Nick & Allie’s Wedding ~ June 6, 2009

Our invitations are about ready to be printed and I am so excited to see them. Our stationer, Beth Buchanan of Buchanan Ink, was so helpful! She was so patient with me as I changed wording, fonts, motifs, and ideas. From the very beginning I knew I wanted an ivory deckle-edged invitation and envelope.  Below is an idea of what a deckled-edge is:

And the envelope will look something like this (in ivory):

Since we couldn’t the monogram to work out for us, we decided to do a tree at the top with some casual wording that would help set the tone for our casual outdoor country wedding:

How cute is that tree? It goes perfect with our names in the pretty calligraphy font, Copperplate Rosemary.  Everything will be written in a brown ink to give it a more earthy feel. I am in love with our invites!

We also have another invitation that will be sent out to our bridal party and immediate families.  Nick and I are doing something a little non-traditional as will be having two wedding ceremonies on June 6th. We will be having a small morning ceremony at St. Edward Catholic Church at 10 AM.  Father Patrick Breen will be performing the ceremony. Since Nick is Catholic and I am Baptist, we found this to be the best way to incorporate both denominations and have the wedding of our dreams but also a very important ceremony in the church. We are very grateful that we are able to do this and that both Father Breen and Pastor Greg Moser, who will be performing the ceremony out on the farm, agreed. The invitations for this ceremony are absolutey adorable! They are smaller than the invitation above and will also be deckle-edged and mailed in the same envelope. Take a look at how cute these are (pardon the blurriness):

I mean! Could that little chapel be any cuter????!!!!

I almost forgot to tell you WHO is doing the cake….

I started researching prices for cakes early in the planning process and was very surprised at how much a cake actually costs! After calling around to many different bakeries and finding out price points, I found that most bakeries were way out of my price range….sometimes up to $5.00 per serving not to mention delivery fees and any additional design fees.  Since we are have a pretty big guest list (we are expecting around 300 people) we had to keep the cost of the cake down. A good friend of my mom’s told me about a  small mom-and-pop bakery in Brentwood called the Flour Shop and  said they do great cakes for a very affordable price and boy was she right! For $2.50 per serving and NO delivery charges, I can get a fantastic wedding cake. Its a basic white cake with ivory butter cream frosting and white butter cream detailing. I didn’t want to get to fancy with all the fillings and flavors…sometimes it over-powers to the goodness of a plain white cake. So, Iris, owner of the Flour Shop in Brentwood is taking care of me! I am so excited to see and TASTE the final product!

For the grooms cake, Nick is planning of having some good old-fashioned peach cobbler! YUM!!!!!!!!!! I am not sure who will be making it at this point but I think he and  his family have some ideas.

I finally stumbled across the inspiration for our wedding cake the other day! I was looking through Google Images of wedding cakes and found this one. I like that it has different designs on each layer giving it unique interest and that it incorporates a little bit of color with the ribbons. Disregard the tulle all around it- I’m not a big fan of tulle.The cake will be sitting on a really cool whiskey barrel table under the tent.

For a long time, Nick has had his own brand….you know….cowboy brand….like the kind you would brand a horse or cow with. Its this really cool G that he designed and puts on lots of things…like his belt buckle, see below. I had him create a monogram for us, incorporating his G brand and this is what he came up with:

Isn’t it so cool? I love it! We planned on using it on our invitations but we couldn’t get the resolution of the image high enough for it to fit with our invites. The bakery is going to mimic it the top of our cake and we hope to use it on our programs and hopefully in other ares of the wedding as well.

Here is the belt buckle I was talking about.

Yep, he made it. How talented is he??!! Take a look at his website for more custom jewelery, art, and woodworking. If anyone needs a special gift for someone, Nick would be a great person to call.

I am so excited about the photographers for our wedding day! They are Noelle and Mark McCoy of McCoy Studios based in Franklin, TN.  They are so much fun and really great at what they do. What I like best is that they like to document then entire day, from beginning to end, so that they get almost a storybook of photos that tell about the entire event. Since both Mark and Noelle shoot the photos, we will get two different perspectives of the day. They explained in our meeting that Mark will stick with the groom and groomsmen while they are getting ready and Noelle will stay with the bride and bridesmaids. They will meet at the ceremony site and start getting pictures of all the details…everything we found important to us, they will get pictures of it. Then during the ceremony Mark will shoot the groom and his reactions as he first sees the bride and throughout the vows. Noelle will do the same for the bride. I love how they do this! Instead of one photographer catching different moments of each person, we will get to see each moment throughout the ceremony and the day! They stay throughout the reception until the party ends which is sometimes rare with photographers. Most times you are paying for a certain number of hours instead of for the entire event. They are very photo-journalistic and artistic- I just love their style. Instead of posing every picture they capture real moments and details. I am so excited to work with them! Check out their blog by clicking here and their website by clicking here. Below are some photos from their website that I just LOVE: