The moment we had all been waiting for finally arrived on Earth Day! It was a perfect day for having a green wedding in Washington DC! The Washington DC Green Wedding Consortium went all out to provide a lucky couple with over $50,000 worth of professional wedding services and products.
You have seen previous posts about the beautiful Adele Wechsler wedding gown that was provided by Promise for the Savvy Bride, but here you will finally get to see the bride in the dress that she chose! Robin Fisher from Polished helped to style the bride and her sister with the best colors and accessories.
Although Earth Day was a very strange weather day, the wedding was beautiful! Fortunately, the couple had two of our photographers (Love Life Images & Documentary Associates) in the consortium that took amazing photos for them. Elegance & Simplicity’s owner, Katie Martin, headed up the effort as the Washington DC Green Wedding Consortium director and served as the couple’s wedding planner and designer. Elegance & Simplicity’s Green Love Events Division provided the floral designs. The wedding day started off with a quick interview from WJLA Channel 7 at the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church!
The eco-friendly bridal bouquet was made from blue delphnium, yellow freesia, pink astilbe, lisianthus and bouvardia.
The view of the church changed all day long from cloudy, rainy, hailing and sunny!
Videographer Jessica Pi took amazing coverage that we will post shortly! Elegant Hair by Giselle provided a beautiful natural look for the bride and Carola Myers provided flawless eco-friendly make-up by Korres.
The guests were delighted as they came to the Decatur House Museum for the reception.
The altar arrangements were used three times throughout the day by Green Love Events! 1st at the altar, then in the foyer of the Jackson Place entrance of the museum and finally reused in a different vase on the buffet!
Utilizing the amazing local Cherry Blossom farmers, Green Love Events was able to display these magnificent blooms in the alcoves going up the stairs to the cocktail hour.
The cocktail hour was hosted upstairs in the museum, complete with mason jars filled with flowers! The tops of the mason jars were available to the guests at the end of the evening; encouraging guests to reuse the jars for their own use after the wedding! All of the flowers used for their wedding were grown by local farmers or from Holland’s pesticide free farmers. All Dutch flowers were flown in on a commercial flight to utilize space otherwise unused by the average consumer on a commercial flight!
The bride and groom made their way to the reception in a pedicab!
The guests were invited into the Carriage House after the cocktail hour for dinner and dancing. Here are some of the beautiful details from the tables!
The centerpieces consisted of three vases. Some tables had pink recycled glass jars (others had orange) accompanied by a flip top container and spice bottle filled with flowers. The tops for the spice jars were provided to guests at the end of the night and they were able to take the flip top jars to use for anything from holding sugar for their coffee in the morning to saving leftovers!
Evan from MyDeejay.com had everyone dancing all night long to the couples favorite tunes!
Avalon Caterers provided eco-friendly, local and organic cuisine from the cocktail hours through the end of dinner!
Cakes by Design provided a beautiful eco-friendly cake complete with fresh local raspberries and decor that can be reused again and again!
There were tons of intimate moments and interesting cultural elements in their wedding. The bride’s Scottish heritage brought forth the bagpiper at the church and the the beautiful custom-designed Korean Korum Bow on the bride’s gown was a fantastic addition to celebrate the groom’s culture.
Of course, the snapshot studio from Love Life Images was a hit!
Last but not least, the entire wedding was carbon neutral with a carbon offset purchased by Elegance & Simplicity from Carbonfund.org!
Elegance & Simplicity also provided all wedding stationery (which was all post-consumer waste recycled paper) and calligraphy. The stationery included wedding invitations, escort cards and programs. Elegance & Simplicity provided the couple with a logo and a logo sign to be reused by the couple as personal decor. All leftover flowers were either taken by the family or composted by Elegance & Simplicity. The discarded programs and escort cards were recycled by Elegance & Simplicity. Leftover food was packed up for the bride and groom and their families at the end of the evening by Avalon Caterers. Avalon Caterers made sure that all of their staff either carpooled or took Metro to the event. Ask your wedding professionals how they can make a eco-friendly difference in your wedding day! Check out all of the green wedding professionals in the consortium by clicking here!
Congratulations to our 2009 Green Wedding Giveaway Couple!
Stay Tuned for the next year’s Giveaway Details and how you can win!
