At Promise's Claire Pettibone Trunk Show!

We had so much fun at last week's Claire Pettibone Trunk Show! It was wonderful to have 40 extra gowns from Claire Pettibone at Promise to show off! Her newest

"Rock n Roll Bride" collection is just exquisite - dramatic, feminine, and timeless.

Ashlee from Documentary Associates popped by to take pictures of the event (imagine the images she would take of your
wedding!), and each bride-to-be that came received a delicious

and super cute individually boxed cupcake from Frosting (imagine a delectable cupcake cake or bite- sized cakes for your wedding party on the day of!).

Don't worry - none of ladies pictured are in their chosen gowns! If you have never been to a trunk show and wonder what it is, visit our post all about it here.

All photos by Documentary Associates, cupcakes by Frosting, and gowns (of course) by Claire Pettibone!

Don't forget to enter our first ever giveaway for one of Julianne Smith's modern (and sassy) garters!

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Adele Wechsler Trunk Show March 6-7 at Promise

At Promise, we are SO very excited for our first Adele Wechsler Trunk Show on Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7!

We adore Adele's incredibly inspired Eco Couture collection. It is filled with lovely gowns with wonderful, thoughtful details - not to mention the motivation behind creating a couture collection of gowns composed entirely of organic fabric!

Adele's Eco Couture collection, as well as several classics, will be at Promise for a trunk show on Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7. During the trunk show, brides to be who choose their gown that weekend will receive 10% off, a watercolor sketch of their gown (created personally by Adele), their initials monogrammed into the lining of the gown, and a tree planted in their name by treegivers.com!

If ever there was a weekend to choose your Adele Wechsler gown, this is it! This event is by appointment, so call 301-215-9232 or e-mail info@promisedc.com to schedule yours!

- Jessica

PS - Each soon-to-be-wed with an appointment on the 7th will get a delicious cupcake from Frosting - Bethesda's cupcakery (opening this Spring)!

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Bethesda's Newest (and most delicious) Cupcakery!

We have a lot of wonderful and interesting brides-to-be visiting Promise in their search for their dream wedding gown!

A little over a week ago, Michelle came to visit, and in the process of trying on the contenders for her wedding day ensemble, we learned she was planning to open a cupcake shop (or cupcakery, as she cleverly calls it) right here in Bethesda.

Needless to say, we wanted to hear ALL about it. She is planning to open her new shop, Frosting, right around the corner. Kori and I about fainted with excitement. Cupcakes! Around the corner!

While Michelle is planning the opening of her shop, she is baking cupcakes at home for her customers...which totally struck a chord with me! Back when we opened Promise, the build-out of our space took way, way, longer than expected, which is SO typical when opening a business. There are delays, delays, and more delays. I sold gowns out of my mom's basement for two months before we opened!

After getting her to leave some of her cards for Frosting, we wished her luck - and begged her to let us know when she opened! We would be there in a flash.

Not long after, another bride-to-be came for her fitting and asked us for a local cupcake bakery. So, of course, we told her about Frosting! It was not long after that we heard from Michelle that she had a new customer who wanted cupcakes for her wedding!

To thank us, Michelle dropped off some of her cupcakes. I meant to take a picture before we ate them...but we couldn't contain ourselves. We untied the delicious looking package and promptly had one each. So I took a couple pictures after we tore into them!

Oh. So. Good.

I realize this is the second post about cupcakes this week! However, I must say that if the "Whoopie Pie" cupcake I had from Frosting is any indication, Frosting is going to be a huge success! Moist chocolate cake, topped with yummy chocolate frosting, and filled with creamy goodness. Topped with chocolate sprinkles and a cute red heart. I am a huge, huge fan!

Frosting will be open this Spring, but for now, you can order cupcakes from Frosting for your wedding, shower, or just 'cause you're jonesing for some goodness by e-mailing Michelle at orders@frostingacupcakery.com

Enjoy!

- Jessica

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Scrumptious cupcakes...and cakes, too, at the DCCWC 2009 Wedding Show!!

At the 2009 DCCWC Couture Wedding show, I had quite possibly one of my top 5 cupcakes ever. Seriously.

While in LA, Andrew and I sampled as much as we could - from my beloved Susie Cakes to all the way to Eagle Rock for Auntie Em's intensely good coconut cupcake. Here in DC, we have been to many fabulous cupcake places! Up until recently, Georgetown's Baked and Wired, with their perfectly moist cake and beyond fantastic icing, was my only hands down favorite in DC!

Well, now I have another! While helping our lovely models get ready for their aisle-way saunter, my friend Michelle (we share a mutual obsession with cupcakes) brought me a cupcake from DCCWC member Cakes by Design. I could rhapsodize about the perfect icing-to-cake ratio, or about how the icing was not too sweet or too "buttercreamy" (you know what I mean) - just light and dense enough to be perfectly satisfying! But the center of that pound-cake-as-cupcake? Oooh! A delectable surprise! If I could have, I would have taken all of them home. And eaten them all. By myself. You can almost taste them looking at the picture (taken by Documentary Associates Photography)!

Debbie Delardi at Cakes by Design also makes some stunning (and yummy) wedding cakes. There is nothing better than an excellent looking and delicious tasting wedding cake!

- Jessica

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Let Them Eat Cake...

We love cake here at Promise...for the savvy bride! Chocolate, vanilla, fruit flavored, essence of lavender - bring it on!

There are some incredible bakeries here in the DC area that specialize in wedding cakes!

If you haven't yet heard of them, Georgetown Cupcake and Baked and Wired (just down the street from Georgetown Cupcake) rock our world. Scrumptious, heavenly cupcakes as wedding cake! Cupcakes as cute wedding favors! Cupcakes for "will you be my bridesmaid" gifts! Cupcakes just because you are passing by! Go - you won't be disappointed! Plus, I love that the two women who opened Georgetown Cupcake bakery are sisters - it reminds me of my mom and I opening Promise together.



In Bethesda, there is Just Cakes. I personally love their coconut cake. The icing to cake ratio is perfect, with fresh coconut in every bite! They also make a mean yellow cake and wedding cake. Plus they have classes - for decorating cakes, making cookies, rolling fondant. Choose a cake for your wedding and take a class with your sweetie!

Ridgewells Catering (where I used to work before we opened Promise!) offers not only exceptional catering for weddings (Jen Becker, a Senior Event Designer there has worked with many Promise brides and is incredible to work with) but also excellent wedding cakes! Karl Mueller, the Executive Pastry Chef, is talented and his cakes and pastries are delicious. While working at Ridgewells, I spent many afternoons visiting Karl & Joerge (another Pastry Chef) and tasting all the wonderful things in the bakery!







- Jessica

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