If you’re checking back after Part I of Sarah + Kevin’s magical North Carolina wedding, we’re guessing you were enchanted with the fairytale details as we were. After a romantic evening ceremony in the forest, the newly-weds celebrated under the tent at The Garden Retreat amid charming centerpieces from Blossoms at Biltmore Park and a captivating, three-tiered confection from Tiffany’s Baking Co. Subtly sweet mouse + bird details plus a kid-friendly puppet show made for a storybook ending to the happy couple’s Southern I-Do’s. Don’t forget to check out our newest contest and show us your love for SW!
Our favorite detail of the wedding was: I think one of my favorite details was a puppet booth made by my brother and father to entertain the children during the reception. The kids were given forest animal finger puppets as their favors and were then invited to use the forest scene puppet booth all night!
Describe your wedding flowers: We wanted to use fiddle heads in our flowers because they are an important symbol in New Zealand culture representing new beginnings. Blossoms at Biltmore Park did a great job of incorporating them along with lots of different white, gold, and green flowers, ferns and grasses that went beautifully with the forest theme.
Describe your wedding cake: The wedding cake was decorated with sugar Moon-flower vines wound around the cake and over the gorgeous antique gold borders (also made out of sugar). To keep with the forest theme, little carved wooden mice were peeking out from under the leaves. The cake was topped with a hand-carved wooden Cardinal to represent North Carolina, where I am originally from. The four-tiered cake was delicious! Kevin’s groom cake had a New Zealand theme with a hand carved wooden Kiwi topper surrounded by sugar fiddleheads and ferns. His cake was chocolate with chocolate hazelnut filling covered in chocolate fudge icing
What was your favorite design element of your big day? I think antique frames are perfect symbols for a wedding because they conjure up feelings of family, memories and tradition. I had fun finding ways to incorporate the gold vintage frames into everything from invitations to the details on the wedding cake.
Were there any wedding traditions or new ideas you included in the wedding? My grandmother, mother and aunts each gave me a penny sewn into blue material to keep in my wedding shoe for my something blue and as a good luck token. For my something borrowed, they gave me a handkerchief embroidered by my great grandmother’s bridesmaids for her wedding. The same handkerchief had been carried by every woman in my family on her wedding day. I felt honored to be able to carry it as well.
What’s next for you as a couple? What are you looking forward to in the future? We have returned to London and plan to stay here for another year. Kevin fell in love with the mountains of North Carolina while we were there for our wedding and I remembered how much I missed them. We are now planning to move there as soon as we leave London!
Congratulations, Sarah & Kevin! Enjoy your last year in London and your move back to beautiful North Carolina!
What personal touches for the reception, and oh-so creative.
so charming.
I love the table number displays with the mouse in the picture frame! The picture frame wall seems like it was a hoot too!