Real Wedding: Holly + Wes

Today we’re featuring Holly and Wes. Holly owns her own event styling and paper good company in Nashville called Jam + Toast. Here’s what Holly had to share about her wedding day:

My wedding was on September 10th, 2011 (9-10-11…yeah we were one of those people). We were originally planning on having an outdoor ceremony, but it rained for the whole week of the wedding, so we quickly decided we were going to need a new plan. We tossed around ideas of moving the ceremony into the tent where the reception was, but I hated the thought of not having an actual aisle. There was also a church down the street that we could use but there were issues with parking, and none of us really had a connection to that church. The only other option (other than just having guests hold umbrellas and me walk down the muddy aisle in rain boots) was to move the ceremony into one of the barns on the property.

For three days, our amazing family and friends helped us clean out the barn, and let me tell you it was a mess. There was dust on top of dust, cobwebs-a-plenty, and a LOT of hay. Not quite the description you think of when you talk about a romantic event, right? But, we moved large equipment out (with the exception of a cider press and 2 tractors), swept the floors (two or three times), and covered some stuff that we couldn’t move out with a white sheet and printed photos. It was all sort of a trial and error, but it ended up feeling so cozy and comfortable. Also, as luck would have it, it didn’t rain AT ALL the day of the wedding, but I still think it was better in the barn than it would have been outside. The sun started setting behind us as we were saying our vows and the light shone through the beams, and it just felt perfectly “us”. 🙂

I love handmade details and rustic decor, which is why I was thrilled when Ariane sent me an email and said that she might be interested in working with my business, Jam + Toast, to come up with that type of theme for future videos. We were actually able to use a real photo of the bunting from my wedding, and create a fun new theme for brides with that style. I really like the way it turned out!

Check out our new video theme in Holly and Wes’ wedding video.