Park Chateau NJ Wedding | Seen on Martha Stewart Weddings | Amorette Events Co

Mar 25

Try not falling in love with this couple and every single detail from Sakshi and Matthew’s multicultural wedding at The Park Chateau in New Jersey. As featured in Martha Stewart Weddings…

Though Sakshi Karambelkar met Matthew (who goes by Matt) Feddersen at the very beginning of college—he was the Resident Advisor for her freshman dorm and they were both studying engineering—they remained just friends for two years before they started dating. In May 2019, after Matt proposed on the beach in La Jolla, California, the pair chose a wedding date for the following spring. As their plans changed and changed again due to COVID-19, they postponed the wedding twice—finally tying the knot in an outdoor Indian ceremony followed by an indoor handfasting ritual on August 3, 2021, at Park Chateau in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in front of 125 fully vaccinated guests.
For Sakshi, a stationery designer and papermaker, the hardest part of planning the wedding became choosing from so many beautiful options. "I had a vision in my head since we got engaged in 2019, but it was nearly impossible to see it come to life on my own," she says. "After having worked in the industry, it was really easy to want the best of the best since I see so many beautiful weddings on a daily basis. But really narrowing in on what would be meaningful to us was difficult." However, she had no trouble defining her aesthetic: "Flowers! Flowers everywhere."
As for the paper? Sakshi designed the couple's invitation suite and paper goods through her stationery company, Inquisited. "My favorite part!" she says. An invitation written in Marathi, the bride's first language, was printed with reverse-letterpress on cotton cardstock. "The border of the invite was printed with a dusty peach-mauve, and the negative space created a winding floral pattern that was raised with beautiful texture," says the bride. "The Mehendi and Sangeet card was a soft beige-blush paper that appeared in many other parts of our stationery design for the day. It was also printed in gold foil and featured a foxglove motif in the corner." The paper's motifs reappeared throughout the big day which was—as you are about to discover—a botanical dream filled with cultural meaning.