Southern Weddings

More green, more silhouettes and more stunning images from Stacy Reeves Photography.  The black + white accents at the Stoneleigh Hotel and Spa provided the perfect backdrop for Deziree + Jon’s New Year’s Eve wedding celebration.  Granted, they did feature my favorite candy of all time – Champagne Bubbles, thank you very much – so maybe I’m a bit biased, but did you see the dessert bar?  Crazy awesome.  Fun fact: the newlyweds’ glittering wedding “cake” was, in fact, an ice sculpture boasting silhouettes of the happy couple.  Talk about a cool way to ring in 2010!  (I crack myself up.)

Describe your wedding flowers: White!  I did not want the flowers to distract from any of the lovely details, and since it was winter, I wanted all of the flowers to be light and fluffy, like snow.  My favorite pieces had to be the very simple, but elegant silver trumpet vases with baby’s breath.
Describe your wedding cake:  The cake was incredible… it was an ice cake carved in the shape of a cake with a zebra pattern carved into the bottom layers and our sillhouetes carved into the top.  I didn’t see the cake until the doors were opened and the cake was unveiled to all our guests.  I could not have imagined anything more perfect.  It was exactly what I wanted: non-traditional, breathtaking and oh-so unique.
What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome while planning your wedding?  I am not a good decision maker, and I’m sure my poor wedding designer wanted to kill me about a million times.  I wanted every detail to be perfect, and wanted to make sure was selecting the right item for me.
What’s next for you as a couple?  What are you looking forward to in the future? Ten days after we got home from our honeymoon, I started nursing school.  The next two years are going to be very busy!  I am looking forward to graduating from nursing school and having a quiet, calm and relaxing little life with my husband.

Congratulations, Deziree + Jon!  Good luck with the big changes in your life!