Southern Weddings

Whenever our lovely editor-in-chief chimes in about a wedding, we know it’s something special.  So when Lara gushed that she “loved the cuteness” of Cami + Tanner’s colorful Las Vegas wedding from Oakstream Photography, I just had to take a look myself.  We love that the bride choose four wedding colors rather than just one, picked cute, frilly pink and yellow BCBG frocks and carried one of the sunniest bouquet of flowers I’ve ever seen.  How can one help but smile?  Luckily we have a second image board to enjoy together!

How did the two of you meet? Tell us your story.  Tanner and I lived across the street from each other last year. He became good friends with my roommates while I was dating another guy. I thought Tanner was adorable from the first day I met him. After sharing many meals and enjoying our favorite T.V. shows together (not to mention all the accounting homework Tanner helped me with!), we became good friends.  We started hanging out more and more until Tanner asked me to go home with him to California for Thanksgiving. I was shocked but thrilled at the same time.  Our trip to visit his family in California is what first made our relationship official!
Describe the proposal:  He had me fooled. He gave me the typical run-around men give when trying to fool girls (“the ring wouldn’t be finished in time” and he had to “figure out all the finances”).  For Valentine’s day, Tanner made plans for us to double date with his roommate where we ate a nice home-cooked meal together.  After dinner, we headed up to his friend’s house in Alpine, Utah where we were going to watch a movie and hang out.  Tanner and I arrived first and he said had a Valentine’s gift he wanted to give me before our friends arrived. He made me a video slideshow of all our pictures of us dating set to the songs that we liked.  At the end of the video, the screen read: “Tanner and Camilla together forever June 20, 2009.”  (I should have known right then that he was planning on proposing!)  He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!  I was shocked and SO excited!  Right then, his roommates came out of the closets where they had been hiding the whole time video-taping the entire proposal!  
What was the design inspiration for your wedding?  Anyone who knows me knows I’m a very happy and bubbly person. I love bright colors and am not afraid to wear them or decorate with them.  Not surprisingly, I couldn’t choose just one color for my wedding, so I chose four.  I always wanted a laid-back outdoor summer wedding, and that’s what I got!
Tell us about finding your wedding dress: Oh boy, this is a story of its own!  The short version is that I went to Danielle’s Bridal Boutique in Utah with my mother and two aunts. I literally loved every dress in the store and tried on about thirty before narrowing it down to eight favorites. It was so hard to pick just one dress! I almost called Tanner to have him help me decide!   In the end, I kept going back to the same dress and just couldn’t resit.