Wedding Advice from the BB Team: What We Would Do Differently

You spend months, maybe even years, planning your wedding day, and before you can take a sip of your champagne toast, it’s over! We know how quickly that day can go by, so the Bride and Blossom team got together to talk about what we wish we knew before our special days, and what we would do differently.

Elianna Phelps, Director of Events

Our wedding was a more rustic/simple wedding on an island off the coast of Maine (July 21, 2012). We met in Maine, and lived there for about 5-6 years, so it was really meaningful for us — it was all about the views of Casco Bay as the backdrop for our ceremony and reception. We got really lucky had perfect Maine weather, not too hot and not storming, just blue skies and a salty sea breeze. We did not have a wedding party – just our immediate families (moms, dads, sisters) at the altar with us. It was really intimate and felt right. We wrote our vows together since we wanted them to be relevant to us.

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Bouquet Recipe: Peaches & Cream

by Elianna Phelps

This unique recipe combines the three-dimensional texture of white dahlias and lisianthus with accents of peach garden roses and dusty miller to create a bouquet that speaks to a bride’s singular personality and signature style

Venue: Elite Palace
Photography: J’adore Love
Bridesmaid Bouquet from This Wedding: Pretty Peach & Purple Petals

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Three Keys to Wedding Social Media

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Social media is an increasingly present component of our everyday lives, but does it belong at a wedding? Experts say yes, there are ways to tastefully incorporate Instagram, Twitter, and even Snapchat into your ceremony and reception — but the key is in taking control over the situation before it gets out of hand. Read on for three keys to the perfect social media strategy for your big day.

Venue: New York Botanical Gardens
Photography: Dideo Films

1) Use a #Hashtag

The easiest way to keep track of social media memories is to come up with a unique hashtag for your wedding, and make sure guests are aware of it. The hashtag can be as simple as putting both of your names together and adding the word “wedding,” ie., BB creative director Lindsay Saltz‘s wedding hashtag could have been #lindsayandaaronwedding. Wedding Wire even has this handy wedding hashtag generator, if you’re feeling lazy or uninspired. Put your hashtag on your save the dates, wedding website, and even escort cards, and have your on-site staff encourage avid Instagramming.
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5 Outdoor Weddings Tips & Tricks

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Outdoor weddings can be a beautiful and unique setting for your special day, but these celebrations are not without their challenges — especially for flowers, which are sensitive to the elements. Read on for five tried and tested tips and tricks from the Bride and Blossom team to make your outdoor wedding a breeze.

#1 – While almost any flower *can* be used in an outdoor setting, it’s a good idea to steer clear of small, delicate flowers like ranunculus, sweet pea, and anemones for outdoor structures.

Venue: Tribeca Rooftop
Photography: Shlomo Cohen Photography

For more on this wedding: Ombré Floral Chuppah at Tribeca Rooftop Wedding

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Bouquet Recipe: Sunny Accents

by Rachel Trimarco

After one of the coldest Valentine’s Days in East Coast history, the B&B team is looking to today’s bouquet recipe to bring some sunshine into our lives! A multi-dimensional backdrop of white peonies and dahlias provides the perfect canvas for pops of bright yellow ranunculus and yellow craspedia to shine.

For more on this wedding: In Love at The Liberty Warehouse

Photography: GLK Creative
Venue: The Liberty Warehouse

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A Bride & Blossom Love Story

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NOTE: I asked our Creative Director Lindsay to share the story behind her romantic wedding photos. We always love to share our brides’ love stories, but this one is very close to our hearts! – Rachel

I remember Rachel emailing me about this good friend of hers I “had to meet.” I almost said no because of a series of bad blind dates but something told me to meet him. We met outside a restaurant in the city and he was standing there waiting for me with his headphones on. I
thought that was funny because we didn’t know each other so I could have been walking around calling his name and he wouldn’t have known. Immediately something clicked and even though I was nervous, I felt so comfortable with him. I’ll always have such a vivid and special memory of that night. I think I was smiling the entire train ride home.
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