Weddings by Jess

Shelby and Darrin were married last October in a cool, fall ceremony held at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory. It rained the day before, but it luckily held out for their entire wedding day!

Their photographer was Jonathan Hobson of Vizarti Studios, who took all of these photos.

Here’s my cameo of helping the bride up to the ceremony area by holding her train out of the mud.

Ralph Griggs officiated the ceremony, which was held on the back lawn of the observatory.

The reception was held under a tent provided by Nashville Tent & Awning. They have a special tent that perfectly fits the back of the observatory. Chairs and linens were rented from Grand Central Party, and Nashville Event Lighting did a romantic orange wash on the ceiling of the tent. Shelby and Darrin also wanted a custom gobo, so they ordered one from goboman.com for use in my projector.

The cakes were done by Mary Asherbranner, and the reception was catered by Down South Delights. Ben Hamric was the bartender for the evening. For table centerpieces, we stuck with the fall theme and picked up some pumpkins and faux fall leaves. Some candlelight completed the ambiance during the evening reception.

I’m so glad I could be a part of their day!

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Hello! I hope everyone had a great holiday season!

I need to play catch-up on the blog and post about the remaining two weddings I had in 2008, but first I wanted to share my new year’s party decor with you.

Most of this was based on designs from the Hostess with the Mostess site, so I won’t take credit for it. I went with a red and silver color scheme to match my house (which is mostly decorated in red, black, and white). I always decorate my Christmas tree with red and silver, as well, so it gives the added bonus of being able to reuse a lot of the stuff for next Christmas.

You can see here that I did some of the Martha Stewart pom-poms above the bar.

Here’s a view of the table before a ton of food was put on it. Wrapping paper was used as a table runner. It would work best on a square or rectangular table, but since I was doing set-up in about two hours, I didn’t have time to move my rectangular table downstairs.

I cut up some silver bead garland to attach to the champagne glasses.

The centerpiece cost less than $15 thanks to after Christmas sales at Hobby Lobby. I cut strips of cardstock in both silver and red and pinned them to the candles. The numbers are just silver stickers.