Real Wedding: Meredith + Scott, II
There is a lot to love about today’s featured affair. It’s sweet simplicity. It’s utter charm. It’s approachable, effortless style. But most of all, I am totally smitten with the laid back elegance of the day. The umbrellas plopped inside a rain bucket, friends and family helping with the flowers, the picnic table and chair set up for guests. It’s all just so lovely!
Oh and I am completely and madly in love with the flowers…the perfect pink flowers tucked inside milk glass bowls, set against a simple burlap (or otherwise neutral) table runner. Total gorgeousness. Jessamyn Harris is the talent behind the photos that completely tell the story of the day. I love that.
Here is a cute little detail from Jessamyn…
The cute boy…it’s the best man, Ben. Ben cleaned up quite a bit for this wedding – hard to describe how much if you don’t know him personally – and rented a tux with pink details just to show Scott how much he cares. I think Scott was worried Ben would show up shaggy and dirty and punk rock , so Ben took the challenge to the extreme. I told him he looked like a mean jock from a 1980s movie – remember when preppy men could wear pink and still beat you up? – but I should’ve also said, he looked very nice.
More from Jessamyn…
The weather was cold and rainy. Meredith and Scott came close to panicking in the week leading up to the wedding, then decided that, instead of moving it to a boring and impersonal location, they would cover some of the arbors, ask everyone to bring umbrellas and rain boots, and hope for the best. And it worked! The wedding proceeded beautifully and the occasional drizzle just added to the overall romance of the wonderful day!
I love the color scheme from this wedding. The colors are so natural and feminine. I think the wedding being outside creates a great intimate setting.
OK, gotta ask about the shoes...I've been on a yellow ballet flat quest! The problem is that everytime I see a great pair in a featured wedding online, that means that the bride probably bought them 6 months ago and the retailer no longer carries them. This seems to be the problem with all the awesome J Crew shoes I keep seeing everywhere!
I'll have meredith answer the ballet flat question (I've been wondering too, and a friend of ours at the wedding kept trying to track meredith down to get the answer as well!). I had another client a few years ago with red ones just like them, maybe one of the brides can tell us.
the flowers were amazing, just simple bouquets cut from meredith and scott's garden. since the weather was so fussy, some of the more thin, delicate-stemmed milk glass vases were tipping over on the tables, so my friend kate gathered them up and made a bouquet from them in a little birdbath nearby. it ended up looking intentional and very pretty. every little detail just seemed to come together!
wow! the flats. love them. So impressive when couples think of details like an umbrella basket. So glad it worked with the rain.
Thanks so much for featuring our wedding. I turned to stylemepretty a lot when we were planning the wedding, so it means a lot to me to have our wedding shown here. The day was so much fun, despite the rain.
I knew that I would need to wear flats, since the reception was in a garden and the ceremony was in a field underneath some oak trees. I found the bright yellow satin flats at Marshall's of all places, for only $15! They were made by Charles Albert, and the style name is Butter, in case anyone wants to track some down.
(Jessamyn, was that photo of the long table taken before the reception? I don't remember the centerpieces being so...off center!)