More From Team Samuel

Toni Samuel ("An Anniversary Celebrated In Style"), shared with me a few more of her favorites photos.  It was about 120 more photos and when you have photo journalist like Ross Oscar Knight to document your day you are bound to have a hard time picking out favorites.  I have narrowed it down, which was no picnic, to 23 great shots of the day, that I wanted to share with you.

A family picnic of Love

 

The Samuel's attire was created by Cassandra Bromfield

The Mark and Toni are photographers themselves and got a few shots of their own (Mark Samuel Photography).

An Anniversary Celebrated In Style

Ten years ago Toni and Mark got married.

They had a little girl and named her Mali...

 ....and then a little boy, they named Nile.

Who love each other dearly.

Mark and Toni decide to celebrate in style.

This family is filled with creativity and their 10 year wedding anniversary could not be simple.  They decided to honor the marital bliss with a family picnic in Georgia.  

Picnics may call for casual wear but as I said before this is a family of artists.  Everyone in the family had a piece on created by me. 
Toni loved my patchwork and I created a patchwork jacket with bits of her original wedding dress.  That was paired with a denim A-line skirt.  For Mark I created a vest that was reversible to a patchwork side.  Mali looooooooved Tutu's and Nile looooooooved caps I used the same African Print in their parents attire.   The entire brood got the Converse sneakers that were customized with their original wedding date.  It was stylish, chic, and everything can be worn again and again. 

Mark and Toni are photographers (Mark Samuel Photography) with their own company.  Which means the photos are very important, so they got the incredible photo journalist Ross Oscar Knight to document the day.

Surrounded By Love

I first met Jennifer and her fiance a few years back at a bridal expo in Brooklyn.  She writes the blog The African Bride and they came from Pennsylvania to seek out new and interesting vendors.  Even though the event wasn't so well attended I so appreciated her coming so far.  

We kept in touch via blogs and facebook posts.  Then the announcement came, she was getting married and they didn't want a lot of fuss and it was definitely going to be cultural.

For their (DIY) invitations, they used photos from their trip abroad.  Read more about the invitation creative process, Invitations And The Blues.

On one of their vacations in Ghana, they brought back two African print fabrics, which were to be used for her wedding dress.  I designed a jacket and strapless dress.  There was a flower design on the fabric that I cut out, beaded and made into hair ornaments.  This flower embellishment was used on the dress also.

Jennifer emailed me some photos which reveal that they were surrounded by love.

They were both self proclaimed geeks and I can only imagine they were texting their I Do's.

This is a couple that couldn't be more perfect for each other.