How could I have missed this elegant wedding reception inspired by an 18th-century pastoral festival, the fête champêtre and set at the Château de Breteuil France.
A New York bride recently had her wedding vision come to life in France and in the pages of Veranda. The verdant styled reception table was set for 300 guests and was dressed with fuzzy baby almonds, pepper berries, and porcelain doves accompanied by birch-bark vessels and white and green florals.
Respect was paid to each detail, exemplified on the table cards with "oh so" apropos calligraphy as it appeared on the menu cards and the envelopes which were sealed with a wax impression from the bride’s family chevalière, or family crest; and were then banded with velvet ribbon, and embellished with soft a lamb's ear.
The green and white floral arrangements were styled with sweet peas, ferns, mushrooms, dainty grass racemes and then gathered in leaf-lined crystal compotes along with Paris Ladurée's macaroon as favors.
Music filled the seventeenth-century Château de Breteuil located in the countryside near Paris. Cocktails were served in the garden and the candlelit dinner was served on the terrace — at that single long table. The bride’s bountiful bouquet was full of mixed butterflies, feathers, orchids, ferns, mint, and peonies all tied up with antique ribbons. The bride's dress was couture and created by J. Mendel.
Be Inspired Mes Amies,
Joanna
