Ritzy Bee blog

how does your garden(ia) grow?

We love the sweet look and smell of gardenias and their dark green leaves in wedding details...

Photo credits: 1+2 A Bryan Photo 3 Style Me Pretty 4+5 Martha Stewart Weddings

skyline tent company

Great weather brings such enormous potential with outdoor weddings and the amazing folks at Skyline Tent Company have you covered - literally - with so many elegant and beautiful tent options and impeccable service from their team. From Sperry sailcloth tents...to a high-peaked tension white tent...or a clear-top-tent, the seamless tents they construct are magazine worthy in the perfect size for your celebration. Along with tenting, Skyline Tent Company also provides custom lighting, flooring and staging for their tents that cohesively tie together for an elegant wedding setting. For weddings in Virginia and throughout the southeast, contact Skyline Tent Company and visit their blog for under the big top inspiration! 

wild-flour

We love the pretty wild flower details on these confections!

{Photo credits: 1 Maggie Austin Cake via Southern Living 2+5 Martha Stewart Weddings 3+4 Maggie Austin Cake}

maggie austin cake

From the moment Maggie Austin Cake stepped onto the wedding cake scene, her works of art have been called pastry perfection. Exclusively custom and exquisitely tailored, Maggie Austin designs display symmetry, elegance, and sophistication with the subtle yet unmissed mark of haute couture. With signature flavors such as Pear Cake with Blackberry & White Chocolate Buttercream or Vietnamese Cinnamon and Chcolate Cake with Hazlenut Praline & Cappuccino Buttercream, each elegant piece tastes as incredible as it looks. A Maggie Austin Cake automatically becomes a showstopper on display at a wedding and the talk of the table! Be sure to keep up with Maggie's beautiful work on both Facebook & Twitter.

a kiss of classic color

A kiss of classic lipstick red...

{Photo credits: 1+2+5 Martha Stewart Weddings 3 Note to Sarah 4 Cade Martin + Design Army + Washingtonian} 

dogwood details

We are smitten for the Virginia state tree blooms and how perfect dogwood blooms are for spring weddings...

{Photo credits: 1 Jen Huang via OnceWed 2 Abby Jiu + Ritzy Bee Events via Once Wed 3 + 4 Martha Stewart Weddings 5 Jose Villa}

dc happenings

We were super excited to recently visit the newly remodeled event space at the iconic Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in DC. They have a beautiful new inside space perfect for ceremonies with gorgeous natural light and huge reception spaces. Plus - their catering & event staff are some of the nicest folks in DC you could hope to work with. If you book a wedding with them, be sure to mention you saw this post on Ritzy Bee and they'll even throw in the bridal bouquet, gratis! 

DC ladies...support a GREAT cause this month and stop by Hitched Salon to donate your gently worn (and dry cleaned) formal dresses, shoes, handbags, jewelry, hair accessories and even unused make-up (like sample cosmetics) to benefit Princess for a Night, an amazing program to help some less fortuante local ladies get glammed up for their prom night. Details can be found here.

april showers

You'll have good luck on your wedding day no matter what the weather with umbrellas and wellies...

{Photo credits: 1 Cade Martin 2 via Calder Clark Designs 3 Jose Villa via Style Me Pretty 4 Ritzy Bee Events + Kate Headley 5 Tec Petaja via Once Wed}

details we are loving

Happy Monday friends! Hope your weekend was wonderful...speaking of wonderful things, we love these pretty things...

Pretty pastel flowers from Maggie Austin Cake

Pretty calligraphy by Molly Jacques on a scroll wedding invite via Martha Stewart Weddings

In love with these France Palmer pieces via Terrain

cherry blossom time

It's not springtime in Washington, DC without these cheery blooms taking center stage!

{Photo credits: 1+2+3+4 Martha Stewart Weddings 5 Sidra Forman + Caroline Tran Photography}