I love, love, love this color palette. It’s modern but still very natural… and the soft afternoon light with the pop of bright yellows and bold grays, is just divine. Now… about those little fabric flowers?!?! The mix match patterns add a ton of character to the color scheme. Seriously adorable!

From the wedding coordinator, Harper Ferguson…

The bride and her mother made the cute fabric flowers that were dotted around the reception including at each place setting. All of the wish cards for the bride and groom were kept in vintage library card catalog boxes and the escort cards each featured fabric buttons that corresponded to the fabric flower favors at each place setting. Each guest received a personal blank journal from Libby and Matt with their favorite Latin phrase.

Credits: Wedding coordination and Flowers by Bella Flora Creative, Photography by Brett Buchanan, Wedding gown by Watters.

Congratulations to Libby and Matt and a big thank you to Harper Ferguson from Bella Flora Creative for sending this wedding our way. The details have put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

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The event is really a place where vendors can network with each other, swap trade secrets and learn from some of the industries pros. It’s a great learning opportunity and will give you a chance to visit one of the best cities in the country! From effectively running your business to an intimate Q & A with area vendors, this is a great opportunity for any wedding or event professional. Plus, I will be chatting all about blogging and how to utilize the newest form of social media to market and grow your own brand.

It’s going to be an INCREDIBLE event and I hope to see some of you there! Click here for more details.

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The rehearsal was held  at One World Theatre in Austin and Townsley Design decked out the space with chocolate suede sofas, ottomans and super chic pillows. The FABULOUS team at Petal Pushers (Little Black Book members, of course!) did all of the florals. It was catered by Kurant Events and was followed by Asleep at the Wheel…an award winning Texas swing band!

If you are lucky enough to be planning a wedding in Austin…Caplan Miller Events and Petal Pushers are THE BEST. I got to hang out with the girls at Engage ‘09 and not only are they wildly talented, they’re also really great people!

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photography by Q Weddings

Held in Austin, Texas at the Austin Country Club, I love that the bride and her helpers transformed a relatively traditional space into one that is jam packed with charm. The flowers were all done by another of our favorite Little Black Book members, Verbena Floral Design and the perfect cake was designed by Coco Paloma Desserts!

photography by Q Weddings

We have so much more coming up today including some AWESOME DIY packaging!

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Anyway, over the weekend, I got an email from one of our readers wondering why we don’t show more country club weddings. After all, many of you are looking to throw traditional, sweet weddings in area clubs and need more inspiration!

So, I am on the hunt for chic, stylish country club chic affairs and this one is just that! It’s a little more simple than some of you are probably looking for, but it is utterly charming and will offer TONS of ideas and inspirations!

Photographed by none other than Little Black Book member Q Weddings (awesome by the way), this wedding is ALL about the pretty. Which we love! Here are some details from the beautiful bride…

Jason and I wanted an intimate wedding, so we invited everyone who’ve made a difference in our lives, and that became the theme.  We had 40 guests and no strangers.  People came from all over the world to see us, and we wanted to treat them right.  The menu included a steak and chicken duet plate because, well, why not have both?!

I was very hands-on with all the decorations, including the centerpieces and the place cards, etc.  The paper pompoms from Martha Stewart Crafts made all the difference in our wedding, and the pink fluffy hydrangeas on the tables really complimented them.

Because most men don’t care for wedding favors, I decided to please the ladies of the crowd with mini perfumes.  It’s a little indulgent but at the end, every girl smelled pretty and felt special.  I loved the way my mom arranged it.  They were just lovely!

MORE TO COME!

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And when I saw the details that the unbelievable Courtney Caplan of Caplan Miller Events designed for this affair…well, I swooned.

photography by Diana M. Lott

From Courtney…

The bride’s oldest sister is a huge fan of Amy Atlas’s candy stations, so we did our best to design one that was inspired by her perfect creations.  The flower girls wore little, yellow ballerina tutus, walking down the aisle to twinkle, twinkle little star.

After dinner the guests went back outside to the original ceremony area where we moved the chuppah to cover their wedding cake, added ottomans for seating, space heaters and cocktail tables.  We had their band, toasts, a fantastic hora! and the best part of the night…. a fire pit and s’mores station.

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Photography by Diana M. Lott

With an outdoor ceremony and an indoor reception, the design team really managed to create an event that captured the romance of the venue…the bride’s family home in Austin, Texas. Here are a few more details from Courtney…

We moved the guests to the garage area for cocktail hour.  We literally moved their entire set of dining room and living room  furniture to the garage area and used this as our lounge seating.  Guests were served lemon drop martinis, margaritas on the rocks and there was plenty of Coors Light available (groom’s favorite) with yellow koozies to match.  The bride’s youngest sister set a black and white damask backdrop over one of the garage doors for a fun backdrop used for photos that guests could take themselves.

Guests were then lead inside the home for dinner.  We used their living room and dining room to seat 180 guests!  The 20 guests in the wedding party sat on the patio at a long dramatic head-table.  All florals were created with a mix of yellow flowers and blooming branches.

Photography by Diana M. Lott

We have more on the way from this yummy, yummy wedding!

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I mean come on. How stinking cute is this? The yellow (I am thinking J Crew) dresses paired with the khaki suits. The perfect flowers designed by who else but Petal Pushers in Austin. The adorable bride and groom. It’s so lovable, it’s almost hard to believe! Oh and it looks really, really fun. Can’t beat that!

the amazing photographs were shot by Diana M. Lott Photography

Here are a few details from Courtney of Caplan Miller Events…

This is a wedding that I did in March in Austin, Texas at the bride’s parent’s home on Lake Travis. We first started designing this wedding by covering the entire back yard with a custom riser to cover their existing landscaping.  We used white carpet, white staging and white dancefloor.  Our ceremony took place on this platform and was then turned for the band, dancing and dessert later in the evening.

We used an iron chuppah that was covered in Texas smilax and yellow florals by LBB vendor, Petal Pushers – she created moss letters with their initials, hanging lanterns and shepherd hooks to line our aisle.  Bridesmaids were in yellow JCrew dresses.

The guests were greeted with fresh lemonade before being ushered to their seats.  The bride used a local Grammy award winner as her pianist (Floyd Domino) for ceremony and cocktail hour music.

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And Amy and Matt’s wedding, sent to us by lunaphoto is one that anyone would love, filled with a simply elegant style and sweet but utterly sophisticated details.

From Amy…Both my husband and I have two sets of parents and we really wanted them to feel included, so we decided to have a moment during the ceremony were they all came up and made a circle around us and vowed to continue to love and support us as we join our families together. This became especially important to us since 10 days after our wedding my husband’s step-dad passed away. We are so thankful that we were able to have such a special and intimate moment with him before he passed.

For our wedding favors we decided to give different types of trees for our guests to plant. Instead of having a guest book my mom had a great idea of making us a quilt, so we had a table where guests wrote little messages to us on squares of cloth to be sewn into the quilt. It will be something that we can keep forever and as my mom put it “feel surround by love”.

From Amy…

Our caterer (Primizie) and baker (Coco Paloma) are small companies that we found locally in Austin; and the best part is that they both only use the freshest most natural and/or organic ingredients! We saved a ton of money by doing a dessert table instead of a big wedding cake; we had a small 8 inch cake, different sized cupcakes, cookies, 2 pies and a big bowl of fresh fruit. Our invitations (made by Viola from Chewing the Cud, who I found on SMP!) were made using all environmentally friendly products, and we had a local artist do the calligraphy on the envelopes.

We chose to not do the traditional cake-cutting, flower and garter tossing, etc so that we could have more time to spend with our family and friends, particularly because most of them flew in from all over the United States and even Singapore! There is so much that I could write about our wedding; everything went so well and since we were planning everything long distance we hired Aimee Villa with Lizze Belle Event Management to help us bring everything together, she did such a wonderful job of helping make our wedding magical for us. Along with hiring Aimee, one of the most important things that we did was hire amazingly talented photographers; Mike and Paula Luna of lunaphoto were a joy to work with and did such an incredible job of capturing such a special time in our lives.

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Thank you so much to Amy and Matt for sharing their day with us!! We have a pretty awesome giveaway coming up next and later, find out who won the Sarah Darcy Giveaway!

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Which is exactly why I am so thrilled to introduce Heather Wendling, a brand spanking new photographer who just happens to be one of my childhood besties. I was totally blown away by her work and by the charming, Texas style wedding that she recently shot…

Heather was assisting Ever After Images on this particular shoot, though all of these shots were captured by Heather herself. And, she’s stopping by to share a bit of the detail!

Both the outdoor ceremony and reception took place at Starhill Ranch in South Austin.  The ranch consists of several re-stored buildings which have been re-located to the site, including a house for the bride and bridesmaids to relax and get ready, a “saloon” for the groomsmen, a chapel perfect for small weddings, a barber shop which serves as an office for the ranch owners, a large house with a porch overlooking rolling hills where dinner was served and a dance hall with old wooden floors for perfect dancing.  Essentially the wedding took place in a charming little town where everyone knew one another.  As the night wore on guests were outside under string lights enjoying the beautiful night, chatting on the porches of the buildings, ringing the bell in the chapel (a favorite for younger guests) or inside on the dance floor.

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Katherine and Ian’s countryside ceremony was in a lovely grove of trees.  After the ceremony, family and guests enjoyed lawn games, drinks, dinner and dancing late into the evening  …

Ian is in the British Navy. He and Katherine currently reside in France.

The totally beautiful flowers that highlighted the entire day were provided Little Black Book member, Melanie at The Last Petal.

Thanks so much to Laura Burlton and David Jones for sending us today’s great wedding. For all Style Me Pretty fans, I do have to set the record straight, though. Not all Texans can ride a horse. Really. And many of us have never played horseshoes either! But we do all know a lovely wedding when we see it!

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Top Row by Romance of Flowers / Center Row by Modern Day Design / Bottom Left by Verbena / Bottom Right by Modern Day Design

We have an oh-my-gosh big giveaway coming so stay tuned!

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So, today, I thought that I would highlight the work of some of our Little Black Book florists! The first is Petal Pushers in Austin, Texas. I love this company….their work is completely fresh and elegant but totally approachable…

Check out the Petal Pushers website, as well as their wonderful blog for tons of ideas and inspirations!

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