I am looking to feature more real weddings on the blog, but I need your help.
Would you love to have your wedding featured? Or, maybe you know someone who would love to have their wedding featured. Let me know (brit at landlockedbride dot com)!
So, what would this “real wedding” post include?
- Display photos from your day
- Discuss the details (vendors, decor, etc.)
- Share your feelings from the day
In this New Year, my goal is to feature more Midwestern brides on the blog – to give you readers a better connection to the world of the Midwest wedding industry. And, I want to make sure I’m keeping you all coming back!
Happy New Year!
Today wraps up my feature of Grace’s wedding. You can check out the previous posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
In creating the tables scapes and floral arrangements, Grace was looking for something simple and laid back, just like her. She found a planner, Tricia Huddas, who used the team at Garden on the Square to create her simple floral arrangements. Each of the arrangements were placed into jars and bottles from The Paris Market and then laid out on each of the reception tables.
I’m a huge fan of somehow finding a way to reuse the bridesmaids bouquets. One way to do that is to have empty vases filled with water on the head table. This allows the girls to place their bouquets in the vases once they arrive to the reception, and voila! You have an instant floral arrangement.
Grace took this to a new level by having her bridesmaids bouquets placed around the base of her wedding cake, an idea that I l-o-v-e, love.
All images courtesy of Belathée Photography via Design*Sponge.
You can check out more details from Grace’s wedding on her blog, Design*Sponge, or check out the Fall 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Weddings.
To create the escort cards, Grace used vintage wallpaper. The wallpaper was scanned in to be duplicated and printed out on on tags. They were attached to the petticoat dryer with clothespins.
Using the same wallpaper pattern, the Martha Stewart Weddings team assisted Grace in making notecards for guests to leave notes for the couple. They did not have a traditional guestbook, so the notecards were used instead, and guests placed them into the planter they put together.
All images courtesy of Belathée Photography via Design*Sponge
Since Georgia summers can be hot and humid, Grace decided to have fans made for her guests to use. She used side profile photos of her, Aaron and their two cats, and Julia Rothman turned them into green silhouettes, and added their wedding date. They were then printed out and attached to wooden sticks to make fans.
Favors for the guests were a throwback to Georgia’s roots. They included grits from a local farm, as well as a recipe for Shrimp and Grits. The grits were packaged in a paper bag, and the recipe was attached to the bags with a fabric button from busy beaver button.
Grace had some vintage handkerchiefs left over from the invitations, so she decided to use the remainder of them for her table numbers. She had numbers screen printed onto each handkerchief and then wrap and tied them to a bottle of water.
All images courtesy of Belathée Photography via Design*Sponge
Throughout her wedding planning, Grace was able to utilize many local vendors to help her out with her vision.
She contacted the The Paris Market, who loaned her several antique chandeliers, which was used as outdoor lighting for the ceremony.
For her escort cards, Grace borrowed a vintage petticoat dryer and antique dresser from @home vintage general. The escort cards were attached to the petticoat dryer and family photos were placed on top of the dresser.
And, to keep guests dancing, Grace and Aaron hired The Corduroy Road, a bluegrass band based out of Athens, Georgia.
Images courtesy of Belathée Photography and Tara Tonne for Martha Stewart Weddings via Design*Sponge.
This week I’ll be posting about Grace over at Design*Sponge‘s wedding. It was recently featured in the Fall issue of Martha Stewart Weddings and has so many wonderful DIY elements that made her wedding charming.
After reading about her wedding online and in Martha Stewart Weddings, I reached out to Grace because I really wanted to make sure you readers have access to all of her wonderful projects and details!
For their wedding invitations, Grace and Aaron used vintage/antique handkerchiefs, in addition to ones they received from family members. They had their wedding details screen-printed on to each of the handkerchiefs. As for the packaging, they wrapped the handkerchiefs around their RSVP card and the little package was held together with a woodgrain paper band.
All images are courtesy of Belathée Photography via Design*Sponge
Many of the male guests arrived to the wedding wearing the handkerchief invitations as their pocket squares! How sweet is that?!
Stay tuned tomorrow for another dose of Grace’s North meets South wedding!
