\n<\/strong>“The hardest part for us was picking a venue. We agonized over how much we could spend and what kind of feel we wanted for our wedding for months, and we couldn’t make any other decisions until that one was made. When our friends Kelsey and Larry offered to host our wedding on their beautiful property, everything started to fall into place.”<\/p>\n
And the most enjoyable part of planning?<\/strong> If you were able to do it all over again, would you do anything differently?<\/strong> Any words of wisdom for brides who are currently planning their day?<\/strong> Wedding day theme:<\/strong> Casual and fun! I absolutely adore an intimate outdoor, backyard affair like the one that Stacy and Jacob planned. \u00a0This wedding was completely THEM. \u00a0Held at their friend’s house, in the backyard, Stacy and Jacob’s friends and family enjoyed a perfect day. \u00a0Even the weather was perfect – at least in my opinion. \u00a0Beautiful overcast skies made for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,67,17,69,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-weddings","8":"tag-backyard-wedding","9":"tag-diy-wedding","10":"tag-maryland","11":"tag-wedding-at-home","12":"tag-wedding-photographer","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/shotola_maryland_wedding_photographer_0054.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jeT6-4M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Getting to spend more time with our friends (the wedding was an excuse to come down and visit more!), and generally being surprised and overwhelmed by the amount of generosity and love all of our friends showed us through this process! Our friends officiated, performed a reading, gave toasts, did my makeup and hair, moved chairs around during the reception, fed our cats through our honeymoon and helped us with a million other things to make our wedding a success.”<\/p>\n
\n“I don’t think we realized how many last minute things we would need to do in the days before the wedding, like making place cards and ironing tablecloths. If we did it all over we would get some of those things done way ahead of time so we wouldn’t have to stress as much!”<\/p>\n
\n“Ask for help! I was so reluctant at first to ask anybody for help because I was worried that they wouldn’t want to, but our friends were so excited to help!”<\/p>\n
\nDress Designer:<\/strong> Bought it at\u00a0Nordstrom (purchased during a Black Friday sale!)
\nBride’s Shoes:<\/strong>\u00a0Nine West
\nHair Stylist:<\/strong>\u00a0My sister, Alyssa, and her friend, Amanda
\nMakeup Artist:<\/strong> My friend, Kelly
\nAccessories:<\/strong>\u00a0Hair fascinator from Etsy –\u00a0http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/PetalVeils<\/a>
\nGroom’s Suit:<\/strong>\u00a0J. Crew
\nInvitations & Stationery:<\/strong>\u00a0vistaprint.com<\/a>
\nFlowers:<\/strong>\u00a0We reappropriated the white roses from our rehearsal dinner and got the rest from a supermarket the morning of!
\nOfficiant:<\/strong> Friend of the couple
\nCatering and Cake:<\/strong>\u00a0Dream Weaver Catering http:\/\/www.dreamweavercatering.com
\n<\/a>Honeymoon:<\/strong>\u00a0Hong Kong and Cambodia.<\/p>\n![\"Maryland](\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/shotola_maryland_wedding_photographer_0052.jpg\")
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