Today’s featured Little Black Book photographers, Britney Gardner and Joe Rumore shoot weddings from coast to coast! This one ~ just happened to be in New York City on an unseasonably warm spring day. However, the bride, Melane, didn’t mind the heat one bit … she’s a Texas girl at heart!

She and Ryan asked 30 of their closest friends and family to fly to New York with them to celebrate their marriage in Central Park!

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Julie Mikos, a photographer to envy, sent us two of today’s featured weddings…and if this first one is any indication of just how much I love Julie, the second will completely make you jump for joy. Before we get to that one though, I wanted to share a few more absolutely perfect photographs from Annie and Ryan’s ridiculously lovely day…

Have you ever seen anything quite as good as passed ice cream!? It makes me all giddy just thinking about it! Especially at such a sweet Summer wedding like this one. A HUGE congratulations to the bride and groom for designing a wedding that celebrated their own unique personalities, their own unique love. Those are the weddings that we love best here on SMP.

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Our first featured wedding for the day is pure bliss. It’s one of those weddings that we all want, but few of us can have…sweet, simple, intimate and utterly fabulous. Julie Mikos is the photographer behind the day and she captured the tailored elegance to absolute perfection!

I am a firm believer that pom poms make any space look better, brighter, happier. A sweet pom at a garden inspired affair is absolute perfection.

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How do I love you, let me count the ways…this wedding, shot by my new favorite photographer Julie Mikos, is all about sweetness and pretty. From the perfectly lovely bride in her pale blue dress to the pink poms, the gorgeous flowers, the everything…it’s all just so yummy!

Annie and Ryan tied the knot at the Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, California in a complete DIY affair…and I am just completely in love with every little bit of it. I have lots more pictures on the way, so check back in just a bit!

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The details. That is what today’s wedding was ALL about. Every little detail was not only thought out, it was designed and crafted by Brad or Laura. From perfect menus and place cards, to handcrafted truffles tucked inside DIY favor boxes, custom cocktail flags, even beer that Brad brewed for months before the wedding then bottled up and drove down to Charleston.

The AMAZING cakes were by Jim Smeal and the flowers were all done by the fabulous Tiger Lily in Charleston. Event Design was done by Duvall Catering and Event Design. And, the FABULOUS Kelli Nixon shot all of the photography.

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Usually, when I feature a wedding…I get to chat all about it from an editor’s perspective. Well, with today’s affair, I was lucky enough to be a guest so I am able to give a little bit of a different perspective. The ceremony was beautiful, the photographs of the bridal party were ridiculously lovely, but it was the reception…oh the reception…that really stole my heart.

As you walked into the cotton dock at Boone Hall, you saw a really rustic old space totally and completely transformed with huge swaths of flowy, white fabric (and since it was windy, each was blowing perfectly in the breeze), pops of yellow Japanese lanterns, perfect adirondack chairs with pillows that Laura made placed on each one.It was straight out of a magazine so obviously, I was in wedding heaven.

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Everything about today’s featured wedding was pure perfection. Since I was lucky enough to be a guest and just hang back to soak it all in, I saw the smallest details that Laura had put such TLC into, the most perfect touches, the most beautiful views of the day. Laura will be here a little later to share some DIY projects that she did but for now, I am still going nuts over her chic, but fun navy and yellow color palette…

I am obsessed! If there was ever a bridesmaid dress that your girls could wear again, this would be it. They are by Watters and Watters and are total gorgeousness. Laura had her two maids of honor tie a simple piece of lace around their waist which added a little something special. She had all of the girls wear pretty, simple gold sandals which looked perfect.

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As I mentioned earlier, today we are featuring my brother-in-law’s absolutely fabulous wedding that his ridiculously lovely wife Laura designed and crafted this past April. The wedding was held at the Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina and was a lesson in all things pretty. And for someone that eats, sleeps and breathes weddings…to be a guest at this one, was such a fun experience!

The color palette was shockingly gorgeous…a deep navy paired with a bright yellow. Set against the perfect Charleston backdrop, it was total perfection. Laura made each of the girls a hand-knotted pearl necklace and absolutely beautiful navy clutches. She also made sure that her cute, cute, cute littlest maids looked perfect with a floral headpiece and a pretty navy sash.

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I have been SO ridiculously excited about today’s feature for MONTHS now. My brother-in-law, Brad, and my now sister-in-law, Laura, tied the knot in the most gorgeous wedding down in Charleston, SC this past April and when I tell you that it was incredible, I am hardly doing this wedding justice.

Laura is the queen of all things DIY, with a sense of style that you are going to love…and she literally crafted her entire wedding from the bottom up! And lucky, lucky us! Laura is stopping by to share THREE do-it-yourself projects complete with printable templates and super easy to follow instruction.

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Late October … early November … five months and counting for those of you planning fall weddings! We’d love to hear from you. How are you doing? Is everything going OK? Any big problems our fantastic team of Little Black Book vendors can give you some advice on? We can’t promise they can solve ANY issue … but if you’ve got something BIG that you can’t figure out what to do … leave us a comment and we’ll do our best to help you out!

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