Wedding rundown

A little rundown on the wedding setup.  Our theme was outdoorsy/camping.  We love hiking and camping and being outside so we thought this would be a good way to share something we love with our guests.  Royal blue gingham was incorporated as much as possible as well as pine cones.  My husband was second shooter and a DJ for alot of weddings and made it very clear that he didn't want "wedding food" so as a compromise to the standard chicken, beef, vegetables and potatoes we ordered sandwiches from Buckhorn Grill.  We had 5 different types of BBQ sandwiches, charred veggies, mashed potatoes, a few sliced tri-tip slabs and salad.  For apps we went to Costco and bought gourmet sausages and meatballs, cheeses, crackers, pretty much anything people could munch on.  It was served buffet style and the majority of drinks were in glass bottles.

Each table had a mason jar with burlap, lace and baby's breath, a burlap runner, pine cones, and a dollar store frame with a post card from different national parks.

My Godmother baked our cake and cupcakes and setup our table with old Christmas decorations and pieces of wood we'd collected from people we knew.

I'm not really a cake person and neither is he so we decided on just a 2 tier cake to make my mom happy, chocolate, vanilla and lemon cupcakes, oreos, donuts, cookies and alot of different Persian sweets that my mother-in-law got for us.

We tied chiffon strips of fabric to twine and draped it between the 2 trees for our altar backdrop

I  used 12x12 scrapbook paper from Michaels (when it was 7/$1, so cheap) and cut them into small pieces.  I stamped a pine cone in the middle and wrote the persons name and table number.  I bought a clearance frame and stapled twine across it and used little clothespins to keep them there.

We rented mason jar cups and napkins and had them at each table with the favor which was a hear shaped seedbomb.  I printed the seed packets from here and folded a few every day, the plus side of a long engagement.

 I bought my dress on Etsy for $250 and just had it shortened to above the knee and taken in at the waist.

I have an obsession with journals so he bought me one to fill out together and a Blake Griffin Clippers jersey, woohoo!

I printed the table numbers to look like campsite markers and glued them to wooden dowels

Badgley Mischka Ina pumps, I later changed into the B.M. Sahara flats

Sign painted by my M.O.H. Cady

I made our programs out of cardstock, twine and printer paper.  I just used a pine tree stamp to put on each one.  I also used the stamp on the paper bags for the trail mix as well as on our thank you notes.

I needed something to make the program a little more fun so I found the tree astrology, everyone loved it.

Tree astrology programs

Crossword puzzle maker

On each seat we had a program and a tissue packet that I made from glassine envelopes, travel sized tissue and washi tape.

Another sign painted on burlap by Cady

Some my favorite pictures from our ABSOLUTELY AMAZING photographer, Ebony

Seriously the best day of my life.  It went by just as fast as everyone said it would so I made sure to take time to just be in the moment.  My friends and family were so important in making this happen, the day of the wedding everyone was at the venue in their work clothes hanging up lights and setting tables.  Every time I look at these pictures I remember how extremely blessed I am to have a wonderful family, amazing friends and the best husband.