Sweet, Sophisticated Wedding in Maryland, II
Today, we are featuring the prettiest wedding sent to us by one of our readers. Which I love by the way. There is no reason for me to blab on and on when the gorgeous bride is here to share all of the deets!
Photography by Jonathan Hanson
From Laya…
My wedding colors were Tiffany blue, Ivory, and silver. My dress is by Watters – I loved the simple and flirty silhouette of the dress, especially the ruffles. The beaded sash added just enough sparkle to the ensemble. The bridesmaids’ and Flower Girls’ dresses were from J.Crew’s spring Wedding Collection. I love and live for J.Crew. I really wanted my attendants to be able to choose a dress that they felt most comfortable in. I also bought an after party wedding dress from J.Crew (I got it on sale for $70!) so I can continue the celebration in style.
As for the flowers, I knew I wanted white hydrangeas and peonies. The bouquets, boutonnieres and ceremony decorations were done by Amanda’s Florist. To save money, I only had Amanda incorporate peonies into my bouquet. I asked her to include pale pink peonies to add a touch of unexpected color and to make it super feminine. Amanda was always there when I had questions and was willing to do anything for my to fit my budget.
To save money, I arranged the centerpieces with a help of a friend. I had always loved flower arrangements in antique mason jars and galvanized buckets – I really got lucky and walked into one of the antique stores in Havre de Grace and got 15 antique blue mason jars for $1 each! Each flower arrangement was accompanied by vintage lace doilies and tea light candles. I ordered 80 stems of white hydrangeas from Fifty Flowers – which we ended up only getting 40 2 days before the wedding…turned out to be a blessing in disguise because 40 hydrangeas were more than enough and arranged then 2 nights before the big day. We ended up having extra hyrangeas which Chasi placed everywhere. We used ribbons in different colors and width as accents.
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I love the look of this casually elegant wedding. We are actually using Mason jars for our centrepieces. I've tried to track down the antique blue ones to match our colour scheme, however they are so hard to find in Canada! Is the bride looking to sell hers? I'd love to get in touch with her to see if we could arrange something. Thanks for the great blog and inspirational photos. If not for this site I would be without any fun, creative ideas for my wedding next month.
I totally would have loved to sell the jars, except that I gave away all of the centerpieces to the mothers present at the reception because we were married on mother's day weekend. Have you tried looking at antique shops or flea markets? I know that ebay sells them too, but I think they're overpriced...good luck!!!
Laya, stunning wedding! I am planning a DC area wedding and I'm so inspired by your elegant taste. We are also searching for the perfect garden/mansion/barn. It's exhausting :) I'd love to know where your pretty bridesmaid dresses are from. Do you mind sharing?
not at all! the bridesmaids dresses and flower girl dresses are all from J.Crew all in silk taffeta. Definitely check them out - I think J.Crew has such a wonderful collection of feminine and timeless dresses.
Thanks for the tip Laya! I'll definitely have to check out some of the less expensive antique shops - the blue mason jars seem to over-priced in a lot of places. Beautiful wedding!
What a beautiful wedding. I love Amanda's Florist and have worked with them many times over the years. The bridesmaid dresses are adorable.
a stunning wedding - love the color palette - love the bouquets, dresses and cake. beautiful!
Simple bouquets and the bridesmaids dresses are top notch!
Kim
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I absolutely love anything involving blue canning jars. I can't believe you scored them for so cheap! What a great find :) I was at the (Chicago antique) Randolph St. market this weekend and there was a cute box with 8 of them in there - the price tag read $18. I snapped them up and went to the vendor. Um, yeah...they were $18 EACH! I laughed and said "nevermind".
Your wedding is simply gorgeous!
I love the wedding- it's beautiful!! The ring bearer's outfit is precious!
I have been considering Fifty Flowers myself. Did only 40 hydrangea show up because you lowered your order or because of Fifty Flowers? I'm a little nervous about ordering flowers this way. Therefore, your comments about their service would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all so much for your kind words.
I was also very nervous about fiftyflowers too - but after I read their reviews (mostly positive one) I decided to go ahead and order them myself. As soon as we ordered the flowers, we got a phone call from a fiftyflowers rep confirming our order, just as the reviews said they did, which eased my mind then. About 5 days before the wedding, we got an e-mail from them notifying us that the order had been shipped - BUT the e-mail showed only 40 were shipped. I called fiftyflowers right away to clear this up and the rep reassured me that TWO orders of 40 stems were shipped and I didn't need to worry. Well, we ended up getting only half of my order(40 stems) 2 days before the wedding and because I was too freaked out, my poor husband was on the phone (after repeatedly trying to reach someone at fiftyflowers and going straight to voicemail) for over 30 minutes trying to figure out what happened. Apprently there was a mistake at one of their warehouses and only 40 were delivered. They told us that they would overnight the rest to be delivered by Friday morning, but we ended up telling them not to at all because we were leaving early Friday morning to the B&B to stay for the rest of the weekend and needless to say, we wouldn't had the time to arrange the flowers. Luckily, 40 stems were more than enough for us.
Based on my experience, I wouldn't reccomend going through them. Not getting your flowers in time (or the right number) is not something a bride should have to deal with days before her wedding. But who knows? Maybe it was just my luck. I would still try to look for a local shop/nursery to order flowers in bulk first...
Your wedding looks so beautiful Laya!
I love the idea of the vintage blue ball mason jars also.
I was wondering what size you used at your wedding?
They have some great deals for quart sized but I wasn't sure if they would be to small for 60" tables.
I am a huge fan of the hydrangeas. I carried white hydrangeas at my wedding too!