A Denver Wedding with DIY Charm
Guess what today is. It’s the day that we officially introduce one of our pretty new writers to you. And she’s a keeper. SMP-ers, meet Chantale Montgomery, blogger behind the fabulous site, La Belle Bride. Chantale is officially a wedding obsessed freelance writer. Unofficially, she is a style savvy, totally charming, super fun girl who loves eye candy as much as we do. Needless to say, we our feeling pretty lucky to have found her. So, please give Chantale a warm and hearty Style Me Pretty welcome and feast your eyes on the delicious wedding she is kicking off her visit with!
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You can always count on an impeccably styled rustic wedding to make a girl swoon. And for this charming wedding, I definitely assumed the swoon position. Really though, what’s not to love? Let’s take attendance shall we: gorgeous, scenic backdrop? Check. Adorable equestrian touches here and there? Check. Colorful fresh flowers, woodsy accents and DIY treats throughout? Yup. Dashing groom and stunning copper-haired bride? Photographed by the talented Tec Petaja? Most definitely. Oh and let’s not forget MULTIPLE types of pie. Yum!
From Alicia, the adorable DIY bride:
Instead of choosing colors for our wedding day, I found two inspiration boards that embodied the style and feel I was going for. The boards were rustic, involved nature, rich with golden sunlight, used twine, ebony, and wood, and I basically just kept those images in the back of my head as I made my decor decisions. As a redhead, I was drawn to peaches, browns, and ivories and I’ve always adored shabby chic style, so I basically trusted my gut and bought things I was drawn to.
I did many, many DIY projects for our wedding! Our out-of-town bags were one of my favorites. We use muslin bags decorated with stamps. Horses became an organic theme throughout our wedding and I had a custom stamp made out of a horse that my husband drew. The horse he drew was actually a horse we’d met at our venue’s stable the year before–he was their first colt, named Doc. His image was gocco’d onto our save-the-dates, on our invites, on our out-of-town bags, and signified our head table at the wedding. We stuffed the bags with goodies like chapstick, homemade granola, Emergen-c, and saltwater taffy.
Throughout the year before our wedding, I frequented garage sales and picked up vintage jars and other glass bottles (like a great turquoise milk carafe). These jars were used as vases in centerpieces and along the reception barn’s windowsills. I also picked up vintage cake stands from the yard sales for the pie bar that Teacup Bakery created for us. We had eight different flavors of pie (some fruit and some mousse) and sliced them into tiny pieces so our guests could try as many as they liked. One more thing I bought at a garage sale was our birdcage. Instead of a guest book, we had guests sign horse-themed postcards (purchased from ebay) and drop them in the birdcage.
The venue had a clothesline which most couples use for their escort cards. I was inspired to hang photos on the clothesline, but not of my husband and I as many couples do. We hung pictures of us with our guests. It was really special to show a little piece of history we’ve had with them over the years.
Going along with our horse theme, we displayed our escort cards (done by Seasonal Delights on Etsy.com) with horseshoes. Seasonal Delights is a stationer who uses stamps to create adorable gift tags and other cards. She had 10 horse stamps (including the one I sent her of my husband’s drawing) and we had 10 tables, so we used the stamp images as table “numbers.” Each tag had an image of a horse and a person’s name on it so they knew where to sit.
Our table centerpieces not only featured three jars full of peach, yellow, and ivory flowers, but the table numbers were boosted by two-inch log stumps. My dad made these from the trees in my parent’s backyard and brought them with him from California. The card holders were purchased from Pottery Barn.
More to come from this DIY packed day posted by Chantale at La Belle Bride!
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La la la love! Alicia - you like absolutely stunning, but that third pic - c'mon! Would you mind sharing where you got your hair bloom and belt? Thanks so much!!
Pretty, pretty girl!
Wow amazing wedding... if you don't mind me asking... where did the bride get her dress?
Alicia is one of the bloggers over on Weddingbee - Mrs Cowboy Boot. Her wedding is a whole lot of wonderful!
The Dress is Christos... and is AMAZING.
Can I just say that I think I'm in love with Tec Petaja?
Grrrrrrrrrreat first guest blogger post! I ADORE this wedding!! Waiting with baited breath for more!!
I love this wedding... Beautiful couple!
Looooove these so much...great photography...beautiful couple...AMAZING!
I have loved this wedding since the second I saw it on Tec's blog and Weddingbee. The bride is absolutely gorgeous!
Thank you for the detailed write up! I love this wedding and wonder if I would look good with copper hair? (Such a stunning bride.) Chantale-I'm looking forward to seeing more of you on SMP!
Absolutely gorgeous wedding! Thanks for sharing, Chantale and welcome to SMP!
Welcome Chantale! What an amazing wedding you've picked. Looking forward to the DIY posts... Keep up the great work!!!
Is there anyway to get another copy of the horse stamp? It is beautiful and way better than the one I just ordered! I am getting married at a historic harness horse racing museum and incorporating horseshoes and horses into all of the paper goods at the wedding--which my sister and I are doing.
What a beautiful Colorado wedding!
Danielle, thanks for the kind words! The belt is from J. Crew and the hair blooms were custom from Muscari Designs!
Angela, my dress, Christos Julianna, is from Saks Fifth Avenue. I'm selling it if you're interested! She's listed on Oncewed.com so feel free to get more info there: http://www.oncewed.com/24984/used-wedding-dresses/christos/size-2/julianna/
Chantale - I love your writing style! Your charisma makes me laugh out loud - welcome!
Alicia, you look absolutely stunning! And as a lover of Broadway and old musicals, I can't get over HOW COOL it is that your grandmother sang some of my favorite songs!
Welcome to SMP Chantale! Beautiful Post today. Love it!
Hi Megan. Thanks for the kind words about the stamp. E-mail me (alicia.m.carr@gmail.com) and we might be able to work something out. I have to run it past my hubby though, as it's his artwork and since he's an artist, he may charge a design fee for the drawing on top of the stamp price. But let me check with him.
Lovely wedding!
Where did you get the black wire place card holders?
The photography is gorgeous! What a beautiful wedding ... the pictures held up by clothespins are so clever.
Hi Chelsea F. The little white heart stands are from a store in the UK called Bliss & Bloom. I bought the stands from their ebay store: http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/homeatblissandbloom/ .
Just reread your comment, Chelsea F., and the black wire frames are from Pottery Barn.
I love everything about your wedding! What colors are your dresses from Jcrew?I can't figure out if is deep rose or tea rose.
More power to you.i have actually bookmarked it to show some of my friends
Hey Alicia,
I LOVE the belt that you wore with your dress. It is so fun and whimsical! I checked to see if it was still available on jcrew.com but I couldn't find it. Would you be interested in selling it? Also, I think my bridesmaids are wearing the same dresses as yours (deep rose from J.Crew)? You have great style!
Alyssa
Hi Martha. Thanks for asking. My bridesmaids wore deep rose while my MOHs (I had two) wore light shell. You can get swatched from J Crew if you're curious about the colors.
Gorgeous! Where was your venue? I'm on the hunt, for a welcoming, casual, gorgeous spot for an outdoor wedding in Denver area.
Hi Sandra,
The venue was Devil's Thumb Ranch in Winter Park, CO. Two hours from Denver.