As promised, here are more photos from the real wedding that was featured in the most recent Washingtonian magazine.  We are super excited about Kate and Mark’s wedding and I will do a follow-up post sometime in the new year about their engagement photos which were even cuter!  Another eco-friendly wedding shot by Tom Van [...]

Hello everyone – long note here – but worth the read!  So get your glasses (whether reading or wine) and hunker down for this one!
A few of us here at Elegance & Simplicity, Inc. are off traveling for the holidays.  We hope to still bring you a few more posts before the end of the [...]

We are very honored to be chosen again by the Washingtonian as one of the best wedding planners in the DC area!  We are celebrating even more that they featured one of our weddings where we did the flowers and Documentary Associates did the photography!  Here is one cute photo from that wedding – I [...]

It’s here!  Finally here!  Click on the button above to take you to the Winter 2010 issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings Magazine!  Tons of ideas fro eco-friendly weddings!  I am so proud of my team!
Happy Planning!
Katie Martin

You don’t have to give up a dramatic exit to be green! Consider asking your guests to blow (non-toxic ) bubbles,  throw bio-degradable confetti, toss birdseed, or scatter pom poms!

Credits (from left to right)
Wedding Poppers
Bubbles
Birdseed packets
Pom Poms
Love Birds
Bio-degradable confetti

We are so excited about one of our features that will be showcased in Bride and Bloom Magazine!  We can’t show you all of it!  But here is a fun cake photo from the photo shoot we did for them!  Yummy organic cake from Cakes by Design!
Stay Tuned!

Jessica has been such a great help in partnering with the DC Green Wedding Consortium, I thought it would be perfect to do a Vendor Spotlight about her!  We just saw each other at the holiday party this week, where she captured the $50,000 green wedding giveaway winning couple live as I announced their names! [...]

I am so honored to announce the winners of the $50,000 Green Wedding Giveaway from the DC Green Wedding Consortium, which includes $10,000 worth of our services!  We are very excited to be working with Virdina & Kevin! I will be posting more about them as we go through the planning process!  Here is a [...]

In honor of the launch of Eco-Beautiful Weddings, we wanted to show you that, to be green, you don’t have to lose the capital “W” in wedding dress. All the gowns below are green, whether through fabric or how they are manufactured!
Credits (clockwise starting at upper L)
Claire Pettibone
Punk Rock Bride
Lea Ann Belter
Adele Wechsler
L’ezu [...]

Tonight  we had a fabulous time at the DG Green Wedding Consortium’s Holiday Party!  We gave away a $50,000 Green Wedding for Earth Day on April 22, 2010 (it’s 40th Anniversary).  Congratulations to Verdina & Kevin!  I can’t wait to post more about their planning process!
Happy Happy Happy Holidays!
~Katie Martin