A Hill Country Vineyard Wedding

The first part of June stays just nice enough in the Hill Country that outside weddings are enjoyable and not too hot once the sun begins to set. These are pictures from Alice and Taylor's wedding at a local vineyard. They were so fun to work with because they were both all about the details as well as the big picture. I loved overhearing guests from the big city say that Martha Stewart had nothing on this wedding.

Andrea Polito Photographers of Dallas had a team there to photograph the event and they did an amazing job. My favorite part of the proofing was that they had a whole section called "wedding details". Each special "little something" the couple had put so much thought into was documented for the bride and groom to remember along with the overall story of their day. Love that.

Again, many thanks to Polito Photography for taking the time to send the beautiful images, Maggie Gillespie for doing beautiful flowers for them to photograph and to Alice and Taylor for letting me be a part of their day!

Pioneer Museum Showcase - Hill Country Vintage Wedding Inspiration

Last Thursday The Pioneer Museum here in Fredericksburg opened it's gates to showcase it's newly renovated grounds. It's a charming place for an outdoor wedding, particularly if you have more than 200 people...the number that maxes out a lot of venues around here. Vendors from around the area set up tables in a huge tent to showcase their wares. Except us...

My friend Michelle over at Sprout joined forces with me to have a "booth" that would stand apart...and stand apart we did - a whole 400 yards apart since we weren't with the other vendors. Instead of doing a typical booth we did a vignette of sorts. More of an inspiration board come to life complete with a killer 1955 turquoise Chevy step-side pickup and farm table full of goodies.

We had been working on a wedding that we were hoping would take kind of a 1950's retro-vintage look to it. The wedding headed in another direction but we were still in that frame of mind and pulled together some fun red and turquoise pieces - cherry print paper cones filled with popcorn displayed in an antique milk basket, a panel made of vintage tart molds, red daliahs, carmel apples, stainless canisters, turquoise enamelware filled with white hydrangeas, and even the red phone. The entire setup really did have "fun" written all over it.

What you can't see is all the huge red tissue paper pom poms hanging in the trees above the table and the truck, it really brought it all together....even though the wind was so strong they "hung" horizontally all day! Ahhh, the best laid plans...