Check out our featured wedding with Ameena and Jamie on District Weddings today! We miss them so much!  And, of course, the Ronald Reagan Building is one of our favorite places!

Happy Planning!

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 [...]

We are tickled GREEN!  We just saw that Carbonfund.org just posted about us on their blog!  We carbon-offset through them for our own company, but we also make carbon offsetting donations for couples as well with certain packages that we provide.  Learn about carbon offsetting your wedding by taking a look at their handy-dandy carbon-offsetting [...]

Yesterday was such an amazing day for a wedding.  Woodend was the place, purple and eco-friendly was the theme!
Amanda with Occasions helped to create a beautiful eco-friendly wedding buffet for the couple.  All left-over food scraps were placed into compost bins and the food was amazing!
Here are a few photos from the day:

The chuppah was [...]

We are excited to showcase Anna and Denis’ wedding on our website!  In the meantime – here are a few photos to whet your appetite from Love Life Images‘ blog!  Thanks Jennifer!
Congratulations Anna & Denis!  We loved working with you and can’t wait to see the photos from Belize!
***Katie Martin

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 [...]

As we gear up for a year full of beautiful and interesting weddings, we open our inventory doors to new and exciting things!
 

We now offer wall backdrops.  We designed this concept last year with one of our clients that is getting married in September.  More comprehensive and interesting than a typical pipe and drape backdrop, [...]

Hi everyone!
Soon – I will be launching the Green Love Events website (a 100% eco-friendly wedding division of Elegance & Simplicity Wedding & Event Designers, Inc.)!  We had a preview available of our services at the Washington DC Couture Wedding Consortium Bridal show.  However – we have changed the logo!
Here it is:
 

Stay tuned for the [...]

Many of you have been sending in questions as to how to make your wedding greener and better for the environment and still have have a beautiful wedding.  I have never been to a wedding that has not been beautiful in one way or another!  Either the love is making it beautiful or the scenery [...]