Modern, cool, and ready to dance, this couple hosted a most festive wedding at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Lucite chairs, peacock feathers, crystal trees, and dark nail polish were striking reminders of the Bride's bold style and personality. Quotes from silly movies such as Anchor Man were sprinkled throughout the event, a reminder of the groom's playful nature. The Bride and Groom's special talent? Knowing all of the world's capitals! Each table number had a world capital, and the escort cards named the country. The cake floated atop a bed of crystals with damask frosting and layers of sugared feathers. Because the couple loved to dance, the dance floor was a focal point of the event, flanked by lounge areas for all to observe the couple's mad moves. !N{ As seen in San Francisco Brides Magazine }
Photography by: Weeks PhotographyOld-time glamour with quiet hints of Asian and French influences were central to this classically beautiful wedding held at the Kohl Mansion. The ceremony aisle was inspired by lanterns floating on the Kyoto River and featured large votives wrapped in custom screenprinted Japanese Washi paper. A cherry blossom motif in shades of subdued pink and brown lent a delicate touch. A crystal ornamented wish tree filled with words of wisdom from guests was a thoughtful way to start the couple off in their new union. During the cocktail hour at the historic Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco’s Merchants Exchange Building, a patisserie with macarons and madeleines provided an oh-so-sweet treat.!N { As seen in Brides Northern California Magazine. }
Photography by: Lisa LefkowitzThe Beaulieu Garden in Napa Valley played host to this casual and cheerful wedding. The Bride's love of sunflowers and cooking became essential to the theme of this gorgeous getaway. Guests were able to sip from the couple's signature drink, a minted iced tea in mason jars, as they perused the Bride's favorite cookbooks in the lounge area. A market place featuring flip flops, favors, sunflowers and fresh fruits was the center attraction during cocktail hour. Jenny's most beloved herbs played a key role in the wedding as table names and made special appearances in the floral arrangements. For each guest, "Jenny's favorite thyme" was tied up in a muslin sack along with “Good Cookin' with Jenny and JC”, a selection of recipes printed on colored craft paper. A splendid day of naïve innocence and pure joy.
Photography by: Gertrude & MabelHeld at the deYoung Museum, this wedding showcased the couple's appreciation of modern art and was also a blending of backgrounds. The Groom was Chinese and the Bride Russian. The color red as well as bamboo and birch were incorporated throughout the event as symbols of the different countries. The program resembled a deYoung admission ticket complete with a pop art rendering of the couple’s faces. Because the Bride and Groom were also tea connoisseurs, there was a magical tea tasting table with a custom-built bubbling backdrop. The bubbles were an homage to the clusters of circles that dot the exterior of the museum itself. The evening ended with dancing in the Café, where the whole room was dramatically lit in red.
Photography by: The Image Is FoundFrench eclectic styling with accents of Chinoiserie furnished this fanciful wedding held at the Flood Mansion. Inspired by the Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica, bright lemon yellow and silvery blue were anchored with modish black and white throughout the affair. Whimsical lovebirds and dramatic fonts played across the invitations and place cards. Yellow orchids mimicked gleeful birds and rested on white lacquered branches. Framed silhouettes, which read "Le Marié" and “La Mariée,” husband and wife in French, hung on the back of the happy couple's chairs. The dessert table hosted chic canisters and birdcages along with a Croquembouche, a traditional French cream puff wedding cake. A decidedly dramatic fête.
Photography by: Anna KuperbergThis lush indoor garden-themed wedding abounded with butterflies and Asian botanical surprises at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Beautiful blooms and butterflies adorned the invitations and menus, which were made of thinly sliced wood. Sheer ivory drape and hundreds of iridescent butterflies covered the entire back wall of the Reserve. The 32-foot wide head table showcased Asian-style pottery, sprays of orchids, and large pagodas with alighting butterflies. The guest tables featured butterflies in mid-flight suspended from floral arrangements. Escort cards rested on twigs, and enchanting gobo lights projected garden foliage onto the majestic ceiling and dance floor. Even the cake was designed as a garden with blossoms and butterflies dancing up the layers!
Photography by: Angie SilvyFeminine glamour and classic Hollywood charm fit right in at San Francisco's City Hall. A grand chandelier hung on the invitation design as well as over the custom-built mirrored cake table, made to look like a vanity with pearls and crystals strewn about. Silver ball chargers, cross-patterned china, silver-gilded crystal glassware, and tall trees filled with masses of orchids and dangling crystals created regal tablescapes. A custom-made plush velvet wall adorned with ornate picture frames served as the backdrop for escort cards. A collection of tufted banquettes, silver bubble floor lamps, and Louis chairs created a popular lounge destination for guests to enjoy the band and sip some bubbly at the end of this dazzling soiree.
Photography by: Jade Studio ProductionsGloria Wong Design specializes in creating strong design concepts and details inspired by you as a couple. From developing the overall style and story of your wedding to executing fine personal details, we handle all design-related areas with careful thought and purpose. We help you sort through all of your ideas and offer guidance on how to filter, enhance, and translate them into a unique event that is completely reflective of your taste and personalities.
We pride ourselves in taking the time and energy to understand our clients, their preferences, and their story. When you first approach Gloria Wong Design for assistance, we start the design process by asking you a multitude of questions about your likes, dislikes, and preferences for style in an effort to know your taste. We also try to learn about your personalities and love story so that we have plenty of information from which to draw for the details that will make your wedding unique and personal.
After we establish a design concept that represents your vision for the wedding, we create a Mood Board and design sketches that capture the overall look and feel. We help bring your vision to life by generating ideas on how to thread your style and your story through to each visual element of your wedding. We offer ideas on unique presentation and meaningful details and find the sources and vendors that will best execute the ideas. We work closely with your design-related vendors and make sure that they reference the Mood Board when creating their piece of the puzzle. We become the central point person for all of your design-related vendors, and we ensure unity and cohesion among all your visual elements from beginning to end. We partner with your team of vendors and consult on the design and presentation of:
Paper Goods
Floral Décor
Rentals
Furniture
Props
Lighting
Pipe and Drape
Cake
Dessert Buffet
Ceremony Backdrop
Ceremony Aisle
Sign-in Table
Escort Card Display
Tablescapes
Place Setting Presentation
Table Numbers
Favors
Lounge
Floorplan
Since our focus at Gloria Wong Design is on aesthetics, we feel that it is best to partner with coordinators who are experts in logistics. We have built excellent partnerships with reputable wedding coordinators and have found that this division of labor is a win-win situation for our clients. You get the best of both worlds! Neither design nor coordination of logistics becomes secondary. Both are equally important and are given proper attention. This partnership ensures that all of your design and coordination needs are covered, so that you can relax and enjoy your special day!
Please contact Gloria Wong Design for more information about our hourly consulting services, design packages, design+coordination partnership packages, and custom packages.
Gloria Wong Design is a boutique wedding design and consulting company that offers stylish creative services for your special day.
Owner and founder, Gloria Wong Tritasavit, comes from a background in design and is obsessive about color, composition, style, and how visual elements can stir the heart. Born and raised in San Francisco, she set her sights on a career in fashion at an early age. After receiving a Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in fashion design from the renowned Academy of Art College in San Francisco, she started her career in fashion by designing for DKNY Jeans in New York. She later ventured into merchandising at bebe, and then took on a role as a designer at Levi Strauss & Co.
Upon planning her own wedding in 2006, Gloria fell in love with the world of event design and soon converted her creative energies from apparel to weddings. She started an event planning company called Sash & Sugar and found a coordinator to partner with. Gloria focused on the design and presentation aspects of the events while her partner managed logistics. When Gloria and the coordinator parted ways, Gloria decided to reposition her company from event planning to solely event design, thus launching Gloria Wong Design. Since Gloria set foot on the world of weddings, she has produced remarkable events for clients who longed for a stylish and personal affair. She continues to provide impressive design services and is passionate about making each event striking and special for her clients.
Gloria has won the hearts of her clients with her enthusiasm, warm spirit, and keen sense of style. Her clients trust in her taste wholeheartedly and know that Gloria will guide them in the right direction for their big day.
Gloria’s work has been featured in…
Brides Northern California Magazine
The Knot Magazine
Daily Candy
Style Me Pretty
Bride & Bloom Magazine
San Francisco Brides Magazine
View From The Bay
Aside from designing weddings and getting to know her clients, Gloria also enjoys and finds inspiration from…
Nylon Magazine
Dwell Magazine
Apartment Therapy
Rare Device
Ferm Living
Eden & Eden
Kelly Wearstler
Dwell Studio
Evan Hecox
Marc Jacobs
3.1 Phillip Lim
Stella McCartney
Marimekko
OLESYA ALFERENKO AND JOSEPH YIN
NEW YORK, NY
"Hiring Gloria was definitely the best investment we made in our wedding!! We interviewed a dozen wedding planners, and as soon as we met Gloria we realized that she is in a league of her own. The results simply blew us away - we never expected our wedding planning process to be THIS fun and the end result THAT stunning and perfect.
Gloria is an exceptionally talented designer and planner - you'll be lucky if you get to work with her! She took the time to truly get to know us as a couple and our tastes and preferences, and then translated this into very personal designs and ideas that blew our minds away. Our guests are still talking about the look and feel and the experience of our wedding - no detail went unnoticed! Gloria did a great job balancing big impact ideas with small important details while keeping us on budget. On top of being such a design star, she was also an absolute joy to work with. Attentive, proactive, upbeat, positive and super fun. We seriously miss the wedding planning process because of Gloria."
JENNIFER YUE AND JC GOODRICH
NEW YORK, NY
"New brides never know how much work it takes to plan a wedding. I never realized all the small details that needed to be done just to get a base-line wedding set up. I felt like I was always making a decision, and without your guidance, I'm sure I would have forgotten something important along the way. Your experience was essential.
In addition, unless a bride has a really good eye and/or sense of design, she really can't know if the items she is choosing really go together. You were my sounding board for great style. I would throw ideas or send inspiration photos to you, and you would either seamlessly incorporate it into the entire theme or question how it would fit in. I needed someone whose style I trusted, as well as a planner who was strong enough to challenge me because not every idea is a good idea. Moreover, you take great sense of pride in your work, and thus you would never lead a bride astray or plan even an "average" wedding.
Your organizational skills are flawless, and your work product shows that you are truly invested in the wedding. No other planner we had interviewed was as prepared as you. In addition, no one else offered us a mood board, a continuously updated ideas gallery, or a floor plan. Every single time we received a new ideas gallery or floor plan, JC and I would get more and more excited about the wedding!
Finally, you are meticulous, detailed-oriented, and a tireless worker. You understood how busy both JC and my schedules were. You would do a lot of the heavy research and narrow down "to-do" lists for us (i.e. websites, props to purchase, etc.). You really took to the time to understand your clients and the best way they work. For us, that made the planning process that much better.
Gloria, you're amazing at what you do. JC and I would always comment on your incredible work-ethic every single time we received one of your emails. As a person in business, I respect not only your creative abilities, but also how professional you are. I never felt like you shirked your duties, and I certainly made the perfect choice in selecting you."
CONNIE REYES AND COLIN PAN
NEW YORK, NY
"We had the pleasure of working with Gloria on our wedding in San Francisco at the Flood Mansion. From the very beginning, Gloria impressed us with her creativity, energy, attention to detail, and responsiveness, and this lasted throughout the entire period of time that we worked with Gloria.
Wedding planning can be a very difficult and frustrating process for all parties involved, but Gloria’s attitude and excitement level were never less than exemplary and certainly helped us keep the momentum throughout the process. There were many times when we genuinely thought that Gloria was more excited about out wedding than we were!
Gloria helped us create and develop an overall theme for the wedding based on our own tastes and interests, and worked with all our vendors to create a design, down to every single little detail, that ultimately resulted in a highly personalized and cohesive wedding that reflected us as a couple – which was very important to us.
Our memories of the wedding will remain for us forever and we certainly have Gloria to thank for that.
DOROTHY TAM AND EUGENE MOY
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
"Gloria had an innate ability to understand our vision of the wedding and intuitively knew what details would help us best convey this vision to our guests. She was diligent about keeping our budget in mind when suggesting necessary elements to make our wedding a reflection of our personalities and lives. When we had a hard time making decisions and prioritizing items, she helped make sure that we stayed focus on our original vision, and prioritized accordingly. Gloria's systematic method of determining our stylistic taste and her personable style made the planning process enjoyable and fun, as opposed to the daunting task it could have been.
We are extremely thankful for the effort she put into the detail work - from the color scheme and linens, to paper goods and flowers, each detail was unique in its own right but tied into the overall theme perfectly. My favorite part was when she incorporated responses from her design questionnaire into our ideas gallery, making our wedding a little more personable for our huge guest list!
Hiring Gloria is a decision we will never regret and we'd do it all over again in a heartbeat! Thank you, Gloria!!!
ANSLEY CICHY AND ANDREW MAJIT
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
"I can’t thank you enough for all your hard work. The process was so wonderful, thanks in large part to your calm approach and amazing taste. You understood exactly what we wanted for this day. Thank you for everything!"
DESIREE DIZON AND TIMOTHY TAN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
"The design elements and concepts Gloria created, all tied together in our Asian aquatic theme. Round Japanese lanterns were strewn above the outdoor fountain behind the ceremony altar. The aisle way was edged by tall cylinder vases with floating flowers. Cream colored parasols were stocked in bamboo baskets for those who needed shade from the sun. Adorable ceremony programs in the shape of fans were custom printed, with layered lavender and chocolate brown satin ribbon looped around the handle.
Gloria created a unique escort card presentation, with flowers, bamboo and river rocks. And my most favorite design element was the place cards, designed to be a small paper vellum lantern with a glass votive and light inside. Guests found their names on these unique little lanterns as they were seated.
All these details were apparent to the guests, and we kept hearing compliments and raves throughout the night."