A Fall Wedding Inspiation Shoot

I gave you a couple sneak peaks last week, as well as our inspiration board, and now here are the pictures!  I am so happy how they all turned out.  Hillary Maybery and I had talked forever about doing a shoot like this, and finally our schedules worked out.   We were so lucky to have newly weds Stephanie and Zac act as our models, and Zac was such a sport!  In addition we collaborated with a few other local vendors that made this shoot happen.  I have featured a few cakes on this blog by Amy Anderson, but this is the first pictures I have gotten of her fantastic wedding cakes.  Also my mother Terry, who owns Bellissimo was nice enough to not only let us take items out of her store but come and help style the shoot. Jamilynn from Vertu did Stephanie's hair and make up, Suzy, owner of Deja Vu, allowed us to take out the fox stole as well as vintage jewelry, and finally Max Monahan captured it all on film.

As for my part, I of course did the flowers, and I was so excited to get lucky and get peonies for the pictures.  Its a rare thing to see this time of year, but with all the other fall flowers they looked great.  I loved doing this photos shoot and Hillary and I have decided to do more, so if you have a great idea for a shoot let me know and maybe we will turn it into reality!  And as always, thanks everyone for all the help it turned out better then I could have imagined.

Just the begining....

Didn't I tell you the pictures from our photo shoot were amazing!?!  Get the first look on Hillary Maybery's website and then next week I will have even more pictures of the shoot.

Real Wedding: Jennifer and Cody

Last weekend I told you about this fall wedding, and now I have some pictures from the event.  This wedding was a big one, about 400 people, and yet strangely it was the easiest wedding of the whole summer.  The weather was a perfect 80 degrees and all the trees were changing colors.  The bride and groom,  Jen and Cody, were so great to work with, and I know I say this every time, but they are the nicest people ever!!  

The wedding took place at a local house here in the valley and this property seems like it was built for weddings.  The ceremony behind the house over looked this big valley of aspen trees that were just starting to turn colors.  It was simply beautiful, and it helps that the bridesmaids were all stunning in their sage green dresses.

The rest of the evening took place on the other side of the house under a tent, but in the middle of a mini apple orchard!  Dinner was fantastic and this group of people know how to party.  They danced all night to a talented DJ, who knew just the perfect songs for this diverse group of people.

 
Jen and Cody, I hope you are having a great honeymoon, and thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your big day and for getting to meet your family.  And Jen a big huge thanks for trusting me to the decor I thought would be best for the property and this time of year.  Fall flowers are my favorite and I got my fair share of them on this wedding!

Real Wedding: Morgan and Bray, Part 3

So here we go with the finale of the pictures!  Time for the party, the food and flowers!  When Morgan and I talked about what she wanted the party to feel and look like, she explained that she wanted it to be like a really fun cocktail party.  And she wanted the crisp look of white flowers, white tablecloths, and white furniture.  So that is what we gave her. Lets just start with the food, Judith McQueen did a fantastic job with it. The plan was not to have a sit down dinner, but to have the night be filled with very heavy appetizers.  So people got more then enough to eat and drink, but also go to be way more social.

Next up the setting.  The entire wedding and reception was held on an empty lot, that was owned by Morgan's dad.  Lots of green grass and right on a big pond.  It was a perfect setting to have a clear tent.  And when you have a clear tent it is always fun to hang things in it, and that is just what my staff and I did.  You can see the hanging paper lanterns and then when it got dark, we also hung almost 200 votive candles too.

And last but not least the party and the people.  I loved this guest list, mainly because it was filled with some of my very favorite brides and grooms from past years, it was pretty special. In addition, my favorite band Marmalade Hill played, and we were lucky enough to have a special guest appearance from the world famous Dano and the Nobodies (a Ketchum favorite).  The guests danced the night away at when all the festivities ended they headed north to Whiskey's, to continue the fun.

I am sure that by the sheer amount of posts I have done on this wedding, you can tell how much I enjoyed this one.  Morgan and Bray I thank you both so much, and I can't wait to tell you the behind the scenes stories!  And I can't wait to meet that new little baby boy, as soon as you come to visit!!! Last but not least, thank you Hillary for all of the great pictures of this wedding and all of our weddings.