A Very Creative Mother of the Bride

 This is Elizabeth.  She and Paul were married this past September at the Decatur United Methodist Chapel with a reception at The Houston Mill House.

Elizabeth is a very lucky bride in that she and her mom worked together to create some very beautiful details for her wedding day.

 Suzanne, mother-of-the-bride, made the lovely vintage card collector featured here.

She also brought an old chair to the church in order to get some pretty shots of the bouquet.  Elizabeth's bouquet was a collection of pinks, purples and whites - hydrangea, lisianthus, lavender roses, hypericum berries, stock and freesia.

Suzanne also created this sweet vintage inspired guestbook as well as the "mr" and "mrs" signs for the back of the bride and groom's chairs.

She also put together the wedding programs and handmade every single one of the escort cards!

The escort cards were then hung on a vintage garden gate.  These escort cards would have been sufficient as wedding favors, however Elizabeth is known for her delicious white chocolate dipped pretzels.  Each guest received their very own pretty little package of them.  Elizabeth dipped over 900 pretzels!

The photos featured here are courtesy of Suzanne (and a family friend).  You can follow her creative endeavors here.

It's a pleasure to work with individuals who really care about the details.

Lindsay and Ben - Decatur United Methodist Chapel - Part One

The Decatur United Methodist Chapel was the obvious choice for Lindsay because she had grown up down the street. In fact, her parents still live close by and Lindsay has a house around the corner. It is a sweet little chapel with a top notch wedding director!

The handrails leading up to the chapel were lightly decorated with tree fern, colorful flower sprigs and butterflies. As you will see, butterflies were a very important part of the day!

Lindsay is so completely photogenic it is hard to choose the best photos to post since they are all so good. And that is due also to the incredible talent of photographer Christine Gallagher.

This is undoubtedly my favorite bridal bouquet of late. A vibrant mixture of astilbe, kangaroo paw, freesia, nerines, sweet pea, rosemary, snapdragons, and poppies. And, of course, a tiny turquoise butterfly.

Bridesmaids bouquets were a stunning mixture of rosemary, nerines, poppies, sweet pea, snapdragons, and freesia wrapped with a beautiful brown faux bois ribbon that Lindsay had special ordered from Paris.

(The above shot is currently the wallpaper on my laptop...!)

Ben's boutonniere was a pink nerine with hypericum berries, fiddlehead fern and sword fern wrapped with bark wire.

And that is just the beginning...check back soon for part two!

First pics of Lindsay and Ben

Here's a photo montage of the first pictures released from Lindsay and Ben's wedding on September 12. They were married at the Decatur United Methodist Chapel with a reception at The Trolley Barn. Lindsay is a true creative soul and her handiwork is evident here in the fabric flower hair clips worn by some of the bridesmaids. She handmade lots of other things as well, as you will see...

If you look closely at her bouquet, a tiny turquoise butterfly is perched amongst poppies, freesia, snapdragons, sweet peas, astilbe, nerines and rosemary. I'll admit that she cried when she saw her bouquet! She's gorgeous and doesn't her groom look like Dave Matthews?

Photos courtesy of the fabulous Christine Gallagher Photography.