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This 40-Person Amalfi Coast Wedding at Fattoria Marecocolla was Filled with Raw Emotion

October 9, 2017 | Junebug Weddings

With adventure, gelato, and pasta in mind, Olivia-Grace and Jason jet-setted to the Amalfi Coast for their intimate wedding at Fattoria Marecocolla. Prior to their wedding day, these two spent the week exploring Italy with 40 of their loved ones who traveled with them to the beloved city. When their wedding day arrived, they were relaxed, full of joy, and ready to begin the next chapter. With Olivia-Grace in her homemade dress and Jason in his Song for the Mute apparel, these sweethearts exchanged vows and had their very first kiss ever overlooking the coast. The special moments and many joyful tears were captured by Ivy and Pine and Marc Media.

The Couple:

Olivia-Grace and Jason

The Wedding:

Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, Italy

Wedding planning doesn’t have to be stressful. Please don’t feel you need to let this special time get on top of you. Soften your hearts and everything will be perfect, after all, you have each other.

I had the great privilege to design and work closely with my family friend who made my wedding dress. She undertook over 100 hours of hand beading, cutting out lace, measuring, and pinning! 

It’s really quite hard to pick a favourite memory or moment from our day. Everything was absolutely perfect and it was more than I could have ever dreamt or imagined. Of course, when I took the first step on the aisle hand in hand with my Father towards my soon to be husband, from there all the feels and emotions started. However, if I had to pick one moment it would be our first kiss. We had never kissed each-other before our wedding day, as we really wanted to keep our intimacy scared with one another until we were married. Coming in close second was definitely doing communion together straight after we said our vows and became husband and wife. It was really important to us to honour God for everything He has done in our lives and to glorify His goodness. So we did just that!

The most important thing for this wedding was for it to be about our others, friends, family, and God. For it to radiate true love in it’s more pure way, marriage. 

From the day my darling husband and I got engaged, I started to write him intimate and detailed letters on beautiful handmade paper. I did a letter a day. I was open, honest, and raw in each letter expressing my love for him, my love for the world, my love for people, encouragement to him, and my dreams and aspirations. My father delivered this too him the morning off our wedding, and it was bound by our wax seal stamp and wrapped in linen. 

Jason knew I didn’t have any earrings to wear! I just couldn’t find the perfect ones. He and his best friend ventured out one day into the town of Sorrento to hunt down the perfect pair for me – I was after a classic and timeless drop earrings. The night before the wedding, after the delicious wood-fired pizza party, he pulled me aside and gifted me the most beautiful pearl drop earrings that I’ve ever laid eyes on!

We decided to get married overseas and hand pick a few of our closest friends along with our immediate family. We both know a lot of people who we so love and we knew that it would be a really, really outrageously big wedding if we were to have it here in Australia. Our wedding day was the most special day for us and we really wanted to make a point of taking it all in and treasuring every single moment. We both love to travel and adventuring, and so do all of our close friends. Who doesn’t love Europe – pasta, 1 Euro espresso, croissants every morning, and  frolicking the cobble stone streets until 2 am in the morning eating gelato. What a dream. So, Italy it was!

Our whole wedding was pretty much DIY! I do love creating anything to do with flowers, so it was pretty special that my aunty and I created all the bouquets and floral arrangements for the day together. As for the wedding favours, all of our guests were doing a few good weeks of traveling, so we wanted to make the wedding favour something special but practical at the same time. We decided that a beautiful olive green linen napkin for each of our guests. Practical and useful, and who doesn’t love linen?! All of our friends love food and cooking!

Our photographer, Ivy and Pine, was an absolute dream. She photographed our wedding with such ease and class. She had direction where needed and somehow caught every single candid moment of the day!

I think the biggest surprise when I think back was that our wedding went for over 12 hours! We all stayed up until 3 AM in the morning, partying, eating dessert and dancing the night away!

The Wedding Team:

Photography – Ivy and Pine
Venue – Fattoria Marecocolla
Catering – Fattoria Marecocolla
Cake – Tori Lee, Esther Sadler
Officiant – Mark Greenwood
DJ – Naomi Hodges
Videography – Marc Media
Wedding Dress – Jaki Page
Groom’s Apparel – Song for the Mute
Groomsmen’s Apparel – Assembly Label
Rings – Alexis Russell

 

Thank you Ivy and Pine for sharing Olivia-Grace and Jason’s destination wedding with Junebug! If you’re living the intimacy in this wedding, then take a look at this Italian countryside elopement in Florence.

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Ethereal Ranch Palos Verdes Elopement Inspiration

October 8, 2017 | Junebug Weddings

This romantic, cliff side styled shoot by Lizztin Photography was modeled by a real couple who perfectly captured the adventurous spirit and simple elegance of this Ranch Palos Verdes elopement inspiration. Floral designer InStyle Blooms created a stunning bridal bouquet inspired by earth tones that complimented the gorgeous hills and bluffs of the panoramic ocean views. The shoot was inspired by easy grace, simplicity and true love shining through – the bride’s beautiful off the shoulder gown and bohemian statement necklace were both from Forever 21, while the groom wore H&M for a unpretentious look that kept the focus on their love.

The Talented Team:

Photography – Lizztin Photograpahy
Floral Design – InStyle Blooms
Wedding Dress – Forever 21
Bridal Accessories – Forever 21
Groom’s Apparel – H&M
Rings – Christina Rose Jewelery

 

Special thanks to Lizztin Photography for sharing this incredibly intimate engagement styled shoot with Junebug! For more elopement inspiration with amazing views, check out this ethereal Irish elopement at Conner Pass.

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Vintage Texas Wedding at The Cottages on Mill Creek

October 8, 2017 | Junebug Weddings

Inspired by their love of the great outdoors and classic oldies tunes, Bri and Tim celebrated their marriage at The Cottages on Creek Mill, an intimate bed and breakfast full of vintage vibes and rustic aesthetics, deep in the Texas countryside. The inviting grounds were the perfect setting for a timelessly elegant reception, furnished with antiques and bursting with flowers. Hanging floral buckets, an enormous bridal bouquet created by Foxglove and Grace Flowers and the fresh alter arrangements DIY’d by the bridesmaids. Short, white bridesmaids dresses made the colorful flowers ‘pop’ beautifully – reds, oranges, purples and coral looked even brighter against the classic white lace and off-the-shoulder silhouette. The bride’s lace wedding gown handmade by Polina Ivanova was inspired by classic vintage romance: a low back and sheer long sleeves and loads of lace, updated with a casual braid dotted with tiny pearls.

The Couple:

Bri and Tim

The Wedding:

The Cottages on Mill Creek, Round Top, Texas

The two main things I wanted was our wedding to be outdoors and a lot of florals! I couldn’t decide on a color theme so I just wanted it to be colorful, but natural too!

Leading up to the ceremony and the ceremony, the anticipation and the emotions were all super high. Our brains were foggy and scattered, but when we walked down the isle there was a sense of relief and so much love!

The ceremony aesthetics were completely DIY and we kept it simple. The venue had benches which we used, Bri made the hanging floral buckets with fresh flowers, and the bridesmaids made the altar floral arrangement. We set up the whole ceremony in front of the lake on the property, we knew the sun set over the lake around the time of the ceremony so it made a beautiful backdrop for our special moment!

The venue was beautiful and green and allowed us to have an outdoor wedding. The property also had 3 houses on it which we were able to rent out the whole property for the weekend, which worked out perfectly because we had a lot of family from out of town, and we were all able to accommodate almost everybody! It made for a nice family weekend getaway/reunion out in the country.

I really wanted a lot of lace, I wanted that classic vintage look. My dress was one of the most important things to me! I had my dress handmade by a designer in Bulgaria, I sent her every measurement possible. It took her almost 3 months to make and it arrived a WEEK before the wedding, it was risky, but it fit perfectly! It was everything I could have imagined.

We are both oldies fans, so we played a lot of classic 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Bri walked down the isle to a piano and cello version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow by The Piano Guys, we made our ceremony exit to the Instrumental version of Don’t Stop Believin’ from The Wedding Singer (One of the brides favorite movies), and our first dance was to Coming Home by Leon Bridges.

The Wedding Team:

Photography – Kerlyn Van Gelder
Venue – The Cottages on Mill Creek
Floral Design – Fox Glove and Grace
Cake – Whisk Bakery
Makeup Artist and Hair Styling – Adorne Artistry
Wedding Dress – Polina Ivanova
Rings – Tenenbaum Jewelers

 

Congratulations to Bri and Tim on their beautiful wedding in tiny town, Round Top! Special thanks to Kerlyn Van Gelder for sharing this beautiful, intimate wedding with Junebug! For more rustic vintage inspiration, check out this rustic retro wedding at Fforest!

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