Dream Destinations // Palm Springs Hotels

If my soul has a place, it’s named Palm Springs.

So much color. So much modern. So much fun.

Before the adventure that was Field Trip, I took a little detour on my way from San Diego to Santa Barbara and headed past the mountains and into an oasis. For this East Coast girl who associates palm trees with the ocean and the tropics, vistas of palms silhouetted against mountains was a vision of wonder.

I found myself in awe of a place that feels almost frozen in a time gone by and yet hip and relevant still; a city that hasn’t forgotten the decadence of day-drinking and has ample pools and lounge chairs by which to imbibe a colorful cocktail while basking in the warmth of the desert sun. It is, in a single instant, both glamorous and laid-back. I fell in love with being surrounded by facades of many colors – sherbet and rainbow colors, my favorites – and design full of geometry and shapes and angles used in functional yet whimsical ways.

And now my heart aches to go back.

I’ll admit to this: I went to Palm Springs in part to see the places from my favorite wedding blogs that call to me – The Ace Hotel, The Parker Palm Springs, The Avalon Palm Springs (formerly the Viceroy, which is what it was when I was there). In a perfect world, I would have gotten my ish together and made a photo shoot happen at any one of them…but just seeing them in person and leaving little pieces of my heart with each was enough for this trip. Now I have something to work towards and dream up for the day when, inevitably, I find my way back to this brilliant gem of a place to pick up the parts of myself I left there for safe and blissful keeping.

And please, if you find yourself desiring to get married at any of the Palm Springs Hotels…

Well, you know I’d be there in a heartbeat. I’m faithfully putting that little nugget out into the universe.