Happy almost holiday weekend!! I hope you all spend some time with family + friends and eat lots of yummy food! I’m on my way to spend the holidays with my husband’s family in Milwaukee, WI. Hopefully I won’t freeze! :) One more treat though first – a lovely wedding! Stacy + Paul were married at the Red Horse Barn in Huntington Beach, Ca. Stacy was inspired by vintage finds + found a lot of her inspiration from visiting her favorite store, Anthropologie. From Stacy, “We wanted our wedding to be unique, to be crafted from our own ideas. Paul + I had fun going to flea markets together and finding things we could incorporate into the wedding.”
Most memorable moment of your wedding day? The most memorable (and terrifying) moment of the wedding day was walking down the aisle. After all the anticipation of the planning, the journey to find Paul and being surrounded by all those I loved was overwhelming and amazing. Paul and I thought that the ceremony was the part that we wanted to get over with so we could party with family and friends, but as we began planning the ceremony it became the most important part of the day. We decided to forgo the traditional ceremony with things like the unity candle, and instead did a tribute to our grandmothers who have passed. Our mom’s read words of advice that our grandmothers had written when they were alive and it was a very special and touching moment.
Love the balsa wood boutonnieres. :)
The name cards are SO FUN!
What a gorgeous wedding invitation to receive in the mail!
Such a gorgeous dessert table!! Designed by two of my favorite ladies – Jesi Haack + Sweet & Saucy
Any advice for those planning now? Stay organized, prioritize what is most important to you and let go of everything else. We couldn’t spend a lot of money, so instead I spent a lot of time crafting everything. Although it was months and months of DIY projects, I enjoyed every moment.
A lot of the decor for the wedding we purchased with the intent of using in our home after the wedding was over. So much money goes into planning and paying for a wedding and it felt like a shame to just get rid of everything once the night was over. The frames we used in the gazebo are now hung in our bedroom, the wooden quotes of our grandmothers are now decorations in the living room. It is really neat to still be surrounded from memories of the wedding in our home.
Save money where you can. Weddings grow out of control real quick so pick and choose where to spend your money and where to save. We opted for a beautiful cake from Sweet & Saucy in Long Beach. To save on the cost of a cake to serve everyone, we opted for a smaller cake to serve 50 guests and then supplemented with different individual small bakery bites. All the flower decorations were done by me and my maid of honor in the garage a few days before the wedding. We purchased the flowers wholesale ad arranged them in mason jars. It really fit well with the whole vintage theme of our wedding and really helped to save on costs.
Stalk blogs and get as much inspiration as you can but make your wedding your own. It is your chance to show your family and friends exactly who you are as a couple. Good luck and enjoy the journey! It’s a fast trip but an amazing one.
Photographer: Jeff Wallace
Event Planning: Jesi Haack Weddings
Cake Designer: Sweet & Saucy
Floral Designer: JL Designs (Carissa designed the bouquets)
Caterer: 24 Carrots
Reception Venue: Red Horse Barn
**update** Stacy is now selling items she created for her wedding in her etsy store!
Jeff Wallace and JL Designs are proud sponsors of Green Wedding Shoes.
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What a gorgeous wedding. I love all the special, handmade details. Thank you for sharing!
Gorgeous job Jessi!! Love all of the details. LOVE the cotton! I just drove through cotton fields in the south and have been wanting to use cotton as florals!!
OMG cuteness, I love that store! I have to know where that wooden three tiered tray with the desserts came from!!
Wow, this is amazing! I love all the DIY details and those invitations! The bouquet is gorgeous!
This is just too pretty for words. Every little detail had me swooning from the title of the post….right down to the Venue Credits. Lovely.
cake and dessert table are amazing as usual. jesi and melody never disappoint. the bouquet is gorgeous too. such romantical colors!
One of my most favorite weddings, AND brides. Thanks Jenn, as usual, for a beautiful layout and post!!
this is one classy, beautiful wedding…anything inspired by anthropologie is amazing in my book!
I love the name tags! I wish I had such a wonderful idea for my own wedding…!
this is a really pretty wedding! i have a couple of questions…who did the invitations? and where did you get all the little handmade flowers and trinkets for the name cards?
Thanks for all the sweet comments everyone. We had a great time at our wedding! And, some amazing and talented people who helped bring the vision to life a.k.a our vendors from heaven!
@Jen K, the wooden stand is from Pottery Barn and I think they have it in their outdoor section as they sell it as a plant stand.
@Shirley, I did all the wedding invites and made all the fabric flowers. If you are interested check out my blog for more details :)
This just took my breath away. I especially loved the name cards and the wedding invitations, they were gorgeous!
Beautiful wedding!
Stacy is so creative and very hardworking! All the vendors were so great and amazing to work with! I would recommend the entire list for your wedding!
if i could only shop at one store for the rest of my life it would be anthropologie! beautiful wedding! thanks for sharing.
This was indeed an amazing and beautiful wedding. The photos you see here are just the tip of the iceberg. Stacy and Paul saw to it there were sentimental touches everywhere… like gorgeous wrist corsages for the mothers that were handmade (by Stacy) from beautiful sheer fabric, crystal beads and pearls from jewelry that Stacy’s grandmother left to her.
Stacy did an absolutely astonishing job of planning, designing, and creating what turned out to be a perfect wedding. From the creative signs and backdrops, to flower arrangements and boutonnières… down to the beautiful unique décor on the tables (from entrance to dining area), Stacy either designed and made the pieces, or was deeply involved in selecting them (most she made). No detail was missed.
When it was time for them to simply enjoy being the Bride and Groom, Stacy and Paul made sure they could enjoy their wedding by engaging the talented professionals noted here to execute their very detailed plans. Stacy and Paul knew exactly what they wanted. Stacy’s amazing vision and creativity, along with a wonderful support made it happen!
Simply put, because of a lot of creativity, talent, hard work and dedication, Paul and Stacy’s wedding was a flawless, delightful, and enchanted evening.
SO MUCH amazing detail that went into this wedding. They put so much thought into every little detail! So beautiful!
Long time reader, first time poster…
I love every detail of this wedding that is shown… You have defintaly not erred even close to daggy DIY, every little touch is amazing… Alot of the weddings one attends can be all too much different venue same wedding, they are all lovely of course but it can seem like they all just blend into one memory after time. You have created a wedding that really shows personality and I’m sure will stand out amongst your guests wedding memories…
I have also as you say ‘stalked blogs’ in search of my fulfillment of my wedding porn fix… It is sad (but happy) times thinking that my own wedding is nearly here and I am not going to have an excuse to be busted looking at wedding blogs on my work internet…
Anyway thanks for sharing your beautiful wedding, I hope mine is as craftily sentimental as yours…
Beautiful placecards! Wow…a lot of love and work went into those details.
I don’t always say this, but I can really relate to the style of the couple, and appreciate it completely! Every little detail was perfect for the event. Love it!
Thanks SO much for posting this amazing wedding! So happy I was a part of it!
You delivered their ideas perfectly,
and that message from Granny is truly
sweet and memorable. Best Wishes!
I love looking at this blog. This inspires my interior design juices!
thanks!!
Wow! I love everything about this wedding! So sweet. The sign in table and dessert table are to die for!!! What a special wedding!
To the bride:
This is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! What fabulous inspiration for our wedding next spring.
Are you selling the table numbers? They are fabulous!
I have been looking very hard for a vintage inspired, flower girl dress. I can not find any? Any suggestions? or websites I can look on?
Lauren-I sell many of the items that I made for my wedding through my shop on etsy. Feel free to take a look, the table numbers can be made custom to fit the colors of your wedding too. Thanks so much for the kind words and stop on by if you like!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ssanchez
Where did you get the stick pencils? Did you get them from Whisperingpinescatalog.com ?
So beautiful!
Does anyone know where the bride’s wedding band is from? It’s -exactly- what I’m looking for!!
Bethany-the band is from Ben Bridge.
I love the flower girl outfit. Where is it from?
SM- Hi there. Thanks, I actually made her outfit and will be posting more tutu’s like it soon on my etsy shop.
What wonderfully creative wedding ideas! Very Unique concepts. I look forward to seeing the next brilliant ideas.
Excellent work!
I absolutely love this wedding, down to every detail. It seemed so warm and personal, love it. Kudos on the bouquet and your dress. Also, it seems like you let the bridesmaids wear outfits of their own picking. I love that.
One big question…where did you (he) get your ring? I absolutely love the cut, shape, and design, pretty perfect. My bf has been asking me to show him the exact type of ring I want and I haven’t been able to find the “perfect” one, I always want to change something about it, but yours is perfect.
That bouquet is just perfect!
Love all the time spent in DIY projects for this wedding. The mason jars and scrabble letters add a lot of character to the wedding. Great job planning :)
I knew I would love it with Anthropologie in the tagline.
Beautiful wedding, beautiful details. I saved many of the pics for
my inspiration boards!
I just love the DIY stuff! Can’t get over how cute the scrabble tiles look with everything else!
What a beautiful wedding! The attention to detail is amazing. So much hand crafted uniqueness for each table! I especially loved the qoute board from granny :)
Beautiful! Love all the details!
Wow. Very good.
I like picture – http://cdn.greenweddingshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/vintage-outdoor-wedding-09.jpg
wow I love this wedding, I love all the wooden signs, and hand made touches, the guest book idea, and that cake table…..totally amazing xxx
stacy, please email me and tell me if you could make us the barnwood peices with writing on them. I cannot find your blog on here or your etsy shop
dominicgino@yahoo.com
thank you, your wedding was amazing!!!
I love the feel of this wedding. Especially the creative use of the scrabble tiles… And of course the Anthropologie inspiration.
Beautiful wedding! It’s my favorite on here… I also would like to know how you did the board with writing… like the “please take one program”
Where do I find your invitations?!?! Did you make them yourself?
Yikes! This wedding is AMAZING! Scrabble?! Yes please! The cake is beautiful and i really love the typewriter for guests notes to the couple… not only does the font look great the precious words from those close freinds and family will actually be legible! Great idea :) Oh! And the custom wooden signs are so sweet- LOVE!
We at Marry Me discovered your website today. We absolutely love it. You have a new follower today.
Keep up the awesome work
I am just insanely curious as to what the groom’s ring says!
This was absolutely gorgeous. I loved everything, it was so unique and unless someone gets the ideas from here, you will never see another wedding like this! Awesome job!
@Karen (and everyone else) thanks for all your kind words about our wedding. It is so fun to see the comments from everyone even months after the wedding. If you are interested in any of the items from the wedding (signs, invitations, decor, etc), you can visit my Etsy shop at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ssanchez?ref=si_shop
xoxo-Stacy