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Shabby Chic Bride
Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘shabby chic’ as a “style using deliberately worn and deteriorated items to achieve an elegant overall effect.” We’d add romantic, feminine, and dreamy to the description! Shabby chic can be interpreted lots of ways, allowing room to reflect personal style.
A woman who envisions a wedding day look reflecting her shabby chic style and eco-friendly sensibility is in luck! Often utilizing organic fabrics and found, vintage, or salvaged details, shabby chic and eco-friendly go together like peas and carrots…Here are just a few shabby chic details for an eco-shabby chic that caught our eye!
Image credits clockwise from upper left:
Adey, by The Cotton Bride
Rustic “Here comes the bride” sign
Shabby chic bracelet with vintage clasp
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My Anniversary…Remembering The Dominican Republic
Yesterday marked my 2nd Wedding Anniversary and two years since my husband has been in the States! And, as promised – I wanted to share with you photos from our 2 weddings. We had one wedding in the Dominican Republic – which was a ceremony and reception for family only (and just a few very close friends). We had another wedding here in the States as soon as Miguel got here (see yesterday’s post). Here are photos from our Wedding in the Dominican Republic…
I wore my Nicole Miller dress at both weddings and really only wore the blue and white Lacoste shoes at the wedding in the United States. I love those Kate Spade shoes – but they are not very comfortable! Then I have my parasol!
I am not much of a girlie girl…but on this day (like most women), I felt lovely and so happy to be getting ready to marry the love of my life in front of all of his family and my family. That day – was like no other in my mind’s eye. By the way – I got my beautiful gardenia fabric flower from ebay for $3.00 and I wear it all the time!
These are two of my favorite photos from that day. One – I love fresh limeade in the Dominican Republic…and true to form – it was hand-squeezed on our wedding day! Then I adore this photo of Miguel getting ready – just the smile and the tie that he still has!
Flip flops are a big deal in the Dominican Republic – We bought 60 pairs for our guests and all were gone by the end of the ceremony!
My favorite paper lanterns, the limeade station, the 6 page round programs that were in Spanish and English – all items that I brought from the States (minus the limeade itself). The table runner was left over from a wedding that I did in Anguilla and the lemonade jars are at my mother-in-law’s home, my sister-in-law’s and one of Miguel’s Aunt’s apartments! I still have our programs as each one had a different set of paper and ribbon. I reused some of the ribbon for other projects and the paper I just love and cannot part from!
Our amor table along with the plastic (yes – they are plastic – but we still have them and his mother has them) colored plates that I had to have as I wanted multi-colored plates. No – those are not menus – they were trivia questions. Since some people at the wedding had never met me or my family – we had trivia about each other’s family and the guest that had guessed the most amount of trivia correctly – won a prize at the end of the night. I still have all of these cards!
Me with 6 of my 7 flower girls (all are Miguel’s nieces and one is a baby). They carried cute glass lanterns down the aisle that they all got to keep.
(My favorite portrait of me that day)
I loved this reveal time at the nearby country club where we got married at his uncle’s beach home. My maiden name is Van Veen and my married name is Vasquez (Martin is my professional last name from my 1st marriage that I had when I started my business) – hence the V on the parasol! I am really Senora Vasquez! We took these reveal photos prior to the ceremony.
This may seem like a nothing shot here – but I did not really want to see Miguel prior to the ceremony – so in order to keep things “fresh”…his mother handmade my veil and we put it on just before I went down the aisle. My veil is so special to me!
Our ceremony!
I love this photo of us praying…since my brother is a photographer and the best man – he actually took this photo at the altar!
MARRIED!
Love this moment – we were able to get away from everyone while they were changing the ceremony area over to the reception area to steal a dance to Miguel’s favorite song…I can remember him singing it in my ear.
My handsome hubby!
Our fun favors with wrapped local peanut brittle and Dominican coffee!
Love this shot of our decor around the pool next to the house:
Hope you enjoyed this weekend’s anniversary photos of me and my darling husband Miguel! Stay tuned for some fun posts this week!
(Katie Martin)
All photos by Documentary Associates
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Winter 2012 Issue
