What a view! David Murray captured the mood of the wedding morning perfectly. And how chic is the Inn? At over 100 years old it’s been brought into the 21st century with modern touches and luxurious details while still being true to it’s history.

While it rained on and off all day somehow the misty sun came out just at the right time. I literally watched the weather radar during the ceremony showing rain to the north and south of us…Shawn and Tim had the only sliver of sunlight on the coast! The bride and groom said their “I do’s” under a birch arbor they made which I decorated with dogwood tree clippings and soft green vines.

 As always David Murray captures all the moments perfectly!

I adored creating Shawna’s bridal bouquet! She wanted something elegant yet earthy, lush with a bit of wild..I used white peonies, green hydrangeas, mini calla lilies, flowering dogwood, false orange and ferns…perfect for this early June wedding.

The Inn had this amazing large buddha hand sculpture on the porch and I couldn’t resist hanging my offering of a floral garland. The flowers through out the inn and on the dining tables were textural, a little wild, a lot of green, with pops of red and purple.

The Inn’s sun porch was used to showcase the amazing blue grass band, High Range, that played during the cocktail hour.

The Inn served an amazing cocktail style dinner with five different food stations -each one delectable! Really the food is amazing but guests also indulged in family made sweets and treats. Following cocktails and dinner DJ Steve Carrigan took over and  Shawna and Tim and their nearest and dearest celebrated into the wee hours of the night. It was truly my pleasure to be a part of it!!!

Flowers and Day of Coordination: Beautiful Days
Photographer: David Murray
Ceremony Site: The Amphitheater at the Camden Public Library
Reception Site: The Camden Harbour Inn
Cocktail Music:High Range Band
Reception Music: DJ Steve Carrigan
Ceremony Music: Jim Kennedy

Lighting and flowers from Beautiful Days.

Beautiful photos (except the table flowers photo) by John Santerre for David Murray Weddings.

Catering from A Moveable Feast of Portland.

Table number holders from Griffin-vites.

Perfect dress with one of our favorite bouquets! A classic bridal bouquet of peonies, roses, freesia with just a touch of silver dusty miller.

A bride’s best friend? Stunning accessories of course!

What more can a bride and groom ask for?! The backdrop of Scarborough Beach, simple white chairs set up in the round and a simple white birch arbor with a romantic scattering of white petals made for ceremony setting perfection .

A few of the flowers on the arbor I actually cut from a rambling bush of wild roses that day! The bridesmaids perfect in pale pink with peony, rose, sweet pea and dusty miller bouquets. And really – how cute is the ring bearer/dog wrangler?!

GORGEOUS make up from Joya Beauty and simple yet stunning hair from Hair That Moves.

Churchill Events not only served a phenomenal feast but were true professionals right down to the ties and aprons!

It’s all in the details!: The table settings and custom linens from Be Our Guest, custom painted manzanita branches for the table numbers, a little sea holly to complete the napkin, very cool and chic coral pattern linens for service and cocktail tables, simple escort cards with beautiful calligraphy, elegant flower arrangements of hydrangea, roses, freesia and peonies with succulent accemts to add texture and depth in vases lined with mussel shells, a towering cake with blueberry accents and plenty of champagne on ice.

 What a night! Everyone danced all night long and it was truly a fantastic celebration!

Meg Simone was on hand to capture all the behind the scene details  - be sure to check out the  film from Meg Simone here.  And you can see more of the shoot here on Seacoast Weddings’ website.

 The shoot wouldn’t have been such a success (and so much fun) with out all the wedding professionals who lent their time and creativity!

Beautiful Days:  Design, decor, styling, flowers and select bridal accessories.

Geneve Hoffman Photography: Photography

Be Our Guest: Event rentals

Wentworth-Gardner: Venue…be sure to check out the website for info about having your wedding portraits taken there.

Models: Bear Kirkpatrick & Emily Grondine

Wedding Tresses: Hair design

Glow Bodywork & Just Bee: Makeup

Beach Pea Bakery: Cake

Puttin on the Glitz: Jewelry

Erin Flett: Stationary

Madeleine´s Daughter: Wedding gowns, veil, shoes, select accessories, tuxes

Anneke Jans & Charlie Cicero: Food concepts, preparation, and styling

Meg Simone Wedding Films: Behind the scenes film

Scallops of Portsmouth: Select table decor

Wendy Freedman: Styling assistance

Bonus! One our favorite weddings from 2011 was featured in the real weddings section of the magazine as well! Carolena and Phil’s gorgeous Newagen Seaside Inn wedding was full of beautiful details set against a perfect ocean side backdrop. Beautiful Days worked with the couple on select planning, day of coordination, design, flowers and decor…all perfectly captured by J of Emilie Inc Photography. We’ll be sure to post more photos soon!

But wait there’s more….LOVE the sweets creations in the cake feature…the  detail of Beach Pea’s drop dead perfect cake from the Wentworth shoot  and the spectacular croquembouche creation from Wild Orchid Baking Company for the Snug Harbor Shoot  inspiration shoot Beautiful Days did along side the super talented photographer Heidi Lynne of White Loft Studio.

PS – a beautiful Days bouquet was on the cover of last years issue too! Check it out here!

Whew! That’s a whole lot of Beautiful Days…many thanks to Seacoast Weddings for putting out a gorgeous magazine and for highlighting so many of the  seacoast areas best wedding professionals.

Anneke and Austin were married at the architecturally perfect First Parish Congregational Church on York Harbor. The church was decorated with lush wreaths 0n the entrance doors, super cute galvanized buckets with blue and white grosgrain ribbon detail on the pew ends and full and beautiful arrangements at the altar.

Anneke’s bouquet was lush and lovely, made up of white and pink peonies and pale pink sweet peas. The perfect pink peonies were cut from my garden!

Fantastic photographer Eric Laurtis captured these happy moments following the ceremony at the historic John Hancock Wharf on the York River. And oh gosh Anneke’s dress from Madeleine’s Daughter was a stunner! She used to work at Madeleine’s Daughter so she knew how to shop for the perfect dress.

Anneke is one of four sisters and you can tell they are best of friends! The wedding party looked very sharp in navy accented with bouquets and boutonnieres of fuchsia pinks.

I created a custom monogrammed bridal bouquet wrap using a piece of Anneke’s grandmother’s wedding gown – love this type of detail and sentiment! And wow do I just have a crush on fuchsia…fabulous against the navy!

Pew end detail from the ceremony and the clean and classic cake from Beach Pea Bakery (on of my favorite bakeries!). I made a custom cake stand that was wrapped in nautical chart of the seacoast area and accented with white nautical rope. (or hmmm, I should  say “I designed” the cake stand since Beautiful Days’ master craftsman and carpenter aka my husband actually made the stand!).

This escort card display is one of the highlights for me…Gus & Ruby Letterpress (who did all of the fabulous print pieces – more coming I promise!) created the nautical flags which we assembled on tall picks to display on the custom compass table topper along with a gorgeous arrangement of hydrangeas, peonies, sweet peas and ranunculus accented with a wrap of nautical chart, ribbon and nautical rope. The compass graphic was used as a select accent in the perfect print pieces from Gus & Ruby. When it was all set up I was head over heals! (The above two shots are by Wendy Freedman)

Oh so pretty cocktail hour and centerpiece flowers were so perfect for this start of the summer celebration. The table numbers of nautical flag symbols by Gus & Ruby were great graphic pops of color and interest. We had 100% linen runners custom made for all the dining tables – a really crisp and classic finishing touch.

More details… beautiful letterpress menus from Gus & Ruby tied on with more of our nautical rope – and yes I now know how to tie a simple sailor’s knot!

The escort card table top on display after the table was moved aside to make room for dancing. The head table had a special and dramatic floral arrangement

And more details!…Drink stirrers and signs and the amazing invitation suite from Gus & Ruby complete with a hand stitched sailcloth belly band and monogrammed pennant flags.

What’s a party with out sparklers!?

The Reading Room has a large, gorgeous fireplace that we made glow with candles, candles and more candles!

If you are dancing into the night under a golden canopy of twinkle lights why not do it in flip flops? (I’ll take pink in size 9 please). The lighting we put up the large hall of the Reading Room added that extra layer of romance and festivity.

Congratulations to you Anneke and Austin! It was truly a special day. Anneke, I am so pleased you held onto that card for so long and you knew I was “the one” before you met “THE ONE!”

This wedding celebration was not only inspired by Anneke’s vision, fabulous taste and attention to detail but was also a collaboration of fantastic wedding professionals who I was so honored to work and create with!

Beautifully photographing the day: Eric Laurtis
The perfect setting:  The York Harbor Reading Room, York Harbor, Maine
Custom invitation suite and print pieces: Gus & Ruby Letterpress
Cake creation-classic on the outside, oh so decadent on the inside: Beach Pea Bakery
Filming the day as only the best can: Meg Simone Wedding Films. You can take a peek at Anneke and Austin’s day as told by Meg’s film here.
Gorgeous bridal gown and maids dresses:  Madeleine’s Daughter

Flowers, design, lighting, select decor details and partial day of coordination: Beautiful Days.

The fabric swags added that extra layer of joy to the festive occasion. I worked with local potter Amy Clark of Ocean Fire Pottery to create these custom white clay vase trios for the centerpieces…perfect for highlighting simple groupings of yellow spring flowers. The vases were then given to VIPs at the end of the party.

Yup that’s me mixing up the party’s cocktail of prosecco, limoncello, and lemonade. It’s no wonder ranunculus are a favorite flower for so many – how it fits soooo many petals in one flower bud is beyond me! Guests were asked to write down some words of mama wisdom which were then read aloud after lunch -yes there were a few tears but alot of laughs too!

I had to include this photo of my gift to Sarah – my son’s gently worn Converses increase the gift wrapping cuteness factor by at least 10! The fresh lemon slices of the party cocktail fit right in with the party’s color scheme of course!

The napkins at each place setting were wrapped with strips of fabric used in the ceiling swags adding another punch of color. I LOVE how clean the vases are and that you can see the texture of Amy’s hand work in the clay from throwing them on the wheel.

The guests were invited to decorate onsesis and burp clothes which a new mama cannot have enough of!

The day really was lovely and the space at the Brixham General Store was the perfect location…sunny, bright and open…and Brixham catered a delicious luncheon for the ladies.
Congratulations to you and your beautiful family Sarah! I hope I’m around for the next celebration!!!
You can get a glimpse of Sarah’s wedding flowers here or see her and her family (pre baby) be the best models ever for a Beautiful Days inspiration shoot here.

A special thanks to Wendy Freedman of New Castle, New Hampshire for the photos, Amy Clark of Ocean Fire Pottery of York, Maine for the collaboration and perfect vases and Brixham General Store of York, Maine for the great spot and fantastic food!

If you want to see more of the shoot you can check out my blog post from last spring here. Heidi and I  first collaborated on another shoot in a green house almost two years ago- alot warmer and we didn’t have to wear our snow shoes! Check it out here! Thanks so much to Heidi for her amazing images and fantastic collaboration! Visit Heidi at White Loft Studio to see more of her beautiful work.

Beautiful Days pops up one more time in the same issue Well Wed! A dear friend of mine did the flowers for this perfectly modern preppy Nantucket wedding celebration and I had so much fun going home to be a part of her team!

Thanks a million to the always brilliant Meg Simone for capturing the shoot! Photos and more details coming soon but just keep playing the video over and over for now!

FAB wedding pros we couldn’t have done this with out: