A Vintage Wedding

Robin, our second oldest, was married last week.  Wow, how time flies.  This has been such an eventful year:  Jonathan graduated high school and started college; Jamie and Adam had their second child, Jace; and Robin had the most beautiful wedding with most everything hand-made by her and/or her sweet guy, Ryan.  

Photo by Erica Garza
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Center pieces included old vintage books, milk glass with votive candles, and terrariums.  Each place setting included a menu printed on doilies (not an easy task) 
and tea cup and saucer with succulents planted inside them.  The "place cards" were antique silver spoons flattened (by Ryan) and stamped (by Ryan) with each individual's name on them, which also served as a special thank you for each guest.  Let's also not forget the table numbers that Robin embroidered for each table....cut and painted by Ryan and Dad and put together by Kimberly and Kaitlin.  Robin even made the perfect wrist corsages for the moms and grandmothers!


The "programs" were so sweet.  They were really just the names of the wedding party.  Each neatly placed in a folded vintage hankie.  The girls at Robin's office have a monthly craft night.  They chose September to be their Robin and Ryan Wedding craft night. What sweet and thoughtful friends they have!  They tied ribbons while Robin ironed each hankie.  


For the seating chart, so everyone would know where to sit, :)  Robin found an old window at a flea market for $10.00.  It had 16 squares, PERFECT.  She used a white grease pencil and wrote the table numbers and names on each one.  (inspired by project found on Pinterest!)

Instead of just having a wedding cake, which was beautiful as well as delicious, we also made (Robin, Jamie, Adam, Jane-Adam's mom, and me) 6 different bundt cakes to add to the vintage theme. Flavors, of course, were found on Pinterest...except for my already existing Pillsbury Orange Delight Pound Cake recipe. We made the following flavors:  Snickerdoodle (Dad's favorite), Triple Chocolate, Chocolate Mint, Blueberry Lime, Orange Delight, and Pink Lemonade.
(Aw, Robin bought little easels that day and we somehow missed putting the chalkboards on them.  Oh, well.....)


For the "going away" Robin and Ryan made, well, I don't know what to call them....they are made of painted dowel sticks (by Ryan) and attached to the top of each one is ribbon and a torn strip of vintage style fabric, topped with a little bell.  (again inspired by Pinterest) 

There was a vintage looking bird cage for cards to be placed and an old suitcase with, of course, old postcards for guests to write their well-wishes for the happy couple.  Other details included: a sign hung in the archway, a pillows with appliqued silhouettes of themselves placed on a bench, mason jars filled with the extra flowers and bunches of baby's breath and ribbon on the chairs located on the aisle. Also, Robin made bunting for several of the serving tables and for the chairs belonging to the bride and groom.  Candy sticks and paper straws for the bottle sodas added some more vintage feel to the reception.

We had so many people helping behind the scenes!  Valerie Moss finished the bridesmaids' bouquets...Robin did her own, along with all the boutonnieres, but just ran out of time for the others.  Meredith DeFrees and Sarah Sijansky oversaw all the reception details.  Wow.  And the aunts were there doing whatever was needed! 

Jackson was the cutest little ring-bearer ever.  He held the rings on a Bible that once belonged to Pawpaw Parker and handed down to Dad.  Was a little  family treasure which added a special sentiment to the ceremony.

Of course the bride was beautiful...our little girl all grown up.

The venue was the Winfield Inn in Kyle, Texas, just south of Austin.  Simply beautiful. 

 I would like to add that the photographer did a wonderful job, as well. Erica even did a last minute hair-do before the reception.  Nice!  I'm putting a couple of her pictures on my blog, but you can check out her facebook!

Photo by Erica Garza
Keepsake Images Photography
www.keepsake-images.net
www.facebook.com/keepsakeimages

Photo by Erica Garza
Keepsake Images Photography
www.keepsake-images.net
www.facebook.com/keepsakeimages