From the notebook · Sofia & Theo, Concord, MA
Ten years of planning New England weddings, documented one at a time.
Browse real weddingsSealed with wax
Every day in this section actually happened. Each one opens with the full vendor credit list — photographer, florist, venue, all named — and a short story from me about what the day felt like from where I stood. Break the wax seal to open one.
From the studio
Ideas I test before asking a real couple to trust me with them. No seal here — these days were imagined, not lived.
Between the weddings
Timelines, venue questions, and the small decisions that separate a wedding you survive from one you remember — learned the honest way, over ten years.
The planner
I'm Simone Beaumont. For ten years I have planned weddings across New England — barns in Vermont, bluff-side estates in Stonington, Newport lawns, chapels in the snow. I was at every wedding in this notebook: on the timeline, on the radio, in the back of the barn during the toast, holding the umbrella nobody photographs.
The Ivory Notebook is where I keep what those days actually felt like — the couples by name, the vendors credited in full, and the moments that never make the vendor directory. A wedding is a keepsake. It deserves to be written down like one.
Let's talk about your daySimone
Simone Beaumont · The Ivory Notebook · Providence, Rhode Island
