Millie James Weddings + Events

01/03/2025

Hi friends! We are going to start off 2025 with a little introduction…

I’m Audrey! I’m the Founder & Lead Planner at Millie James Weddings. Some fun facts about me:

✨ Serving others brings me joy and is at the heart of what I do! I love to host and make people feel special by planning things from play dates to family dinners and yes, weddings!

✨ My husband, Reed, and I celebrated 5 years of marriage this year! We enjoy going hunting and fishing together and I set the record for the biggest buck (Sorry, babe…)

✨ Our babies, Tucker (3) and Millie (2), are my world. Tucker is calm and tender-hearted and Millie is my little firecracker!

✨ I graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Early Childhood Education. Go bulldogs!

✨ I was a Kindergarten and 1st Grade teacher before deciding to become a SAHM and a wedding planner!

✨ I secretly want to be a homesteader and enjoy learning new skills! I love gardening, raising chickens, baking bread, knitting and embroidery (I got a sewing machine for Christmas and hope to pick up quilting soon!), and more! My dream is to run a mini-farm when I grow up!

✨ You can’t bring me inside during the summer. I will stay out all day with my kiddos!

✨ The lake is my happy place.

✨ I love 90s country music.

✨ Sweet Home Alabama is my all time favorite movie.

We are excited to get to know our couples more and become a small part of their love story!

12/16/2024

Counting down the days until Christmas and Lydia & Jackson’s wedding day!!! 📆🎄

We always love a good downtown engagement sesh and knocked it out of Big Spring Park like always!

See you at the chapel in 19 DAYS & !

12/06/2024

An unforgettable day celebrating Audrey + Camden!

From our first consultation together, Audrey said she wanted her wedding day to feel “warm and welcoming”… We turned a big, empty space into an intimate, candlelit dinner that made all of their guests feel cozy and right at home. The thoughtful details made this wedding one to remember from the warm color palette and natural textures to the feather accents in the place settings and lighting installations.

It’s always hard helping our couples into their getaways cars at the end of the night after spending so much time preparing for wedding day together, but in the same breathe, we are overjoyed to finally send them off into married life! Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Gaw!!! 🤎

Planning & Design:
Venue:
Florals:
Catering:
Cake:
Photography & Videography:
Content Creation:
DJ:
Rentals:
Lighting:
Specialty Linens:
Stationery:
Linen Signage:
Transportation: Southeastern Golf Carts
Hair:
Makeup: .phillips

12/02/2024

December is an exciting time of year around here! It’s engagement season, our birthday month, and favorite holiday—Christmas!!! To celebrate the launch of our newly designed website and bespoke wedding planning experience, we are gifting a FREE Mrs. Box + Gem Pen to the next couple who books with Millie James Weddings! 🎄✨💍

If you need a box for that shiny new ring, please visit our website (link in bio) and submit an inquiry form online. Offer expires December 31st, 2024.

11/25/2024

A few sneak peeks from Garrett & Alexis’ wedding day! This mist green was one of my favorite color palettes. 🤩

Planning & Design:
Venue:
Photography: .photography
Florals:
Stationery:
Catering:
Cake:
DJ:
Audio Guestbook: .al
Specialty Linens:

11/22/2024

It’s WEDDING DAY for the future Hollands!!! 🤍

11/21/2024

It’s wedding eve for Garrett & Alexis and our LAST wedding of 2024!!!

Bittersweet feelings as we wrap up another year of MJW, but we are ready to finish strong! ✨

Stay tuned for one of our favorite color palettes this year.

10/31/2024

Maria + James’ wedding was an unforgettable day at Burritt on the Mountain! We battled hurricane winds and rain all day, but the clouds parted for the briefest of moments for a sweet, at times, humorous, and beautifully dramatic ceremony. Waiting until the last possible second to make a weather call and soaking up as much water off the chairs as we could while it was drizzling was all worth it to try to make their dream wedding come true. Maria referred to her wedding day as her “Pride & Prejudice moment” and I think I’m going to start calling it that when it rains on wedding day because who doesn’t love that scene? Congratulations to The Copelands—May your marriage be full of good luck!!!

Planning:
Venue:
Photography:
Florals:
Catering:
Cake:
Cocktails:
DJ: Saturn 5 Entertainment
Photo Booth:
Rentals:
HMUA:

10/24/2024

We are getting ready to wrap up our fall wedding season in a pretty little bow and start prepping for 2025!!!

There are some BIG changes in the works that I can’t wait to share with y’all!

Until then… Here’s a sneak of the faces behind Millie James Weddings! 💕

Photography:

10/15/2024

A bulldog love story! ✨ Here’s a sneak peek in to Logan + Mary-Margaret’s wedding day at the Roundhouse!

Planning:
Photography: .photography
Videography:
Florals: Ann Moore
Band:
Catering:
Cake:
Rentals:
HMUA:
Bridal Shop:
Bridesmaid Dresses:
Groom & Groomsmen Attire:
Team Mascot:

10/07/2024

Brent & Haley’s wedding day was a picture of timeless, Southern beauty! We turned an industrial venue into a light & airy atmosphere. My favorite part—The 6-tier cake by that was a dream of Haley’s since she was a little girl! ✨

Coordination & Design:
Venue:
Photography:
Videography:
Florals:
Catering:
Cake:
Strings: Strings of Pearl
Band:
Rentals:
Audio Guestbook: .al
Stationery:
Hair:
Makeup:

10/06/2024

It’s wedding week for Mary-Margaret + Logan! We can’t wait to celebrate these two all weekend long!!!

P.S.- Can we talk about how ready I am for the leaves to change?

09/17/2024

These cooler temps got us excited for all of our upcoming fall weddings!!! 🍂

We are a little more than a year from Blake + Shelby’s Fall 2025 wedding at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens! We are about halfway through the planning process which shows you can never start planning too early.

Excited to start entering the design phase and bring another beautiful wedding vision to life! Bring on all the warm color palettes (and constant flow of pumpkin spice lattes).

08/15/2024

So honored to be featured by Alabama Weddings! The design for this styled shoot has a special story, so I’m overjoyed that it is being shared. Again, I couldn’t do it without the amazingly talented team mentioned 🤍

Share Share on Facebook Pinterest LinkedIn Artful inspiration and a vibrant color palette come together at White Feather Acres. The Creatives Bridal Shop: Bridal by Morgan. Cake: Celena Grant. Cocktails & Custom Wall: All Shook Up Beverage Catering. Floral Design: Willow Events. Linen: BBJ La Tavola...

08/12/2024

Happy Monday!!!

After a little summer break to focus on my family, I am back in my office and it feels oh so good.

We are in full swing as we are prepping for all of our fall/winter weddings! There are timelines and design plans GALORE!!! I would love to add your wedding date to my calendar for 2025, so please reach out using the link in my bio. 🤍

07/26/2024

ICONIC.

07/18/2024

Got to celebrate my childhood best friend in Oregon on Saturday! The whole weekend embodied Tim and Caroline and their love of hospitality and for each other. There were so many personal touches and Caroline was not afraid to do things differently like choosing to offer a family-style dinner at the reception. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a small part of her big day, catch up with old friends, and spend time with my husband who doubled as my assistant. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. HOLST!!! 🏕️

Fav photography duo (who also photographed our wedding):

06/26/2024

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of working with a talented team of wedding professionals to host the most beautiful styled shoot at The Venue at Oak Place.

This styled shoot was special to me in so many ways… Not only was I surrounded by friendships I am making in this industry, but the women in these photographs are some of my closest girlfriends and their husbands—most with babies and one along the way! It was a joy to watch them be pampered and feel pretty outside of the day-to-day of motherhood!

I’m so thankful for Lexi for asking me to be a part of this styled shoot and trusting me with her vision, the other photographers who joined us, and the incredibly talented team that made it all possible! I’m blessed to know each of you and to be able to work with you in this industry. It warmed my heart to know that this was a chance for us all to put normal life on the back burner for a little while and to do what we all love. 🤍

Planning & Design:
Venue:
Photography:
Florals:
Stationery:
Cake:
Rentals:
Draping:
Linens:
Getaway Car: Iconic Classic Cars
Bottle Art:
Hair:
Makeup: .phillips
Bridal Store:
Bridesmaid Dresses:
Groom Attire:
Ring Box:
Models: