Miss Onion, NYC/Burlington, VT
Age and Occupation: 26, PR & Marketing and Jazz Singer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Data Analyst
Engagement Date: April 2, 2006
Wedding Date: September 2007
Blogging Since: July 11, 2007
Venue: Restaurant in Burlington
About Me: I didn't think I'd be "that girl," but I am having so much fun planning our wedding (mostly by myself). I'm a PR and Marketing Director for a major jazz festival and camp by day, and by night, a romantic jazz singer and bride-to-be! I hope all my research can help other brides in their planning.
The Walk Up The Marketplace
April 7th, 2008 @ 10:30 am by Mrs. Onion
After we had a little time with our friends and family outside the church, we led a processional of all our guests up the Church Street Marketplace. Fun fact: downtown Burlington, VT was designed by the same people who designed downtown Boulder, CO (known as Pearl Street Mall).
You can see video footage of the walk up the marketplace taken by a friend in a previous post. It was actually less than 400 feet from the church to the restaurant!
At the end of our short stroll we arrived at our reception location.
We had our cocktail hour downstairs on their “patio” and then moved upstairs for our dinner reception.
In the center of the patio was a table for our wish bowl and card box. We also rested the bridesmaid’s bouquets and my bouquet on the table which added to the decor. Does the galvanized tin full of white tulips and purple tissue paper look familiar? Yup, those were our pew decorations from the ceremony!
I printed a tent card (placed flat so it didn’t blow away) with one of our lovely monograms explaining the wish bowl inviting guests to write a note, wish, memory or thought for us and to place it in the bowl.
This lovely card box which I purchased for under $10 at a home goods store now holds all our wedding memories — a few of our invitations, programs, CD’s with photos, our video DVD, wish cards etc.
A sample of the yummy cocktail hour food I ate hardly any of as there was so much going on! I did have one piece of this chicken though.
Early on during our cocktail hour our wonderful florist, Dana Barrow, who runs her own company, scooted by with a box of flowers that she had picked up from the church and was bringing upstairs to finish the reception tables (all of our ceremony flowers were used again at the reception — great money saver if you can manage it)!
We were so thrilled to run into her and ran upstairs with her to see the reception space all set up.
We had a few moments to chat with her and thank her for all her hard work. I would highly recommend all couples take a few moments to look at their reception space before everyone else enters so you can really take in all your hard work. Once people start arriving you won’t have a chance to really take this all in.
Next time…back to the cocktail hour and a clown juggling swords!
Photos: Daria Bishop Photography
All flowers: Fresh Floral Design Studio
Location: Adrianas Restaurant, Burlington, VT
My Dress: Romona Keveza from Mark Ingram’s Bridal Atelier
My Shoes: Cynthia Rowley Trilogy
My Veil: Two tier elbow length from Rose’s Bridal, NYC
Mr. Onion’s suit: Alan David Custom
Monograms: Creative Montage
11 Responses to “The Walk Up The Marketplace”
Lovely pictures and interesting trivia! I was at the Pearl St. Mall on Saturday and can definitely see the resemblance.
As someone who grew up across the lake in New York state, I always loved going to Burlington and particularly Church Street Marketplace. What a fun place to hold a reception! I love the pictures!
These make me wish the distance from my ceremony to the reception was walkable! Such a fun time- and as always, love the pics 
i really love your pics and how everything flows! the details are so nice and your photographers ceases to amaze me with their work.
may i ask where you got your card box… i love it very much and was hoping to get it online….!
thank you!
Thanks so much ladies! Walking was one of the highlights of the day for me for sure.
ms-c: My Card Box was a great bargin at $8.06 on-sale at Laytner’s Linen & Home on Broadway & 82nd. I don’t know what colors they still have, but check on their website here: http://tinyurl.com/2yzvae
It looks like Miss Sundae bought the same box in a different color at http://www.hobbylobby.com
Your wedding was absolutely beautiful!! Congratulations!
I love the galvanized buckets and am planning on using them throughout my reception, but hadn’t thought of using them as pew markers first! What a great idea and I love that it would tie the ceremony (church) to the “garden” theme of the rest of my wedding. But how did you attach the buckets to the pews?
erin — thanks so much! the galvanized buckets were hung on the pew ends with a ribbon tied to the bucket handle. then they were moved to the cocktail tables while we were taking a group photo in front of the church. the best photo of it is here: http://tinyurl.com/4vhzag
as it turns out, my florist had wanted to buy these for a while and when i mentioned it she said “perfect” — so she bought them and rented them to me and placed them on the pew ends for us.
Mrs Onion, I just saw you in the UConn magazine! I was looking through the alumni pages and saw your face! What a small world!
Hi Deb — too funny. You’re the second person to tell me they saw that today! Who knew there were so many UCONN alumni. Thanks for telling me. I was bummed they cut Mr. Onion out of the photo — and he was a UCONN alumnus too.
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