BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN WEDDING – EMMA & KAREEM

Their wedding took place at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden…such a GORGEOUS venue and the flowers and decor are simply lovely….so happy to share that the flowers were designed by my friend Denise Fasanello, of Denise Fasanello Flowers!!  Suzi sent over so many beautiful images of Emma & Kareem’s wedding story…I know you will love them as much as I do…let’s check out all the details of their big day….Enjoy!!

How they met…..

Emma…..’We met on a blind date! A friend of mine met Kareem at a party and put us in touch. We met a week later at a Vietnamese restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called Silent H, which sadly doesn’t exist anymore! We talked nonstop for the next three hours.’

Emma….’Kareem was leaving for a trip home to Egypt (I would be joining him there about five days later) and took me out to a Japanese dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in New York – Zenkichi (also in Williamsburg!). It is the place where he first told me he loved me. After a bottle of sake, he finally said, “I think we should do this.” I asked, “Is this the moment I’ve been waiting for?!” and he said it was. We laughed a lot and of course I said yes.’

Emma…..’An Oscar De La Renta sweetheart silk taffeta gown with tiered ruffle train in oyster (just off white). I liked it because it looked like a flamenco dancer’s dress. I wanted to wear something I could imagine dancing all night in. Accessories: Jimmy Choo gold glitter peep toe pumps and Miriam Haskell chandelier earrings, yellow gold with glass pearls.’

Emma….’We kept to a white and rose/pink invitation. We wanted something very classic, so we used letterpress for the text. We also needed to accommodate a bilingual invitation, so we chose a trifold design. The text was on the second and third panels, and the front panel, what one would see first when they opened their envelope, was an image of the Brooklyn Bridge, blind debossed. We wanted something very simple and elegant. We used an incredible calligrapher for our addresses, Mary Anne Wolfe, who matched the ink with the rose of the text in our invitations.’