Due Credit:

Planning & Coordination: Lisa Forbes, White Aspen Weddings
Hair & Makeup: White Carpet Bride
Floral: Beco Flowers
Ceremony: Redemptorist Church
Reception: The Guild
Cake: Nancy Stark
Dinner: Olive Events
Entertainment: Wonderfuzz
Stationery: East + West Designs
Getaway Car: Pech Limousine

Calm, present, content.

Put these three words together in any tense and in any order, and there’s my best description of Ryan, and Alex, and their wedding day.

Case, Sara, their families, and the ridiculous amount of hospitality we received made this one some kind of special.

We’ll look back on this weekend and this little nook in Austin quite fondly for some time to come.

Due credit:

Event Design, Stationery Design and Coordination: Lovestruck Events
Floral Design: Bouquet Omaha
Venue: Holland Performing Arts Center
Preparations: Hotel Deco
Hair and Makeup: Kontempo Bridal
Catering: Guckenheimer
Dessert: The Confectionist
Ice Cream: Ted & Wally’s
Ceremony Music: Mahr Quartet
DJ: Brent Crampton
Rentals: AAA Rents & Event Services
Draping, Lighting, and Custom Builds: Ideal Wedding & Events
Calligraphy: Miranda Writes
Rachel's Gown: Rhylan Lang

This past winter in Kansas City was brutal. Possibly the brutal-est, actually… so spring was a more-than-welcome sight for us. And, as luck had it, the early stages of such coincided just perfectly with Wes and Jaclyn’s portrait plans. Flower buds popped, the sun shone, and the temperatures rose to an ideal point, all for the first time in what seemed like years. It was one of those evenings that had us lifting all the praise hands and smiling from ear to ear.

Wes and Jaclyn: thanks for your trust here; thanks for being downright great to be around; and thanks for pulling those strings with mother nature. :)

(Wes and Jaclyn will be wedded this coming autumn at Parkville’s Hawthorne House. We’re pumped all the way around for that.)

Planning for an autumn wedding in the midwest: trying a year ahead of time to pinpoint the perfect two- or three-week stretch so as to take advantage of perfect weather and seasonal colors, all while evading potential 90-degree temperatures on one end and snow on the other. Quite a conundrum, it can be.

But Bennet and Hilary nailed it. Colors were at their peak and while rain showers rolled in that evening, daytime weather was ideal. Oh, and they chose to wrap the evening with a waffle bar, sooo…

Due credit:
Hilary’s Dress: Ricca Sposa
Hair: Flock Salon and Gallery
Makeup: Jared Covert
Ceremony Venue: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Paper Suite: Ruff House Art
Floral: Bergamot and Ivy Design
Reception Venue and Dinner: Carriage Club
Cake: Nancy Stark
DJ and Emcee: DJ Carl G, Fernando Productions
Portraits: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Clint, Jordan, a ranch at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and intermittent rain showers.

As photographs go, quite literally a fail-proof combo.

Due credit:

Planning: Megan Grose, Brindle & Oak
Ceremony & Reception: Spruce Mountain Ranch
Aesthetics: Lola Beauty, Grace Martin
Floral: MJM Designs
Dinner Service: Footers Catering & Events
Cake: Sam Keith
Emcee & Entertainment: Tasos Hernandez, TH Entertainment

Nearly too much cool for a set of photographs.

Due credit:

Coordination: Lisa Forbes, Simple Elegance
Film: Cork Creative
Hair & Makeup: Makeup by Matthew; White Carpet Bride
Floral: Branches & Twigs
Ceremony: Our Lady of Sorrows
Reception: The Gallery
Music & Entertainment: Lost Wax
Cake: McLain's Bakery