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Laura and Ben

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Laura Normandin and Ben Tyszka chose the Picnic House in Brooklyn's Prospect Park as the setting for their wedding, complete with dancing, a barbecue lunch, and a bicycle-ride ending.

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Stationery

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The couple's leafy save-the-date arrived in a vellum envelope. Laura designed an invitation suite that incorporated her own type and phrasing with Gwen Frostic's block-printed cards. Invitations and response cards were tucked into envelopes that Laura calligraphed herself and adorned with vintage stamps.

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Butterfly Bouquet

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Learn How to Make This Butterfly Bouquet

Laura fashioned her breathtakingly beautiful butterfly bouquet from silk and feather creatures secured on thin wires so that they float and flutter realistically.

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Bridesmaids

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Bridesmaids Julia Schuette and Leigh Douglass Renshaw, who introduced Laura to Ben, wear silk dresses by Simple Silhouettes and carry bouquets made by Martha Stewart Living's crafts director Hannah Milman.

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Flower Girl

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Flower girl Logan Normandin wears a crown of vintage silk flowers handmade by her aunt, the bride.

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Children

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Sisters Charlotte and Flannery Brown pose for a snapshot; their father, Rev. Matthew Brown, married Laura and Ben.

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Boutonniere

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Laura made Ben's boutonniere from vintage silk flowers; his colorful tie and pocket square coordinate perfectly with the bridesmaids' shawls.

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Programs

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Laura embellished the ceremony programs with butterfly and bird cut-outs.

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Special Guest

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The bride and groom pose for a photo with Martha.

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Group Shot

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The newlyweds are flanked by family and friends.

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Favors

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Favors are glass-topped specimen boxes holding pressed butterflies, leaves, and flowers.

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Seating Cards

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Learn How to Make These Seating Cards

The bride calligraphed the seating cards, then rubber-stamped each one with a butterfly, which she cut into a silhouette before folding the card.

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Centerpieces

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Scented geraniums, herbs, and other foliage nestle in terra-cotta pots at the reception; the bride and her family hand-painted the pots and grew the plants, and invited their guests to take home their favorite as a favor.

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Favors

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Guests receive paper bags in which to stow and tote their geraniums, each bag printed with a gracious thank-you note from the newlyweds.

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Food

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Seasonal vegetables, salad, and baby potatoes accompany savory barbecue, while custom-printed Gwen Frostic napkins echo the invitation motif.

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Tiered Cupcakes

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Tiers of sugar-flower-topped cupcakes preside over a dessert table draped in Japanese floral linen. The sugar flowers, from Sugar Flower Shop, top cupcakes made by caterer Sage Events.

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Desserts

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The sweet surprises kept on coming, like these fresh-baked heart-shaped biscuits and strawberries, which share space on a plate with a sugar-flower-topped cupcake and a fruit tart.

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Guests

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A trio of friends nibble on refreshments in the airy, light-filled Picnic House overlooking the lawns of Prospect Park.

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Music

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Old-style country band the Dixons provide nostalgic music complete with an upright bass.

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The Getaway

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The bride and groom coast away from their reception on white bicycles bearing Just Married flags. The bikes are a reflection of their love for cycling. As an adorable afterthought, Laura affixed a white basket to the front to hold her butterfly bouquet.

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