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Beautiful Days Featured in Seacoast Weddings Magazine

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

Seacoast Weddings magazine is out and it is fabulous! It is full of wedding inspiration, ideas, advice, and real seacoast weddings. We are so excited to have the work of Beautiful Days included in the pages of one of the best wedding resources for brides planning their weddings in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts . With a team of some of the area’s best wedding pros we created a “steal vs “splurge” shoot around the farm to table theme and we could not be happier with the results!

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Many thanks to the fabulous wedding pros and super cool folk who all came together to make this a perfect day down on the farm! Brea and Heidi of Brea McDonald photography, Leslie Oster of Aurora Provisions who truly kept the food local and delicious, divine dresses from Madeleine’s Daughter, just the best placesettings from Be Our Guest party rental, Chairman of the Board for the perfect farmers tables, gorgeous invitations and print pieces from Gus & Ruby Letterpress, heirloom blankets from Get Wool, Matt Forcier of Lasting Memories Videotaping for literally jumping on the tractor at the last minute and of Zach’s Farm for letting us play under a Sperry Tent.  We’ll be sure to post more photos and details very soon! In the meantime you can check out Matt’s behind the scenes video here .

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What a bonus to see one of our top five bouquets of the season gorgeously captured by Nadra Photography (above) at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, ME and the super sweet vintage inspired centerpieces from a wedding at the Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, NH photographed by Eric McCallister (below).

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And if you are looking for a little DIY advice be sure to check out The “Express Yourself” feature where Beautiful Days’ own tells it like it is when it comes to tackling DIY for your big day!

Seacoast Weddings DIY

Check out what was in last years issue here… More fabulous real weddings and inspiration from Beautiful Days! We’ve also recently been featured in Maine. The magazine’s wedding issue, Grace Ormond and Country Living! Whew- we have been busy and loving it! Keep in touch to stay up on everything we have in the works for 2013!

 

 

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Farmer’s Market Inspiration

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

I am in full spring gardening mode and love checking out all the local greenhouses and the farmer’s market for unique flowers and inspiration. A few weeks ago I found gorgeous opal basil at a farm that will be perfect for next weeks wedding flowers. The flower color range is dark to light purples and the basil will add a gorgeous, velvety ,deep purple accent.

Opal Basil

Opal Basil

This morning I struck out to the local farmer’s market to look for purple kale and other unique flowers and edibles for this same wedding. I didn’t find the kale I wanted but did sit and share a scone with my son Wyatt and listed to a great bluegrass band called Rock Spring The first song they played was Pachelbel’s Canon in D, one of the traditional processional songs for wedding ceremonies. You wouldn’t expect to hear this from a bluegrass band but it sounded so cool and fun and different…the key word being different! I do love the traditional strings for ceremonies but having a bluegrass band put a spin on those traditional songs is what makes a wedding stand out from all the rest.

So don’t be afraid to hire that steel drum player you heard at a local club, book the blue grass band for your ceremony or to ask your florist to create a design using unexpected elements…seek out inspiration in unexpected places, create your own traditions and infuse your celebration with pieces that make you smile. All your guests will smile along with you!

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Many beautiful days….

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Over the holidays I received a few birth announcements from past clients showing off their first born. I love getting these! As much joy as I get in sharing my clients’ wedding celebrations it makes my heart warm knowing that they are starting a family. This is a good reminder that after your fantastic wedding day has come and gone there are more beautiful days ahead that define what being married is all about.

This past summer my husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary. I am amazed by how fast the years have gone by, how much we have accomplished, how much we still want to do and by how blessed we are everyday especially now that we have a wonderful two year old. We decided to renew our vows with the same minister who married us on the same spot on the beach on Nantucket where we stood 10 years ago. This time it was just us with our son and two very close friends but it still had the same feeling…a lot of love. After 10 years of marriage it was also a great way for us to remember what is really important in our lives and why we said “I do” in the first place.

So yes, you do deserve a gorgeous, flawless, beautiful wedding day but when you are fretting over linen colors, what cake flavor to choose or where to sit Aunt Betty remember that 10 years from now you will forget all these little things and remember all the love.

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