Saramonies

08/07/2024

I once had a couple whose recessional was "Everything is Awesome!" from The Lego Movie. This would have been perfect for them. Love this...do everything you can to make your wedding YOUR OWN!!!

13/01/2024

I'm not sure how cake makes it better but pick some up just in case 🤣.

10/01/2024

The best life advice I have ever read was in a book by Cheryl Strayed (under the pseudonym "Dear Sugar") called Tiny, Beautiful Things. Brilliant and wise, hers is some of the best wedding day advice I have ever read.

Dear Sugar,

I’m getting married in a few months. Why do I feel totally aggressive and angry? How does anyone get through this event?

Aggressive

Dear Aggressive,

My guess is you’re the bride and that you feel aggressive and angry because you’re in wedding planning hell and you’re caught up in all the expectations, outdated fairy tales, over-priced products, and irrational beliefs that one adheres to when one believes it is possible to flawlessly orchestrate the behaviors, conversations, drinking habits, and attire of a large group of in-laws, out-laws, friends, strangers, and coworkers while simultaneously having a meaningful and intimate exchange with your sweetheart in front of an audience. It is not.

Or at least it’s not possible in exactly the way you’re imagining now. I’m quite certain that whatever you’re all worked up about these days— the colors of your napkins, the invitation that should or should not be sent to your mother’s cousin Ray— matters little and whatever will actually happen on that day when you get married will positively blow your mind.

Your wedding is going to be a kick, honey bun, but only after you accept that it isn’t something to “get through.” Perhaps it might help to stop thinking about it as the perfect “event,” but rather a messy, beautiful, and gloriously unexpected day in your sweet life.

My own wedding was really something, though for a good stretch it appeared that everything had gone to hell. As our one hundred or so guests arrived, it was pouring rain and we’d made no rain contingency plans for our outdoor wedding. Mr. Sugar realized he’d forgotten his pants sixty miles away, back in the city where we lived, and I realized I’d forgotten the marriage license. My mother- in- law arrived dressed like a sheepherder from biblical times if sheepherders from biblical times wore teal, and one of my old friends pulled me aside to grill me about why I hadn’t chosen her to be a bridesmaid. I couldn’t find the bobby pins I’d brought to pin my veil to my hair and then once other bobby pins had been purchased, in a mad dash relay effort that involved two local drugstores, I and seven of my girlfriends couldn’t get the veil to stay on my head.

Many of those things seemed calamitous at the time, but they are now among my most treasured memories of that day. If they hadn’t happened, I’d have never run down the street in the rain holding Mr. Sugar’s hand laughing and crying at the same time because I was going to have to marry him in a dingy library basement instead of on the banks of a beautiful river.

I’d have never felt the way it feels when everyone you know volunteers to drive at an illegal speed to retrieve a pair of pants and a piece of paper. I’d have never known what a biblical- times sheepherder might look like in teal, and that important piece of information about my old friend.

And I wouldn’t have been so distracted by getting those damned bobby pins in my hair that I didn’t realize the rain had stopped and Mr. Sugar had discreetly enlisted our guests to carry one hundred white wooden chairs a quarter mile, from the terrible library basement back to the grassy spot on the banks of the beautiful river, where I had hoped to marry him in the sunlight and did.

We all get lost in the minutiae, but don’t lose this day. Make a list of everything that needs to be seen to and decided and worried about between now and your wedding day and then circle the things that matter the most to you and do them right. Delegate or decide on the other stuff and refuse to worry anymore.

Let your wedding be a wonder. Let it be one hell of a good time. Let it be what you can’t yet imagine and wouldn’t orchestrate even if you could. Remember why it is you’ve gone to so much trouble that you’ve been driven to anger and aggression and an advice columnist.

You’re getting married! There’s a day ahead that’s a shimmering slice of your mysterious destiny. All you’ve got to do is show up.

Yours, Sugar

06/08/2023

This wedding entrance is straight out of a fairy tale!!😍​
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24/04/2023

This is dedicated to Lauren and Cory's family and friends...

17/11/2022

Thankful for the families I have been given the privilege to help start...and for my own.

09/09/2022

One of my favorite weddings ever! The ceremony included Syrian poetry and a reading in Spanish!

02/09/2022

"Someday, God willing, I will attend my children's weddings, refuse to eat what they serve and demand butter noodles and nuggets." Molly McNeaarney

29/07/2022

Sage wedding advice from a new groom...

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19/06/2022

When you "leave" your ceremony...

Instead of polluting the planet with confetti, hole punch leaves instead! Fully biodegradable, and so cute!🖤🖤🖤

source...https://www.instagram.com/bluemountains_ecoconfetti/

20/01/2022

Raina and Brady 11-13-2021
Pebble Hill Plantation
John Gandy
Darin Jones
Susan Stripling
D.j. Sully
Faith+Covenant Films

These two literally met as "Tumbling Tots" and fell into love...

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28/12/2021

Ashley and Connor 12-18-21
Wildflower Event Design
Lewiswood Farm
Charlotte Fristoe Photography
At Last Florals
Top Shelf Events

14/12/2021

Leslie and Chris (and Bristol and Brinlee!)
10-16-21

South Eden Plantation
Sweet Tea Events

With eyes still welling thinking about it months later, I will just say it was an absolute HONOR to play some small part in helping to start this lovely, lovely, lovely family. I will let my beautiful bride and the brilliant Elizabeth Birdwell Photography's photos say the rest:

Sara is AMAZING to say the least! She made our ceremony personal with what we told her about ourselves and then about our spouse. I’ve gotten so many compliments about her from our family and friends about how awesome she was. She kept it light and fun and really made us feel at ease and not so nervous. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER!! My sister in law is planning to use her at her wedding in 2023 she was so awesome! Thank you again Sara! You made our ceremony really special and our family and friends could feel that while watching. Keep doing what you'r edoing because you're doing it right!

03/11/2021

Mandi and Casey 10-9-2021
Havana Springs
Sweet Tea Events

Some folks hit it off the moment they meet. And others...well, not so much! Yet somehow, magically, those same two people eventually want to spend every moment they have left to them...together. That's the case with Casey and his Mandi!

From their love story:

These two officially met at a job interview.

Asked what she thought of him the first time she met him, Mandi explained she literally thought, "Nothing.
All I thought was, I am in this interview with a bald man".

And what he thought of her was worse.

He thought she was lazy...because she worked at a credit union.

He actually told his boss, Colin, not to hire her. But, thankfully, he did!

About a year later they crossed paths again in downtown Orlando. That was when Casey realized she was absolutely beautiful and -- he got nervous!

As for Mandi, well, she herself had a defining moment.

She had had a few drinks when Casey invited everyone back to his house for an after-party.

Everyone jumped into the cab but she stopped for a moment outside the cab and spoke to herself and said,
"Okay, if you get in this cab your life is about to change forever. Are you ready for this?"

She paused for about two seconds and said, "YEP!" and jumped in the cab.

And her life changed forever.

14/10/2021

Chaya and Malcolm 9-29-2021
Crystal Ballroom St Augustine

I waited three years to marry Chaya and Malcolm, the beloved niece and nephew of my cherished brother-by-another-mother and Chaya's "mamu", Krishna Singh. Most importantly, they waited thirteen years to marry each other.

This is "Chaya & Malcolm Teaser" by Whitney Bohner on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

16/06/2021

A classic bride...

It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise.