North Carolina Dairy Farm Wedding from Caroline Ghetes
Wedding planning can be stressful enough without the added anxiety of a tornado storm coming through your reception site just two days before the wedding! The perseverance shown by Heather and Seth along with their community is so admirable. After working together to clean up the site they even cut the fallen trees and used the pieces as decor! Their hard work definitely paid off and the result is a precious at-home wedding, photographed by Caroline Ghetes, with superb attention to detail and dedication to family. Don’t forget – there are even more handmade, dreamy details in the full gallery!
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From the bride, Heather -
“Seth and I have began our adventures together almost 5 years ago. From the beginning, I always knew he was “the one”. I feel so blessed to have him in my life and to spend the rest of my life with my very best friend. About two years into our relationship Seth joined the Marine Corps. Trying to plan a wedding around the military is quite difficult and felt like even setting a date was impossible. The weekend before the wedding, the military told Seth he wasn’t going to be able to come home for the wedding. But, our faithful God allowed a way for him to come home two days prior. As if that wasn’t enough stress, two days before the wedding, a windy tornado storm came through the wedding site and knocked down trees everywhere. We are blessed to have a community that is so loving and knows how to use chainsaws! On our wedding day, the skies were blue, weather was beautiful, and everything was more than perfect.
When Seth and I began our wedding planning journey, our main goal was to keep the theme very relaxing and to be ourselves. With both of us being brought up on farms, we knew we should incorporate our roots into our venue and decorations. And that is exactly what we did. We chose to celebrate our special day on the family owned Payne Dairy Farm where Seth was raised. We looked into other venues but nothing gave us the feeling of “home” like actually being home.
The ceremony was held under a few trees in the middle of the field where we hung mason jars with candles from their limbs. Wooden chairs were set up to acheive the country/rustic feel and ivory rose petals filled the entire aisle. The reception took place in a hay barn not far from the wedding site. A chandelier hung with lights cascading to each corner of the barn. Hay bales were set up for additional seating around the barn with rustic lanterns for lighting/decor. For centerpieces we used white table cloths and ran burlap table runners over them. We then placed cut pieces of tree trunk (from the tornado storm that occurred two days before wedding) on top where then we topped off the table with potted mums with our initials engraved on the pots. Mason jars wrapped in burlap with stems of carnations and candles surrounded the centerpiece. Good ol’ homestyle BBQ and southern sweet tea were served to our guest as well as homemade desserts from the special ladies in our lives. Three Forks Cakes did an amazing job with our double chocolate wedding cake.
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LOVE Caroline's work! Adorable wedding!
i found myself surprisingly diggin' the beige/cream suit. it's really nice!
Sweet country weddings like this never cease to give me butterflies.
Very cute and fun!
The bride is a girl after my own heart.......I LOVE THIS WEDDING
Love the collages!
Could this be anymore gorgeous!! I love it!
great work, as always, Caroline!
Oh my goodness! This wedding looks like a dream. Flowers in the jars and green guitar. Great details.
Love this theme! Make we wish we lived closer to rural farms!
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Their initials of H & S are the same as my husband and I :)
Beautiful story! I like it.
Thanks so much for the feature! It was such a great blessing being a part of this wedding!
Love this. ♥ The boots are my favorite part.
Beautiful wedding! Love the details and the soft colors.
I love this bride's story! She is beautiful. Congratulations and may God continue to bless you and your husband.
I absolutely loved the laid back feeling of this wedding! I was also wondering which Etsy seller had made the boutonnieres?
great pix. love the glasses from Allen the photographer, great job CAROLINE
so gorgeous! and i love her dress!!!
love the story. Love the pictures. thanks for sharing
I love everything about this wedding from the boots to the little details! The bride's dress looks great on her, and I really like the creams and whites of the groom's suit and necktie.
I REALLLLLY want to know where you got that guitar! I want it/want to know where you got it.. I spent 3 hours yesterday searching on google/ebay/etsy to find one and found ZERO.
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the cowboy boots are a nice twist and certainly add to the charm... have never seen that before... I think this couple may have just started a new fad...
What an amazing job you guys did getting the farm all dressed up like this! Everything looks so beautiful. I'd surely never look at that old house in the 6th picture and imagine it being a good backdrop for pictures. Glad I could be a small part of your special day.
i like very much the country wedding... it is so original !! and the cowboy boots are very cute