Vintage Garden Wedding by Alison Conklin
This next little number by Alison Conklin has that old school style that makes my weddings senses perk right up. For one, any groom that can rock a hat and suspenders is OK in my book – not to mention his bride has that timeless beauty you just can’t replicate. Sweet, understated details and a natural vibe make this all just so darling and there is even more in the full gallery of images!
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From the Bride…Where to begin?! It surely was a “labor of love.” My first inspirations were my favorite color yellow, milk glass, my lace gown, and burlap. It started out as being a pretty uniform idea — everything yellow, and I wanted all of my milk glass to be the Fenton hobnail. However, it proved difficult to only find Fenton hobnail milk glass, and I decided that with the theme my husband and I were going for, a mismatch would probably be awesome! Then other colors started working their way into the decor. Finally, we had a bunch of eclectic milk glass and themes of yellow, navy, and pale pink.
I made the burlap runners myself. I’m not very handy with a needle and thread, but super crafty with a hot-glue gun! I hot glued all of the lace trim to the burlap, and I couldn’t have imagined them turning out better! I purchased all of the little chalk boards for the table numbers last minute for a dollar a piece at A.C. Moore, painted them white the night before the wedding, hot-glued a piece of tied burlap to the corners, and chalked on the numbers. The seating chart was put together by printing out the guests’ names on the computer, cutting them out, hot-gluing them onto a piece of scrapbook paper, and pinning them with mini clothes pins I purchased at Cold Spring Village in Cape May, NJ to a piece of twine. The table dedicated to wedding pictures of our parents and grandparents was my mother’s idea. I purchased the spectacular frames from my favorite craft store, Hobby Lobby. Our cake cabinet was an old cabinet we purchased from an Antique Store a long time ago as a decorative piece for our home, and I just loved the idea of using it for our wedding cake. Our “cake toppers” were the extremely old and worn Mickey and Minnie Mouse figurines we purchased from another Antique Store; unfortunately they were too heavy for the cake as they were made from lead. The cake sat on a wooden pedestal purchased at Pottery Barn.
We had a special old farm chair sitting at the reception to mark the absence of my husband’s mother, Judy. She passed away from cancer in February of 2006. We laid her favorite flowers, sunflowers, on the chair, along with a poem Jimmy wrote in her remembrance. Next to the chair was a real Christmas tree cut down the day before the wedding, strung with lights, and covered in wooden carved and painted sunflower Christmas ornaments, made by a very talented Rick Wright, a country furniture crafter. These were one of our favors to our guests, and they also served as another piece commemorating Jimmy’s mom. Around my bouquet I wrapped my dear grandfather’s dog tags in his remembrance, who passed away in July 2006. Lastly, on our sweetheart table, we placed a picture of our dear puppy, Bailey, a 13 year old golden retriever who is the center of our universe. As soon as the reception was over, Bailey joined us in our room at The pet-friendly Glasbern and slept with us as our first “official” night as a family. Everything was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined, and wish I could relive the wedding each and every day of my life!
Wedding Photography: Alison Conklin / Wedding Cake: Louie’s Bakery / Desserts: Family of the Couple / Flowers: Garden of Eden / DJ: Wesley Works / Hair: Andrew Griffith of Serendipity Salon / Ceremony Location: Holy Spirit Catholic Church
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The bride's veil is so beautiful. Where is it from?
Your wedding dress is BEAUTIFUL!!! Where did you get it??
What a gorgeous wedding!! Sometimes her dress is strapess, sometimes not, it seems?? Does anyone know the designer of this dress? I love it, either way! The natural details of the wedding make all of it absolutely stunning! Love!
Her wedding dress is Priscilla of Boston Vinyard Collection-Nora (not sure of style number). I know this because it's the dress I'm wearing for my wedding in October!! :)
Somehow it reminds me of Anne of Green Gables... lovely
Love the bridesmaids dresses! Where are they from? Love the burlap!!
Love this wedding! I love the brides yellow shoes peeking out and what a beautiful couple. All of the photos are amazing.
Brides dress is beautiful and I love the milk glass. Perfect wedding with some beautiful inspiration! Thanks for sharing.
Love the yellow accents! These are all beautiful images, wow!
hello! thank you for the comments :) my dress is priscilla of boston, vineyard collection and the dress is called nora. the veil is also priscilla of boston. my bridesmaids live all over the place, so i sent them out to just get any pale yellow dress anywhere. two are from davids bridal, one from the dessy group, and the other banana republic. the day of the wedding was the first i ever saw them together and they were just perfect!
Beautiful wedding. Each photo is a treasure. What wonderful keepsakes for the couple and their families.
These are stunning photos. The bride's dress is gorgeous. I keep thinking one picture is my favorite then I see the next photo and that is my favorite. The photographer has a je ne sais quoi but her style is dazzling.
wow! i love this. if i could get re-married all over again... :)
I love the yellow so beautiful.
Beautiful! I love vintage style weddings. I have a post on my blog about having an affordable vintage country chic weddings. Check it out http://eventsbytammy.blogspot.com/2010/10/country-chic-wedding.html
Everything about this is beautiful!
whoa! I have watched Alison's work develop over the course of a few years and still, these photos amaze me! The buttery yellows and naturalistic flourishes her camera caught in these moments echo the bride's intentions above. Everything feels real in these images and I am sure the lucky and lovely couple appreciate the record of their dreams. I am soooooooo excited to hear that Alison is soon shooting a major cookbook and story project - I can only imagine how wonderful the images and stories will be in Brown Betty's Cookbook and how happy we'll all be looking at the photos while trying the recipes!!!! (yum!) congrats to Alison for these photos and her new project and how cool is it that her photos are showing up here on stylemepretty.com????!!! Love 4 all, xoxo Coco
Where did the groom get his suspenders from? My fiance is wearing the same color suit for our wedding next month and those are perfect!
the suspenders are from jcpenny, believe it or not! we couldn't find the ones we were really looking for and those were kind of last minute, but they worked out perfectly!
looove the gingham tie...do you know where it is from?