Banana pudding is a Southern Delicacy we have yet to tackle, but I’d say we’re about due, wouldn’t you? Perhaps Marissa will indulge us with a bit of history in a future column! In the meantime, enjoy these diminuitive scoops of this old-school Southern favorite. Yum!
Thanks so much to Landon Jacob for sharing!
P.S. Banana pudding instead of wedding cake
Landon Jacob is a fabulous member of our Blue Ribbon Vendor Directory!
Hi belles + beaus! Most of y’all already know Marissa (she does, after all, write about delicious Southern food and fabulous Southern style quite often!), but since she has a new role around these parts, we thought we’d give her a formal introduction. Marissa is our new and wonderful Director of Advertising, which means she’s now spending even more time connecting you with our amazing Blue Ribbon Vendors and awesome main page advertisers. She has also been the Client Concierge for Making Brands Happen for quite some time now, so she knows just how to help our incredible vendors shine! We pulled together this little interview in the hopes you’ll learn something new about our beloved MAK!
Photos by Millie Holloman
EAA: What is your favorite Southern food?
MAK: First and foremost I’d have to say a good ol’ biscuit! Plain or with a little bit of butter, but big and flaky! Last summer I was completely obsessed with fried pickle chips. Of course, there’s always hushpuppies, specifically from Cook-Out. I’d drive far and wide for those little gems!
EAA: What is your favorite Southern city?
MAK: I am completely head over heels for Greenville, South Carolina! I visited a few years back and was smitten. I am also very partial to Rosemary Beach, FL where my family has a beach home – it’s a slice of heaven! BUT in the end, my favorite Southern city award has to go to Franklin, Tennessee. It’s an amazing historic small town not far from Nashville, and it has the most charming homes ever! When I visit my family that lives there I never want to leave. BDK and I even have our dream home picked out!
EAA: If you HAD to live somewhere outside of the South, where would you choose?
MAK: Yikes! Does North Tennessee count? No? Then I’d have to go with Martha’s Vineyard. This girl needs her Jack Rogers!
Photo from Marissa’s wedding day by Sara Kauss! MAK: I love this photo! Thanks, SK! : )
EAA: Why do you love working with the Southern Weddings vendors?
MAK: Clearly I am biased, but we do have the BEST vendors, hands down! I have never worked with a group this kind-hearted or talented. I’m also pretty in love with how completely authentic they are – I value that so much!
EAA: What is your favorite part of your job?
MAK: The people. That may sound a bit cheesy, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart! From the amazing AH-MAZING women I work with everyday to our incredible sponsors – I’m a very lucky girl!
EAA: Tell readers something about working at SW that might surprise them.
MAK: I don’t work in the Chapel Hill office full time! :) I am blessed to be able to travel and live with my husband (who plays minor league baseball) to the city where he is assigned.
Photos by Millie Holloman
MAK: Thanks so much for the great interview, Emily! I am so thrilled to be able to help our sponsors grow their businesses, and connect them with our sweet brides!
EAA: Thank you, my dear! Vendors, in order to properly welcome Marissa, we figured we’d run a fun little promotion: 10% off to the first 10 vendors to email Miss M and wish her welcome!* Now scoot and grab your deal!
*Our Blue Ribbon Vendor Directory is excepted from the discount, but you are of course welcome to email Marissa for a BRV application at any time!
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That has got to be the best job ever! I wish I would’ve been qualified for it! I’m just a buyer and don’t worry I am looking for a related client to advertise with you :)
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Hi Susan! I’d love to work with you! Hopefully we’ll get to in the future! xx
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You’re going to rock this, M!
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Thanks, S! xx
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Congrats, Marissa! You’ll be amazing. I LOVE that your favorite southern city award goes to Franklin! We live in Franklin and are having our wedding reception there in the Factory! (ceremony in neighboring Brentwood).
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Hey Brittany! I LOVE the Factory! It’s such a cool venue – I’m sure it will be gorgeous!! xx
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Yay! I hope you’ll be in Birmingham this summer so I can meet you face to face! Welcome :)
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Thanks, Kelly! I hope we get to meet in person as well!! xx
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PERFECT. PERFECT. PERFECT…um… y’all.
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Thanks, N!! xx
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Yay Marissa!! Congratulations, so excited for you! (: You’ve been such an awesome help already!
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Congratulations Marissa!!! :) I’m totally happy for you my fellow die hard Alabama fan! :) xo,dana
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Gals, we have a big milestone to celebrate today: we’ve reached 20,000 Twitter followers!! For chatty ladies like us, that’s pretty exciting news. We love getting to know y’all through the daily interaction that Twitter provides, and we’re so happy to see that you enjoy our updates, too!
To celebrate, we thought we’d run a little Twitter giveaway, with five winners nabbing two copies of V4 each – one for her, and one for a friend! To enter, all you have to do is tweet at us and tell us why you love Southern Weddings. We started this party last week, and how-dee! Your answers were just too good not to share. A little round-up of our favorites:
Why yes, we are quite Southern! Some of our favorite Southern features include our Southern Delicacy column and our Southern Traditions column.
We believe that Southern style, grace, and hospitality should be spread far beyond the Mason-Dixon line. We love our Northern, Western, international readers, too!
We like to think we do. After all, every Southern lady knows that weddings are a whole lot more than a pile of details prettily arranged.
We sure do! The South is full of beautiful spots, and beautiful people, too! See a few of our recent favorites here and here :)
Want to get in on the tweeting fun? Just follow the Southern Weddings account here, then tweet us why YOU love Southern Weddings. While you’re at it, feel free to follow Lara, Emily, Nicole, Whitney, Sierra, and Marissa, too!
These are adorable! As a huge banana pudding fan, it’s great to see this delicious treat so adorably shared. Thanks for posting this!
We’re serving mini banana puddings at our wedding next May! I’m so excited about it :)
Oh my goodness, my cousin was JUST talking about doing this for her wedding in Alabama…way cute! We need to create a recipe for banana nutella pudding…i die.
We had mini banana puddings at our wedding! Banana pudding is my husband’s all-time favorite dessert, and he’s not a big cake fan, so that was his “groom’s cake” – we brought out the mini puddings and a few other mini treats toward the end of the night. They disappeared very quickly!
What is the recipe for these mini puddings?
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