Friday night took place at another new-to-me venue, The Ivy at Ellis Preserve. The bride booked me (quite a long time ago!) for the entire reception and I was able to draw 61 guests as mini-caricatures! Plus the bride and groom's full-size, full color one!

Here's EVERYBODY!!!!!!

You can click the above image to make it bigger. This is representative of what I send my couples after the wedding, so THEY can see and enjoy all the caricatures, too. Check out my IG Reel to see them with a little added motion!

The surroundings were just stunning:

I was up on a beautiful loft area for the cocktail hour then moved downstairs for the reception proper, just outside the ballroom. The guests found me easily and kept me busy!

The evening ended with a rousing Eagles cheer!

Best wishes to Jackie and Jimmy!

Lakeside wedding reception with caricatures!

 Absolutely wonderful wedding reception! 

Ambiance Reel

Let's start at the beginning. I had never been to this venue before...the Lake House Inn, it's in rural Bucks County on Lake Nockamixon and it is spectacular! I took this photo from where the cocktail hour would eventually happen:

Then I quickly set up and waited for the guests to appear:

Here they are (a few from cocktail hour)

Even the newborn got a caricature!

Then at sunset, everyone adjourned to the tented ballroom on the lake:

The bride and groom came in and did a fabulous first dance, which I decided would 

be immortalized in their wedding caricature...

Here's their reaction on my IG!

Yes, I drew more guests too:

Thanks for having me!!!

Burnt orange and umber wedding caricatures

 This fabulous wedding had an unusual color scheme: burnt orange and umber, which was PERFECT for the line-drawing-only caricatures I was drawing for the guests...the toned paper made them POP! 

But first, the bride and groom:

I made sure to get his beloved cognac in there! Here is their reaction on my IG. 

There was a unique connection with this bride---I had drawn her two years ago at an anniversary party. 

All my drawings have my contact info on them, so when she booked me I asked whose party it was, and she told me. Then I asked her what she was wearing at this party and if I'd taken a photo--

she said a green feathered-top.  Turns out

 I'd included her photo when I designed my vinyl pull-up banner I use at almost every gig!!!

She's in the middle photo, top row in glasses, doing duck lips (which is why I included that caricature 

as a sample because it was so cute!) 

Here you can see where I was situated at her gloriously over-the-top reception:

Here's how my toned paper looked for the guest caricatures!

Ambiance Reel

The dance floor was PACKED all night:

Thank you for having me C & A!!!!

Update: The bride left this review on my Google listing, I LOVE IT--thank you!

This lady is amazing ! She brings nothing but smiles and pure talent to an event ! Some people thought she was family ! Thank you so much again for your speedy professionalism we appreciate! #GREENCOMETRUE one for the books 🫶🏼

Rainy Day Wedding Caricatures

 This bride and groom got married amidst gentle spring rain showers, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay...and it was absolutely, stunningly beautiful!

You can see them walking back as a newly married couple in my IG Reel, 

along with their caricature reaction! 

I've been to Swan Harbor before, it's lovely. Its driveway is almost a mile long! 

The cocktail hour was in the manor house, so I started off there, then moved into the big tent on the lawn.

 

This sampler was done by a little girl in the house in 1817, I found it very moving ( I love counted cross stitch too)

So, on to some wedding guests and the Ambiance Reel:

The groom's dad's mother was a prolific artist. so he found my process fascinating.

You can see more of his photos in this Reel, but I really loved the BW photo he took of me.

I didn't even realize he was there as I worked on the bride and groom's caricature,

 from a photo I had taken earlier. 

Thank you for having me via Gigsalad!