Who doesn’t want to look their sexiest for their fiances or husbands. Combined with a classic black and white feel and you’re golden … I mean, black and white.

Photo take in Gold Coast, Australia. Ciao!

“You need air, water and someone to love you; everything else is an option,” concedes designer Ed Libby. Yet, this master of combining diverse and complex elements to create stunning installations is quick to insist that celebrations should be fully loaded. “Life is such a struggle on every level for everyone,” Libby says. Times of intense emotion, of togetherness, of rapturous joy “are far too brief” and infrequent. Celebrating these moments
“on a grand and spectacular level is incredibly important,” he contends. So, when his event designs leave guests agog and asking, “Why?” he invariably responds: “Why not?”

It’s the answer family members might have heard had they asked Libby why, as a child, he’d “make something out of the box,” and ignore the amazing present inside. “I was creating things from a young age. I was definitely born to do this,” Libby says. He wasn’t introduced to the events industry, however, until he took a job as a flower shop driver, while studying art and business. Now, 27 years after establishing his own floral design firm, Libby credits clients with catapulting his career. “Each client entrusted…

Cheers to you good friend,

Lawrence Chan

P.S. This photo was taken at Ed Libby’s home in Hollywood Hills. It was only after a couple of martinis did we get the shot. What a fun afternoon!

Left: Chocolate fondant featuring a blue floral-bird design. NancyKay’s Confections Beverly Hills, CA; Photography: Lawrence Chan Photography Los Angeles, CA

Right: Ivory buttercream and fondant with confectioned bling rosettes. NancyKay’s Confections
Beverly Hills, CA; Photography: Lawrence Chan Photography Los Angeles, CA

Monochromatic table featuring oranges in various forms coiling down the center paired with botanicals and gilded cakes set atop glass pedestals.

Location: Mondrian Los Angeles West
Hollywood, CA; Table and Floral Design: Ed Libby &
Company, Inc. Los Angeles, CA and New York,
NY; Ghost Chairs: Roberta Karsch-Resource One, Inc.
Reseda, CA; Table Setting: Classic Party Rentals El Segundo,
CA; Candlestick Holders and Vases: Luxe Event Rentals
Los Angeles, CA; Cakes: Vanilla Bake Shop Santa Monica, CA;
Photography: Lawrence Chan Photography
Los Angeles, CA

Enchanted garden tabletop featuring driftwood furniture punctuated with hand-painted fern pattern.

Location: The Langham Huntington, Pasadena
Pasadena, CA; Table Design and Linen: Revelry Event
Designers Los Angeles, CA; Floral Design: The Hidden
Garden Floral Design Los Angeles, CA; Table, Chairs
and Bench: Hire Elegance for Revelry Los Angeles; China: Hermès
at Gearys Beverly Hills, CA; Glassware: Juliska at Gearys; Flatware:
Arte Italica at Gearys; Lighting: Peterson Event Lighting
North Hollywood, CA; Photography: Lawrence Chan
Photography Los Angeles, CA