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Southern Weddings Weekly Round-Up

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Who’s excited for V4?? Y’all, we’ve been working like crazy this past week to fit in all of the amazing features and photos into our magazine. (In between writing, editing and designing pages, we celebrated Whitney’s birthday!) We can’t wait to share the new issue with you guys. For now, the pretty images in the Weekly Round-Up will have to suffice.

We started off the week with a fun-loving farm engagement session. Audrey + Jordan make tandem bikes look like the coolest thing this side of the Mason-Dixon.

Around here, monograms never get old. That’s why we think this week’s Southern Fab Find is so good! Southern Proper Monograms come in a variety of sizes that would look perfect gracing your church doors or hanging from chairs. Go to the original post to enter to win two! And check out this post to see who won our past Southern Fab Finds giveaways!

This is what we’ve all been waiting for, isn’t it? The first post in Emily’s wedding planning series! Here, she introduces us to her sweet fiance, John.

Sierra teamed up with Carlee Sizemore from High Cotton Event Design for another dose of Southern Hospitality! This week, Atlanta gets highlighted with a cute tote that you can fill with the city’s best.

Break out your aprons y’all, I’m teaching you the basics of preserving fruit in this week’s How-To column. Soon it will be cold, but you’ll have saved your favorite bits of summer.

This week, we featured Tara + Steve’s coral and aqua wedding as the Real Wedding Gallery of the Week! Take a look, you’ll fall in love with their sweet basset hound and floral details.

Real Weddings are oh-so-pretty:

Whitney + Jeff’s Florida wedding managed to be both modern and romantic. We’re big fans of their pink and grey color scheme. See it here and here.

Lisa + Blake’s country wedding was an event that genuinely reflected their personalities. Food, games, and one amazing cake demonstrated the South at its finest. Check it out here and here.

Vendors, don’t forget: you’ve only got a few hours left to get your ad in V4, and we’re offering 25% off! Contact Whitney for all the details!

Have a Southern weekend, friends!

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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Hey, y’all! After the rousing success that was our first “Ultimate Southern” Challenge, we are back for round two! This time, we’re looking for the most creative, most Southern (for lack of a better word) mason jar accoutrements. The sky’s the limit with this one, folks! The end result just has to have something to do with weddings, and involve a mason jar. Escort card, centerpiece, favor… that’s up to you!

Check out the rest of this mason-jar-fantastic wedding by Cyn Kain here + here!

Vendors, feel free to team up, though your submission doesn’t have to be anything elaborate — in fact, we want these ideas to be easily executable by brides everywhere! If you were an entrant, a finalist, or even a winner of our first challenge, we welcome you to submit again!

A few details:

– Your escort cards can take any form, but the most important piece is that they be SOUTHERN.

– Anyone can enter as an individual or a team — vendors, brides and grooms, and wedding or Southern enthusiasts alike. And you don’t have to be Southern to enter!

– To enter, please send 5-10 professional-quality photos at 600 pixels wide and a brief description of your escort cards to howdy at iloveswmag dot com. Subject line: Ultimate Southern Mason Jars

– Include the names and websites of all your team members, and a list of materials and links to sources used. Please include directions for any DIY projects you may have done.

All submissions must be received by 11:59pm on October 7, 2011. Submissions received after the 7th will not be eligible.

– Our favorite submissions will be posted throughout the week of October 10th, and the winner, who gets ultimate Southern bragging rights, will be announced the following week.

– Submissions cannot be posted or tweeted until published on Southern Weddings.

We can’t WAIT to see what y’all come up with! Questions? Leave them below, and we’ll do our best to answer them!

emily Written with love by Emily
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  1. avatar desiree reply

    this is a real brain teaser – mason jars are so popular lately….must think of something genious…must think of something genious…. :)

  2. avatar jacin {lovely little details} reply

    do they have to be escort cards, or something else wedding-related?

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Really, who wouldn’t want to be a guest at Lisa + Blake’s farm wedding? With antique farm equipment, hay bales, and cows dotting the reception, this is Southern at its finest. Family and friends played corn hole on boards hand painted by Blake’s mom and were then treated to a Southern feast of barbecue, potato salad, and coleslaw. A claw foot tub full of Coca-Colas stood by to wash down the meal. I’m so impressed with Lisa + Blake’s just-decorated-enough strawberry shortcake — it’s the perfect dessert for their country wedding and I’m dying for a piece. Big thanks again to Jamie Clayton for sharing!

Our favorite detail of the wedding was: The homemade corn hole boards made by Blake’s mother.
What Southern details or traditions did you include in your celebration? What was Southern about your wedding? We decorated the tables with burlap, lanterns, and African violets. Our meal was barbecue, potato salad, coleslaw, and, of course, sweet tea. We draped rope along the walls of the barn and hung pictures of Blake and I by clothes pins. The wedding was on a farm in the middle of the country in Lebanon, TN with donkeys in the back of the farm, and a huge cow field to the right. The ceremony was on the porch of a log cabin, with the guests sitting on old church pews. The reception was in a barn, with wagon wheel chandeliers, lots of old farm equipment, hay bales, and an old claw foot tub that was used as a beverage holder complete with glass bottles of Coca-Cola.
Describe your wedding cake: It was a three-tiered strawberry shortcake with cream cheese icing.
What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome while planning your wedding? Finding a location was difficult because we wanted it to reflect us and our personalities, but when we finally went to the farm we knew it was perfect. Other than that, Blake and I and our family and friends spent the entire week before the wedding decorating and preparing. It was very much a DIY wedding and we were pretty exhausted by the wedding day.
What range did your wedding budget fall into? $10,000-$25,000
What is the one thing you are most happy you splurged on? Our fabulous photographer!
What was your most memorable moment about your wedding day? The reveal was really great, when Blake and I saw each other for the first time. We were both so emotional and happy. My mom and bridesmaids were peeking through a window, watching during the reveal. We could hear them crying and cheering from inside.
What’s next for you as a couple? What are you looking forward to in the future? We just bought a house in Knoxville and have been enjoying fixing it up and decorating it. Blake is in nursing school currently, and we look forward to doing travel nursing and traveling around, and hopefully out of, the country after he graduates.

Photographer: Jamie Clayton Photography // Videographer: Joshua Cox // Planner: Linda Ligon (family friend) // Venue: Cedar Springs Farm // Florist: Oakley’s Flower and Gifts // Wedding Cake Baker: Patti Vaughn // Caterer: LaDonna Brown // Bride’s Dress: Pronovias // Bride’s Hair Accessories/Veil: bride’s mother’s // Bride’s Shoes: Nine West // Bridesmaids’ Dresses: David’s Bridal

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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  1. avatar Emily reply

    Love, love, love the cake in this wedding! Looks absolutely delicious.

  2. avatar Suzanne reply

    What a lovely wedding!

  3. avatar Tara K. reply

    LOVE the corn hole boards!

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  5. avatar Ashley reply

    Game of Thrones references. Classic!! Also love the cake… and her dress… and the barn!

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