Congratulations Eric and Margaret

What a wonderful reception for a wonderful couple!  The wedding colors were wine and dusty blue and they were so pretty together.  The bridal party wore wine colored floor length dresses while the groomsmen wore blue tuxes.  The flowers were ivory and soft pink.  The centerpieces consisted of books stacked on each other, surrounded by greenery and candles.  All of the books were wrapped in dusty blue paper, and the spines had love verses on them.  What a great idea!  The guest ‘book’ was so unique!  It was a painting of Margaret and Eric in their wedding day attire, and the background was wine colored.  The guests signed the portrait around the couple with gold and silver markers.

The four-tier, stacked cake was so pretty.  It was a ‘naked cake’ which means it had very little frosting on it.  With wine and ivory colored flowers accenting it, it was gorgeous.  For favors, there were wine and dusty blue koozies at the bar, customized with the couple’s names and wedding date.  To give the room a golden glow, we had amber uplights around the room.

When the night ended after the last dance, the couple ran through guests waving sparklers, hopped into a horse drawn carriage, and headed off to their new life.  Congratulations Eric and Margaret!

Vendors:

Venue: The Lyceum

Catering and Linens: Catering by Benno

Photography: C. Baron Photography

Cake: Cakes by Jula

Flowers: Island Flowers

Congratulations Asa and Chris

This wedding was, in a word, awesome!  After all, how many people have their wedding in a gazebo with a train behind it?  Definitely this couple, because Asa has always loved trains.  The ceremony was held outside and the weather was beautiful.  To announce the couple, two ring bearers and two flower girls walked down the aisle blowing train whistles. The couple exchanged vows they each wrote and they alternated between funny and touching.  Then, when they shared a kiss at the end of the ceremony, a train blew its whistle.   When the ceremony ended, guests got to take 15-minute rides on a train.  How’s that for unique?  Chris and Asa stayed on the train the whole time, visiting with their guests.

When the guests moved indoor, they found a unique guest book.  The guests took their pictures with a Polaroid camera and then clipped their pictures to a wood pallet.  There were also post cards of trains:  the guests wrote a note to the newlyweds on the back and dropped the cards into a box.

For the reception, the guests sat at tables that had trains as centerpieces.  When dinner was over, Asa and Chris cut their wedding cake.  It was three stacked tiers, each accented in colors of major train companies.  A railroad track ran around the bottom two tiers, and the tracks ended in a tunnel.  The cake topper had two grooms on it, one ridding piggyback on the other.  The cake was amazing!  For an elegant touch, we had amber uplights shining up the room’s pillars, giving off a golden glow.  The uplights allowed us to turn off the house lights, making a party atmosphere.  The dance floor lighting helped as well, encouraging guests to have fun on the dance floor.

When the reception ended, Chris and Asa ran through lines of guests waving glow sticks and shaking maracas before they drove off in a convertible.  It was the perfect ending for a perfect night.  Congratulations Asa and Chris and enjoy your honeymoon cruise!

Vendors:
Venue: Galveston Railroad Museum

Photography: Ashley Cox Photography

Catering, linens: Catering by Benno

Cake: Cakes by Jula

We are proud to announce that we won WeddingWire's Couples' Choice Award for 2019.  That makes ten years in a row!  Thank you to all of our happy couples who took the time to review us.

Congratulations Alistair and Alexia

This wedding brought us to a beautiful two-story white southern plantation that is beautiful inside and out.  The ceremony took place outside at a gazebo with white draping across the back.  Luckily, the rain held off enough for us to not have to move the ceremony inside.  The wedding colors were navy and dusty rose, so Alistair and his groomsmen navy tuxes with rose bow ties.  The bridal party wore floor-length dusty rose dresses.  The flowers were all in shades of cream and dusty rose with lots of greenery.

The reception was so elegant!  The table assignments were on cards pinned to a large world map.  Each table’s name was one of the locations on the map.  The locations were important part of the couple’s life: where they met, where they got engaged, etc.  The dinner tables all had ivory floor-length cloths.  The centerpieces consisted of five vases with pillar candles, with greenery entwined among them.  Smaller votive candles surrounded the greenery.  Each place setting had a gold charger and navy napkin, and a custom menu card was tucked in the napkin along with greenery.  The venue has a beautiful staircase and it was accented by greenery and cream and dusty flowers.  The staircase gave Alistair and Alexia a beautiful entrance into the reception.

In lieu of a traditional guestbook, there was a large round frame with the Alexia and Alistair’s last initial and wedding date on it.  The guests signed small wood hearts that went into the frame.  There was something I’ve never seen before: a wedding pinata, shaped like a llama.  The guests wrote notes on small pieces of paper that they then dropped into the top of the pinata.  On their first anniversary, Alistair and Alexia will break open the notes and read them.  I loved that!

This couple had a fun cake that was a bit out of the norm.  They had one small traditional round cake for cutting, and it was surrounded by mini bundt cakes in assorted flavors.  The guests loved those!  When it came to dancing, there were fun light up foam glow sticks for the guests to play with: they were really cool!  When the night came to an end, the newlyweds were showered with bio-degradable snow before they drove off.  Congratulations Alistair and Alexia!

Vendors:

Venue: The Springs Angleton

Catering, Cake, Flowers, Linens: Carriage Caterer

Bundt Cakes: Nothing Bundt Cakes

Photography: Pedigo Photography

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