New Jersey Wedding at The Inn at Fernbrook Farms
Ok folks, this darling DIY farm wedding is just the perfect way to end our Wedding Wednesday pretty parade. It’s super adorable, personal and crafty all wrapped up in one sweet as can be wedding. Held at the Inn at Fernbrook Farms, all the fabulous images from Di Bezi Photography makes me wish I pulled an invite to this fun fete! For even more be sure to check out the full gallery!
Click here to see the entire image gallery!
From the Bride… My husband and I met almost eight years ago in Mallorca, Spain of all places. That’s right, two Jersey folks ventured out to Spain one summer (I as a nanny and Keith as a grad student studying abroad), and seven years later we were married at The Inn at Fernbrook Farms in Chesterfield, New Jersey. I always knew that I wanted an outdoor wedding, so after a long and grueling search across the states of NJ and PA, we ended up fifteen minutes from our house on a beautiful farm that has been family run since the 1800′s.
My vision for our July 24th wedding was “modern whimsy and burlap with a touch of antique.” From the start, I knew I would be embarking on many DIY projects since I had dreamed about this day for so long and wanted it to feel like OUR event and not a cookie cutter wedding. Overall, it turned out to be a relaxed and personal event that our friends and family are still talking about! Everyone pitched in to help bring all the elements together which, looking back, is a big reason why everything felt so right. I was out there along with my bridesmaids setting up the tables just hours before the wedding.
We constructed paper fans for the ceremony with tags that read, “Thanks for being at our one day that says we don’t want to spend another without being man and wife.” Little did we know how important those fans would be in keeping our guests alive on a 105 degree day! The chuppah was constructed by Keith and my father the week before the wedding. We wanted it to be very natural and simple, and constructed the frame out of birch poles with a burlap canopy top. My father’s wife sewed ALL of our dinner napkins from fabric I collected, each table with their own pattern. I crafted their corresponding place cards with a scrap of their napkin fabric that I pegged to burlapped boards. We made the burlap table runners, table numbers, and collected hurricane lanterns for the dinner tables. My father’s wife also created our ring pillow which was made out of pieces of material that once belonged to each of our four grandmothers, all of whom have passed. It was such a nice way to honor and include them in our ceremony.
The flowers were a group effort, led by a family friend. I wanted the flowers to be simple and classic. I created a loop out of natural twine so that the flower-filled mason jars could hang over the aisle chairs. They came out so beautifully! We also had wreaths hanging at the front entrance and small mason jars on the cocktail tables. The bridesmaid hyrdrangea bouquets were wrapped in burlap and tied with twine.
The hit of the night was definitely the DIY photo booth that I created using a burlap backdrop and our monogram from Anthropologie. I bought props from an Etsy vendor and left disposable cameras on a table and let people go at it. All five cameras were filled with such inventive and fun pictures!
Other DIY touches included chalkboard menu boards, drink stirrers with our monogram, a guest book that contained paper and envelopes for guests to tuck notes into, burlap pocket squares for the groomsmen, handmade wooden signs pointing guests to the ceremony, reception, and cocktail hour and hurricane lanterns filled with floating candles that lined the walkways. We also made dozens upon dozens of homemade cookies that I placed in collected apothecary jars that guests could fill up in cellophane bags on their way out.
Wedding Venue: The Inn at Fernbrook Farms / Wedding Photographer: Di Bezi Photography / Wedding Dress: Ramona Keveza / Men’s Suits: Express / Caterer: Main Street Catering / Bridesmaid Dresses: J. Crew / Band: The Cherubs / Ring Bearer Ties: The Belle and the Beau / Flowers: Friend of the Bride
J.Crew is a member of our Look Book. For more information on how members are chosen, click here.
32 Comments about “New Jersey Wedding at The Inn at Fernbrook Farms”
2 Links to “New Jersey Wedding at The Inn at Fernbrook Farms”
Leave a Reply
| « Northern California Wedding by First Comes Love Photo | Vibrant Michigan Shoot from Epic Motion + Flourish Event Design » |
 |
Visit us on Facebook |
 |
Follow us on Twitter |
 |
Subscribe to our RSS Feed |
- More Style Me Pretty...
- February 23, 2012
- February 22, 2012
- February 21, 2012
- February 20, 2012
- February 18, 2012
- February 17, 2012
- February 16, 2012
- All Archives
About
Press
Advertise
Submit A Wedding
Contact
Terms Of Use
Nicely done! I really like how colorful the place card board is. Congratulations!!
I LOVE the birch structure, so simple but elegant!
Very nice wedding, I collect up.
Beautiful! I'm curious about the year and style of her Ramona Keveza. I love it!
CN- The Ramona is part of her Legends line and I think the style number is L213. It should still be on the Legends website. Good luck!
Ohmygosh- Love this wedding! Those green dresses in the sunflower field?! Amazing~
Gorgeous bride and dress as well :)
Excellent, this style of wedding is just what i want most. I love farm wedding! Love your wedding photos! By the way, may i use some of your photos in my wedding blog, http://www.sevenyearitchs.com ? The 7th, the 8th, and the 9th(from the one with the bride and the groom and three deer in it). Thanks, of course i will indicate the source.
What a sweet wedding with thoughtful, personal touches. Fab!
What a happy wedding! It must have been so lovely to be a part of it..
Love the cowboy boots..the kooky cake toppers and the bridesmaids' dresses.. but the bride is the most beautiful part of the celebration!
Congratulations!
love this! such happy colors for such a cute wedding :)
Lovin her boots and the cake toppers!! Looks like it was a fun day :) Congrats x
This bride is adorable. I love her look, the dress suits her perfectly
Wow... That about sums this blog post up! Love the farm and the marquee!
OMG Jealous of the sunflower field!!!
I am loving the chic b-maids, the jars, the altar... everything!
Love the bridesmaid dresses!! Gorgeous wedding!
Love this wedding! It's quite similar to what our wedding in June will look like. It's actually nice to see all these details together because it give me a better sense of how ours will come together!! You can check out my inspiration board here http://smp.gd/b/dc6 and my blog www.howsweettreats.com
Hi, this is a gorgeous wedding. Can you share the source of your bridesmaids' shoes? I have been looking for espadrille wedges with satin straps and they look similar to what I was picturing.
Rose- the girls bought the shoes on their own. I think a couple went to Aldo and some went onto Piperlime.com Good luck!
I love, love love that Rebecca + Keith makes CAKE in the middle so if you glance at the handpainted sign real quick it just shouts CAKE at you.
A couple with cake in the middle of their names will surely be a sweet amd happy one!
Beauitful wedding- some of the most effective pom poms I've seen in ages x x
How adorable is that photobooth sign!! So fun!
I think the bride is the most radiant woman I've ever set eyes on, and her creativity and vibrancy really shine through in these photos too. I'd marry her in a heartbeat. That Keith guy is one lucky man.
--Keith
<3 to Keiths comment!! :)
The Kuser's run a WONDERFUL B&B and as a NJ-native, I'm so happy to see the Inn at Fernbrook Farms make a cameo on SMP! The wedding was absolutlely beautiful... couldn't have chosen a better setting!
Nothing like a wedding in a barn!! Beautiful bride for sure!!
I love the concept and everything about the wedding especially the color that they used. It's my favorite, green. Congratulations!
love so many elements of your wedding! nervous about planning a tent reception in August. Did you have air conditioning in the tent?
keith, do you have any advice/instructions for an aspiring diy-chuppah-er? i honestly think yours is the most beautiful one i've ever seen!
Hi Karen,
We had fans on almost every perimeter tent pole, but it still wasn't enough! Definitely have some back up large fans to put near the dance floor so people don't pass out! If you can find fan misters, that's even better! Good luck!
Rebecca and Keith,
What a beautiful wedding! We are getting married at Fernbrook too. Can you please let me know who did your tent lighting? Was it the same person that did the hanging flowers from the tent ceiling? Thanks!
we used L&A tents for the lighting. We hung the paper pom poms ourselves! Good luck!