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We are so excited about some of our upcoming weddings at the Decatur House for 2010.
I also just got some photos back from Greg Gibson for flowers that we did at the Decatur House with Sara Bauleke from Bella Notte!  Yes – we are wedding planners and so is Sara Bauleke!  BUT – we are [...]

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 have some exciting new things brewing at Elegance & Simplicity, Inc.!

Our new blog layout is based on the new logo (as you can probably tell)!  Our website will be updated in December.
Stay tuned!

We love food – especially dessert! Is it so strange to plan a wedding around ice cream cones? We couldn’t resist the idea of a sweet and sassy wedding to bring you back to the days of the Good Humor truck!

Invitation via Papeterie
Ice cream cones via Elegance & Simplicity (by Design Cuisine)
Candy bar via Big [...]

We love the Meridian House! One of our fabulous eco-friendly & orthodox Jewish weddings from July is posted on Wedding Chicks! Check it out by clicking on the photo below (by Stephen Voss).

Happy Planning!
~Katie Martin

There are several options you can go with when it comes to vintage wedding design.  The dress, flowers, accessories or just everything!  Here are a couple of design elements for a vintage wedding day that I love (click on the photos to find out where to buy or who took the photo!):
A simple vintage dress can [...]

So – I posted about the wonderful videography from Lauren & Shane’s Wedding – but here is a sampling of some of the fabulous photos that Love Life Images took for them!  You can see more of their wedding day by going to the Love Life Images blog by clicking here!

Sugarplum helped to create a [...]

We had some time to interview Evan Reitmeyer – one of our favorite DJ’s!  Check it out!

How did you get started in the wedding business?
By accident. Seriously!  Coming out of college with a background in IT, I was struggling to find a job.  It was right after the dot-com bubble burst, and the market was [...]

Found some new favorite shopping spots online for everyone…Lots of yummy things to wear, use and ponder…
Cute, cute and more cute…so many eco-friendly and organic products on this website – I am mad I just found it this week!!!  GO NOW to BTC Elements!  RUN to your nearest computer!  They have reclaimed fabric dresses, potato [...]