Melissa is a gorgeous girl and she has the cutest dog named Barry. Melissa and Brian are such a cute couple. Good luck to Brian on his BAR exam.
This wedding wins for the most number of personalized items. Melissa's Mom, Nan, is one crafty woman. The one design element that she repeated was a monogram - a very modern one, along with the color theme of brown, creams and green. She used it on the programs, the aisle runner, the napkin rings, the menu cards, the signage, etc. Nan also made the bathroom baskets, candy jars for each table, tied brown ribbons around a bunch of hurricane candles, table numbers ... Can you say lots of setup?! The coolest thing had to be the apple 'escort cards.' She ordered them dipped in chocolate and caramel and already wrapped in cellophane. All she had to do was put name tags on them.
Another excellent event at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. It is such a great venue for outdoor photos. Luckily, we had beautiful weather even though it was really hot that day.
We had a great team of vendors: We had a wonderful band, Onyx (through Washington Talent) which apparently played at Brian's sister's bat mitzvah years ago!! Go figure! They had great energy. Nicole and Brad from SOTA Dzine have such an interesting perspective for wedding photography - it's more along the style of magazine/ads photography. I can't wait to see the photos! I saw Nicole portfolio and it is amazing! Kirby from Dolce Video was great to work with as well.
Special mention goes to Petals Edge Floral Design. It's been almost 2 years since I've had the pleasure of working with Gerry and Rebecca. Their designs are totally unique, very creative and that set themselves apart from other floral designers. Melissa had poppy pods trailing off her bouquets and poppy pods were used as boutonnieres also. Some of the taller arrangements were filled with brussel sprouts! Melissa and Brian got married under a beautiful, natural, organic looking chuppah, perfect for this setting. I heard so many compliments about their work and I hope they got a lot of business that night! They are worth every penny and their designs will MAKE your event! :)
Another special note goes to Fusions Cuisine. They had very creative and delicious food and their presentations were very artistic. This catering company is owned by James and Blaise Thompson. James, the executive chef, had worked at RSVP Catering. Blaise manages the events. They were excellent to work with. They just seemed to really care about the event and it wasn't 'just another wedding' to them.
The only things is that I never have time nor remember to take pictures at the wedding so here are some of the different design elements that I got before the wedding:
The handmade napkin rings!
The programs ...
The ladies bathroom basket ...
The display cake ...
The directional signs for outside ....
Chocolate dipped spoons made by Nan ...
Centerpiece for the escort card table ... this is later on in the night when the apples had been taken.
The mini cheesecakes instead of wedding cake for each guest with a monogramed flag (sorry for the blurry photo, one of the waiters was holding the plate :)
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