SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Within Sodo Wedding in Seattle

VENDOR CREDITS

01  Venue, Within Sodo
02  Floral, Kinetic Botany
03  Hair, Salon Kismet
04  Bride’s Attire, Watters; Mociun; Chan Luu
05  Groom’s Attire, Armani; Mociun; Carmina

What a joy it is to work alongside creative minds coupled with huge hearts. Here’s a glimpse into the brains of Kellen & Patrick: Their vision, desires, and hopes for their wedding at Within Sodo in Seattle

From the couple:

We wanted to treat the wedding like any other creative process—whether it be placement of an art piece, cooking a meal, transitions of music—all built from the ground up, talked through, and organically created together.

[As for the mood]: joyous, memorable, colloquial, approachable, natural mingling, thoughtful, authentic, embracing the ephemerality brought on by weddings.

[For us, the] most important aspects: a sense of calm / peace, being fully present, being together with our people, laughter / dancing, attention to natural elements if weather permits (we’re timing the rooftop ceremony to end right around golden hour for an outdoor cocktail hour, right before a full moon rises. Our wedding is on the harvest moon)

We wanted to avoid as much of the stereotypical wedding industry scripts but keep the governing fundamentals of a forever union.

Some aspects we believe to be unique is a literal gallery in our venue, which has artwork compiled by the bride and groom to tell our guests more about us.

A video element does something similar. The dining area has floral arrangements suspended in mid-air. Why have flowers at tabletops when they can fly, hanging in a double helix? The emphasis of flowers complements our made-from-scratch ceremony which includes an interactive sculpture that will forever hold flower petals everyone present at the wedding will place in it after we have exchanged our vows.

We embrace that this wedding is a fleeting, once-in-a-lifetime party, and yet, we love the tiny details we’re intentionally preserving like our glass-and-flower-petal unity ceremony sculpture.

[We’re] looking forward to composing seamless transitions and a cinematic feel with how the party will open, capture attention, vibe, linger, and close. So kind of this invisible beginning, middle, and end.