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A Purely Beautiful All-White Bridal Shower for Darcy Miller

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The Shower Buffet

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Jennifer Miller Symonds hosted a white-themed tea party for her sister and guests at her apartment. The decorations, food, and favors were all inspired by her light, white apartment and its airy, open-sky vistas -- the windows were framed for the occasion with fragile white sweet peas lined up on the sills.

Here, the buffet is watched over by a white heart flanked by the first initials of the bride- and groom-to-be. They were created from paper roses glued onto foam board. The white finger food includes sandwiches, heart-shaped cheeses, iced cookies, candied grapes, meringues, and dragees.

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White Flower Favors

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Sweet peas in white mini vases line the windowsill. Later, they will serve as party favors for guests.

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White Crudites

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A jubilant symphony of pale crudites, including cauliflower, white asparagus, endive, and celery, is arranged in a triangular dish.

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Darcy and Her Family

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Darcy, center, with her mother, Madge, and her sister Jenny Miller Symonds, the host.

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White Petits Fours

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Heart-shaped petits fours are decorated with Darcy's and Andy's initials. "It was a way of making it more special for Darcy," says Jenny of the many personal touches.

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Year Book

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A compote was filled with small cards bearing events and dates to be scheduled in the year ahead. Each guest selected a card and wrote her own name on the one she had chosen. Then all the cards were put into a scrapbook that became a monthly calendar of events, as well as a permanent reminder of who attended the shower. The plans include meeting Darcy for ice cream or a night at the movies.

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White Flowers

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Calla lilies arranged in a fourteen-inch glass vase are a serenely elegant decoration for the shower, enhancing the airy feeling.

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Shower Guests

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Darcy with Martha Stewart Weddings colleague Rebecca Thuss, who helped Jenny with the shower.

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Shower Treats

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Playing off pale and pastel in glass dishes, candied green grapes and cakes sprinkled with confectioners' sugar in a two-tier stand sit on the buffet table.

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White-Wrapped Presents

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The shower guests put as much ingenuity into the all-white wrappings of the packages as into choosing the gifts inside: White satin ribbons, gilded lettering, and pen-and-ink illustrations of the future bride are subtle touches.

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Coconut Sorbet

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Scoops of coconut sorbet are served in paper cups with silver demitasse spoons. White paper strips, notched at both ends, are rubber-stamped "D & A" and laid between the cups and saucers.

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Drink Flags

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Flags announcing "I do!" are a whimsical touch on the straws served with the tall glasses of iced lemonade.

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Cake Favors

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A miniature white-chocolate cake, in a white box with a handmade "D," cut out from ivory paper, on the lid, is presented to each guest at the shower.

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Shower Cake

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The four-tier cake with Spanish-style flourishes of buttercream is topped with a glass compote filled with the promise cards for the year book. A satin ribbon is tied around the pedestal.

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White Treats

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A flurry of sweets in white dishes includes (clockwise from top left) white chocolate candy, white rocky candy, truffles, chocolate-filled heart-shape dragees, marshmallows, and candied coconut.

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Darcy Opening Presents

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Here, guests look on as Darcy Miller opens her presents, all of them wrapped in white, at her teatime shower held in her sister Jenny's apartment in New York City.

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    1 of 16 The Shower Buffet
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    4 of 16 Darcy and Her Family
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    6 of 16 Year Book
    7 of 16 White Flowers
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