Real Wedding: Amy + Matt, III
We have readers that work on every type of budget imaginable…from $2,000 to $200,00 and just about everything in between. So while we don’t always focus on one type of wedding over another, we hope that budgets large and small can find inspirations and ideas from those we do feature on SMP.
And Amy and Matt’s wedding, sent to us by lunaphoto is one that anyone would love, filled with a simply elegant style and sweet but utterly sophisticated details.
From Amy…Both my husband and I have two sets of parents and we really wanted them to feel included, so we decided to have a moment during the ceremony were they all came up and made a circle around us and vowed to continue to love and support us as we join our families together. This became especially important to us since 10 days after our wedding my husband’s step-dad passed away. We are so thankful that we were able to have such a special and intimate moment with him before he passed.
For our wedding favors we decided to give different types of trees for our guests to plant. Instead of having a guest book my mom had a great idea of making us a quilt, so we had a table where guests wrote little messages to us on squares of cloth to be sewn into the quilt. It will be something that we can keep forever and as my mom put it “feel surround by love”.
From Amy…
Our caterer (Primizie) and baker (Coco Paloma) are small companies that we found locally in Austin; and the best part is that they both only use the freshest most natural and/or organic ingredients! We saved a ton of money by doing a dessert table instead of a big wedding cake; we had a small 8 inch cake, different sized cupcakes, cookies, 2 pies and a big bowl of fresh fruit. Our invitations (made by Viola from Chewing the Cud, who I found on SMP!) were made using all environmentally friendly products, and we had a local artist do the calligraphy on the envelopes.
We chose to not do the traditional cake-cutting, flower and garter tossing, etc so that we could have more time to spend with our family and friends, particularly because most of them flew in from all over the United States and even Singapore! There is so much that I could write about our wedding; everything went so well and since we were planning everything long distance we hired Aimee Villa with Lizze Belle Event Management to help us bring everything together, she did such a wonderful job of helping make our wedding magical for us. Along with hiring Aimee, one of the most important things that we did was hire amazingly talented photographers; Mike and Paula Luna of lunaphoto were a joy to work with and did such an incredible job of capturing such a special time in our lives.
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Thank you so much to Amy and Matt for sharing their day with us!! We have a pretty awesome giveaway coming up next and later, find out who won the Sarah Darcy Giveaway!
I love Amy's earrings! Where are they from?
awww romance is such a beautiful thing! What a gorgeous wedding!
Thanks! They were super cheap!! Luckily my best friend is extremely resourceful, she found this great place called Charming Charlie that sells all kinds of jewelry and accessories. I think I paid about $5 for them!
Love the veil? Where is it from?
I'm completely impressed and inspired by your personal and creative touches, Amy... the patches of fabric for a quilt as a guest-book, your family joining you during the ceremony (that made me all teary-eyed!), the dessert table with all kinds of sweets. Wow - thank you for sharing your amazing wedding story with us. Congrats to you and your husband!
oh yes! please tell us where the veil is from! and where is the bridesmaid dress from? it looks really great from the few angles i saw. i am an austin bride too! it's great to see one featured on this blog!
My veil was hand-made and purchased from http://www.birdcageveils.com/ she is a woman that has her own business in Red Oak, TX - she was very nice to work with. The flower attached to the veil was made by Easter Yu found on www.etsy.com (a great resource for finding beautiful things that are handmade). I purchased the bridesmaid dresses at forever21, not your typical place to find bridesmaid dresses, but they loved them and will wear them again- which was super important to me!
I love all of the originality! The quilt is such a sentimental idea. Truly beautiful!
I {LOVE} her birdcage veil! They are so popular now and one of my favorite looks. Beautiful bride and beautiful wedding!
Kim
LLE
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hi amy! where is your dress from! I love it! what a beautiful wedding- so refreshing to see a budget beautiful wedding just as i was starting to feel like i could never make a pretty, inexpensive wedding.... thanks for sharing!
hi -- looked amazing ... what exact venue is your ceremony and receptions at?
annie
Thank you for the sweet comments!
josie -My dress was purchased off the rack at a boutique in Colleyville, TX called Brides and Beaux and it's made by pronovias.
Annie- Our venue was The Allen House in downtown Austin, it was great they let you do pretty much whatever you want. That was important to us b/c we wanted to pick our own vendors and we also wanted a naturally pretty place so that we wouldn't have to decorate as much.
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I'm also an Austin bride planning our wedding from overseas. Thanks for sharing the beautiful details of your wedding! Especially Chewing the Cud......love, love, love it!
Congrats!
Hi Amy! your wedding was so beautiful! where was it in Austin?
Jenn - Thanks for the sweet comment, we love Viola from Chewing the Cud she is awesome!!
Claire - Thank you! our wedding and reception were both held at the Allen House in downtown Austin