Narrowing down the look and feel of any occasion is a test—especially a wedding day!—and Claire and Will had as difficult a time as any. They ran through different theme options: Where The Wild Things Are? Boutique hotel? One that combined the beautiful with the beastly? “There were times, especially early on, where our ideas felt scattered and we worried that things wouldn’t come together. We were all over the place,” Claire says. Eventually, a meeting with Dani Antol at Rock Paper Scissors over the paper suite helped focus the concept.
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