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Gifts for the little ones

Katie Martin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:30:47 +0000

Let’s face it – some of you want kids at your wedding and some of you don’t! It’s pretty much one or the other. If you fall into the “Well – we don’t want kids at our wedding, but my brother has a baby and a toddler that I really want to be present” category – then there will be at least some kids at your wedding.

No matter what – kids somehow make it to weddings – either with babysitters at hotels or just at the rehearsal. Here are a few gifts for the little ones that are coming to your wedding that are easy on the environment and will show how much you love the little ones that do come!

(above is our favorite little organic grape plush toy from Pure and Little!

Having an outdoorsy wedding? This cute wooden tractor from The Wooden Wagon is perfect for the little guys!!!

We love these bags and bean bags from Cocoon Couture! Handmade and perfect for your flower girl or Junior Bridesmaid!

Of course with the holidays here – you can always send a gift like these in the mail reminding them about how excited you are to have them in your wedding!
Tell us what you are planning for your ring bearer or flower girl gifts!!

Flower Faves

Katie Martin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:56:35 +0000

We have had a lot of weddings this year with blue and green as the motif. I love this cutie patootie photo of a flower girl from one our favorite weddings from this year (hint: search keyword Kendall and you can see all the images!). Stay tuned for my final flower faves post for the year.

We are a little behind here at Engaged and Green as we are gearing up for Eco-Beautiful Weddings’ Winter 2011 Anniversary Issue!

So today is our final edits day and then I will be a blogging mama for two days straight!

I will have the flower faves post for ya, a look into the Winter Issue, more photos from the baby shower of my soon to be nephew and a sneak peak for another wedding from the fall!

Stay tuned!

Bridal Market, New York City

Katie Martin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:49:26 +0000

It is that time of year again! All of the world’s best bridal fashion designers descend on New York City to show the upcoming 2010 lines. I am here reporting live! I have a lot of fun photos to share with you while I am in NYC and will be blogging about them while I am here!

I really have had such a fantastic time! I want to share a few things about my first day of bridal market before I head back back up to see more designer suites.

Yesterday started with the Wedding Trendspot Fashion Show sponsored by Wedding Channel and hosted by The Wedding Guys at 8am at the Waldorf-Astoria. We saw about 13 up and coming designers that are doing some amazing work. A few of my favorites (that I visited with after the show) were Pixton, Jorge Manual, AcQuachiara, Karen Hendrix, Beth Elis & Katerina Bocci. Every one of the designers had some unique options and I plan on visiting the rest of the designer’s suites today at the InterContinental Barclay Hotel.

I spent some time with the folks at Katerina Bocci and I love what she is doing. I plan on doing a longer post about her dresses and her philosophy…but here is a cute cell pic of Katerina. OMG – she is a cutie patootie!

The runway show had a TON of blunders with dresses coming out under the wrong logo backdrops and in the wrong order (more to report on that later!). Katerina had the brunt of the problem concerning the direction of the show. She was supposed to show between 10-12 dresses and only 1 made it out! However, she really did steal the show! Her one dress – was the last dress. She made lemonade out of lemons by walking out with her model who wore the dress she is holding above. Everyone exploded with a wonderful applause. Bravo Katerina!

Had a great time with the staff at Kirstie Kelly (Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings) – such nice people. They have the magical power of marketing behind them and have launched a lot of new products this year including a line of engagement rings and cakes. The Bridal Market day ended with their wonderful runway show of their 2010 dresses for brides, bridesmaids and flower girls. Of course the show started with a snippet of The Princess & The Frog movie! Here is a fun cell photo of one of the gowns I caught with my bberry:

(more photos from my actual camera to come!)

After the show, I got a chance to talk to some fun wedding experts.

I was very excited to meet Carley Roney of The Knot (yes that is the co-founder and editor-in-chief). We chatted about my upcoming books and about our children (we were both exhausted after a day full of meetings and runway shows). She is a sweetheart and I look forward to collaborating with Carley and The Knot this upcoming year.

I am off to meet with a few more designers before the Martha Stewart Weddings Party tonight (and a bridal blogger party afterwards). Super excited to see Martha Stewart, Darcy Miller, Amy Atlas’ dessert bar and a slew of the best wedding industry experts. I will charge up my phone and tweet about it as I go! Check it out at www.twitter.com/greenweddc!

I promise to blog more later!

~Katie Martin