Being a Boston girl, I love to feature local vendors. We've had the chance to work with a lot of them and let me just say that if you are lucky enough to tie the knot in Bean Town, you are going to be well taken care of. I chose this particular wedding to feature that the fabulous Linnea Tangorra planned, not only because it's absolutely lovely...but also because it's indoors! That makes two indoor weddings today, something that I...
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Before we dive into our next real wedding, I wanted to let all of you vendors and wedding junkies out there that I will be speaking at the Nuptial Essential's Austin Convention on October 27th (the event goes thru the 29th) with some of Austin's premier wedding vendors. Oh and guess who else will be there...wait for it...none other than Colin Cowie! Yep, I am so thrilled to be speaking at an event...
Thank you so very much to the fabulously talented team at Carla Ten Eyck for sending us today's first featured wedding. It was absolutely lovely and such a treat to start our day with. And of course, to the lovely bride and groom who gave us a little window into their day...so, SO inspiring!
Last thought from the bride...
My reception dress was a vintage piece from the 1950's. I purchased that...
Before we dive back into today's first wedding...my sweet, sweet mom is blogging over on BACKSTAGE. Make sure to check it out if you want to meet another SMP team member! And you just might get to see a little, 5 year old Abby getting ready to do her thang!
OK, moving on. Sometimes I know that you guys will love a wedding that we feature. Sometimes, I know that I love a wedding that we feature. Today, I know that...
This is one of those weddings that is just as sweet as it could possibly be. The bride is perfection, the style is a little bit vintage, a little bit pure elegance. The details are thoughtful and incredibly lovely and the feel of total, unabashed romance seams to be tucked inside every photograph. And of course, the images that the forever talented team at Carla Ten Eyck including Michael Romano, Katie Slater and Nicole Taylor...
We have a purely adorable wedding coming up this morning but first I wanted to share these absolutely lovely engagement photos that the couple had the FABULOUS Carla Ten Eyck and Michael Romano shoot. I love that the pics really give you a window into this couple's personality...you can see the love, the romance, the joy. Definitely a set of portraits that this perfect pair will always treasure.
Using that same sense...
Before we dive back into the adorable wedding that we are currently devouring, I wanted to mention...for any of you that are dreaming of starting a stationery business we are chatting all about it over on BackStage. Starting with the invitation company that I started, we are working through all of the ins and outs of taking the leap into entrepreneurship. Come join in!
Ok, back to the task at hand. I really think that...
Today's featured wedding was sent to us by Liz Powers at Skyline Tent Company and should fulfill any girl's dream of a tented wedding celebration! This amazing real wedding was held at The Clifton Inn in Charlottesville and comes with a very special real story!
From the beautiful bride, Leah...
You guys are going to find so many steal worthy ideas tucked inside this wedding. It's funny, just as I was editing this post, I got an email from the bride thanking me for featuring her big day. She said, "I was such an avid reader of your blog when I was planning our wedding and found endless amounts of inspiration in your lovely posts. I hope that my wedding can serve as the same inspiration for other brides looking to make their wedding beautiful and unique..."
And you know what.
I have the cutest, most adorable, most steal-worthy wedding coming up next but before I share...I wanted to show you these pictures from the equally sweet rehearsal dinner. The event was sent to us by the fabulous photographer behind the day, Heidi Ryder, and is ALL charm.
I mean seriously. How stinking cute is this? The vintage floral linens, the sweet centerpieces, the CELEBRATION sign. Madly, madly in love with all of it.
I am so thrilled to have Carrie here doing fashion and style round-ups for us each week. You guys all remember her AMAZING Charleston wedding that we featured a couple of months ago and I am sure that just like I did, you fell hard for her sophisticated, uber-chic style. So this week Carrie is chatting all about bridesmaid dresses...
Just a quick heads-up before we continue on with our fashion feature that we have some great conversations happening over on BackStage...yesterday's magazines vs. blogs discussion is still going strong and today, I've put up a little bit of information about...
I am SO excited to introduce this brand spanking new weekly feature, I can hardly contain myself!
We were so floored by one of our very own Little Black Book research associate's FAB sense of style when we featured her wedding a couple of months ago, that we basically begged her to start...
Love, love, love the boards that the fabulous Colette is putting together over on the Style Circle. She actually first caught my eye with this boudoir board...kind of sexy, kind of fabulous. But in the end, it was the inspiration board below that completely got me...
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I knew you guys would love today's wedding. Aspen literally took my breath away, with it's beauty so unbelievably shocking...so unbelievably tear inducing. And the wedding that James Christianson captured in this little piece of heaven, is such a perfect representation of the city's loveliness.
So if you thought this day couldn't possibly get any better...WRONG. We managed to get our grubby little hands on the Super 8...
A few weeks ago, Abby featured a wedding by Martha Andrews that was just loaded with floral gorgeousness. So we were thrilled to receive today's wedding from Martha ~ a wedding and reception at the historic...
Before we continue with today's incredible wedding, I wanted to mention a little something that is buzzing around the wedding industry. You might have heard yesterday that Elegant Bride and Modern Bride (along with a few other Conde Nast mags) have decided to close their doors. It's so unbelievably sad to hear that such mainstays aren't able to make it in this economy, that so many people who get to work on such lovely magazines will be out of work. Join our conversation over on...
This wedding is INSANE. Having just spent a few days in Aspen I can say first hand that it just might be the most beautiful place on earth. Literally straight out of a painting. Throw in there a bride who just happens to be a a VP for Ralph Lauren Blue Label...well, needless to say, it's total perfection. Oh and James Christianson just happens to be the photographer and the images that he captured just might make you fall out of...
I really heart today's first wedding. There is just something so simple and clean about the style...something that screams elegance and yet it still has that perfect infusion of rustic charm that we all love so much on SMP. Photographed by Steve DeVries, I am pretty sure that this was an incredibly special day.
The wedding took place in Virgina Beach at an old family fame. The couple went with a palette built...
We've been devouring the incredible photographs that Jose Villa sent us from the picture perfect white wedding that he was lucky enough to shoot (really, the couple was pretty lucky to get Jose!)...but now it's time to see that incredible day come to life. The insanely talented Joel Serrato has been sweet enough to pass along a vignette of the beautiful day not to make us all jealous, but rather to...
