Poetry in Motion

It's been a creatively HOT Summer for us here in the studio. In between weddings, we've been dreaming up some new ideas...custom, decor coordinated montage (Andy Warhol anyone?) for a fabulous, very modern wedding at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Lots of different kinds of Love Stories for lots of exciting couples. And now our newest concept (no, you can't see it just yet...) Poetry in Motion.
You may have noticed that bridal decor seems to go through historical periods. We've just come through a retro influence which included touches of 40's and 50's style. I've wondered for a while about the early 60's: Not the commonly- thought- about- 60's that brings to mind cliche'd images of bell bottoms and tie-dye; I'm thinking more of the very early 60's - of tight "capri" pants, skinny ties, ballet flats, sheath dresses and some very innocent, romantic music. The music usually rhymed. It was about a girl or a guy, and it was pretty simple, adoring, "I have this big crush on you" music.
One such song came out in 1961 by a singer named Johnny Tillotson (if anyone knows this song - please comment here and we'll enter you in our raffle to win one of our new concept pieces!) The song was called "Poetry in Motion" and started with the lines: "When I see my bay -yay-be, what do I see?" The song started running through my head and just wouldn't leave (you know how those things can happen!) and after a few days I started running around the studio driving everyone here crazy with ideas I wanted them to try until a few weeks later we had produced a few pieces expressing the idea of, you guessed it, "Poetry in Motion"!
Of course, since it was new, some around here thought the idea was -brilliant/crazy/terrible/ridiculous/inspired/disastrous/possible/way out of the box/too far out of the box, etc.
so at the first opportunity - and as soon as we summoned up our courage, we sent the piece off to 2 of our former couples. We held our collective breath. They called us. " Elegant. Moving. Tender. Perfect. So Lovely". THEY LOVED IT!!! We smiled. We blushed. We giggled. We jumped up and down. We poured champagne and toasted.
We promise we'll show it to you soon. Just as soon as it's really finished.