Philadelphia Wedding by Krystal Mann
Terrain at Styers is a a garden that foodie dreams are made of and quite possibly the coolest spot on the planet for a wedding extravaganza. And as if the venue weren’t enough to send us reeling into a swoon-fest, this pretty number is also sporting gobs of whimsical details and a lovely homespun quality crafted by ryan jane co. We will spare you from all of our gushing and instead, let the gorgeous images by Krystal Mann do the talking. Believe us, they have a beautiful story to tell. See it all here!
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From the Bride…Instead of making ourselves crazy over every detail, we consciously chose vendors and venues that expressed our shared wedding vision. So, before we were even engaged, we booked Terrain at Styer’s because it celebrates the beauty of nature, providing the perfect backdrop for our relaxed and romantic ceremony and reception. Matt & Melissa, from ryan jane co., and their infinite wisdom of visual styling, converted Terrain’s gorgeous retail space into a dream setting for our nuptials. As a tribute to Styer’s, the nursery site for Terrain, my bouquet (also by ryan jane co.) featured peonies as did our simple table arrangements.
As we did with our venue, we only looked at one photographer. I love Style Me Pretty and visit the site often for inspiration. When I came across the summer wedding inspiration (July 22, 2010) post, I immediately emailed Krystal Mann and asked if she was booked on May 21, 2011. Thankfully (and perhaps due to the rapture?) she was not already booked so we snatched her up! As you can see, she was the perfect photographer to capture all the beauty, romance, and love from our wedding.
At 6PM, guests with champagne in hand gathered at an Indian temple in the heart of Terrain’s lush grounds to bear witness to our marriage. My father officiated and his deeply personal and humorous delivery struck a perfect balance, setting the tone for the rest of the evening’s events. Following the ceremony, the cocktail hour featured seasonal hors d’oeuvres and our selection of wines and beers (TIP: if your venue allows you to BYOB, do it!). Who doesn’t love a Hoegaarden with curry quinoa cakes in the evening? As if that wasn’t enough, our friend Haley Harmon of Don’t Eat the Paintings created a beautiful watercolor painting of our signature cocktail called “Pucker Up” featuring lemonade, pomegranate, and lavender-infused vodka made by my sister, Hannah.
Another reason we booked Terrain (maybe the main reason) is the food. The philosophy of Terrain’s café and Executive Chef Keith Rudolph is to create menus featuring seasonal ingredients from local farmers. To keep it casual, we opted for a buffet-style dinner, served in the greenhouse-inspired café. Dining under hanging flowers, vines and twinkling garden lights was as delicious as it was romantic. After dinner, the party moved outside to the café terrace for dessert and dancing under the stars. In 2010, I started a baking company, coco love homemade, so we created a delectable dessert buffet featuring coco love whoopies, cookies, and button pies. Friends also pitched in and baked their favorites to help round out the selection (it was my wedding day after all!). Before we met, Jonathan and I both collected vintage cake stands and plates. We used our best cake stands and created some new of our own to display all the treats. Jonathan curated the festive installation inside Terrain’s ‘mushroom hut’ using this collection. We couldn’t imagine having an outdoor space like the café terrace without allowing guests to make s’mores over a glowing fire pit, under a starry sky.
Wedding Photographer: Krystal Mann / Bouquet + Floral Styling: ryan jane co. or email: ryanjaneco@gmail.com / Desserts: Coco love homemade / Venue + Catering: Terrain at Styers / Signature Cocktail Painting: Haley Harmon, Don’t Eat the Paintings / DIY Cake Stand How-To: Design*Sponge / Ceremony Dress: Vintage / Alterations: Alterations by Maria / Ceremony Shoes: Nina Shoes / Ceremony Earrings: Oyeloria / Love Ring (a gift from her sister): Wire Name Mike / Wedding Bands (bride & groom have matching bands made from street cleaning bristles): Peg Fetter / Bridal Head Piece: Amy Nesbit / Groom’s Attire: Custom / Suspenders: Dapper Dean / Vest: Urban Outfitters / Bride’s Shoes: Vintage / Reception Dress: French Connection / Reception Shoes: Aldo Shoes
32 Comments about “Philadelphia Wedding by Krystal Mann”
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August 4, 2011 at 8:51 am
Wow, venue is stunning! As are (both) dresses...
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August 4, 2011 at 9:00 am
I love the way she did her hair it fits so well with the style of their wedding and she rocked that dress
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August 4, 2011 at 9:02 am
Just so everyone knows, terrain at styer's no longer does weddings after this summer...
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August 4, 2011 at 9:14 am
French connection dress is fantastic! Beautiful venue, and everything else.
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August 4, 2011 at 10:13 am
LOVE! Gorgeous, organic and fun. Our signature cocktail was also called "pucker up" :)
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August 4, 2011 at 10:36 am
What a gorgeous wedding venue! I love the natural, organic, vintage feel. The dress, flowers, desert bar, and all the other details were perfect!
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August 4, 2011 at 10:38 am
I am proud to say I attended this wedding and it was spectacular. I'm so glad the pictures did it justice: it really was THAT beautiful and everyone was really THAT happy. Again, it was spectacular.
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August 4, 2011 at 10:55 am
Please tell me how you found that dress?! Its beautiful and EXACTLY what I've been searching for!
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August 4, 2011 at 11:46 am
talk about a reception dress! wow!
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August 4, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Thank you so much for featuring this wedding! I felt truly honored to be part of their day and see how loved they are by each other and the ones that mean the most to them.
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August 4, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I'm a sucker for vintage details. Gorgeous wedding!
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August 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm
What a great wedding! Sorry to hear that Terrain at Styers will be hanging up their wedding shoes.
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August 4, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Our wedding was every bit as magical as the pictures show. We are so happy to share our wedding with the style me pretty community!
@Lindsay - I found the dress online by searching for 'sequined dresses'. Simple as that! (I think it was an older/discontinued style but French Connection tends to do this sort of dress each season.) -
August 4, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Oh my, beautiful venue .. and such a pretty recessional photo ! I loved it ! Bravo to photographer, Krystal Mann !! These two have LOVE written all over them ! Very special details for this wedding .... especially those cute banner flags. I'm such a sucker for those things. Good job !
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August 5, 2011 at 6:17 am
So many beautiful details and photographs, but the one of the groom sweeping his new wife off her feet. Utterly priceless. I'm also so envious as it's near on impossible to get pretty strings of lights like this in the UK!
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August 5, 2011 at 8:19 am
Photographer, Krystal Mann, just has a knack for capturing the emotion of the moment at just the right time. Pics are fabulous, the venue magical. Love the flowers!
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August 5, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Thanks Lindsey Love, the reception dress is gorgeous but I meant to ask about the ceremony dress, I've been looking for a ceremony dress just like that. It says vintage, but is there an era or style I could search for something similar?
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August 5, 2011 at 4:57 pm
@ Lindsay,
I stumbled upon that dress by accident in my favorite vintage store in Baltimore, MD called "Killer Trash." I bought it (for $58!) and didn't even think about it for the wedding until I tried it on for Jonathan one day and he said 'please marry me in that!' (how could I say no?!)My seamstress thinks it is from the 40's or 50's and it's 100% silk. We added the long, printed chiffon bow to make it a bit more fun, too. I think you could search online for those two decades and focus on silk, or check your favorite vintage shops and even look at their slips. I found this dress tucked between about 20 other slips/slip dresses.
...or if you're a fairy princess like me (meaning pint-sized 5'1"), you could borrow this one!
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August 6, 2011 at 2:11 pm
@Marilyn @Susan - Thanks so much for your kind words about my work. :) It was a treat to travel to Philly for this wedding! :)
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August 7, 2011 at 9:09 pm
@Lindsay Love, Thanks so much for your advice, I'll start vintage store browsing and hope I come across a great find like you did!
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August 15, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I am so inspired by your blog and by this gorgeous bride. The photography is spectacular for one, second...this is the cutest, most perfect wedding ever. The bride is so natural and beautiful, I am honoured that she is wearing my feather earrings, it fits her and her wedding so perfectly. Lovely!!!!
Josephine
oyeloria.com
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August 20, 2011 at 5:42 pm
This wedding is so beautiful...but it makes me so sad because it shows just how perfect this venue would have been for our wedding.
Just so all the brides out there know, this amazing venue is no longer holding weddings or receptions. My fiance, my mother, and I drove from Baltimore to visit last week (a 1.5 hour drive) and were in absolute heaven when we saw it, thinking we had FINALLY found the perfect venue. We asked our super sweet waitress (we were eating at the cafe) who we could talk to about reserving the space for our wedding and reception. She went to get someone for us, a woman named Kim, who told us in the rudest way possible that they weren't booking weddings anymore. I cried right at the table when I found out. She didn't explain why, didn't care that she had just ruined my wedding dreams, and just walked away. I was completely devastated and still am. My fiance and I still don't know what we're going to do because this place was so perfect...we've looked for a venue for a while and this one is the only one that we have liked. We don't think we'll be finding anything else like it and we're now both kind of bitter about it. The brides and grooms that have been able to get married here should consider themselves very lucky because apparently Terrain likes to crush the dreams of hopeful couples that want to have a wedding there. Since they had allowed several weddings in the past, it wasn't like we were asking for something that was unprecedented by wanting ours there.
We did write a letter to Terrain about our negative experience with Kim and they did respond with a nice apology letter and even a gift card for our experience. However, despite this, they said that they still are no longer holding weddings there. The gift card was nice, but it might cause us quite a bit of sadness to actually go back there because it will remind us of how excited and happy we were before we were so abruptly let down.
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August 29, 2011 at 7:52 am
Erin,
I'm so sorry you had a negative experience at Terrain. We were told that they may stop hosting weddings but the information was never confirmed at the time of our wedding. We do feel very fortunate to have had our wedding and reception there and we were always treated with warmth and courtesy.My family and I recently dined in Philadelphia at a restaurant called Talula's Garden (talulasgarden.com) that had a beautiful outdoor and indoor space, similar to the aesthetics of Terrain. I don't know if they host events but I thought I'd mention it here because the space, though smaller than Terrain, had the same organic, warm feeling.
Good luck in your search for the perfect venue. The only thing that really matters is the love you an your fiance have for each other. The rest is the icing on the cake.
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October 7, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Thanks, Lindsey. We'll definitely check it out. My fiance and I still haven't found anything that evokes a similar "Eureka!" feeling to us, so we could use all the help we can get. Your wedding was beautiful and I am very glad that you were able to have it there. You are right that our wedding should be about our love for each other--and it most definitely will be--we're just not certain about where since we're such eclectic people!
The fiance and I are considering writing a petition to Terrain, begging them to let us have our wedding there, and seeing how many people we could get to sign it for us. I've never found a place that was so very "us" and the thought of a wedding elsewhere just seems like we're settling. I guess it can't hurt--if anything, we'll be glad that we fought for what we wanted! :-)
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January 4, 2012 at 1:44 pm
In case anyone is still reading this thread, I just spoke with the Events Manager at Terrain and they are once again booking weddings!!!!!!!!
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February 2, 2012 at 11:03 am
Hello! I'm so very excited that The Terrain is once again hosting weddings. I've reached out for additional information but am still waiting to hear back. Does anyone have an idea of how many guests the venue can accomodate? Is there room on the property to set up a tent area for the reception if need be? Thank you!
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February 3, 2012 at 8:10 am
@Holly,
I think they can accommodate up to 150 guests, though I'm sure they would be happy to work with you to figure out something that will work if your party is larger. Call and email and I know you'll get the answers you need! Best of luck!
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