today i wanted to share two special wedding-related notes and then i promise i’ll cut back on the happily ever after talk.
i’m excited to announce that for the next 6 months i’ll be guest blogging at martha stewart weddings. the team at ms weddings reached out to me about blogging our wedding planning process and featuring our wedding in the magazine next year and i decided it would be a fun project- and a chance to talk about something different for a while. i know some of you have had it up to hear with any wedding talk on d*s, so you’ll be happy to know 99% of my wedding babble will now remain over at the ms weddings blog. click here to check it out.
and in other wedding news, i was super excited to hear from d*s reader and textile designer heather palmeri about her beautiful vintage-inspired wedding. heather and her husband andrew (who is a web designer for the nytimes) were married at buttermilk falls inn and spa in milton, ny. they took advantage of the beautiful natural setting, and heather’s incredible collection of vintage vera napkins, to create a special day that i thought would be inspiring for anyone planning a wedding, a holiday party, or just looking for some ideas for special meals at home. all of the vintage fabric really got my mind going so i hope you’ll find heather and andrew’s wedding as inspirational as i did. thank you to heather, and her photographer, julia newman, for sharing these shots. (click here for extra shots of the wedding)
[My stepfather cut down all of the stumps for the table. The menus and table numbers were just printed out at home on our ink jet printer. All of the apothecary and milk bottles were found at antique shops by my mom. All of the flowers were dahlias and were purchased from Stems in Red Hook, NY. My friends Allie and Mara did all of the floral arranging and styling of the tables. Allie even made all of the boutonnieres and corsages! (My bouquet was created by the designers at Stems)]
[My stepfather has a sugar shack in CT. and makes the most amazing maple syrup. We knew this would be a great favor and he loved being involved. I used a few of the leftover napkins and cut them up (painful!) and tied them around the jars with twine. I loved the impact of all of them on the table at once!]
[The napkins are all vintage Vera. As a textile designer, I knew that I wanted to incorporate a lot of pattern. We decided to forgo the idea of choosing a specific color palette and instead decided that we wanted it to just be colorful! I had help from family and friends collecting the napkins from ebay and flea markets and vintage shops. A lot of people were so excited by them that they took them home with them after the wedding (which is fine by me, b/c I don't really have room to store 100 napkins anyway!). Additionally, I used the napkins to make fabric flowers to decorate the branches that held the place cards as well as for the fabric covers on the maple syrup jars (see below). We also had a Vera tablecloth (that came with one of the sets of napkins) that we used as a backdrop for a Polaroid photo booth.]
[All of our invitation stationery (invites, rsvp's, thank yous and place cards) were printed by my wonderfully talented friends Anna and Mara at Dutch Door Press. I did all of the artwork and my husband did the typesetting. It was truly a group effort and one of my favorite things about the wedding. All of the calligraphy was done by the incredible Betsy Dunlap.]
[The cake and cupcakes were made by Anne and Rebecca of CAKED in Brooklyn. It is a secret family recipe of chocolate cake with butter cream frosting and they're delicious!! The cake topper was made by a friend of mine, Laura Keenan.]
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Julia Newman is such a wonderful photographer! (And a very hip and lovely lady!) I love her work!
totally cute!!! well done guys!!!
Hey, I love hearing about weddings – especially the beautiful ones that are on here.
just putting that out there.
that wedding looks incredible!
don’t worry about annoying your readers with wedding talk. i was married 4.5 years ago and still love hearing about weddings ;-)
Congrats, Grace! That is so exciting. I know some people don’t enjoy it, but I love seeing pictures of weddings– especially the beautiful folksy/handmade type (like Heather and Andrew’s) that you feature here. I love their color combo of peach/turquoise. Very, very pretty.
i love the wedding babble. i’ll definitely be checking in at msweddings. what a great new gig for you!
i like how nearly every element of this wedding has a personal story behind it. love the vera-covered maple syrup jars!
Wow. I love every aspect of this wedding; ESPECIALLY the homemade maple syrup jars for the guests and the patterned invitations!
I don’t understand why some people have a problem with the wedding posts. Maybe they wouldn’t have a problem if you replaced the word wedding with party or entertain. I’m just happy to see some design eye candy. Very lovely.
OH MY GOSH! I collect Vera. I love this!!!!
I am so excited to be able to read about your wedding planning. I love the vintage napkin idea, I wish I would’ve thought of that for my own wedding.
congrats grace on the new assignment.
and for the record..i don’t think you’ve overwhelmed us in this space at all with your wedding talk.
i just want to say, that having done the big beautiful outdoor ‘magazine’ wedding myself, some ten years ago, i can usually take or leave the overly styled nuptial events. but this featured wedding, that involved people she loves collaborating by doing things they all enjoy and are good at…well, just seems perfect to me.
Lovely wedding favors, very special indeed.
yay grace! SO awesome!
I forgot to mention the darling cake! Grace please do visit me when you have time!
Congrats, Grace! What a fun opportunity, and we’ll look forward to seeing your wedding featured in print.
Heather and Andrew’s wedding is breathtaking!
This is like the perfect, perfect, perfect wedding to me. I’m hoping to someday do a vintage-y wedding with vintage fabric incorporated somehow (I’m a clothing/accesories designer and use lots of vintage, so it kind of works perfectly for me)
Gosh getting married now is so much more fun than 11 years ago when I got married. Harumph!
beautiful again! Okay- maybe over the holidays I will re-vamp my wedding site! I am inspired, thanks
See Grace, this is why you’re the best. There are a lot of cool weddings to feature out there, but this one…it’s just breathtaking. Rustic, colorful, handmade, personal, great photography-this was so much fun to look at and totally useful for ANY event, not just a wedding. You made my day!
You know I love Martha Stewart Weddings! Totally jealous. Your my hero.
xoxo, katy
How completely exciting! Looking forward to seeing your plans take shape.
{p.s.} Grace — e-mailed you this morning :)
No one could get sick of looking at this kind of wedding – appealing to the design eyes, and aughh! Super appealing to the vintage lovers. Just discovered Vera a year ago and can’t get enough!
Maple syrup! Perfect!
this is the most beautiful wedding. ever. it’s exactly the inspiration i’ve been needing! congrats grace – going to msweddings now :)
what a lovely wedding! love the Vera textiles. great way to make the tables pop. thanks for sharing!
I just love it. This has to be one of my favorite weddings that I’ve seen written or blogged about.
How sweet and stunning. I am in love with her gorgeous bouquet.
Great news about the MS wedding blog!
Yay for Grace!! I want to see the Poloroid photo booth!
LOVE all those vintage napkins. Such a cool way to add whimsical color and pattern…
I think this is the first time I’ve truly regretted dashing down to the courthouse for my wedding. It’s so lovely and so cozy.
this was the MOST beautiful wedding ever! how beautiful you have portrayed the day-it brought tears to my eyes! especially because heather is my daughter!
thank you Grace xo
What a gorgeous wedding!
We’re in the midst of planning ours and are completely overwhelmed by everything. This is such a beautiful example of simple & elegant – plus they didn’t pick a colour scheme – love it!!
Thank you!!
yay. i’m so excited. i’ve been wondering about your wedding planning ideas. can’t wait to see it.
That is so exciting about MS! Congratulations and I can’t wait to read it — even though I’m married I love to see parties come together. xoxoxo Abbey
I just can’t get over those gorgeous napkins. Wow.
Congrats on Martha! So fun!
Sick of wedding talk – who could be sick of wedding talk?! I can’t wait to check out your posts over at ms….
I can tell you first hand, the wedding of Heather and Adam was the most beautiful well planned event I have attended. It was evident alot of thought, effort and talent was put into this memorable day. The entire setting (from the tree displaying the name cards to the decorative tables and menu holding logs) creatively portrayed the style and inner beauty of the bride and groom. It was magnificent !!
i love wedding planning talk and will definitely be reading along.
Oh these are fabulous -I’m so happy that bright, colorful weddings are becoming popular. We just saw “Rachel Getting Married” – her beautiful crazy wedding was such an inspiration!
What lovely favors. Yummy.
congratulations, that’s awesome! I will definitely be adding the ms wedding blog to my subscriptions again… I think you’ll give them the kick they need to keep it consistently interesting/ humorous/ gorgeous/ etc. go grace!
and I love the colors of that wedding. weddings are weird because often planning them centers all around style, design, colors, and various tastes… which is not something most people experience in regular life, so I think it totally ties into the D*S stuff.
but, then again, I may be biased ;)
What a fresh and personal expression of your love of beauty and eachother. I am a wedding designer .I plan weddings, do calligraphy , create invitations and fresh floral arrangements and bouquets……I love your concept and how honest it feels. Thanks so much for sharing these images and ideas….and Congratulations !
LOve it all!! Beautiful Bright Flowers, the sunshine, little details on the table, the smile of happy couple, and yummy cute cake. Its one of the Best best wedding i seen!!
Heather & Andrews’ wedding was such a collaberative celebration of love. Their professional ability for design & color, personal thought & detail created a perfect wedding day. An extremely talented and inspirational couple!
this is absolutely stunning!
beautiful wedding pictures of beautiful wedding decor. and it seems to come with a beautiful story too. congratulations to the new couple.
btw, i love the idea of using the napkins and party favor.
Grace, how fabulous that your wedding will be documented by MS for the whole world to see! Heather and Andrew’s wedding was stunning. Betsey Dunlop’s calligraphy was so RIGHT and so whimsical and beautiful.
this wedding is amazing. I’ll keep all the ideas for mine! Love Dhalias, color and “green” style…adore really everything.
Whish the just married all the best.
Love the invitation. Which is no wonder since I love Dutch Door Press!
how could anyone be sick of weddings? you should create your own wedding site that’s an offshoot of this one…in the meantime, i’ll be following along to the other sites you’ll be writing for! can’t wait to see your wedding grace!
beautiful,who was the caterer?
What a special night…I think even the angels were crying happy tears…so many people brought their specialties to this event from the natural tree products to the maple syrup favors to the Vera napkins collected as a shower gift all the way to the top on the cake…with all of that I think the music and dancing is what I will remember because Heather and Andrew were surrounded by family and so many friends!
This is absolutely wonderful !!! :)
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