Midsummer Revel: Cool & Classic Seattle Wedding Inspiration With A Modern Twist

Pressed-flower shortbread cookie favors featuring edible pansies are a simply stunning way to impress your guests at the end of the party. Cookies by Ruth-Anne Ford in Seattle. 

An unstructured bouquet by Valley & Company Events, filled with dahlias, clematis and greenery and displayed on a music stand, adds a wild and rustic touch to a timeless celebration. Brass music stand from Fanciful Rentals.

With citrus Swiss meringue buttercream filling rather than frosting, a five-tiered honey-orange buttermilk cake by Ruth-Anne Ford, studded with ripe blackberries and embellished with raspberry foliage, feels at once contemporary and nostalgic. “The cake’s sweetness is balanced by the tang of the berries and the warmth of the honey,” says Ford. Goblet from Fanciful Rentals.

Seattle-based Grey & Cake created a romantic invitation suite around a classic botanical motif in a cool shade of blue.

Flowers, fruit and brass lanterns bedeck the aisle and lead the way to the lush and rustic greenery arch. Cane-back chairs and brass lanterns from CORT Party Rental. Brass music stand from Fanciful Rentals. Greenery arch and floral arrangements made by Valley & Company Events.