REAL WEDDING: CORI & ROLLIE
| Meet Cori & Rollie….you are going to love this wedding…it is so non-traditional and filled with great details and so much style…..Cori & Rollie’s wedding was captured by The Bride’s Cafe Crème de la Crème Vendor……Monika Broz and second shooter for Monika…..Tim Dinofa. Monika sent the beautiful images over to me and I’m so excited to share them with you…it’s always fun to have Monika stop by…she is such a sweetie! Cori & Rollie’s wedding is featured in two parts today….let’s check out all the fun of Part I…..Enjoy! |
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| Cori shares a little ‘411’ with us…….’We wanted to have a relaxed but stylish outdoor wedding with a casual feel in the Lambertville/New Hope area close to where are families are from but not too far from NYC where a lot of our friends are. I always pictured the sun shining with fluffy clouds and blue skies and kids running around and everyone just kicking back and enjoying the good food and good company. We chose the Mills for it’s beautiful location on the Delaware River and the charm and history of the buildings. We have a lot of family and friends with kids so instead of a bridal party we invited all 32 kids to be in the wedding and walk down the aisle…they all wore white and were rewarded with hand made goodie bags (made by my friend, Nicole and I) with their names on them. The bags contained custom made aprons from Kimberly (a friend) at chez-sucre-chez and also had pirate eye patches and moustaches, candy necklaces and watches, wax lips, and other treats from Economy Candy in NYC. My dress was designed by me with the help of my friend, Rose Baron who made the dress. My vision for my dress was 70s inspired with long, soft sleeves and an empire waist. I did not want to wear white so we found this great dove grey cotton voile swiss dot fabric at Mood that I loved. I wanted some pleating detail on the center back and Rose really brought my vision to life! My headpiece was designed by me and made by my friend, Jenny. My blue shoes were Chloe. Rollie’s suit was from Banana Republic and his tie, I bought at a vintage store in Rome. For the flowers, my bouquet was camomile and peonies, the girls carried daisies and camomile and the boys had daisy or camomile boutonnieres. We had shepard’s hooks with buckets of daisies down the aisle for the ceremony and stood in front of strings of origami doves, symbols of peace and long life together. The dove garland is handmade in Bangladesh by women in rural villages. The flowers for the tables were in vintage milk glass vases and were all camomile. Before the ceremony we had Jones sodas for the guests with our pictures on them. Cocktail hour we served grapefruit margaritas and cuban pork sandwiches among other things. For dinner we had fish tacos, macaroni and cheese, and Mexican corn. Dessert was excessive (just how we like it) with the cakes and cupcakes, a fire pit to make s’mores, and 8 different flavors of ice cream including banana peanut butter and chocolate orange from Swall Dairy in Allentown, NJ. My mom and I made all the table runners from a Denise Schmidt floral fabric, I made the napkins that had Fortune Teller Fish tied around them, our paper wreath that hung on the mill door, we bought on Etsy from a vendor called Haru. The handpainted signs indicating cocktails, dinner, ceremony, and dancing, were made by my mom. The 6 cakes and cupcakes were made by my cousin, Linnette Kelly and the clothespin cake topper was made by my mom. The music for our ceremony was Sam Phillips, Reflecting Light for the Processional and The Section Quartet, Such Great Heights (cover of Postal Service) for the recessional. Cocktail Hour and Dinner were mostly indie music and Dancing was mostly 80s. Our song was Bright Eyes, First Day of My Life and the kids danced to Bow Wow Wow, I Want Candy. Before the ceremony we had our pictures taken by our awesome photographers in the town of New Hope, including two of the places we had our first real date, John and Peter’s and Fran’s Pub.’ |
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Now isn’t this a fun wedding…I LOVE IT…the images are all ‘picture perfect’ and ‘magazine worthy’….check back later for Part II…more lovely details….you don’t want to miss it….Monika, you ROCK!!!! Catering by Dish Catering |