Backyard Wedding in Nashville, Tennessee
What happens if your venue gets flooded weeks before your wedding? Well if you’re this couple, you stay calm and carry on and manage to have one rockin backyard shindig despite the circumstances. Rain on (or around) your wedding day is good luck after all, isn’t that the way the story goes? It must be, because this day is brimming over with love and family and the cutest of touches. Captured by Michael Howard Photography, we are talking Nashville nuptials at their finest. Be sure to check out the gallery for more from this happy, happy day.
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From the Bride:
From day one we all knew the risks involved in planning an outdoor wedding. No one, however, thought that record flooding would hit the Nashville area a mere 3 weeks from our wedding day! Although the house did not incur substantial water damage, the sloping terrain between the plateau and the house was hit hard. A massive mudslide took out 2/3′s of where we had been planning to hold our reception. Time was not on our side and our last minute efforts to re-build the stone retaining wall and lay sod fell short. After getting past the initial devastation and thoughts that our wedding was ruined, we collected ourselves and began lay out our options…this would not be a black-tie affair, but instead a black TOP ceremony…held in the driveway! Luckily, the front of the Bryant’s home was equally as beautiful, and acted as the perfect backdrop. Thus, the show pressed on. We made light of the unfortunate scenario by taking a few pictures alongside the large, unmistakable excavating machine that loomed to the side of the house.
The reception was a time for everyone to enjoy a buffet-style, southern inspired dinner with a flair of the Midwest. We created an outdoor “photo booth” by hanging empty picture frames between trees and instructing our guests to choose from an array of mustaches-on-sticks as they posed for an Instamax, polaroid-style picture…which they then placed in our guestbook.
Towards the end of the evening we wanted to address our friends and family and thank them for their love and support. In honor of our bridal party, we served all of our guests and toasted with homemade pineapple-vodka shooters and sparklers! What a better way to end the evening?!
As if it couldn’t get any better, we have the sweetest little video of the day shot by Focalpoint Cinematic Weddings to share. Grab some popcorn and take a load off. This is the perfect ending to a day of wedding greatness. Congrats Andy and Reagan. From all of us at SMP, we wish you a lifetime of happiness.
Photography: Michael Howard / Design: Culbertson Concepts / Coordination: Classic Events / Catering: Constant Craving / Rentals: Southern Events / Printing: Buchanan Ink / Dress and Veil: The Bride Room / Men’s Ties: Narrow Ties / Tie Bars: Thom Kostura / Reception Band: Scat Springs / Hair/ Makeup/Styling and Accessories: Mark Evans of Trumps Salon / Video: Focalpoint Cinematic Weddings / Lighting: Bradfield
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Beautiful story of how love is all that matters whe it comes to planning! Our featured wedding today had a similiar "let it go" planning experience...Love this so much xo
WTF is the deal with the mustache-on-a-stick weddings? I just don't get this trend at all.
dear heather,
you must not know how to have fun.
Love the hanging frames and mustache props!
I love that Nashville is representing here! There is nothing like an outdoor wedding in the South in the summertime. I'm so pleased it has worked out for this couple!
Where are the bridesmaid dresses from? I love this whole wedding!
I'm dying to know who sings the song in the video...anyone know? Love this wedding too! I'm a Nashville bride myself and will be using this for inspiration!!
Dear Nashville, You are adorable and have some of the most heart warming weddings!! Love, Abby P.S. love the Jack Daniels barrel!
Can someone please tell me where those awesome chandelier lanterns are from!!! I must find out!!! They are fantastic!
Alright Kelsey and Jon! Way to rock that video! They're shooting our wedding on August 14th :)
Danielle: The light green is from JCrew and the darker green is David's Bridal.
Stacey: The artist is Tristan Prettyman, Track: "You Got Me" Album: "Hello...X"
Kelsey: Unfortunately, we found those chandeliers at a consignment shop in a northern suburb of Chicago called, "The Village Treasure House"
Ahhh... a good ol' southern wedding. The sound of that statement is nearly as refreshing as the cucumber water Andy and Reagan offered to their guests. I love the socks Gentleman.
Beautiful couple! I love the wedding! Can you tell me where you got the cute photo props?! THANKS!
Danielle: The frames were salvaged from all over the place. The mustaches-on-sticks were from Etsy and homemade by my mom. We got the Fujifilm Instax camera from Amazon (which is a lot of fun and well worth it).
Super cute....looks like tons of fun!
I just love the men's purple socks, brown shoes and suspenders. What fun, and a touching, bonding moment between the fellas!
I love how you made the video, especially the picture taking in the frame. Cool. It's super fun!
I would love to know where the long sparklers came from! :) You guys had a beautiful wedding, all the best!
Shal: Found this site for the sparklers, https://www.sparklersonline.com/
Also LOVE the mustache on a stick. It brings fun and something different to a wedding.
Unbelievably charming and sweet. The video totally made me tear up! What a gorgeous couple.
SO sweet and adorable, love the quirky little personal elements like the mustaches, the picture frames and the purple socks! :)
i love this wedding..esp the hanging picture frames for photo sessions. I think thats such a great idea :)
This video is amazing. Love the music! Great job!
your wedding looks like a ton of fun! im wondering where you ordered bulk flip flops....?
so many wonderful touches. especially adore the goofy face masks & the frames for photos! those will be fantastic keepsakes for the bride & groom.
bulk flip flops from Old Navy...
It those first few photos it looks like the bride is wearing flat or low-heeled strappy silver shoes. Can you tell me where these were bought from?
I'm looking everywhere for flat/very low heel silver shoes!!
I agree - I need to know where those shoes are from!!!
It's a wonderful wedding ceremony, wonderful video taking..
I wish you will be happy forever with together..
I've tried zooming in, but I still can't see, and I NEED to know: what is on the front of the program fans? Is it a family tree?
love the grooms suit, what design and brand is it? great texture
Please, please, please someone tell me where she got those shoes in the 1st couple of pics from!!!