Planning a wedding that you’d like to add some special Santa Barbara Wedding Couture details to?

We open the doors for you to the beautiful downtown University Club mansion in Santa Barbara to showcase and introduce you to the best of Santa Barbara wedding professionals who emphasize truly exceptional style from unique floral designs, glamorous beauty stylists, trend setting cakes, exquisite caterers to the photographers and videographers that artistically capture every special moment, and so much more.

During the Santa Barbara Wedding Couture event on March 27, 2010, there will be exclusive appearances by select wedding professionals that afternoon. They will be featured at specific times during the wedding showcase.

Special workshop with local dance legend Leslie Sack for your walk down the aisle practice!

Walk with confidence, grace, beauty and style after Leslie guides you through a fun, informative and instructional lesson on “Walking with Beauty, Inside and Out!

About Leslie Sack & her studio:

Leslie Sack has been teaching, performing and competing in Latin and Ballroom dancing for the past fourteen years. Before moving to Santa Barbara in 1999 Leslie taught at Washington Dance Club in Seattle, Washington, was an award winning teacher and dance competitor for Arthur Murray Dance Studios in Honolulu, Hawaii and then a coach and judge in Adelaide, Australia.

Leslie teaches group classes and private lessons.

Dream it - live it - love it!

Colette Lopez, of La Fete Weddings, brings you all the expertise, enthusiasm, and aesthetic excellence you’ll ever need to turn your ideas and inspirations into reality. Well connected and well respected, Colette is a preferred vendor at the most prestigious private estates and hotels in Santa Barbara and throughout Southern California. The lucky couples and professionals she works with all rave about the way Colette and her talented team put them at ease while creating dazzling events and memories that last a lifetime.
With over 10 years of event planning experience, Colette has worked to build strong relationships with the event industry most innovative professionals making La Fete one of Southern California’s top trend setting event planning companies. La Fete specializes in destination weddings and events. Their start to finish attention to detail and design creates a unique and stylized final presentation that speaks with every detail of a dream come true!

La Fete has been featured in: Martha Stewart Weddings, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine, Inside Weddings, Your Wedding Day Magazine, Celebrations Magazine, Junebug Weddings, Los Angeles Style Unveiled, Wedding Chicks Blog.

Santa Barbara's very own couture bridal designer, who has been featured nationally!

Jessica Iverson Eco Couture is a "green," fair trade bridal collection by Santa Barbara based bridal designer Jessica Iverson.
Offering couture bridal in the most luxurious eco friendly silk fabrics, Jessica Iverson combines timeless elegance with modern, fashion forward style.

Designs have been featured in Brides, GetMarried TV, CBS the Morning Show, Fox, NYTimes and more.

Jessica Iverson Eco Couture is for the modern bride with fashion ethics who also seeks sumptuous couture bridal while staying green. With styles such as the Viridian, Eden and Sweet Pea, Santa Barbara brides might definitely consider this talented designer right here in town! She also does select bridesmaid attire as well.

Custom couture designs are available using luxury and eco-minded materials hand-selected by Jessica, who also does take the time to sketch fashion designs with each bride desiring a special gown.

Jessica Iverson's long time passion for being "Green," and for humanitarianism inspired the creation of Jessica Iverson Eco Couture. Jessica's Eco Couture brings together a love of haute couture with care and responsibilty for the planet, and human rights.

Aware that the fashion industry is hugely draining on mother earth, Jessica strives to use organic, sustainable and socially responsible materials whenever possible, creating beautiful couture and peace for the planet at the same time.

Jessica began dreaming up gown designs when she was 13 years old in the Vermont farmhouse where she spent her childhood. At the age of 21, after pursuing her education in NYC and Los Angeles, Jessica launched her first bridal collection Maternity Bride, making her the first to design bridal exclusively for expectant women. She now resides in Santa Barbara, California, designing bridal and formal attire and raising her five-year-old daughter Anna Lee.