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Andrea + Josh were actually married on Earth Day, and so decided to incorporate this nature-friendly theme into their big day. Subtle details like their “plant love” sign and tree saplings as favors were just a few ways they seamlessly (and stylishly) incorporated this theme. Even Andrea’s gown — a gorgeous floor sample! — could qualify as an eco choice! I also love how their planner Carolynn helped to use their peach + sea foam color palette to sweetly complemented the organic details of their reception venue, The Trolley Barn.

Big hugs to our very talented friend Ms. Melissa Schollaert for sharing this darling day with us!

P.S. Andrea is the sister of Farren, whose wedding we featured here + here! Love keeping it all in the family!

Such a great bridesmaid’s gift idea! These custom hangers are sweet + useful!

And oh my, I love this garter – it even has a bitty pocket!

Our wedding colors were peach and seafoam green. We incorporated flowers with a similar color palette including peach Juliet cabbage roses, peonies, garden roses, ranunculus, and dusty miller for the wedding party. For our wedding ceremony, we decorated the aisle with tree bark-covered boxes filled with hydrangea and roses. We repurposed the aisle decor during our reception for centerpieces on the tables.

I bought my dress and veil at Priscilla of Boston, when they were going out of business. Originally I thought there was no way I could purchase a “sample” dress off the rack — when my mom, sister, and I first visited the store, I thought we were only browsing. It was my first weekend shopping for a wedding dress. I really liked one gown, but I was uneasy making such a big purchase immediately. Unfortunately, there was added pressure since there was only one dress left and it was 40% off. My mom, sister, and I power-shopped the entire weekend and visited every bridal store in Atlanta to displace any fear in my mind there might be a better dress out there somewhere. Although I tried on many beautiful dresses, none compared to the one at Priscilla of Boston. I remember having nightmares about it over the weekend, worrying it might sell. I excitedly returned to Priscilla of Boston the following Monday after work with my mom and sister. Luckily, the dress had not been sold and had been further reduced down to 50% off! When I bought the dress, it was a couple of sizes too large for me, but with some great alterations, it fit perfectly on the day of the wedding.

What Southern details or traditions did you include in your celebration? What was Southern about your wedding? We were actually married on Earth Day 2012 and decided to incorporate Earth Day into our design details. We gave tree saplings to all of our guests to remember our big day. Each tree sapling was wrapped in burlap, and had a name card tied with an ivory bow. My dad built five wooden crates to display the tree saplings for our guests during the cocktail hour.

What readings, if any, did you have at your ceremony? We did not have any readings in order to keep the length of our ceremony relatively short. Since we had an outdoor wedding, we opted for a unity sand ceremony. In addition, Josh and I shared communion during our ceremony.

Tell us about some of the songs you used throughout your wedding. Josh entered the ceremony to his favorite hymn, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” Josh’s brother Jonathan sang “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” by Stuart Townsend during our wedding ceremony as Josh and I took communion. We chose this song because we want our relationship and the love that we have for each other to be a reflection of the perfect, unconditional love that God gives to all of us. Our first dance was to “I Will Not Take My Love Away” by Matt Wertz.

Josh’s dad and grandfather built and painted wooden signs to direct guests to our wedding and to the reception, and my mom and sister hand sewed ivory fabric table runners with ruffle ends for each reception table and seafoam-striped fabric napkins for each place setting. The fabric napkins included a custom printed wedding menu tied with a rosemary twig. Our menus mirrored our invitation design in peach. To give our guests some alternatives to dancing, we included a photo booth at the wedding. My dad built the wooden frame for our booth, while my mom, sister, and I created the backdrop from ivory fabric and ribbons incorporating our wedding colors.

Our favorite detail of the wedding was: One of our favorite wedding details was our grand exit with our guests waving us farewell with fabric flags. Our wedding venue is a historical site and in order to preserve the site, there were a number of regulations that restricted our grand exit options. No sparklers were allowed and our guests would not be allowed to “throw” anything. I wanted to do something visually interesting. My mom, sister, and I hand-sewed flags for our guests to wave us farewell as we left the wedding en route to our honeymoon in French Polynesia! The fabric flags featured small prints with the wedding colors. In addition, I hand sewed pom poms from the same fabric that were strung together and attached with a “Just Married” sign to the back of Josh’s car.

Our reception featured a Southern menu including a biscuit bar with all of the fixin’s, fried turkey and macaroni and cheese. Food was an important part of our wedding that we wanted our guests to enjoy and remember. We had custom cornhole boards painted with our logo, which featured design elements from our invitation suite. The cornhole boards were available for guests to enjoy during the cocktail hour and reception.

Our wedding cake was a four-tiered vanilla pound cake, my favorite! The wedding cake design detail was inspired by the top of my wedding dress. Josh does not care for cake, so for his groom’s cake, we ordered a chocolate cheesecake in the shape of the state of Georgia. The cake included design elements from different cities that have played a big part in his life! For example, Athens, where he went to UGA, was represented by a bulldog. Atlanta included a wedding cake for the place we met and are living now!

How did the two of you meet? Tell us your story. Josh and I met at a singles group at Buckhead Church in Atlanta, GA. The singles group would meet every other week on Sunday nights. I knew there was something different about Josh almost immediately upon meeting him. Josh asked me out on our first date after an ice hockey game group social. I was so excited when he asked for my number. He took me out on our first date the following weekend. The rest is history.
Describe the proposal: While Josh and I were dating, we used to frequently visit Piedmont Park on Sunday nights after church. The park often has free concerts, free movies, or different events that we attended during the summer. On what seemed like a typically Sunday night, Josh suggested we visit the park to meet some friends. At first I was hesitant as it looked like it would start raining at any moment. Regardless, I agreed to go. Josh had rented Magnolia Hall (an event space inside of the park) just for the two of us. He decorated the hall with candles, flowers, printed canvas pictures, and had a bulletin board of letters we had written back and forth to one another. I was so surprised I honestly don’t remember what he said when we entered the hall. I do remember him getting down on one knee and asking me to marry him. I, of course, said “YES.” Afterwards, we took a few pictures in the park before heading to Pricci to celebrate, from where we called our family to share the news.
In what month did you get married? April
How many guests attended your wedding? 125
Did you decide to do a “first look”? Josh and I decided to keep with tradition and see each other when my dad walked me down the aisle.

What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome while planning your wedding? With a seven-month engagement, time was definitely a big challenge. My family handmade many of the items for our wedding. Almost every weekend and many late weekday nights were dedicated to making our wedding vision come to life. I will always cherish the bonding time with my mom and sister as we transformed my parents’ dining room into a wedding craft station with three humming sewing machines. With some blood, sweat and tears, everything was finished on time and turned out even better than I originally imagined. I am so thankful for a talented and selfless family.
What range did your wedding budget fall into? $25,000-$50,000
What was your most memorable moment about your wedding day? There are so many memorable moments from our wedding day, it is difficult to choose one. We cherish the fact we were able to share the day with the people that are most important in our lives.
What advice do you have for folks currently planning a wedding? Before you start the planning process, take some time to enjoy your engagement. Planning a wedding can be stressful and the time flies by. The joyful period can quickly be eroded by expenses, expectations of others, time constraints, etc. At the end of the day after all of the planning is complete, there are just some things you can’t plan for. Trying to keep perspective can sometimes be challenging when you are chasing down vendors and managing your guest count, but prioritize building a marriage over planning a wedding. Find a strong pre-marital counseling program, read marriage books, etc.
What’s next for you as a couple? What are you looking forward to in the future? Josh and I have been married for eight months now. Marriage is the greatest gift. God willing, we look forward to expanding our family a few years from now. In the short term, Josh and I enjoy spending time with each other traveling the world.

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marissa Written with love by Marissa
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  1. avatar Kristin reply

    Lovely!

  2. avatar Emily reply

    Oh my, I love those bridesmaid bouquets and Andrea’s lace-edged veil!

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    Crazy about the font style for the biscuit bar as well as the idea of a biscuit bar… Love!

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  5. avatar Dee Shore reply

    What a gorgeous wedding! I’m in love with the personalized hangers for the bridesmaids. Such a sweet touch.

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Every time I sit down to write a Real Wedding post, the first thing I do is read the interview. Somehow, the details of each wedding feel so much more meaningful when I know why the couple in the images chose each one. When reading Jessica + Troy’s interview, I was so taken by how Jessica used each detail to show who she and Troy are as a couple, and to honor their family traditions. As just one example, she said, “We loved how all the details came together to tell our story. The bouquet I carried had a single green button on the back because the night Troy and I met, he caught one of his buttons on his chair and it ripped a hole in his shirt. He held his shirt closed the rest of the night, hoping I wouldn’t notice.” I love how a single button can represent a moment in their relationship! There’s much more where that came from, so read on!

Big thanks to our friends at Bamber Photography for capturing J + T’s big day!

Neither my mom nor my sister lived in Atlanta, so for my birthday they both came to visit and took me dress shopping. I planned a whirlwind weekend, getting appointments at every store I had heard of in effort to find the dress while they were with me. But by the end of the weekend, I was so exhausted that I couldn’t keep the dresses straight in my mind. I waited about a month and by that time there were only two dresses from the same store that I just couldn’t forget. When I went back with my bridesmaids, we couldn’t decide between the stunning lace of one dress and the flattering shape of the other so I combined the two.

Y’all, this may be one of my favorite details I’ve seen recently. I wish I’d done this for my sweet groom!

Tell us about some of the songs you used throughout your wedding. Troy’s brother is a musician so it meant a lot to have him play the music during our ceremony. I walked down the aisle to “In Christ Alone.” It is my favorite hymn and really says everything I wanted about entering into marriage. We also had him play “I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz as we took communion. As corny as it may sound, the lyrics are really poignant about the sacrifice and commitment of marriage. We did our first dance to “Moon River.” It’s such a romantic song and reminds me of the ones I used to listen to on the radio at my grandmother’s house when I was little.
Describe your wedding flowers: A mix of ivory garden roses and ranunculus with olive branches.

I attended the wedding of my Godbrother last weekend, and they chose to do a moment of prayer around the bride and groom at the rehearsal dinner. It proved to be an incredibly emotional and powerful moment, and I love that Jessica + Troy chose to do something similar at their ceremony.

Stunning portraits from Bamber Photography! Oh my!

I think the fact that we wanted to emphasize family most reflected Southern tradition in our wedding. We chose to get married in Rome because Troy’s family has lived there for more than a century, and his grandfather owned a farm there for nearly 30 years. Our pastor was Troy’s cousin who is a good friend of ours and who spoke amazingly personal words to us in our ceremony. We had a small group of family and close friends so we invited all of our guests to stand around us and pray over us at the end of the ceremony. My mom found wedding pictures of our family from six generations back which we used to decorate the reception. We also had our dinner served family style so that our guests could share good food and conversation with each other and take the evening at its own pace.

Mini grilled cheese – yum! I know Emily would love that!

What a magical setting for the reception!

These little “did you know” cards popped up throughout the celebration, cluing guests in to why Jessica and Troy chose to include certain meaningful details. I love this idea so much!

Our favorite detail of the wedding was: Our first priority for planning our wedding was making it about us. We really wanted the day celebrating our union to emphasize who we were. We loved how all the details came together to tell our story. For our first Christmas, among other things, he bought me a jar of buttons in my favorite color so that I could replace it and we would both remember that night. Even our decorations were meaningful. We used railroad lanterns among the vintage furniture because my grandfather was a train conductor on the Seaboard railroad.

Describe your wedding cake or dessert: I don’t like cake so we didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a traditional wedding cake. Every year on my birthday, my grandmother used to make me a pound cake and it’s still the only cake I’ll eat. It’s unbelievable. My grandmother isn’t with us to make the cake anymore so my dad, whom I’m very close to, spent the day before the wedding making her recipe for us. Troy’s groom’s cake was a big chocolate cake from a bakery in his home town. Troy loves chocolate, so every year on his birthday I make him a cake like my grandmother did for me, but this year his birthday was the week before the wedding. We also had all of our favorite pies. There’s just something about pie that reminds me of fall and being close to family.

How did the two of you meet? Tell us your story. We met at a birthday party. Troy and I were both invited by a mutual friend. Our friend picked me up first so all Troy could see when he got in the car was my hair. He says it was love at first sight. When we got to the party, Troy tried to sit next to me but kept getting stuck between a couple of guys with tattoos and facial piercings. We still managed to talk across the table all night but he never asked for my number because he thought I was dating our friend. He moved in with that friend a few weeks later and after not seeing me come to the house, he asked if we were dating. He called me about five minutes after finding out we weren’t.
Describe the proposal. Troy’s family spent one Thanksgiving at Cumberland Island and it has become one of his favorite memories with them. Knowing that I would love everything about it, he had been telling me about the island almost as long as we’d been dating. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday so we spent it with my family in Jacksonville and took the short trip up to Cumberland Island while we were there. We got to the island early in the morning and spent the whole day hiking and watching the wild horses. At the end of the day we got to the ruins of the old Carnegie plantation. I’m an engineer, so Troy knew I would love how the shell of brick walls tell the story of the beautiful house that once stood there. The house overlooks a marsh and onto the ocean so we laid out a blanket to rest and watch the sun go down after our long day. I had only just gotten comfortable when he made me get back up for a picture. After a lot of resistance, I stood with my back to him overlooking the water while he got the camera ready. When I turned around he was on one knee and the automatic timer on the camera went off just as I started to cry.
In what month did you get married? November
How many guests attended your wedding? 100
What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome while planning your wedding? About six weeks before the wedding, Troy was offered a promotion in another state and had to move quickly. Just being without him for that long at that time was difficult, but I also had to finish planning the wedding, transfer my job, and pack up all of our belongings mostly by myself.
What range did your wedding budget fall into? $25,000-$50,000
What is the one thing you are most happy you splurged on? Photography, it’s the only thing you will have left when the day is over.
What was your most memorable moment about your wedding day? Coming over the hill and seeing Troy waiting for me at the end of the aisle.
What’s next for you as a couple? What are you looking forward to in the future? Settling down! We had to stay in a hotel for a few weeks after we moved, waiting for our apartment to be ready. So more than a month after our wedding, we are just now getting to unpack and set up our home.

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marissa Written with love by Marissa
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  1. avatar bridalbride reply

    great photo shoots thanks

  2. avatar Lisa reply

    Oh my goodness, I LOVE her dress!! Great style combined with endless sweet, sentimental details is the perfect Southern wedding if you ask me! :)

  3. avatar Ashleigh reply

    I love everything about this wedding and Jessica’s dress is stunning! So sweet how they incorporated all of the personal details into their big day – love the “did you know?” cards!

  4. avatar Dee Shore reply

    That lace gown and horse barn are ridiculous! Just lovely.

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    So thrilled to have Jessica and Troys wedding at our farm! They have such an amazing love for each other! All of the vendors were an absolute delight to work with, and we LOVE Southern Wedding Magazine.

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    Where did you have the programs printed? They are beautiful.

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  10. avatar Janice reply

    Do you mind sharing how you combined the two dresses? It looks like the “Bianca” dress without the strap and fuller at the bottom. I tried on that dress this weekend and absolutely love it except for that I felt is was a bit too sheath-y. Yours is absolutely stunning – how did you have them alter it to make it more trumpet shaped?

  11. avatar Stacey Glasgow reply

    Here’s a link to the band Troy & Jessica chose for their fabulously fun wedding dance party in the historic barn, which followed the ceremony that evening:
    https://www.facebook.com/LowDownSires

  12. avatar Sage reply

    My Aunt is in love with this dress and she is getting married in 9months. It would be a great if I could find what store this was purchased at or what brand!

    • avatar Lisa reply

      Hi Sage! The gown is by Anna Maier. Congratulations to your aunt!

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Have y’all been enjoying a look into our our newest issue through all the gor-geous editorials the last couple of days? Heavens, I know I have, and I surely can’t pick a favorite. Can you?

However, I sure can pick a boatload of favorites out of this classic yet glamorous wedding from Justin DeMutiis. Hello, I die over Blair’s monogram veil, and that’s just the beginning! Y’all, there are so many beautiful details in this wedding that I could gush for days. But to me, it’s the small details that matter most, like how B + B incorporated Brian’s family tradition of opening poppers before Christmas dinner by using them as place cards. And how they cut their cake with Blair’s late grandmother’s wedding knife. Not too mention how Blair worked with Jade Lee from Lovelee Affairs on just the perfect Southern menu – yum!

Oh my stars! Those silver sparkly shoes were made for dancing, and that Anna Maier gown… Blair, you got style, my friend!

Let’s hear a little more about that stunning gown! I looked both in Seattle (where I live) and in Atlanta (where I am from). I tried on about a million tulle fit and flares but still had not found ‘the one’ and was afraid I never would. After a long day of searching, some silver beading caught my eye. The dress was so different than anything else I was looking at that the woman helping me thought the dress had been grabbed by mistake. The gown’s bubble hem and stunning appliqués on the bodice made me swoon. THIS was the dress I was going to marry Brian in.

Don’t you love Blair’s dad’s face as they do their father daughter first look? So sweet!

I kind of adore the story of how these two first met: My sorority was hosting a philanthropy basketball tournament and I was assigned to be the coach for Brian’s fraternity. I went to his house to drop off the schedule and Brian answered the door. I thought it was adorable that he shook my hand as he introduced himself. He requested that I bring orange slices and Capri suns so I showed up to the first game with about 10 pounds of each.

Describe your wedding flowers: We stuck with mainly white hydrangeas and white roses with accents of peach and blush flowers. My favorite arrangements were in these oversized mint julep cups. They looked amazing on our long estate tables.

Y’all know I about flipped when I saw this gorgeous veil complete with Blair’s monogram!

Tell us about some of the songs you used throughout your wedding. Fortunately, our church has an amazing organ. We choose songs that shared our excitement for the day but also our reverence towards the commitment we were about to make to each other. Our mothers walked down the aisle to the same song my mother walked down the aisle to on her wedding day. I walked down to the traditional Wedding March. For our first dance, we choose” Love Is Not a Fight” by Warren Barfield. One lyric in the song is “love is a shelter from a raging storm.” Those words perfectly capture the comfort and peace Brian’s love provides me.
Did you write your own vows? If so, what was your favorite phrase, verse or line? We did traditional vows followed by personal words of affirmation. He told me, “I will lead you and I will never stop seeking you or seeking the Lord. I told him, “You will wake every day in a home where you are wanted, where you are supported, and where you are loved.”
What readings, if any, did you have at your ceremony? My brother read Colossians 3: 12-17 and Brian’s sister said a prayer of blessing right before we were announced as husband and wife.

What Southern details or traditions did you include in your celebration? What was Southern about your wedding? My wedding planner and I worked really hard to create the perfect Southern menu. So many of our Northwestern guests only had an idea of what Southern cooking would be like and we wanted to blow them away. We searched for months for the perfect recipes and went over every detail with the venue. It was really important to me that we include traditional Southern items like pimento cheese, grits, and Coca-Cola barbeque sauce, but in a elevated way. From fried green tomato BLTs to our shrimp & grits bar to our spiked Arnold Palmer and my Dad’s famous ginger ale bourbon tonic… It was all yummy and perfect.

Our cake was a beautiful five-tiered pink/peach fondant cake with two beautiful sugar magnolia flowers. We cut the cake with a cake knife given to me by my grandmother. She died just a few months before our wedding but I still felt her love with us that day, especially when we were able to use her knife.

Describe the proposal. Brian took me to the site of our first date, where we had sat in a park next to the restaurant overlooking Puget Sound. Brian had set up a semicircle of wedding photos of each of our parents and grandparents and in the middle he had placed the bible which I gave him as an anniversary present. He got down on one knee and proposed with one of our friends hiding in the distance taking pictures to capture the whole thing.
In what month did you get married? September
How many guests attended your wedding? 155 people
Did you decide to do a “first look”? Why or why not? One of the first photographers we met with really encouraged us to do a first look. He said that it would really help with any nervousness and we would get to make out the whole day as opposed to just seeing each other for the ceremony and reception. We ended up choosing to do a first look and both really appreciated all of the extra kisses we were able to sneak in.
Our favorite detail of the wedding was: As a tradition in Brian’s family, they open poppers before Christmas dinner and wear paper crowns so we used poppers as place cards and had our guests join us in wearing gold paper crowns during dinner.
What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome while planning your wedding? Editing. I wanted a modern/vintage/classy/Southern/formal/laid-back wedding .
What is the one thing you are most happy you splurged on? My dress!
What advice do you have for folks currently planning a wedding? Be a gracious host. As you plan your day, keep in mind what experience you want your guests to have as they help you celebrate this amazing occasion. Try to think of ways to invite your guests to share in the love you have for each other and anticipate what they might need to stay comfortable and in the mood to celebrate with you!
What’s next for you as a couple? What are you looking forward to in the future? I knew marrying Brian would be my greatest adventure. As he finishes his last year of dental school, we are now looking at several residency programs around the country. We both have faith God will shepherd us as we begin to lay the foundation for our marriage and future family no matter what city we call home.

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marissa Written with love by Marissa
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  1. avatar Stephanie reply

    This wedding is beautiful! What a stunning bride. Her hair and dress are just gorge. Justin, you are an amazing photographer

  2. avatar Lauren @ Every Last Detail reply

    Oh my goodness… LOVE!!!!

  3. avatar Eileen Pandolfo reply

    Although I’ve never met this couple, their story and these images literally brought tears to my eyes. Absolutely gorgeous!!

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  5. avatar Lindsay reply

    Love love love! Can you please tell me where you got the robes for the bridesmaids?? Thanks so much!

    • avatar Emily reply

      Hi Lindsay! We’ve added it to the credits, as well, but you can find the robes here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SingingSlowly?ref=pr_shop_more SO pretty!

  6. avatar Kelli Taylor/Daniel Taylor Photography reply

    This wedding is absolutely stunning!! We can’t get over how beautiful the bride’s dress is. Love it!

  7. avatar Jessica Armstrong reply

    Hey I was wondering if you knew where this couple found the blue and white striped table clothes? My best friend is getting married and we have been searching high and low! If you can even just point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it! The pictures are great and the details in their wedding are beautiful!
    Thanks
    Jessica

    • avatar Nicole reply

      Hi Jessica! It looks like B + B got their linens from I Do Linens. We love them, too!

  8. avatar Lisa reply

    Oh my goodness…I love everything about this wedding! Her gown is absolutely stunning and the linens are incredible!

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  12. avatar Laura reply

    Love! Any idea where they got/made the monogrammed pillows?
    ~Laura

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  15. avatar stephanie Hargis reply

    Hi!
    I am searching for the striped table cloths pictured in the wedding above, or something similar. do you know the source? Or is it possible to ask the bride?
    Thank you!!

    • avatar Nicole reply

      Hi Stephanie! Blair got those amazing linens from I Do Linens. I hope that helps!

  16. avatar Ashley reply

    Gorgeous wedding! Any idea where the monogram pillows are from?

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