The Princess Bride...in a Castle!

We had the opportunity to do a wedding in Baltimore, Maryland this past fall. In October, the weather can be a bit iffy in Maryland, but we lucked out and had a gorgeous wedding for a gorgeous bride. Casey had always wanted to get married in a castle, and her dream was finally coming true.


In fact, she had chosen The Castle at Maryvale! Working in historic properties always has its challenges, but we ran into a few new ones (like working around a massive 400 year old rug) that took some creative thinking to solve. Casey was grateful to have some professionals on her side. Here is the note we recently received in the mail:

Alex and Paul,

What can we say? You guys are amazing, you rock, we love you.... Thank You!! You not only created a beautiful wedding but you blew us and everyone there away! We hope you are proud of yourselves because we are!

Love you both bunches,
Casey and Jeremy


Working with Casey was exciting. She is an interior designer, giving her a great advantage in developing her ideas and expressing her vision to us.


Her inspiration came from pictures in a Martha Stewart Wedding magazine. The album was titled "Wedding Ideas That Sparkle." It featured metallic tones and lots of candles. The candles were in varied heights and colors of mercury glass holders. Casey loved the copper and gold tones with the bronze and silver accents.


We needed to make the theme more evening-friendly, so we made it darker by introducing a chocolate linen that featuring a copper leafing pattern. The linens were provided by Nuage Designs Each place setting featured a gold leafed charged atop a chocolate taffeta linen napkin also provide by Nuage Designs.


Our color pallet featured metallic tomes (copper, gold, and silver), ivory, and burgundy. To achieve these colors in the flowers, we used burgundy dahlias, brown and copper cymbidium orchids, hydrangeas, mango and white cala lilies, fiddle head fern (it is what sticks up around the candles in the low centerpieces), and vendella roses. The low centerpieces were accented with a copper, flat decorative wire.


The bouquets featured the same flowers as the low centerpieces handtied and wrapped in a copper satin ribbon a finished with pearl headed pins.


Casey wanted us to emphasize the use of candlelight, and we did that by capitalizing on the use of the mercury glass votive holders. There was a little over a dozen on each table. All of the pillar candles were copper colored and accented with a rhinestone band.


The base of the cake was done with the vendella roses, hydrangea, and miniature calla lilies. It was accented with the sterling silver elepahnt escort card holders.

We truly enjoyed our trip to the east coast, and we can't wait to go back. Thank you Casey and Jeremy for having us!

Photography by Jennifer McMenamin