LYONEL FEININGER SAIL BOATS

Lyonel Feininger was a German-American artist who became one of the best-known and admired contributors to the cubist and expressionist schools of art in the early 20th century.

See his wonderful work at the 

Whitney Museum of American Art: Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge  of the world..

whitney.org/Exhibitions/LyonelFeininger

Sailors and Sunflowers Have Newport Wedding Glam!

Get Shipwecked In The 1980's With Sail Newport!

I have gone many times.
A great Newport Party for a wonderful cause!

http://www.sailnewport.org/specialEvents.html

Personalized Life Preserver Ring

The perfect keep sake for a Yacht Club Wedding. Do make sure You have your guests sign In on it!

A Vintage Valentine From A Sailor

Check out the sea shell kind as well!
newportweddings.blogspot.com/2008/02/sailors-valentines.html

New York, Nantucket or Breton Reds

Originally adopted from the uniforms of the New York Yacht Club,Nantucket or Breton Reds are distinctive in that they fade to a light pink as they age. Since their inception, the cotton canvas pants have been marketed as shorts, and the trademark salmon red color has been adopted on hats, shirts, sweaters and socks.The Reds are worn predominately by summer residents of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Newport sailors.

Where to find the Reds
www.nobbyshop.com/breton.htm
www.nantucketreds.com
www.Brooksbrothers.com

Hugs & Kisses Newport Style!

New Englander JENIFER LAWLESS created these wonderful note cards

One can buy them at Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/people/paperwren?ref=ls_profile

"Nautical Newport Weddings"

Yacht Club Style Weddings are as popular as the Americas Cup it self.

This show will offer great Red White and Blue ideas for a clam bake
welcome dinner or nautical wedding. The creative talents of
A Newport Affaire and R.I. Rentals and Cape Lettering Arts
will collaborate a nautical tabletop wedding table In the Newport Wedding Gallery June 6th – June 28th 200

www.rirentals.com
www.anewportaffaire.com
www.capeletteringarts.com

The show will be on July 4th 2009– July 26, 2009 At The Newport Wedding Gallery

Hey Sailor... Why don't you join me on top of my Newport wedding cake!

I found a Artisan that makes the most darling custom cake toppers .
So you and your favorite sailor can grace the top of your cake!
$125 @ The Newport Wedding gallery

A shamrock for your flowers...the yacht of course!!

The Yacht Shamrock
was the unsuccessful Irish challenger for the 10th America's Cup in 1899 against the United States defender, Columbia.Shamrock was designed by third-generation Scottish boatbuilder, William Fife III, Jr., and built in 1898 by J. Thorneycroft & Co., at Millwall on the Thames near London, England for owner Sir Thomas Lipton of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club.

Belleek
has hand crafted this replica of the yacht covered with their signature shamrocks.

Flowers By Golden gate Studios
www.goldengatestudio.com
Newport Weddings

A nautical monogram just for you!

What a fun back drop this would make behind the band!


Newport Weddings

Port ... Starboard!

Need I say more!

The Mermaid Ball

Rumor has it this gal showed up at The IYRS Gala this summer! Im still looking for the name of the artist. Love the surrealist work!

Its a Sailor's Cake for me!

These darling cakes created by two of New Yorks top wedding cake designers.
On Top Colette Peters www.colettescakes.com
and on the bottom a old friend Gail Watson www.gailwatsoncake.com
found at Brides.com

Hello Sailor!

The 38th Annual Newport International Boat Show, September 11-14, 2008, will feature new sailboats and powerboats, and thousands of products and services from both domestic and international exhibitors.

2008 Show Dates
September 11-14
Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM

Multiple waterfront facilities along America's Cup Avenue and Thames Street host the Show including Newport Yachting Center, Oldport Marine and Bannister's Wharf, which are all connected by show docks. Our newest expansion, Bowen's Wharf, will showcase downeast-style boats. Bowen's Wharf is centrally located within other show sites including Newport Harbor Hotel and Marina, which hosts the Passagemaker TrawlerPort Program and also showcases center-console boats on land. All Show sites are "connected" by FREE water taxis.

A Folk Art Welcome

This Weekend A Newport Affaire did an A Folk Art Welcome Party for a couple who embraced Newport and its history.
So I created Folk Art Topiary in a vintage crock with red apples, rosehips, green acorns and seeded eucalyptus.
Nantucket baskets were filled with the same with small folk art sayings like “Do you like to dance?” “ Welcome friends” and “Sit long talk much!”. Small pond yachts were alternated on the cocktail tables.

Flowers by Nancy Swiezy Events www.anewportaffaire.com
Signs by www.simplygiannaprimitives.com

Dark and Stormy!

The drink not your day!

The Dark and Stormy is Bermuda's favorite cocktail. Made with Black Seal Rum and extra spicy ginger beer, it was brought to Newport in 1906 via the Newport- Bermuda Race. A ocean race for amateur sailors. Now known as the official cocktail for Newport sailors, it can make the perfect signature drink for your Rehearsal Dinner or Clam Bake Wedding. I like to use this as a signature drink at Clam Bake Rehearsal Dinners. Next time you are in town try one or make one at home.

Ingredients
1½ oz Gosling's Black Seal Rum
Ginger Beer
Lime
Method:1½ oz Gosling's Black Seal Rum, top with Barritts ginger beer.
Shake and garnish with lime
Newport Wedding

Gentelmen will you be wearing a boater?

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the straw boater became synonymous with summer leisure. In the hard-scrabble, often oppressive Industrial Revolution, leisure time for many was hard to come by. Owning and wearing a straw boater

(a.k.a. skimmer or sailor straw) was the wearer's badge that life had become more than simply hard work. Manet, as well as other artists of the time, use the boater as a symbol of the good life and the emergence of "leisure" as a right and privlage.

Manet, French (1874)

www.Boatingmillerhats.com $125

Sailor's Valentines

Sailor's Valentines were originally created in the 19th century by islanders in Barbados. As the island was a port of call for both American and English ships, sailors purchased valentines after long sojourns at sea as tokens of love for their wives and sweethearts in New England, as far north as Nova Scotia and also in England. Old valentines are rare and prized by collectors.

Sailor's Valentines are traditionally made in an octagonal wooden box resembling a compass. The box is filled with a design made of shells and then covered with glass to protect it. Many valentines incorporate sentimental messages, and some boxes are hinged together in pairs. Inspired by this old art form, the aesthetic beauty of shells and the romance of days gone by.

Have your custom valintine made by www.sailorvalentines.com

Or make you own with www.usshell.com