With all those stellar wedding photos you’re about to have, finding a truly unique way to showcase them is soon to be high on your priority list. Enter Plywerk – the ingenious Oregon based company that makes beautiful, eco-friendly wooden photo panels in over 25 different sizes that are clean, modern and creative alternatives to traditional picture frames. We love them! And luckily Plywerk loves all of us too, because they are generously giving away two 8×10 “Upload and Order” photo panels to one lucky Junebug reader! You’ll get to upload your favorite wedding photos, choose from maple or bamboo wood, and voilà! Perfect pieces of wedding art, ready to decorate your home.
To enter to win, visit www.Plywerk.com and start daydreaming about what your ideal photo panels would look like! Then leave us a comment here on this post telling us about what kinds of images you’d like to have mounted and where in your home you would display them. We’ll accept entries throughout the next week and choose a winner at random next Monday, August 8, 2010.
Good luck everyone! We can’t wait to hear your ideas – we’re daydreaming already!
Ashley and Rodney’s destination wedding in Scottsdale, Arizona, photographed by one of Junebug’s incredible member photographers, Melissa Jill, was the ideal intimate affair, with just close friends and family gathered around to celebrate. We just love the way their bright colors pop in the desert landscape – so gorgeous! Check out all of the wedding day details below!
The Goals: Ashley and Rodney’s main wedding planning goals were to keep the event small, with just a handful of guests, and to host a wedding away from home. Ashley and Rodney had just moved to Wisconsin, and with most guests coming from the east side of the country, a warm and sunny locale like Scottsdale, Arizona, was just the right place. So, the couple planned an outdoor ceremony at The Phoenician, followed by a low-key dinner with their 33 guests, showcasing their other important goal for the big day – amazing food!
The Design: Ashley chose a wedding color palette of raspberry and champagne, and carried the theme through many of the wedding details, like the paper, flowers and table decor. At the ceremony the aisle leading to the gazebo where the couple would say their vows was lined with deep magenta and white rose petals, and hanging from the gazebo were glass orbs filled with deep reddish-pink flowers.
After the ceremony, guests joined the couple for dinner at one long banquet table – a must for Ashley, since she wanted each guest to feel included. The banquet table was decorated with glass vases holding pink-hued peonies, tulips, orchids and roses, and the arrangements were kept simple and low so guests would be able to see and speak to each other across the table. At each place setting was a champagne colored charger with a printed menu of the evening’s offerings, and scattered throughout the room were dozens of twinkling tea-lights.
The menu was filled with delicious treats, including prickly pear sorbet, miniature creme brulée, chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate mousse and raspberry and lemon tarts. And then there was the cake! A layer of yellow cake with vanilla filling and fresh raspberries, a layer of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse, and a final layer of chocolate cake with vanilla filling and fresh raspberries. Yum!
The Look: Ashley was radiant in a strapless lace gown from Antonio Fermin, accessorized with a silk belt and sparkling brooch. In a sweet personal touch, Ashley had a clutch made out of fabric from her grandmother’s wedding gown. Rodney’s khaki suit was casual but stylish, complete with a striped tie in the main color of the wedding day, raspberry.
The Moments: Just before going into their reception dinner, Ashley and Rodney were able to spend a few quiet moments together where, Ashley says, “we just had this moment of ‘wow, we just got married’.” The rest of the evening was pure celebration.
The Pros: To learn about all of the incredible wedding professionals who helped to make this wedding a reality, please visit our Real Weddings section.
Thank you so much for sharing your wedding with us Ashley and Rodney! Congrats!
What three adjectives best describe your wedding?Elegant, natural, hot!!
What inspired your personal wedding style, and how did you incorporate your personalities into your big day?We wanted our guests to be comfortable and relaxed because as a couple, that is how we are! We both felt that having the event outdoor accessible would enable our guests to move around and be comfortable during both the ceremony and reception. We also wanted the event to have an understated elegance (not too fussy). We feel we achieved this by having romantic but simple floral arrangements on the tables, along with pearl favor boxes and pearl napkin rings. The use of pearls was inspired by the my dress; we thought the sheen and luster of the satin matched that of the pearls so they were a great way to incorporate the dress into the reception setting.
Lastly, since Matthias and his friends and family are from Germany, we wanted to celebrate both of our cultures. In Germany, it is not legal to marry outside, so having the ceremony outdoors was something totally new for the German guests. We ended the evening with some games and the distribution of the wedding magazine, which is customary in Germany. All were a big hit with guests, both American and German!
Looking back, what are the moments, decisions or memories that you love the most about your wedding?Even though the day was uncharacteristically hot for May in Michigan, we love that the ceremony was outdoors. It was such a beautiful setting and the heat certainly made it memorable for us and our guests! The reception was so much fun, especially during the last hour when the German guests took over the music. Everyone was dancing to German party music and loving it. Even I was surprised at how enthusiastically my American friends and family embraced it! A significant portion of our guests, about 70%, traveled from out of state or country to come to the event. The day was so much more special because they all came. It was the first time Matthias parents came to America. We are really so blessed to have friends and family who wanted to come support us on such an important day.
My personal favorite memory and moment… I had not planned to wear a necklace that day (thus the big earrings), but a few moments before we left the hotel for the wedding, Matthias sister-in-law gave me a pearl necklace that his mom had brought from Germany. It had been Matthias grandmother’s necklace and was over 80 years old. I decided to wear it. After the ceremony, in the first moments we had alone, I told Matthias that the necklace had been his grandmas and that I had no idea that his mom was bringing it for me to wear. He was just as surprised as I was, and his eyes started watering as he told me that he had memories of her wearing it. It truly touched me to see how the memory of his grandma was so special to him. By wearing her pearl necklace, she was still able to be a part of our day.
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