A Look Back | Summer Castle Wedding | Thornewood Castle

Vendors
Wedding Planner: Elegant Affairs  //  Photographer: Stephanie Cristalli Photography //    Videographer: Belscope Weddings  //  Venue: Thornewood Castle    //  Caterer: Twelve Baskets Catering  //  Wedding Dress: Pnina Tornai from Kleinfeld Bridal  //  Dessert: Better Than A Boyfriend Bakery and Celebrity Cake Studio   //  Beauty: Salon Maison  //  Florist: Diamond Custom Floral  //  Officiant: John Rosendale  //  Rentals: Sweet Buffet Lady + American Party Place  //  Ceremony Musicians: Puget Sound Strings

From the Bride: We initially fell in love with Thornewood Castle as our wedding venue and were really inspired to make our wedding classic & elegant to match the feel we got when walking around the castle & garden. My husband is European, so we loved having the ability to tie in his heritage to our big day through Thornewood. We decided on blush & gold as our wedding colors to tie back to the classic theme and immediately began working with our planner & florist to determine how to accentuate the features of this gorgeous venue without stealing away from it's natural beauty--and our team totally nailed it! Food was also extremely important to us and we were blown away by Twelve Baskets, Better than a Boyfriend, & Celebrity Cake Studio and our guests totally agreed. On the big day, we were SO impressed with how everything came together. From the beautiful garden ceremony, to the gorgeous reception underneath a tent in the back lawn & dancing and drinking in the grand ballroom, our day felt like it was straight out of a fairytale. Our wedding planner & team were beyond helpful throughout the entire process and were instrumental in making everything run smoothly and turn out perfect. We were SO thankful to have Stephanie Cristalli & Belscope Weddings there as well to help capture our big day and were blown away by the photos and videos we got to take away afterwards. In short, our day was a complete dream and above & beyond anything we could have ever imagined! We are so thankful for the wonderful team that helped make our dream wedding come to life and would highly recommend all of our incredible vendors to any bride & groom looking to create their perfect day!

A Vegetarian Wedding Menu that anyone would love

Your wedding day should be about celebrating what you and your future spouse love most, not what you think your guests will love. So, if the chicken or steak option just will not do and planning a meat-less reception is an important to-do, this is the Food-tastic blog for you!

Start by thinking about what your favorite foods are, and if those are items you would like to see on your reception menu. Have a secret love for peanut butter and jelly sammies? Or you just can’t get enough grilled tofu? Be sure to incorporate your faves into your selections for the big day, and personalize the menu descriptions to get your guests excited about getting to experience it too.

Doing your research and selecting a caterer who is knowledgeable about and supportive of your meat-less menu will eliminate the stress that comes with planning any reception menu. They will know what items to offer as crowd pleasers, and which items to avoid due to cost. Save yourself the hassle, and make hiring a skilled caterer a top priority.

Make your guests forget there isn’t any meat by setting up some grazing stations. Gourmet fruit platters and tiered cheese trays, varieties of veggie plates and of course something sweet; you and your guests will leave with full bellies and happy hearts.

A Look Back | Garden Party Wedding | Dairyland, Snohomish, WA.

Wedding Planner: Elegant Affairs  //  Photographer: Wyat L. Taylor  //  Videographer: Marcella Laine  //  Wedding Dress: Lainee Meg  //  Dessert: Better Than a Boyfriend Bakery  //  Beauty: Posh Styling  //  DJ: Otto Matic  //  Caterer: Veraci Pizza   //  Venue: Dairyland

In honor of Lauren + Jake’s 3rd Wedding Anniversary today, we are looking back at their stunning garden party wedding at Dairyland!

The best part of our job is working with couples planning the wedding of their dreams and throughout the process learning about them but in the case of Lauren + Jake we already knew them even before we started working with them.

I was honored enough to be Lauren's sorority advisor when she was at Washington State University and we were lucky enough to get the call when the love of her life, Jake finally proposed.

This couple has known each other since junior high and finally decided to say I Do at Dairyland.

For their wedding they wanted to be that fun garden party and with the backdrop of this beautiful Snohomish venue we accomplished that. 

We loved how this day played out and even more excited to see what these two can accomplish as husband and wife.