Our 1st “Green” Wedding: Adam & Taryn
We first worked with Adam & Taryn, the founders of the Urban Charrette, when we photographed their 1st ECO.lution festival, focusing on sustainability in Tampa. (Photos are here: www.stehlikphotography.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/happy-earth-day-tooooo-yooooou) Two years and a whole bunch of lattes later, and they are now some of my most favorite friends. :)
Since the objective of the Urban Charrette is making Tampa as green as possible, it only makes sense that they decided to make their wedding as green as possible as well. Assisting them with that goal was Mise en Place (www.miseonline.com), which is not only a beautiful restaurant, but also a wonderful catering & event planning company. Adam & Taryn decided to put the entire wedding in their hands, with simple the instruction: ”Surprise me.” (Talk about a laid back couple!!)
Mise definitely did not disappoint, and put together a beautiful wedding, working along with some of the area’s finest vendors, including Concept Bait (www.conceptbait.com) for the linens and stretch design and Botanica (www.botanicaflorist.com) for the floral design. To see what exactly what made it a green wedding, check out this article about the wedding: www.review.net/section/detail/nice-day-for-a-green-wedding.
The entire affair, including the rehearsal dinner, took place in Ybor City, within walking distance from the out-of-town guests hotel. The ceremony & reception took place in Ybor City’s Italian Club, which I pass by all the time but have never actually gone inside – it was beautiful! Down to the photos- let’s go!
We start with the pre-ceremony, where they got ready a the hotel:
After shooting the girls at the hotel, we walked with the guys from where they were getting ready to the ceremony location:
The ceremony was beautiful – it was held on the second floor of the Italian Club in the theater:
After the ceremony, we ran across into Seventh Avenue for a few quick shots in the street. :
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For their couples portraits, we took them after the wedding to the old Tampa Armature Works building in Tampa Heights – an amazing historic building which is slated for renovation and is just *loaded* with photo ops. Huge thanks to the folks over there for letting us in!
After we were done running through the streets of Ybor, we went back to the Italian Club where the reception room was looking lovely and so….*green*! Check it out:
The party was great fun, and the food was out of this world!!
It was such a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful event, and to watch two people that I adore so much start the rest of their lives together. Bellissimo!!
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