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A Vintage Inspiration

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

It’s all things vintage on Wednesdays at my Kate Parker Wedding and adding vintage details to your wedding can make a grand statement.  Check out just a few vintage-inspired images from our members.  Go to the myKPW Galleries to see more vintage inspirations!

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images above by (left to right starting at the top): The Backbay Framery | Capries Wedding & Social Events | Person + Killian Photography | Maine Seasons Events | Jubilee Events, The White Dress by the Shore, Carla Ten Eyck Photography | Gus & Ruby Letterpress | Val McCormick Photography | d.d. Nickel Makeup Studio, The White Dress by the Shore

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All of the vendors above are members of my Kate Parker Wedding, your online wedding resource guide geared towards directing couples to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

Today is Rustic Monday! So, What IS Rustic?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Today is Rustic Monday on my Kate Parker Wedding.  Since it is our first ever Rustic Monday, we thought it would be a good idea to give examples of what “rustic” actually is.  Many weddings have rustic aspects mixed in with a vintage styled wedding.  We decided to show some rustic elements of weddings, like a wedding gown, table scape, and wedding decor in order to sort of define what rustic is.  We hope you enjoy our first of many Rustic Mondays!

Rustic Wedding Gown and Rustic Bouquet:

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Above and Below Vendors Involved: NYC/Westchester County wedding photographerDove Photography

Why is this rustic? Sunflowers are wildflowers, which gives them a very organic and natural look.  The gown in the photographs has an empire waist with lace embroidery giving it a rustic look.

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Rustic Wedding Ceremony:

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Vendors Involved:  New Hampshire wedding photographer, Melissa Koren Photography

Why is this rustic?  I think “barn” simply does it.  Barns are exactly what what comes to my mind when I hear “rustic wedding”.

The aged wood and the outdoor location are a natural look for a wedding ceremony.

Rustic Wedding Reception Venue:

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding photographerCarla Ten Eyck Photography

Why is this rustic?  The wooden floors and walls make for a very rustic style. Using paper lanterns above instead of chandeliers gives a dim and more natural lighting to the space.

Rustic Wedding Cuisine:

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding caterer, La Cuisine

Why is this rustic?  This caterer chose to cook in large metal woks on open heat which gives the cuisine an organic twist.

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Vendors Involved: Massachusetts wedding photographer, Relive Photography

Why is this rustic?  The wooden serving board is a creative way to add a natural feel to your hors d’oeuvres.

Rustic Wedding Paper Products:

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding photographer, Carla Ten Eyck Photography

Why is this rustic?  Creating home-made place cards are a great way to get a rustic look.  The color scheme, wildflower patterns, and handwriting all comes together to make for rustic place cards.

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Vendors Involved: Chicago, Connecticut, NYC, Rhode Island, Savannah, Vermont, and Washington D.C. wedding paper products, Tulaloo Stationery Studio

Why is this rustic?  The twigs and twine really give these programs a natural, rustic look.

Rustic Wedding Table Scape:

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Vendors Involved: Bernadette Smith of 14 Stories

Why is this rustic? The tree stump centerpieces with floral tops gives an outdoor feel to this reception.  The hanging lights and wooden beams are very rustic as well.

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Vendors Involved: Maine wedding planner, Maine Seasons Events; Maine wedding photographer, Brea McDonald Photography; Maine wedding paper products, Griffin-vites Stationery

Why is this rustic?  The knit menu holder gives the table setting a home-made feel.  The color scheme is also a great way to get an outdoor feel for an indoor reception.

The candle lit table and green colors all help to tie this rustic table scape together.

Rustic Wedding Decor/Accessories:

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding plannerSixpence for your Shoe and Troy Photography

Why is this rustic?  The hay, used as a hanging spot for the place cards, gives this wedding a very rustic look.

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding photographerCarla Ten Eyck Photography

Why is this rustic?  The worn down wooden sign is a great way to direct guests to the wedding site and give guests a sneak peak at the rustic styled wedding.

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Vendors Involved: Connecticut wedding photographer, Carla Ten Eyck Photography

Why is this rustic?  The background for this decor is very barn-like.  The photographs are hung by a natural green colored ribbon and the brown frames tied together are very rustic elements.

Rustic Wedding Cake:

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Vendors Involved: Maine and New Hampshire wedding cakesWild Orchid Baking Company

Why is this rustic?  The birch bark styled fondant gives this cake a woodsy feel.  The leaves strewn about also help make this cake look rustic.

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Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Meagan Gilpatrick of Maine Seasons Events, October 1, 2000

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Maine wedding planner, Meagan Gilpatrick of Maine Seasons Events is featured this week in Real Wedding from Real Vendors.  Maine Seasons Events is a member of the my Kate Parker Wedding family and we are excited to feature them in the spotlight!  Meagan shares insight, advice, and photographs of her wedding below, so take a took!

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

1.  What were your top 3 priorities when planning your wedding?

This is fun to look back on now after almost ten years and having planned over 120 weddings for other couples and their families-  I think I needed a wedding planner!  My priorities were that the date be in the autumn in Maine, (I do not enjoy being hot!) that the ceremony be outside and that all of our surviving grandparents be able to attend. (It was on October 1, 2000 and the ceremony was outside on a beautiful 60 degree day in the garden in our backyard, and all 5 grandparents attended, and danced even!)

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

2.  Looking back was there anything you would have changed about your wedding?

I would have hired a professional photographer, instead of a wedding photographer’s apprentice. (who was also a friend’s sister’s boyfriend…you know the story…now I cringe just admitting that, because I continue to hear it from engaged couples-don’t do it!) My biggest regret is that the pictures we have are not very good.  There isn’t one close up and properly lit picture of my husband and I, and only a few dark ones of my face during the ceremony, none of his.  Obviously we can’t go back and do it over, so the pictures were a big opportunity to capture that one day in our lives.  Oh and I have blocked this part out, but the pictures do prove that it happened: the reception venue we had to book (last minute, don’t ask, I wish I had had a planner!) had only white plastic garden chairs (think white lawn style chairs!) for the reception tables, and though it is a petty detail, it has always irked me that we didn’t rent nicer chairs.  I also wish we had a bigger budget, ours was tiny and we funded almost the entire event ourselves.

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

3. Was there anything you wouldn’t change about your wedding?

I wouldn’t change that I married my best friend- my 8th grade boyfriend, the one I have loved more than anyone else, for my entire life, our wedding date, or that my hands touched almost every element of the day, from the cake, the centerpieces, the gardens I planted the summer before the wedding, the decor, my head piece and veil, and even though tiaras may not be en vogue now, I loved mine, I made it out of a silver headband and I wired a vintage brooch to the center, and hand beaded the whole thing, it stayed in place all night!  I wouldn’t change that we managed to create a simple and nice little wedding (74 guests) on a shoe string budget.  I wouldn’t change that our families were all in attendance and that my little sister flew home from college for 2 days just to be my maid of honor.

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

4. What was the name of your first dance song?

The Ship Song- by Nick Cave (we also danced to Etta James’ At Last)

Real Weddings from Real Vendors: Maine Season Events, Meagan Gilpatrick

Thanks to Meagan and her husband for sharing their wedding with us!

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Maine wedding planner, Maine Seasons Events, is a member of my Kate Parker Wedding, your new online wedding resource guide geared toward directing brides to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

A Shout Out to Our Vendors Featured on Style Me Pretty

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Some of our my Kate Parker Wedding family members were featured on Style Me Pretty!  We are very excited whenever our vendors are featured on the web or in print and would like to share some of the photo shoot on the my Kate Parker Wedding blog!  We are very proud of  our talented vendors, and we hope you enjoy their beautiful work as much as we do!

Here are the links to the actual Style Me Pretty photo shoot:

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/12/15/from-inspiration-to-reality-the-design-3/

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/12/15/from-inspiration-to-reality-the-design-ii-2/

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/12/15/from-inspiration-to-reality-the-design-iii-2/

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Check out the video by New Hampshire wedding videographer, Meg Simone Film at the link below:

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2009/12/16/from-inspiration-to-reality-the-film/

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

I love the blue chairs.  The rustic feel and the robins egg blue are a beautiful combination.

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

The table numbers are incredible, so detailed!  I also love the wildflower arrangements.

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What cute menu cards!  The watercolors are fantastic and tie in perfectly to the barn atmosphere.   The nest on the plates are a perfect touch to finish off the place settings!

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

The wedding dress is so beautiful.  These vendors were so creative in tying all aspects together in order to make this elegant, rustic look possible.

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

myKPW Vendors Photo Shoot on Style Me Pretty

We would like to also give credit to Soiree Floral, Rentals Unlimited, and Wild Orchid Bakery.
Maine Seasons Events
Website: www.maineseasonsevents.com
Email: mgilpatrick@suscom-maine.net
Phone: 207.729.2308
my Kate Parker Wedding State and Budget: ME $25-50k, $50-80k
Griffin-vites
Website: www.griffin-vites.com
Email: sara@griffin-vites.com
Phone: 207-361-4784
my Kate Parker WeddingState and Budget: ME $50-80k, MA $50-80k
Brea McDonald
Website: www.breamcdonald.com
Email: brea@breamcdonald.com
Phone: (207) 752-3430
my Kate Parker Wedding State and Budget: ME $50-80k, $80k+
Meg Simone Film
Website: www.megsimone.com
Email: meg@megsimone.com
Phone: 603-986-6234
my Kate Parker Wedding State and Budget: NH $25-50k
Occasions Bridal & Tuxedos
Website: www,occasionsbridalandtuxedos.com
Phone: 603-430-8998
my Kate Parker Wedding State and Budget: ME under $25k, NH under $25k

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All of the above vendors are members of my Kate Parker Wedding, your new online wedding resource guide launching in January 2010 geared toward directing brides to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

Wedding Advice from Meagan Gilpatrick of Maine Seasons Events

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Meagan from Maine Seasons Events shares with brides some creative and practical ways to enhance a guest’s experience at a wedding. Check out some of Meagan’s great ideas!  ~LS

At Maine Seasons Events, we consider many details when choosing elements that will enhance our wedding guests’ experience.  Creating many outdoor weddings, and being in Maine, the weather changes often and sometimes dramatically-having rain ponchos and umbrellas stashed nearby, even on the sunniest of summer days has proven to be a smart idea.

While guests arrive and mingle prior to the wedding ceremony, beverage stations help quench their thirst on warm summer afternoons.  Bamboo fans attached to each wedding program and handed out at the entrance to the ceremony, allow guests to create their own cooling breeze, if Mother Nature isn’t providing one.  And though it is not a new idea, flip flops in baskets by the dance floor have saved many a box of Band Aids from being deployed!

Containers of insect repellent, in multiple forms, DEET and DEET free, are usually found almost empty at the end of a summer wedding on the Maine coast.  Custom embroidered hats for a sunny dock side rehearsal luncheon are a fun way to provide guests relief from the sun’s glare on the ocean.  Heaters in tents for cool autumn weddings, fun kid activates and foods for guests with little ones, and a quiet, comfortable and clean place for new mommies to nurse, feed and change their infants have been important guest specialties at our weddings.  After dinner snacks for dancers and late night party goers, a bouncy castle for kids or college friends to jump on (it’s happened), photo booths and memory tables, featuring photos of the couple as children, their parents and grandparents on their wedding days and even slideshows of the couple growing up, provide guests with sustenance and entertainment.  When thinking of your guests’ experience, consider the season, the weather, the temperature, the hour of the conclusion of the wedding and any special logistic or environmental factors that provide an opportunity to do a little something special.  In many cases guests have gone to great lengths, travel and expense to be with a couple on their wedding day, and it is a kind gesture and good hosting to consider their overall experience.

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Cunningham Photography

Living in New Hampshire, we know how viscous those pesky mosquitoes and gnats can be and with something so simple as a couple containers filled with bug spray, guests will be more at ease throughout the night.

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Cunningham Photography

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Cunningham Photography

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Brea McDonald Photography

Loving this!  Simple yet, chic.

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Cunningham Photography

Bamboo is such a great texture and perfect for a summer event, whether your wedding is on the beach or at a farm.

Maine Wedding Planner - Maine Seasons Eventsimage by Cunningham Photography

Maine Seasons Events
Website: www.maineseasonsevents.com
Blog: www.maineseasons.blogspot.com
my Kate Parker Wedding State and Budget: ME, $25-50k and $50-80k

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Maine wedding planner, Meagan Gilpatrick of Maine Seasons Events is a member of my Kate Parker Wedding, your online wedding resource guide launching in January 2010 geared toward directing brides to quality vendors based on their price range and state.

Road Trip: Brea McDonald, Griffin-vites, and Maine Seasons Events

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Brea, Sara, and Meagan we featured on Maine Maven today!  After using Meagan’s backyard for a spring shoot, this group of very talented individuals took a little road trip to Clark’s Cove Farm in Walpole, ME to use the apple orchard as a backdrop for the autumn portion of their shoot.  Click here to check out their work on Maine Maven!

Brea McDonald Photography
Website: www.breamcdonald.com
Blog: www.breamcdonald.com/blog/
myKPW Budget and State: Maine $50-80k and $80k+

Griffin-vites Stationery
Website: www.griffin-vites.com
myKPW Budget and State: Maine and Massachusetts, $50-80k

Maine Seasons Events
Website: www.maineseasonsevents.com
myKPW State and Budget: Maine <$25k and $25-50k


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