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eleven months of married life with this cutie!! he's been a great travelling companion on this whirlwind year :)

 

xoxo

mrs dobbins

Fireplace Feature

Photos by Five By Five Photography & Design

One of Camp Marymount's big features in our reception area space (and my absolute favourite part of the decor) was a huge stone fireplace. We set up our sweetheart table directly in front of the fireplace and it served as a stunning backdrop. The mantle space gave us lots of room to hang beautiful handmade paper flowers, bunting, globe lights and flowers, and there were several built-in areas that allowed us to display photos and hang more lights which came together gorgeously.

One of my favourite photos of the decor! I have the paper flowers and bunting up on our mantle at home now!

These incredible paper flowers were inspired by ones I had seen on Pinterest. Hannah Barker, one of my former youth group teens, is a very talented art student, and she made these flowers by hand using craft and scrapbook paper. After living in a bag for several months, the flowers were hot-glued to a sturdy piece of hemp cord the week before the wedding, and the garland was the pefect length to drape across the mantle.

I had several sections of the bunting shown here, and it was displayed around the reception space in several areas. I made it using brown card stock (to match several other crafts I had put together) for the base, and unbleached craft paper found during the back-to-school season. The sheets were cut into two sizes of pennants and I used an edge punch (purchased on clearance!) to add a fleur-de-lis detail to the edges of each piece. Each pennant was glued together and then hot glued to a piece of wide ribbon. I was very thankful to have several friends help out with the punching process, as it was certainly time consuming! This detail was very special to me, as the fleur-de-lis is found prominently in Louisville, where Jermaine is from, as well as in Quebec, where my Mom grew up. Atop the substantial mantle, wicker globe lights nestled in with small stems of baby's breath.

There were several shelves built into the sides of the fireplace, and these nooks were a perfect place to display photos of Jermaine & I. We found lots of picture frames at Goodwill and they were spray painted champagne to give them a cohesive look. Globe lights (purchased on clearance from summer patio stock) added to the ambience, and baby's breath was interspersed with the frames, continuing with our pastoral theme.

The large scale of the fireplace allowed it to provide a gorgeous backdrop for many photos, as it was visible from almost any angle. This huge feature fit perfectly into the large reception space and the vaulted ceilings allowed the area to feel open and airy, while still being warm and inviting.

Posing with my lovely flower girl!

I'm so thrilled with the way the fireplace added such a large impact on our reception space! While the total cost of the decor, flowers and lights used amounted to less than $50, the crafted items certainly required some time to prep. It was amazing to see the many details I had collected over several months come together in this area, and I'm thankful for the friends & family who helped to bring my vision to life! The flower garland and bunting has a new life on our mantle at home as well :)

xoxo
mrs dobbins

Groom's Attire

 

My husband is always a well-dressed man, and I was so excited to see what he chose for our wedding day. After several months of searching and trying on many different suits and tuxes, he decided to go with a dark grey Black by Vera Wang slim-fit tuxedo from Men's Wearhouse. As the groomsmen were going to be coming to Nashville from Louisville and Cincinnati, working with Men's Wearhouse made it easy for each of them to schedule their own fittings in their city. To differentiate Jermaine's outfit from the groomsmen, he wore a matching grey vest, along with his own black tie and white dress shirt. The groomsmen had champagne ties, and we really liked the contrast. We didn't get a photo of them, but I found Jermaine some awesome cuff links with dragons on them from Etsy, which he loved!

This was probably around the time when I realized the boutonnieres were still in the room where the girls were getting dressed! Ha :) My Grandmum's necklace also spent the day in Jermaine's car as I had left it at home before the rehearsal!

He's just so darn handsome!!

The emotions hit home as I walked down the aisle!! Here we go!!

 

When he warmed up later in the evening, the tux looked great with the matching grey vest showing, and allowed Jermaine the freedom to dance the night away!! 

Photo by Flashtastic Photo Booth

Wobble baby!!

I posted about our newphew's outfit here a few months back. Little grey suits are so sweet!!

I love my man, and am so happy that he's got some pieces of clothing too that are his special 'wedding day' items!

xoxo mrs dobbins

Servingware

Whew!!! It turns out that going straight from planning a wedding into planning a green card (involving thousands of pages of paper and photos and documents and...) makes for a VERY busy year!! Throw in Jermaine's brother getting married in Florida the week after my happy Canadian self received said green card, and you've got a blog with a ton of drafts and no posts in months. Sorry for the delay, and I'll get back to posting more fun details from our December wedding!

We went with higher end disposable options for our plates, glasses and cutlery. This option worked best with our budget on many levels, especially as we did not have to keep our serving staff to clean the dishes afterwards and only had staffing there for the meal portion of our evening. I found recycled paper plates & recycled plastic glasses on sale and we used faux-silverware that was also purchased at a discount. The green napkins came from Ikea and were the exact shade of green I had been looking for! I wrapped the cutlery sets ahead of time with some friends and tied each set with twine to keep them in place.

Photo by Five By Five Photography and Design

Since we had a buffet style dinner, we placed each cutlery roll at the place setting as the plates were at the serving table. The pops of green on the muslin tablecloths I made looked great!

To make our set up quick & easy, I arranged things up at home and took photos so that our family and friends could see how things were to go. As we had about 20 people help us the night before our wedding, things were finished very quickly!!

We bought PLENTY of supplies and were able to return several unopened packages afterwards, which was great. The opened sets have been well used at our home when guests are over, making clean up a breeze while living with a broken dishwasher!

xoxo
mrs dobbins

Vendors

We were so thankful to work with such INCREDIBLE vendors for our wedding!! I'll be going into more detail on several of our vendors, but here's the rundown of who we worked with to help make our day spectacular (all photos courtesy of Five By Five Photography & Design, aside from the photo booth):


Ceremony & Reception:
Camp Marymount, Fairview, TN

Photography:
Five By Five Photography & Design

Photo Booth:
Flashtastic Photo Booth

Rentals (tables & chairs, lounge furniture):
Southern Events

Catering:
Kitchen by House Blend

Cakes:
Creative Crumbs

Bartending:
Topshelf Bartending and Staffing

Hair:
Angelica (Burdett) Stevens at Aveda Origina Salon & Spa

Makeup:
One 10 Makeup

Flowers:
CostCo, assembled with my Bridesmaids & family members

DJ:
Scott Hutten

Ceremony Musicians:
Natalie Coughlin and Kyle Bashour, Teens from Holy Family Church's Life Teen programme

Guest Accomodations:
Courtyard Marriott - Cool Springs
 
xoxo
mrs dobbins