Brooklyn Bride - Modern Wedding Blog http://bklynbrideonline.com Planning A Modern Wedding in a World of Pink Flowers and Poofy Dresses Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Cool colors from JCrew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bklynbrideonline/SRBY/~3/GrmQY760ZSE/ http://bklynbrideonline.com/8461/wedding-fashion-and-jewelry/cool-colors-from-jcrew/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:33 +0000 Vane http://bklynbrideonline.com/?p=8461 Screen shot 2010-02-04 at 8.12.03 AM

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These minty green and cool aqua dresses are so refreshing for spring weddings.

[images from JCrew]

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I always knew Shake Shack had exceptional burgers, but who knew you could fall in love there too?!  It sure made for some great pre-wedding photos for Sharon & Chris, thanks to Maggie Harkov!  Sharon gives all the details below…[make sure to check out the gorgeous lace on her dress!]

US: Chris and I met one fateful summer at LAX airport en route to a cultural exchange program in central China. We bonded over the joy of eating sheep stomach soup, yak yogurt and grilled lamb kabobs. We love to eat! Back in the US, we started five years of long-distance courtship (me in NYC, he in Maryland).  On Valentine’s Day 2009, Chris proposed in front of our favorite burger place, Shake Shack, at Madison Square Park.

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THE WEDDING: On our wedding day, it only seemed natural for us to have our first embrace in front of Shake Shack. Not even a rainy October day prevented us from getting a burger to eat (and shake to drink!) on the biggest day of our lives. We even had a personalized wedding cake topper of us feeding each other a Shake Shack burger and shake…that’s how much we love the place.

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We wanted our wedding to be fun, colorful and classy with lots of personal and quirky touches. The colors we used were vibrant hues of purple and magenta. We originally planned an outdoor ceremony in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, but had to bring it indoors due to the heavy rains. Our florist, Belle Fleur, did an amazing job creating a beautiful “Plan B” for the ceremony and an elegant, romantic landscape for the reception.

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THE SWEETS: I have a big sweet tooth, so we did a nostalgic candy buffet with our favorite sweets and treats. The wedding cake was provided by our venue and was topped with the personalized cake topper, which I got off of Etsy.com. I also surprised Chris, who is obsessed with the Baltimore Orioles, with a cake replica of Camden Yards. A real hit!

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THE DETAILS: I love Etsy.com and pretty much ordered all the details here including the cake topper, personalized cootie catchers with fun trivia about me and Chris, table cards of our favorite NYC restaurants, circle-shaped menus, petal cones, fan-shaped programs and flower girl baskets off this website! A little risky since everything was done electronically, but I was really happy with 99% of the results and it was a great budget saver. The DIY favors were personalized fortune cookies + our favorite Maryland staple, Old Bay Seasoning, placed in a Chinese take-out carton… a little “east meets west”.  I also went to Chinatown and bargained for dozens of colorful pashminas to keep the guests warm. We also provided slippers, which were purchased by my parents in China. You really can’t beat the prices there!

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We are now living in Baltimore, but have these beautiful photos taken by Maggie Harkov (and the Shack Cam app on our iPhones) to remind us of our big day in New York!
Venue: The Palm House at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

Photography: Maggie Harkov Photography – I found her on Brooklyn Bride!

Videographer: Serendipity Filmworks

Florist: Belle Fleur

Hair: Stacy Pitt (StylesonB)

Makeup: Sissi Chan and Andrew Sotomoyer

Dresses: Vera Wang (bride), J Crew (bridesmaids), a tailor in Shanghai (Chinese qipao)

Music: Anteros Quartet & Hank Lane

Sweets: Groomscake by Silk Cakes by Judy Lai; Candy Buffet by Ricky’s of Red Bank

Most details: www.etsy.com

[images from Maggie Harkov]

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ABOUT

A photographer since 2002, Susan has photographed weddings all throughout world. Her work has been published in Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Bride and Bloom, Modern Bride, The Knot, Professional Photographer Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, After Capture Magazine, in trade publications for Nikon USA, Elegant Bride, and Town and Country Weddings.

Susan’s style is simple but she believes that her images should speak volumes – about who you are as a person, about the relationship between a husband and wife, about the subtle nuances of everyday life. She strives to creates images at each and every wedding that illuminates the relationships; both of each individual family and the new family being created that day. Her goal is provide you with a documentary-based illustration of your wedding day with minimal guiding or posing. It’s not her intention to just “make pretty pictures” but to truly make images that capture the relationship between two people in love.

WEBSITE

http://www.susanstripling.com

CONTACT

Susan Stripling | susan@susanstripling.com | North : 917.209.8425  South : 850.443.9251

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ABOUT

A photographer since 2002, Susan has photographed weddings all throughout world. Her work has been published in Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Bride and Bloom, Modern Bride, The Knot, Professional Photographer Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, After Capture Magazine, in trade publications for Nikon USA, Elegant Bride, and Town and Country Weddings.

Susan’s style is simple but she believes that her images should speak volumes – about who you are as a person, about the relationship between a husband and wife, about the subtle nuances of everyday life. She strives to creates images at each and every wedding that illuminates the relationships; both of each individual family and the new family being created that day. Her goal is provide you with a documentary-based illustration of your wedding day with minimal guiding or posing. It’s not her intention to just “make pretty pictures” but to truly make images that capture the relationship between two people in love.

WEBSITE

http://www.susanstripling.com

CONTACT

Susan Stripling | susan@susanstripling.com | North : 917.209.8425  South : 850.443.9251

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Once again Michelle Hayes Photography is offering an Engagement Session giveaway and this time it’s just in time for Valentine’s Day.

A lucky couple will win a complimentary engagement session around the NY area with Michelle.

In about 1,000 words share your NY love story with Michelle. Just email submissions to: info@michellehayesphotos.com

Contest Deadline: February 14th Valentine’s Day. The winners will be announced on February 20th.

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This latest addition to MaeMae’s 2010 wedding collection , Gilly, is a stunner…I like how the designer, Megan, comes up with a fictional story behind her designs.

“Gilly spotted Cian at an old fashioned candy shoppe where she was buying jelly peach rings before boarding a train home. She had the peach rings at the shoppe at the same everyday for five months before Cian finally took her on a date to an orchard where they were married the following year.”

[images from MaeMae Paperie]

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Let me start this all off by saying I LOVE Alicia!  She used to work at Seaport Flowers and helped put my wedding together with the team there so when I found out she was getting married, I knew it was going to be awesome.  And was I disappointed?  Not a bit!

Having met in Brooklyn even though both had southern roots, they decided to get married at the Boathouse in Prospect Park.  Their wedding was CHOCK full of DIY projects, from the pennants and escort cards, to Alicia making the bouquets and redesigning her wedding dress from JCrew!

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Art as favors…the couple screenprinted and frames art from Adam of birds in the region.  Each was unique!

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A table runner of pompoms and vintage glass vases filled with flowers like ranunculus, hydrangea, lilac, sweet pea, dusty miller, peony, queen anne’s lace, spirea, garden roses, agapanthus, billy balls, football mums, baby’s breath, and yarrow, all in yellow and white.

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For more details from this wedding, check it out in the latest issue of The Knot, on newsstands now.

[images from Maureen Davis Photography]

Seaport Flowers is a member of the Brooklyn Bride preferred vendor listings

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These new designs from BetsyWhite are totally rockin my world right now…script never looked so good.

[images from BetsyWhite]

BetsyWhite is a sponsor of Brooklyn Bride.

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Any other brides daring enough to do a shoot in the snow?  I’m cold just looking at her!  But she sure walks it off with style, and this shoot looks amazing!

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[images from Simply Bloom Photography]

Simply Bloom Photography is a member of Brooklyn Bride’s preferred vendor listings

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ABOUT

Kelly Guenther is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. New York Magazine listed her as one of the top wedding photographers in NYC. She and her team of accomplished photojournalists have been published in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and other publications around the world. Their unobtrusive, storytelling style captures the true spirit of the wedding day.

TESTIMONIAL

“Kelly managed to be everywhere, even though our guests would later report never even knowing she was there. We can’t express how much joy our photographs bring us each and every time we flip through our album. We want to thank you again for capturing it so beautifully and honestly. We are so appreciative of your talent.” -Juliet and Erik

TWITTER

http://twitter.com/guentherphoto

CONTACT

Kelly Guenther | Kelly@nycweddingphotographer.com | 347 683 1867

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