Creative Collaboration

From styled shoot
to brand story.

How one highly visual creative day became a founder-led film about what event design actually does, and what it feels like to work with Experience Chartreuse.

The completed Experience Chartreuse floral and tablescape installation viewed through the mansion doorway

Experience Chartreuse founders Alicia and Sara seated together — Alicia + Sara · Founders

A model seated in the completed red, chartreuse, and floral environment

A beautiful room is easy to show. The thinking that makes it coherent, comfortable, personal, and alive is harder to see. Experience Chartreuse needed a film that could reveal the work behind the feeling.

The Creative Partner

Experience Chartreuse is the event-design partnership of Alicia Walto and Sara Attayan. Alicia notices visual friction. Sara notices operational friction. Their work connects those two perspectives into celebrations that feel expressive, considered, and genuinely hospitable.

Deliverables

Two-Minute Founder Brand Film 3 Vertical Social Cuts Founder Interview Candid Process Coverage Web-Ready Delivery

The Challenge

The room was visible. The value was not.

A standard styled-shoot recap would prove that Alicia and Sara can make something beautiful. It would not explain why the room works, how they collaborate, or what clients gain from having them lead the creative vision.

Invisible Expertise

Color, scale, movement, guest comfort, vendor flow, and personal meaning come together quietly. The film needed to make that thinking legible without turning into an explainer.

Two Founder Lenses

Their partnership is the mechanism. Alicia pushes the visual possibility forward. Sara grounds it in what can actually work. Both voices needed to feel distinct and connected.

Editorial With a Job

The day had models, multiple collaborators, and publication ambitions. The film still needed a clear business purpose: help planners and creatively overwhelmed clients understand what working with Experience Chartreuse feels like.

Our Approach

The QUEST Method.

We don't start with a camera. We start with questions. The QUEST Method is how we move from a blank page to a film that sounds like the people in it.

The original invitation was for video coverage of a styled shoot. The questionnaire and follow-up conversations revealed a larger opportunity: use the shoot as the visual world for a film about how Alicia and Sara think, collaborate, and make design approachable.

Question

Asked what clients misunderstand about event design, who the film needed to reach, and what viewers should feel when it ended.

Understand

Identified two audiences, planners and creatively overwhelmed hosts, and one central promise: you will feel understood, supported, and excited to create.

Express

Built a hybrid interview approach around candid setup reflections, active collaboration, one intentional seated conversation, and a finished-space reveal.

Shape

Wove Alicia's visual perspective and Sara's operational perspective through color, texture, movement, humor, and the small adjustments that make the room work.

Transfer

Delivered one two-minute horizontal brand film and three vertical social versions, creating a small content system from one collaborative production day.

Production

One day. One world. Two ways of seeing.

One Production Day · The Highlands Mansion & Gardens

Follow the Work

Alicia and Sara were mic'd during setup so the film could capture the small observations, adjustments, laughter, and problem-solving that normally disappear before guests arrive.

Styling & adjusting

Collaborator moments

Wide spatial reveals

Founder Interview

Make the Thinking Audible

A seated conversation inside the designed environment gave the film clean, intentional reflections without losing the candid quality the founders wanted.

Founder partnership

Guest-first design

How an event should feel

Saturated floral installation and red architectural detail at The Highlands Mansion

An Experience Chartreuse founder making a final floral adjustment during setup

A model seated in the completed red and chartreuse environment

The Creative Team

This editorial came together through a wide creative collaboration led by Experience Chartreuse. Every partner below helped build the world captured in the film.

Creative Direction, Design & Planning

@experience_chartreuse

Lead Photographer

@kennabrynphoto

Photography Team

@kimberly.hidore.photography, @dianaandkorey, @dolaphoto, @chrisdickerson.photography, @aln_images

Content Creator

@littlelovemomentsco

Venue

@thehighlandsmansion

Florals

@gardenafloral