Weddings Redefined

Stories and advice from Bernadette Smith, visionary owner of 14 Stories, the nation's first firm specializing in creating legal LGBT weddings. Our weddings are unique, personal, beautiful and still, historical. We have offices in Boston and New York.

Featured Vendor: Katie Martin/Elegance & Simplicity

Bernadette Coveney Smith - Monday, November 16, 2009
Katie MartinI don't do vendor spotlights much but I really wanted to call out Katie Martin from Elegance and Simplicity.

She's been planning and offering floral design for weddings in the DC area for years and all of her weddings are eco-friendly.  She's a nationally recognized expert on green weddings.  Katie's Executive Consultant Tara is a newlywed lesbian and Katie has already planned a good handful of gay commitment ceremonies.  All outstanding stuff - I'm very impressed what Katie is offering for the wedding industry and for the community and I know that I can learn a lot from her about greening my clients' weddings.

But with gay marriage on the horizon in DC, I wanted to mention Katie as a planning resource for engaged gay and lesbian couples.  She's bringing me down to DC in a few weeks to speak to wedding vendors and engaged couples about gay weddings but Katie's already doing great things for the LGBT community.  I know that DC-area LGBT clients would be in good hands with her and Tara as their planners and floral designers.





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John Schneider commented on 03-Dec-2009 05:21 PM
As one of many vendors who attended your workshop in Washington, DC, I appreciated learning much more than I ever knew about becoming a more-prepared vendor for gay ceremonies, celebrations and weddings in our area. As a human being, I'm thrilled by the decision of the local DC authorities to take a significant step into the new world. And, as caring musician, I'm excited by the possibilities of creating musical memories for life formy new clients. Thank you so much! At the risk of throwing too many words into you blog, I'd like to share an already-familiar poem which everyone should re-read once more:

THE ROAD LESS TAKEN by Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Peace!

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