It is always so much fun to be part of the planning process of a wedding and to watch brides and grooms see each other for the 1st time!  Katie and Grant were so easy to work with and they ended up having a beautiful day at one of our favorite hotels – The Hotel Monaco in Washington, DC.

Her bouquet was comprised of local green hydrangea with local white phaleanopsis and fun billy ball accents from Canada!

The bridesmaids bouquets were a fun clutch of billy balls with a lily grass loop accent.

They had a cute little lemon and lime theme for their wedding in not only colors but with lemons and lines in general.  The escort card and the cake sported some lemons and limes!

They had similar flowers as well in their centerpieces with the local hydrangea, billy balls and white dendrobium orchids.  Really perfect for a July wedding!

Congrats to Katie + Grant!

I just got these images in this morning and I could not wait to post them! Stacey and Edward got married at Strong Mansion – quite possibly one of the most beautiful venues in the Frederick/Sugarloaf Mountain area! Stacey’s bridal bouquet was filled with purple delphinium, lavender, blue thistle, green zinnias, red/green/purple local hydrangea, billy balls, red anemones, orange ranunculus, orange + dark pink dahlias, rosemary and dusty miller for a local garden vintage style.  I just loved making her bouquet!  Stacey is also the owner at Happy Earth Yoga – so I think she actually glowed on her wedding day she was so beautiful!

Stacey and Edward really wanted a fun and laid back reception with lots of updated vintage whimsy on the table!  We used a mixture of our new vintage-inspired recycled glassware collection with our vintage mason jar collection.  Filled them all with wonderful combinations of fall flowers like billy balls, dahlias, stock, rosemary, gomphrena and more!

Congrats to Stacey + Edward!

(photography by Carl Bower)

As we wind down 2010, I will start posting some of the favorite flower designs that have inspired our brides and grooms the most and are the basis for a lot of our new designs for 2011 weddings!  I will try to post “Flower Faves” at least once a week for you!

I thought I would start with yellow this week as it has been such a popular trend color in 2010.  Billy balls being the center of attention obviously!  The first two photos were taken by Documentary Associates from Kate and Mark’s wedding that was featured in the Washingtonian Bride & Groom. The above bouquet was featured in our 1st issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings Magazine (photo by Love Life Images).

This is also one of my favorite yellow orchids displays that we had at a fantastic orthodox Jewish wedding at the Meridian House (photo by Steve Voss).

And I will sign off with the underrated yellow pin cushion!  It apparently takes a daring bride or groom to use these!  I love love love pin cushions as they also come in orange and they are just fun fun fun (’til her daddy takes the T-bird away fun)!  Fantastic colors year round!  (photo by Documentary Associates)

Let us know what your favorite yellow flower is!  I certainly have not listed them all here!

Yes – we are on part four of our Jordan and Jeremy’s Wedding and I think there will be at least 2 more posts! Of course – the 1st three posts were just teasers and sneak peaks from camera phones!  However – we have gathered all the photos from Ralph Alswang and  we were finally able to sort through and show the best of the best!

Today – I am going to focus on the 1st part of the day through the end of the ceremony as the details are a plenty.  From the beginning to the end of this – you will see Jordan and Jeremy’s color palette of pink, yellow and green!  Of course – pink is the main color – starting with her cute purse and bouquets (above)!

It was a scorching hot day in DC.  They took a quick drive over to the monuments with Ralph in order to take a few portraits -which lasted all of 5 minutes!  Getting over to the Ronald Reagan Building was in their best interests at that point!  Her beautiful gown was bought at Kleinfeld’s in New York city – a Kirstie Kelly dress that Robin from Polished Image and Style helped her pick out!

Their wedding had a theme of travel, fun, school and love!  Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to figure out why there is a map behind this program and why the parasols!

You might recognize the reclaimed wood trellis from a previous post – but we are so happy with this structure as it has been used 3 times since their June wedding in different ways!

I loved creating this bouquet for Jordan!  It’s not often that I get to use yellow peonies – but we had them here!  The entire bouquet was comprised of peonies, ranunculus and freesia.

A quick kiss after the ceremony before heading off for more photos and the cocktail hour!

Part V tomorrow!

]]> http://www.eleganceandsimplicity.com/blog/announcements/jordan-jeremy-part-iv/feed/ 0 http://www.eleganceandsimplicity.com/blog/announcements/green-wedding-on-earth-day/ http://www.eleganceandsimplicity.com/blog/announcements/green-wedding-on-earth-day/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 05:54:36 +0000 Katie Martin http://www.eleganceandsimplicity.com/blog/?p=198 Elegance & Simplicity had the opportunity of providing a lucky couple with wedding planning and floral designs along with all stationery items for their wedding day on Earth Day!  The Washington DC Green Wedding Consortium went all out to provide a lucky couple with over $50,000 worth of professional wedding services and products.  Katie Martin, the director of the Washington DC Couture and Green Wedding Consortium helped to plan the entire event and coordinate all the vendors who graciously provided so many services for Dana and David.

You have seen previous posts about the beautiful Adele Wechsler wedding gown that was provided by Promise for the Savvy Bride, but here you will finally get to see the bride in the dress that she chose! Robin Fisher from Polished helped to style the bride and her sister with the best colors and accessories.

Although Earth Day was a very strange weather day, the wedding was beautiful!  Fortunately, the couple had two of our favorite photographers (Love Life Images & Documentary Associates) that took amazing photos for them. The wedding day started off with a quick interview from WJLA Channel 7 at the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church!

We designed the eco-friendly bridal bouquet with blue delphnium, yellow freesia, pink astilbe,  lisianthus and bouvardia.

Videographer Jessica Pi took amazing coverage that I will post shortly!  Elegant Hair by Giselle provided a beautiful natural look for the bride and Carola Myers provided flawless eco-friendly make-up by Korres (which Katie is an avid fan of!).

Utilizing the amazing local Cherry Blossom farmers, Green Love Events was able to display these magnificent blooms in the alcoves going up the stairs to the cocktail hour.

The cocktail hour was hosted upstairs in the museum, complete with mason jars filled with flowers!  The tops of the mason jars were available to the guests at the end of the evening; encouraging guests to reuse the jars for their own use after the wedding!  All of the flowers used for their wedding were grown by local farmers or from Holland’s pesticide free farmers.  All Dutch flowers were flown in on a commercial flight to utilize space otherwise unused by the average consumer on a commercial flight! 

The bride and groom made their way to the reception in a pedicab!

The guests were invited into the Carriage House after the cocktail hour for dinner and dancing.  Here are some of the beautiful details from the tables!  We love billy balls and lisianthus!  Every place setting had a different type of flower tucked into their napkin!

The centerpieces consisted of three vases.  Some tables had pink recycled glass jars (others had orange) accompanied by a flip top container and spice bottle filled with flowers.  The tops for the spice jars were provided to guests at the end of the night and they were able to take the flip top jars to use for anything from holding sugar for their coffee in the morning to saving leftovers!

Evan from MyDeejay.com had everyone dancing all night long to the couples favorite tunes!

Avalon Caterers provided eco-friendly, local and organic cuisine from the cocktail hours through the end of dinner!

 Cakes  by Design provided a beautiful eco-friendly cake complete with fresh local raspberries and decor that can be reused again and again!

The bride’s Scottish heritage brought forth the bagpiper at the church and the the beautiful custom-designed Korean Korum Bow on the bride’s gown was a fantastic addition to celebrate the groom’s culture.

Of course,  the snapshot studio from Love Life Images was a hit!

Last but not least, the entire wedding was carbon neutral with a carbon offset purchased by Elegance & Simplicity  from Carbonfund.org!

Elegance & Simplicity also provided all wedding stationery (which was all post-consumer waste recycled paper) and calligraphy.  The stationery included wedding invitations, escort cards and programs.  Elegance & Simplicity provided the couple with a logo and a logo sign to be reused by the couple as personal decor.  All leftover flowers were either taken by the family or composted by Elegance & Simplicity.  The discarded programs and escort cards were recycled by Elegance & Simplicity.  Leftover food was packed up for the bride and groom and their families at the end of the evening by Avalon Caterers.  Avalon Caterers made sure that all of their staff either carpooled or took Metro to the event.  Ask your wedding professionals how they can make a eco-friendly difference in your wedding day!  Check out all of the green wedding professionals in the consortium by clicking here!

Congratulations to our 2009 Green Wedding Giveaway Couple!