When planning your wedding, it is SO important that the celebration feels like “you” – your taste, your style, your comforts, your favorites. Today, I am delighted to announce a fabulous give away from Suzanne Somersall Jewelry Designs. To enter to win the lovely crystal belle epoque pendant, leave a comment describing how you are making your wedding reflect your personality.The winner will be announced on Friday, September 17th! I can’t wait to hear from you!
To check out the line in person, head to Ginger Boutique – so pretty!
My fiance and I have pretty classic tastes and we are trying to reflect that in our wedding.For example, we’re designing the invites ourselves and we’re hoping to make them relatively tradition, with a little something extra to show the young, fun couple we are.
I can’t wait to see who wins, thank you for featuring my wedding jewelry on your lovely blog! xo Suz
My fiance and I wanted a DC wedding, not just a wedding that happened to be in DC. We are making the day uniquely us by marrying all of the things we love about DC with details from the other parts of our lives. For example, we both went to school in Chicago and we’re going to give all of the out of town guests bags of Garrett’s Popcorn. John and I also trained for the Marine Corps Marathon together right after we got engaged. We’re hoping to invite anyone who’s interested for a run on the mall on the Friday before our wedding. Sure, we love the monuments and the river, but for us DC is where we met, where our families are, and where we hope to build a family. The more we can do to make our guests feel at home in this city, the better.
Early on in our relationship, my fiance and I felt that we didn’t have much in common…until we discovered our mutual love of food and wine. We took cooking classes together and visited tons of local wineries to cultivate our “one” shared interest. Since then, we’ve discovered and developed other shared interests, but visiting wineries always gives us the warm and fuzzies and makes us remember the sweet early moments of our relationship. So, when looking at venues, we selected a winery, naturally. And we hired a caterer who will work with us to personalize every aspect of our menu and even cook some of my fiance’s “signature” Italian recipes if we want! Finally, we have each lost family members dear to our hearts, and are working hard to incorporate their memories through photos and our use of flowers (my grandparents were avid gardeners, and we want to fill our wedding with the flowers they loved most). One last thing, we are both silly and love to laugh, so whatever we plan, we intend it to be full of fun and laughter!
My fiance and I are combining all the things we love to create an elegant, fun wedding. We are going to personalize our wedding by writing the ceremony ourselves. Since neither of us are religious, we plan on focusing the ceremony on our love for each other, and having a family member preside over part of the wedding to share stories about our life together. We are so excited to share our love with all of those that matter most to us!
That necklace is beautiful! My fiance are I are making our wedding a lot more modern than our families are used to, so that makes it much more “us.” But we’re also using pictures of places we’ve been instead of table numbers and I’ve poured my heart into making all of the paper products (STDs, invites, menus, programs, etc) myself since I LOVE paper. Also, my bridesmaids are wearing custom designed dresses, and since we really make an effort to eat local and sustainable foods, our food will be as local, organic, and sustainable as we can make it. Thanks for the giveaway!
Our wedding, which will take place in New Orleans, will reflect our personalities by being elegant and refined in appearance – gorgeous but simple flowers and linens, etc. But on the inside, we just want to have a good time – so we will have great cocktails, delicious New Orleans food and most importantly, a rocking big band. We will inject a little bit of New Orleans tradition (my fiance is from there) by including a second line from the ceremony to the reception, incorporating fleurs de lis in the invitations and table card holders, and using gold to accent our bluish-purple and green flowers and linens (purple, green and gold are traditional mardi gras colors). Staying true to ourselves, nothing will be over-the-top – just perfect for us and our families. Thanks!
What a gorgeous piece! My fiancé and I will be married in DC next March, and have customized our wedding to suit our backgrounds and personalities in the details — from the invitations to the cocktails and everything in between. We took our own pictures of DC-area landmarks that just happen to be our workplaces, and while we used the photos as save-the-dates, we then transformed the image into a background in our color scheme for our invitations. Our signature cocktails reflect our families’ backgrounds in New York (Manhattans) and Texas (Mexican Martinis) and we’re also serving beer and wine that is brewed/grown where we grew up. My favorite part is our food: custom family recipes from our caterer, and cupcakes in our favorite flavors that are baked by a dear friend! Even our venue — a DC historic site — is filled with history and portraiture sepcific to our graduate work here in DC and our career paths. Every element in the day will be familiar to at least a few guests, and we’re looking forward to sharing each part with everyone!
I’ve got my fingers crossed for such an elegant, bold piece! My fiance and I are customizing our wedding by basically doing everything ourselves and talking through all our projects. Paper projects like invites, save the dates, programs, etc. are being designed on our Mac with us tweaking things side by side into the wee hours of the morning. It’s my fiance’s idea to get married on a yacht, and he respects my request for no cut flowers. There’s a lot of compromising going on, but that’s the most important part of the wedding — and marriage! Good practice for the many years to come :)
Our wedding style started based on my engagement ring, which is a replica of a 1920′s estate piece. So we’re throwing a Great Gatsby Garden party at a Historic Manor in the area. Although some of the attire, music and decor will be reminiscent of the times, the rest is all about us! Our specialty drinks are about where our two families are from: a spiked Arnold Palmer for my southern roots, and a Blueberry Pie Martini for his Maine heritage. Even our food will reflect a ‘North meets South’ idea – with lobster rolls, pulled pork, blueberry pie, and red velvet cupcakes. When we entertain we love for our guests to have something to do! So we’re setting up lawn games for our guests to enjoy during cocktails. We love to entertain at our house for our friends and family, but don’t like to things to be fussy. Little details will reflect that, including the grooms and groomsmen ‘non-tuxedo’ attire and our late night lounge furniture. Lastly, even the wedding party is a tribute to us and our huge families, – with all 15 of our nieces and nephews going down the aisle! I think that gorgeous bold piece would be the piece d’resistance to our Great Gatsby wedding!
What a beautiful piece! I’m actually getting married this month and our wedding day is going to be the perfect reflection of us! My middle name is Rose and my fiance has always called me his rose, and regularly brings me roses so that is the central visual element of our wedding. A modern rose outline is on our invitations, table numbers, etc. The amazing people in our lives are the key reason that we’re having our big wedding so they’ve been central to our planning and to how our day is unfolding. My sister made all of our paper products, a professional photographer friend is doing our photos, etc. We can’t wait!
We are just beginning the planning process, so all the creative ways listed above are great ideas! My fiance and I are both math/statistics majors, so we are going to have a “stats” sheet (though I haven’t decided if it’ll be part of the program, invitation or table setting) with numbers relevant to our relationship, like how many years we’ve known each other, etc.
This being the second marriage for both we are tyring to reflect the love that we have found together by uniting both of our family at the wedding.