A Country Wedding

Wow, the weeks leading up to my sister in laws wedding were crazy! We had just under 3 weeks to plan and just under $1000.00 to spend. I think we pulled it off nicely, if I don't say so myself!

We did not have much money for a cake, so in order to give it a little more presence, we glued fresh magnolia leaves to a box, it turned out to be the perfect base, elevating the cake and adding color! This picture shows the groom, Yohan - my sister in law, Wendy and her parents (my in laws) Mr. and Mrs. Chapman.


The wedding party! We all had to shop seperately for our dresses, looks like everyone got it right, with the exception of yours truely - yikes what is that color green?

The bride and groom after the ceremony.

After 3 nights in a row of hard freezes (this is florida you know!), we were thankful for sunny weather and low 70's the day of. In the backround you can see three tables, the plates and silverware, then the food table, and last the champagne bar!

We took to the woods and chopped down young pines to form the "open air tents", we bought loads of creamy white sheer fabric from Wal-Mart- hemmed the sides and bottoms, and used it to swag and drape. I think we got alot of bang for the buck with that idea!

I raided the second hand stores for short bev. glasses, hot-glued short sticks all around and added ribbon at the last minute, oh, we also pulled up lots of ferns from the yard to use as filler in the centerpieces.

Kermit Mums for the brides maid bouquets, magnolias from the yard (again!), I wound up using Duct Tape to hold it all together, all wrapped up in a white ribbon.

My nieces are very resorseful, through their jobs (in the four star resort industry and golf clubs) they were able to borrow linens, silverware, glasses, chairs and skirting.

I sewed French style aprons for the servers, ribbons for the flower girls hair and basket, and the ring bearers pillow using this green patterned fabric from Hobby Lobby- which by the way, perfectly matched the invitations, totally by chance!

Next on the list, a professional photographer!

A special thanks to my sister Caroline, and Ronda for helping in the "galley", without them we could not have done it!