Describe Your Wedding Vision  

Most women, I feel like, grow up knowing exactly what they want for their future wedding day. I always wanted an outdoor wedding, and when I became engaged, the most important thing to me was a day that represented both my future husband and myself equally. 

We visited a couple of wedding venues, but when we toured our venue, we fell in love with it and booked our date immediately. From that point forward, it became a labor of love in planning the details. During many conversations with vendors, I lovingly came to describe my wedding as “boho vintage glam.” 

I wanted rich, vibrant colors to play off gold metallics and bright florals that would pop against the color of my bridesmaids’ dresses. I wanted our reception to be filled with candles of all sizes for that romantic glow below the twinkling lights strung overhead. I’m the type of person who finds beauty in the details, and I wanted our day to be filled with touches that were uniquely “us.” 

Everything from the “Sip n’ Solve” crossword we featured during cocktail hour, to bagpipers playing us into our reception with my husband joining them to play another song, to even offering honey favors from our very own beehive. 

Describe Your Wedding Day  

Everyone, including myself, stresses about their big day. Looking back, ours was pure perfection. I wouldn’t change a thing, and I know because I still replay the memories from it. 

From the moment my bridesmaids arrived bright and early for hair and makeup, my wedding day was filled with love and laughter. The venue was full of energetic chaos from all the vendors and my rockstar coordinator making our vision a reality, and later all the love of those in attendance. 

Any worries about small details or weather melted away in the afternoon sunshine, and I was still on cloud nine at the end of the night under the stars, sitting on the veranda with those who stayed to shut the place down. 

Our wedding was truly magical, and I’m not the only one who describes it that way. Many of our guests, unprompted, have said the same thing. It lived up to the “boho vintage glam” aesthetic but felt more like an intimate, relaxed night filled with fun, laughter, and karaoke with those dearest to us, which is exactly what we wanted. 

Your Advice To Engaged Couples  

The best advice I’d give any engaged couple is to communicate. Knowing a budget and what’s important to both of you will help determine where you want to spend your dollars and where to focus your efforts, not to mention who’s responsible for what task and how involved you want specific people to be. I booked vendors starting from the largest and most important first. 

Photographers book so far in advance, I contracted mine as soon as I had our date set, followed by catering and my florist. 

I’d also highly recommend a “Day-of Coordinator.” The last thing you want to do on your big day is worry about all the details you’ve been stressing about leading up to it. 

My final advice for newly engaged couples would be to plan for the unexpected. That includes recognizing there will likely be last-minute details you never thought of, but also rolling with things on the big day even if something doesn’t go as planned. At the end of the day—which seriously goes by in the blink of an eye—you’ll remember the love, the laughter, and the vows exchanged between you and the love of your life. Savor every minute.