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This DIY Country Wedding is filled with lots of vintage touches and details. So many of the details of Lori & Matt’s day were DIY that she and her mother put so much work into. Even the posts for the flowers during the ceremony were old bedposts that previously belonged to her grand parents. This wedding had such great pops of color and DIY Country wedding decor. We love the bridemaids dresses and the cute cowboy boots the bride wore. Thank you to Heba Salama Photography for submitting this fun pictures.

Event Planner: Orangerie Events
Event Venue: Purpleberry Plantation (no longer hosting wedding)
Photographer: Heba Salama Photography

Today we bring you a Rincon Beach Club Wedding that is full of lots of details and fleur de lis. With feathers, signature cocktails and bright colors this wedding looked like a good time. The feather centerpieces were tall and bright which added a lot of color. We love the adorable sign asking guests to ditch their shoes for the ceremony. Erin and Wesley became a combined family on their wedding day. They have a little baby girl together and on the wedding day, Erin became stepmother to Wes’s daughter. The day was filled with lots of emotion and love. We love beach weddings and we love this Rincon Beach Club wedding.Thank you to Bycherry Photography for sharing this.

Floral Designer:  Rincon Floral

Today we bring you a Hammock Beach Resort Wedding. Paul Rovinsky had a job opening at his medical sales company and Jen Van Kirk was one of his applicants. When Jen, a pretty and tall blonde, arrived for the job interview Paul couldn’t stop smiling and he knew it was love at first site. Jen was hired for the job position and the two quickly became close friends through working together. After two years they decided to act on their feelings for one another and they started dating. After two years of dating, conversations were starting to come up about Jen moving to Florida for work. Paul knew Jen was the one he wanted to spend his life with and he didn’t want her to make the move without him by her side. The week before Jen was planning on moving Paul took her on a date to the restaurant where they had their first date. Paul nervously got on one knee and pulled out the beautiful diamond engagement ring he had picked out for her. Paul expressed his love for her and asked her to spend the rest of her life with him. With tears starting to stream down Jen’s face she joyously said yes and the two moved down to Florida together shortly after. They decided on a Hammock Beach Resort wedding in Palm Coast, FL. Paul is extremely thankful that he chose to interview Jen for that open position. Jen’s favorite detail about the wedding was the fabulous decor but also the fact that her wedding wasn’t ruined by hurricane Sandy. Thank you to A Magic Moment Photographer for sharing this adorable wedding.

Photographer: A Magic Moment Photography

Hair Stylist:  M3 Weddings Hair & Makeup Services

Caterer:  Icandy

Event Planner:  A Rose Designs

Today we bring you a La Jolla wedding reception at The Darlington House. This adorable La Jolla wedding reception was filled with lots of fall touches like leave place cards, rustic branches and a fall inspired wedding cake. The wedding cake even had a replica of their two dogs laying on the side of the off center cake. We love the fun caramel apple station that includes different candies, nuts and sprinkles to make your own. Thank you to Walton Wilson Studios for sharing this adorable wedding with us.

Event Planner:  Hannah Smith Events

Caramel Apple Station (design, styling, decor, paper goods) – La Dolce Idea

Reception Venue:  Darlington House

Sally and Brady not only had a beautiful modern country wedding in Texas this past summer but they are a beautiful couple as well! Sally and Brady were friends in high school, went their separate ways and later had a chance meeting which led to their engagement at the horse races. Thank you to Two Blue Shoes Photography for sharing this gorgeous wedding. Here is a copy of their story that was published in the Dallas Morning News about their modern country wedding.

Sally and Brady had the perfect mix of vintage and modern touches. She use soft colors, moss covered branches, large floral hydrangea arrangements and splashes of bright colors. Sally’s mom walked her down the aisle and one of my favorite moments ever is right before Sally’s mom gave her away, she gave her groom a wink and a smile. This wedding was filled with love, silliness, sweetness and lots of laughs! Sally and Brady pulled off their outdoor Texas summer wedding by using the longer days with a 7pm ceremony start time, providing lots of bottled water for her guests and making her ceremony short and sweet. Sally and Brady were married under a magnificent oak tree dripping with mossy plants and flowers which also provided shade for their guests. Their ceremony was a backdrop to longhorns in the pasture behind the tree which had retreated to the grove of oak trees behind to stay cool. The aisle was adorned with soft baby’s breath and tin planters. Vintage jewelry,  soft burlap and whimsical flowers gave this wedding just the right amount of modern country. Their butter cream cake was adorned with fresh fruit for a southern feel.

Photographer: Two Blue Shoes

Reception Venue:  The Orchard

Today we bring you this gorgeous Mexico destination wedding that took place at  Las Olas Resort, in Rosarito. This Mexico destination wedding gave tequila favors to their guests as well as mini fireworks. The beautiful tent reception over looked the cliffs of Rosarito and gave the wedding a beautiful view of the Pacific ocean. We love the tropical floral arrangements and bouquets. Forget a wedding cake, a wedding cake pinata for the bride and groom to smash open for all their guests is way more fun. Thank you to Bycherry Photography for sharing this amazing wedding with us. We hope this Mexico Destination wedding inspires you to think outside the box.

Cake Designer:  Sprinkles Cupcakes

Today we bring Jessica  & Ken’s beautiful Olowalu Wedding filled with lots of Love. The Olowalu Wedding Plantation House is a beautiful out door location for your Hawaiian wedding.

From the bride: It was so much fun planning our wedding. We right away fell in love with Olowalu and knew that we HAD to share this amazing place with our friends and family. Working with a $15,000 dollar budget I knew I would need to do most everything myself if I wanted Olowalu as our venue. Olowalu Plantation house is such a beautiful spot, one truly does not need much to have an amazingly beautiful wedding. Ken and I are simple kind of people and we wanted to have a clean, classic, vintage romantic wedding, to do so I utilized the websites Etsy and Pintrest to help with my creative needs. The day went by so fast, we are so glad that we took the time to do a first look pictures as it gave us some much needed quality time together before the festivities. We focused and talked about our journey thus far and the future ahead.

Photographer:  Photography by Mariah Milan
Hair Stylist:  Bridal Hair on Maui
Floral Designer:  Asa Flowers
Reception Venue:  Olowalu Plantation House
Dress Store:  David’s Bridal
Equipment Rentals:  Island Rents
Officiant:  Church on the Go

This Grand Island Mansion wedding was so gorgeous with all the white and purple throughout. The centerpieces where beautiful and the custom dessert bar Fearon May Events created with diamond curtains was over the top. From a cigar bar to a donuts display this Grand Island Mansion wedding had it all. The couple even opted out of the chicken and steak dinner and the Mini Burger Truck serve sliders and fries plated to each guest. The purple rosette chair backs were custom made by Mimi and Company. The head table was a unique kings table set for 16 people and had 2 large white trees that came out of the middle of the table. This was a gorgeous Grand Island Mansion wedding and the pictures Carmen Salazar Photography captured are priceless.

Wedding Planner and Designer: Fearon May Events

Photographer: Carmen Salazar Photography

Location: Grand Island Mansion

DJ & Photobooth: Encore Entertainment

Burgers & Fries: Krush Burgers

Videographer: Phillip Alan Films

Florsit: Visual Impact Designs

Lounge Furniture:  JCD Studios

Chair Covers & Linen: Mimi & CO

Bakery: Sugar And Spice

Cigars: Casillas Cigars

Officiant: Rick Gonzales

Makeup: Jennifer Haupt

Quin & Nick knew they wanted a Strawberry Farms wedding the first time they saw the property. The Strawberry Farms wedding venue was the perfect rustic barn setting for this couple.  They have been a couple for a long time and this wedding took a couple years to come together with many of their details handmade by themselves. Nick is pretty handy and made metal initials for the barn doors out of rebar. He was also in charge of cutting down a tree and cutting it into pieces for their table tops. Over the past year they collected glass bottles to use for their center pieces including baby food jars and Snapple bottles. The tree slices served as platforms to display all the jars which were filled with wild flowers purchased at the local flower market. They also planted succulents in small clay pots for guest favors. Having a great love for the outdoors, Quin & Nick choose to name all their tables after their favorite national parks. Keeping in line with their natural theme, they painted the guest’s name and table on smooth black rocks that they collected. The rocks were displayed on a table with green moss and accented with flower filled light bulbs. An idea Quin found on Pinterest. Additionally, to pay homage to the bride’s Filipino heritage all the men wore Barongs in leu of traditional suites. Pretty much every detail of their wedding was thoughtful and a unique representation of their life together. Thank you to Continuum Wedding Photography for sharing this Strawberry Farms wedding.

Reception Venue:  Strawberry Farms Golf Club

DJ:  Ultimate Events

Today we bring you pictures of a Callippe Preserve Golf Course wedding captured by Kim J Martin Photography. This adorable black and pink wedding with beach accents has lots of great details. We love the place card table that was made out of sand and incorporated shell’s. A Callippe Preserve Golf Course wedding is a great location to host your wedding at. The golf course has a lot of great location to take pictures at and offers a great outdoor location for the ceremony and reception. Amanda & Mike love candy and wanted to incorporate a full candy bar for their wedding. The jars were filled with Now & Laters,  pixie sticks, gummy warms and all their favorite candies. We also love the adorable TOMS the bride wore, totally comfortable and cute! Thank you Kim for sharing these pictures from this Callippe Preserve Golf Course wedding.

Hair Stylist:  Salon X
Floral Designer: Alexandria’s Flowers
Reception Venue:  The Callippe Preserve Golf Course
Cake Designer:  Tiffane’s Cupcakes

Today we bring you an adorable Wedding where the bride wore orange wedding shoes. Adding color to your wedding shoes is very popular but we love these adorable orange wedding shoes she wore. This adorable rustic style wedding with splashes of orange color took place at Cornell winery which is an old rustic winery in Cornell California. We love the bright colors with the rustic setting for a fall wedding. From his orange tie to the orange flowers and her orange wedding shoes this wedding was to cute not to share. Thank you to Sun-Dance photography for sharing it with us. 

Paul and April were married in a beautiful Sonoma County wedding. They exchanged vows and celebrated with family and friends under oak trees and surrounded by vineyards at a private residence. Their families were an extremely important part of the day and the wedding was a true display of love for the couple and those close to them. The wedding was especially beautiful because of all the personal and natural touches to the day. Thank you to Delona Photography for sharing these gorgeous photos.

Today we bring you a Hartley Botanica Wedding which is full of greenery, romance and lots of details. This Hartley Botanica wedding has amazing floral through out the property. The centerpieces and personal florals are full of orchids and bright colors. Brittney & Jeff were married on a warm summer night at the Hartley Botanica. For the past nine years Hartley Botanica has been providing a unique wedding location for those looking for a distinctive venue in what most call Ventura County’s Best Kept Secret. Originally designed for their daughter’s wedding, Richard and Kate Hartley have created a garden paradise with hand paved walkways, waterfalls, and vine-covered archways. Thank you to Sun-Dance Photographer for sharing these gorgeous Hartley Botanica Wedding photos.

We hope everyone had a great Holiday yesterday! We also hope all of you ladies wishing for diamond rings spent yesterday celebrating your new engagement. Congratulation to everyone who got engaged yesterday.

This adorable vintage western wedding has lots of cute details. The groom who is a rodeo rider wore a cowboy hat and the bride wore some adorable turquoise blue cowboy boots. This vintage western wedding had beautiful hand tied red rose bouquets as well as red rose centerpieces. A vintage western suitcase was used to collect cards as guests arrived. The vintage western window displayed the table names and numbers for guests to find their seats. We also loved the large lanterns that lined the porch with candles. We’ve seen these available at IKEA before and they are perfect to add to a vintage western wedding theme. Thank you to Sun-Dance Photography for sharing these great pictures of Caitlyn & Jeremy’s wedding in Carpinteria at Lion’s Park.

Yes, it’s Wednesday and we all wish we could be somewhere else. So today we take you to Amy Adamson & Jacob Hardy’s destination wedding in Greece. This gorgeous scenery is the perfect backdrop for a small wedding. The Rocabella Resort & Spa in Santorini was the venue for this destination wedding in Greece and what a beautiful venue it is. The over looking views of the ocean and the terrace where you can have the ceremony and reception is breath taking. It makes anyone want to run off and have a destination wedding in Greece. There is so much beauty here. Thank you to Red Bloom Photographer for sharing these inspiring photos.

Red Bloom Photography

Hair Stylist: Savva International Bridal Hair & Makeup
Floral Designer: Wedding Wish- Santorini Flowers
Invitation Designer: Western Canadian Printing
Dress Store: Ethos Bridal Group
Jewelry: Tacori
Event Venue: Rocabella Resort & Spa

JP and Ashley’s Wedding aired last night on ABC. This is only the third marriage to happen from the show Bachlorette / Bachelor. The amazing wedding took place at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, CA. The wedding took place on December 1st but aired last night for the world to see. We loved watching all the details of JP and Ashley’s Wedding and seeing our favorite wedding planner Mindy Weiss help the couple plan an extraordinary event.  The lush flowers from Marks Garden covered the Chuppah for the ceremony and the centerpieces were over the top with white and green flowers. We love the ceremony setup and rustic wood aisle and stage that was custom build for the wedding. JP and Ashley’s Wedding was straight out of a fairytale. Her gorgeous designer gown by Randi Rahm was gorgeous and fit her like a glove. JP and Ashley’s Wedding set the bar for one of the best TV weddings ever. The bar has been set and we will see who the next couple will be to try and out do this wedding? Will it be the new bachelor Sean?

The Venue for the Wedding

The Planning with Mindy Weiss

The Dress

The Ceremony

Hand Fasting 

JP and Ashley incorporated the Celtic tradition of Hand Fasting into their ceremony. The moms read a poem that went like this:

These are the hands that will work along side of your as together you build your first home, plant your first garden and walk forward hand in hand into your future.

These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you, the only ones with the ability to comfort you like no one else can.

These are the hands that will tenderly hold your first child, the hands that hold your family together as one and lastly these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged will still be reaching for yours as they hold you hear now, promising you they will never ever let you go.

The Details

The Reception

Congratulation JP & Ashley!

We all love celebrity wedding receptions! We don’t always get to see the pictures from most of the Celebrity weddings that take place, but every once in a while we get a glimpse into the best night of their life’s. We believe it should be mandatory that all celebrities should tweet, Facebook or post a picture of their wedding decor so all the brides out there can be inspired. We searched the web to find some of our favorite celebrity wedding receptions from over the years to share with you. 2012 was definitely a good year with some HOT people getting married. We hope your jaw drops while looking over some of these stunning celebrity wedding receptions.

Mario Lopez and Courtney Mazza exchanged vows in Punta Mita, Mexico.

We love the diamond bands around each dinning table. The cake was incredible and so was the light up dance floor. Photos by Popsugar.

Justin Timberlake & Jessica Beil got married at the Borgo Egnazia resort in the southern Italian city of Fasano.

Tamera Mowry got her dream wedding  when she married Fox News Channel correspondent Adam Housley.

We love this wedding because it took place in Napa at the Vintage Estate. You can find out more about the property on our website.

We also had some family friends that attended the wedding so these are their exclusive personal pictures.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves got married on their ranch in Texas. It was a weekend long camp out for all their guests.

One of our favorite country guys, Jake Owen married Lacey Buchanan in a sunrise ceremony in his hometown of Vero Beach, Fla.

We love this green and white pallet used in their wedding decor.

Kelsey Grammer was at it again this year when he married Kayte Walsh in New York City

Our favorite country couple had one of the most amazing weddings EVER. We love everything about Miranda & Blake’s Wedding.

Funny guy David Cross married Traveling Pants star Amber Tamblyn in a yellow wedding dress. The bride was also barefoot and arrived to her wedding by canoe. She also had some pretty famous friends in attendance like Blake & Ryan Reynolds. 

We think Chloe and Lamar’s wedding was so much better then Kim’s wedding. And it lasted much longer too.

We love the clean white and black colors. Did Kim copy her sister or what?

Fergie and Josh got married at the Church Estate Vineyard in Malibu Ca.

Seth Rogen’s wedding to writer Lauren Miller took place in Sonoma, CA.

You know him from American Idol, Lee Dewyze married Jonna Walsh in Camarillo, CA

We love this sweetheart table and how cute it is.

Ivana Bozilovic married former “Bachelor” Andrew Firestone in a church wedding near Santa Barbara

Elizabeth Banks married Max Handelman

Christina Aguilera’s wedding in Napa, Ca.

Although they are no longer together she had a pretty awesome wedding in Napa at The Staglin Family Vineyard

Katherine McPhee married Nick Cokas at Vibiana’s. We loved their wedding decor.

Alyson Hannigan’s Wedding Reception (Buffy & American Pie)

Howie Dorough (From the backstreet boys) & Leigh Boniello

We love all the fall colors in this adorable rustic wedding. Everything in the wedding was made from the bride herself including the centerpieces, bouquets, wedding decor and her veil. The rustic wedding venue was Goodells County Park in Michigan. We love the look of getting married in a tree house. Thank you to Clicking Through Life for submitting these fun pictures.  Also Happy 12-12-12!! I’m sure there are a few of you crazy brides who are getting married today because they love that number!

Photographer: www.clickingthroughlife.com

Venue: Goodells County Park in Michigan

We love the beach and are a sucker for beach weddings. We are excited to share this fabulous North Carolina Beach wedding with you today. Whitney Lewis & Tyler Phillips were married in October on a beautiful clear day. This gorgeous beach house was the perfect venue for their wedding which had a little country twist to it. Thank you to Just a Dream Photography for submitting this fun photos. Happy Monday everyone!

Wedding Planner: Custom Wedding Planning

DJ: Superfrog Productions

Rentals: L & L Tent and Party Rentals

Photographer: Just a Dream Photography

Today we bring you a beautiful wedding at Orchard Creek Lodge. We love the gorgeous waterfall at this property and the amazing pictures you can capture at this property. We know this wedding had to rock with Extreme Productions Entertainment as the DJ and MC for this event. You can find out more about them in our Wedding Binder. Thank you to Eric Asistin Photography for sharing these photos.

Photography: Eric Asistin Photography

Venue: Orchard Creek Lodge 

Dresses: Davids Bridal

Tuxedos: Men’s Warehouse

DJ: Extreme Productions Entertainment

Flowers: Rocklin Florist