There is something so warm and inviting about Aimee and Steven’s Greenwich Village affair. Just a wonderful dinner with those you love. Plus, the brides is this little piece of beautiful, making the whole evenings seem like a fairytale…
I love the perspective that Patricia Kantzos took when shooting this wedding. It just seems effortless…
So much more on the way!
We are giving you a double whammy today with two totally different, but equally gorgeous weddings. This next one is all about the pretty. Shot by Patricia Kantzos, Aimee and Steven were married this past April at The Waverly Inn & Garden, Greenwich Village NYC with a handful of close friends and family…
From Patricia…
Aimee met Steven through a friend – by chance. She was living up in Woodstock, NY running her bed & breakfast – The Villa at Saugerties. She is a former editor of Time Out NY and he is the co-founder of Main Street Restaurant Group (Rain, Calle, Ocho, Django & BLT Prime etc.). Her favorite color is pink. Her wedding shoes are a favorite of hers. She wore her grandmothers brouche on her wrist attached to a pink ribbon. The ceremony was held at Steven’s mother’s apartment in the West Village out on her terrace. Steven’s mother also arranged all the flowers. As to the reception – Steven’s family has been celebrating at The Waverly Inn for generations – his parents and I believe grandparents – so it was an easy choice for location. We took photographs at the bar – again, generations of family photos at the bar at The Waverly Inn. It was small and intimate.
Our next featured wedding for the day (yep…we are doing TWO!), is the total opposite of our earlier affair. It’s light and Springy, sweet and colorful. Sent to us by Patricia Kantzoz, this wedding just makes me happy.
Lots more details and photographs on the way!
The oh-so-amazing Karen Wise sent us more absolutely exquisite portraits from Irene and Marty’s January wedding! There’s something to be said for an icy cold New York day …
If you haven’t seen the lovely photos from their wedding, you simply must! The rich reds and deep purples filled the space with a glow that belied the temperatures outdoors.
In addition to being the beautiful bride, Irene is also a fantastic graphic designer.
from Irene …
“As a graphic designer, I wanted to personalize our event through our stationery. The invitation was written in English and Russian. Russian textile work and the baseball diamond, reflecting my husband’s passion for baseball, inspired the design of our invitation suite. This design was then incorporated throughout the wedding, including the menus, coasters, and the calendar favors.”
Irene has now started designing for weddings and events. We’re really anxious to see more of her fabulous work! When her new website, Rinka and Ink, launches, we’ll see if she will send us some more of her creations. In the meantime, we’re pretty sure she’d love to hear from you!
And as always, a huge thank-you to Karen Wise for sharing her fabulous photos. For more from Irene & Marty’s wedding, here is the LINK to Karen’s blog post with ALL the details!
We originally featured Irene and Marty’s stunning wedding photos from Karen Wise a week or so ago. Since then, we’ve added some more, and so we thought we’d show all of them to you, one more time …
They were married in Manhattan on a freeeeezing New York afternoon in January.
Irene, the beautiful bride was born and raised in Russia and wanted to find ways to intermingle her heritage and it’s rich traditions into her very New York-chic wedding celebration at Bridgewaters.
from the bride … “I was born in Ukraine and raised in a Russian household, in a small community. We wanted to have as many personal touches as possible, including incorporating wedding traditions from my background, to make the day unique to us. During the ceremony, one of my bridesmaids read a love poem in Russian, which was then translated by my brother into English.
As my husband and I entered the reception, my parents presented us with traditional wedding welcome bread, the Karavay, on a decorated handmade towel called a Rushnik, welcoming us to the family. We had hired a Russian vocalist to perform during part of the reception and for the father-daughter dance.
One of the highlights at the reception was when the maid of honor and my brother surprised everyone by stealing the bride’s shoe. … a game played at Russian weddings when the groom then needs to “pay ransom”, in the form of performing a task, to win back the shoe for his bride. My husband had a great sense of humor about the whole thing and happily performed the Slavic folk dance “prisiadka” with much encouragement from his American friends and family. Although we were celebrating in America, my husband and I felt that my Russian heritage was a big part of our day.
We have a few more beautiful shots from Irene and Marty’s wedding day coming right up as well as photos of the wedding invitations that Irene designed!
Also, be sure and check out Karen’s blog for even more.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
One of my very favorite wedding planners, James Abel (and the word wedding planner doesn’t remotely do him justice as he does the most incredible flowers, event design and so much more) sent me this insanely creative wedding that I have been dying to share with you!
photography by the wonderfully talented Angelica Glass
Aside from the ridiculously gorgeous couple, this wedding is filled with the most unique details that capture the couple’s personality to perfection…think pretty pink flowers and chemistry test tubes. Crazy, I know. But, they completely pull it off and it just happens to be one of the prettiest weddings I’ve seen in a long time. Stay tuned!
