Another destination wedding! Ali and Derrick live in Chicago, but planned their wedding celebration at the fabulous, ultra-modern Diplomat Resort and Spa. Rebuilt just a few years ago on the site of the legendary original Diplomat Hotel, The new Diplomat Resort and Spa is one of the coolest locations in the Hollywood, Florida area. It’s the perfect site for a destination wedding and a great place to enjoy for out of state guests! It’s got two swimming pools – one right on top of the other and is beachfront for great views and swimming of course! As you can tell from the photos below, there are so many cool places for photographs at the Diplomat – I always have a great time working there.
I love photographing Bar and Bat Mitzvahs because it’s really neat to see the theme that each boy or girl selects for their celebration and even more interesting, how the theme is executed. In Matty’s case, his Bar Mitzvah was inspired by hip-hop music. According to his mom, Lisa, Matty loves EVERYTHING about hip-hop – the style, the dances, the music and the culture. In addition, Matty also loves basketball, so his mom was sure to incorporate that into his party as well. This was an event like no other Woodfield Country Club had ever seen! In fact, there was a local television station there to capture the festivities!
Matty’s theme was appropriately dubbed “Club M”, which at this party referred to an all white, very chic and hip hip/hop club. Everything from a custom designed logo to metal invitations were used to create the urban hip-hop feel for this event. Woodfield Country Club was completely transformed into a gritty, urban cityscape complete with a subway station, basketball court, garbage can musicians, graffiti and chain link fences. No detail was left to the imagination!
The ultra-cool invite is pure metal and arrived with custom "Club M" postage.