LMB WeddingLogo Design Contest

This contest is to create a wedding logo design. The couple are mid-20's, HENRY - one from the Northeast, one from Midwest. He is a lawyer, she will be a doctor. They desire simple elegance. Their names are Lelia and Cesar. The "target audience", if there is one, will be their friends - individuals similar to themselves in terms of formative years, education, and ambition. Both are from geographies considered "economic bubbles", and both seem to reject the attitudes that prevail in these circles for those more basic, genuine, and down to earth. That doesn't mean we are looking for "plain and simple", but rather "simple, understated elegance". They want sophistication without ostentation or gaudiness.

Gray (perhaps different saturations or intensities), likely on the warmer side.
Champagne/Gold - this should not be gaudy, bold gold (like reflective or stamped).
Other colors based on designer's suggestion will be considered, though additional color as an accent will be preferred to color as a major design element.

The springtime wedding festivities will be held at Rosecliff Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island in the US. The facility's website is https://www.newportmansions.org/mansions-and-gardens/rosecliff/, and as a well-estalished wedding venue, photos can be found all over social media. We wish to develop a "wreath-like" wedding logo unlike any "Rosecliff" designs that can be found on social media. This logo may be of any shape, though we are envisioning a circular design. It may be either a closed circle, an open circle (a break in the circle somewhere along the perimeter), or another pattern or shape as approporiate based on designer's vision. We would like to incorporate some element(s) that is pulled from Rosecliff that might create a sense of intrigue, understated granduer, or otherwise communicate the commitment or expectation of marriage. Initials or other name-related aspects should be incorporated, and a visual reference to the union that is created by the marriage. Also of partiular interst in no particular order are the iron lanterns and door guards, the stone carved frieze above the doors and windows, the French doors themselves, and the lion sculpture, though designers should not feel limited to these elements. Additionally, we are open to the idea that an element of the design might be embossed on the items that will display the logo (though printed as appropriate where embossing is not feasible). The items might include the following:
- Save the Date card;
- Welcome Dinner: invitation, dinner menu, seathing card and bar menu;
- Wedding: Save the Date card, Invitation (includes invite, weekend schedule, RSVP card and Newport map);
- Reception: Seating card, dinner menu, bar menu, dessert menu, coffee bar menu
- Brunch: brinch menu and bar menu;
- Miscellaneous: Cloth and paper napkins, hand towels, matchbooks, gift bags and enclosed card, stationery.