Can you believe our favorite day of the week is already here? The day we get to double up on pretty posts and share even more wonderful weddings with you! If you needed a little extra boost to get you through the work week then today’s lineup will certainly do the trick and help you make it all the way to the weekend! Don’t forget, you can see even more of each wedding by checking out the full galleries!
A Nantucket wedding just wouldn’t be complete without a little nautical thrown in! Zofia Photography captured this superb sea town wedding filled with history, loads of handmade details and precious vintage pieces. I’m absolutely in love with the flags on top of the cake (made by the mother of the groom) and the Christmas cracker favors (a New England must have). It’s hard to have a bad time with a paper crown on your head! There are even more fun photos from this East Coast island party in the full gallery!
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Jason and I dated for ten years – we were high school sweethearts. I’m from Colorado, he’s from New Jersey and now we live in Boston. He’s in his residency at Tufts Hospital and I started my job a week after we got engaged in January. Between work and wedding planning, it was a busy nine months! When we were deciding on a location for our wedding, we had two obvious choices – Nantucket, where Jason’s parents retired some years back, or my hometown of Aspen, Colorado. We chose Nantucket because it was closer to where we live, the East Coast was where most guests would be coming from and, of course, it is a beautiful place for a wedding — a destination that feels worlds away but was not too far for most of our guests to travel. Jason and I love the history and feel of the island – Moby Dick, the cedar houses, and the beautiful bleakness that can come over the place. In designing the wedding, I wanted to have a vintage Nantucket feel and look that was not overtly nautical. We also wanted to throw a great party! I took a lot of inspiration from my mother, who passed away in 2006. She threw wonderful parties that always managed to bring out the kid in even the most staid adult.
Since we were splurging on the location, DIY projects, which I already love, became a focus. With the help of family and friends, we made all the paper goods, the cake topper, the guestbook, the favors, the directional sign and the escort card flowers. My mother in law made the cake, the linen pew flowers, embroidered the gift bags and made the table runner and tablecloth under the escort card flowers. She’s a champion. I made all the paper goods – invitations, menus, programs – with the amazing design assistance of my sister, Rye, who is a talented artist and graphic designer (and who also spent almost as much time as I did wedding planning!). She found among my grandfather’s things a dance card from a dance a relative attended in 1881 in Leadville, Colorado as well as a 1930s hand-drawn vintage postcard from Aspen. These gave us some great elements to work with, and let me bring in, in a small way, my family’s long history in Colorado. I used vintage postage stamps, which was a lot of fun. We brought in lots of authors, boats and state-themed stamps to make things more personal – I’ve actually bought stamps since the wedding, for myself. They’re little pieces of art! I noticed that while women commented on the invitation itself, the men commented on the stamps. Something for everyone.
I also made the seating cards, which were by far the most labor-intensive project. I ordered copper tags from an electrical supply wholesaler, bought a metal hand-stamping kit, and stamped each attendee’s name on a copper tag when I had free time over the course of several months. With the help of my bridesmaids, I tied each tag to sola flowers, feathers and dried flowers, each of which corresponded to a particular table. As the favors, I made sea salt caramels. They were wrapped in Christmas-cracker style poppers with exploding snaps, and each contained the candy and a paper hat I made in our wedding colors. Guests also took home photos from our photo booth.There were lots of small personal elements. Jason and I met in an English class. The books on the table were books we read in that class or by authors we read together. We share a love of classical music, and chose as the processional song Nulla in Mundo by Vivaldi, a piece we’ve listened to together hundreds of times over the years. For his wedding ring, I gave Jason my grandfather’s ring. On my bouquet, I tied my grandmother’s locket, which is engraved to her from her father and contains photos of the two of them. We love food and cooking, so when we had the chance to have a raw bar, we took it! More than anything, we knew our guests were travelling to be with us, so we wanted to show them a great time. We had croquet and a beanbag throw during the cocktail hour, which was a lot of fun, and assembled gift bags with Cape Cod potato chips, lobster gummies, information on the island and luggage tags that I made myself.
Many have said it before, but I will say it again – the photo booth was the hit of the party. Inspired by my mother’s love of costumes and dress up, I gathered a lot of fun costumes. Early on in the night I put on a cowboy hat and hit the dance floor, and after that, there were more costumes on the dance floor than there were by the photo booth. Certain hats never came off certain guests – it made for great photos and a really silly, fun night.
Wedding Photographer: Zofia Photography / Wedding Dress: Priscilla of Boston / Ceremony Venue: St Paul’s Church / Reception Venue: Great Harbor Yacht Club / Florist : Joyce Jaskula / Bridal Hair: Tresses and the Day Spa / Photo Booth: Nantucket Photo Booth / Music: DJ Phil Taylor
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So cute with them all wearing flats!
This was such a fun wedding to photograph! I was super impressed with Tracy's DIY skills, that I'm now even more envious of as I'm planning my own wedding. See those beautiful seating cards?!? She rocked!
I am a big fan of yellow - and I love it in this wedding! The navy, white and yellow are such nautical colors and they are incorporated well here. The table setting is fabulous; the bridesmaids belts are gorgeous; and the bride's bouquet is amazing! Love, love, LOVE this wedding!
Love the DIY details!
I love everything about this! The colors, the cake, the bouquet- So fabulous!
oh i just love a nantucket wedding!! i hope downy flake donuts were included in the day-after brunch? :)
LOVE the Navy & Yellow!! What a great (and different) idea for the cake topper!
Gorgeous photos Zofia! I love love love yellow :) And blue is now so in.
Love the color scheme. Where are the bridesmaids flower belts from?
Would love some DIY instructions on how you made the guest book!!! Beautiful wedding!!!
Love everything about your wedding! The party crackers / favours are so fun! Were the crackers purchased or DYI and can you provide any tips on how to do this?
Wowsers! That's a lot of DIY! I am planning my own wedding right now and reading that the bride did most of the DIY makes me feel lazy and uncreative lol. Advice from other blogs say that all the small details doesn't matter on the day of the wedding, so I'm not going to go crazy with details, it will just stress me out! :) But this wedding looks awesome!
Thanks to all for your kind comments! To answer some questions ...
The flower belts are from Emerson Made (http://www.emersonmade.com ). She has wonderful items.
The guest book I made by purchasing a discount drug store album, disassembling it, and re-covering it in blue book cloth from Paper Source. I punched holes in card stock re-bound the book and pasted in the envelopes.
The crackers were DIY. I got the exploding snaps here: http://www.oldenglishcrackers.com/party-crackers.htm . I don't know if I'd do the snaps again, though. I don't think anyone even heard them pop - they were all too busy talking.
They also sell rolls (I made my own since I wanted to make them large to fit a lot of candy) and crowns for poppers. I made my own crowns, basically because, as the previous commenter sagely notes, it is easy to go crazy with details - I certainly made all the crafting my hobby for several months. I wanted to have them in my wedding colors.
The crepe paper (that surrounds the crackers) is pretty and economical. I got it from this site: http://www.misterart.com/paper-boards/paper/craft-paper/tissue-paper/cindus-crepe-paper-folds.html , which has tons of colors.
Also, I wanted to note that the gorgeous flowers were done by Joyce Jaskula, who was wonderful to work with -- as were all my great vendors!
This makes me want to get out our croquet set! What an amazing DIY wedding. I can't believe all the time and love that the bride put into everything. It's really sweet.
Love the colors, love the theme. Navy and yellow are such crisp, evocative colors, especially for a Nantucket wedding! Bookmarking this one for some inspiration for our brides!
I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the envelopes for the take home photo booth strips?? Thanks - the wedding is lovely!
Allie - I got the envelopes from Paper Source. I stamped them with the words "Photos" using this magnetic rubber stamp kit, which was very useful and easy: http://store.scrapbook.com/mm-22818.html . You can do white/light letters on dark colors if you use embossing powder. Hope this helps!
Thanks so much Tracy!
Allie you did a beautiful job of pulling of a very elegantly nautically in spired wedding without going so nautical. The invites, programs and menu cards are gorgeous. Where did you and your sister get the artwork that went around the program that included the ship in the right hand corner.? I am an artist and my daughter is getting married on the coast of NH. I would love to show her this program and figure out how to recreate something like this for their vintage wedding by the sea. would you share how you printed them? thanks so much. kris
Kris - My sister found an old dance card among my great grand aunt's things -- from the 1880s -- that had this artwork on it. My sister, who does graphic design, adapted it for our program. So unfortunately, it's not so accessible!
Thanks Tracy, I have some vintage things of my grandmothers i will check for nautical borders.!!
Could you please let me know how your linen pew markers were made--I would love to make for my daughters wedding.
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