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Favorite Featured Blog - Cedarwood Outdoor Church Wedding

Friday, December 17, 2010

When anyone mentions Cedarwood, I automatically picture pretty weddings set on a rustic backdrop and the most gorgeous bouquets and flowers.  Looking at pictures on their blog is like treating yourself to floral and wedding eye candy.  They recently featured a wedding in their outdoor church that we're rather excited to share.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! 

Featured Favorite Blog Post: Outdoor "Church" Wedding at Cedarwood Pt. 1

What do you do when you love the outdoors but want to get married in a church? You bring the church outdoors! That’s exactly what we did for the August 15 Cedarwood wedding of Megan Powell and Brett Wiendenhoeft. Our stunning Outdoor Cathedral is erected with ten foot Gothic church windows and antique carved solid Oak church pews set in Cedarwood’s green summer meadow. It’s a site to make anyone pause at the beauty of God’s handiwork. Add the love of a beautiful young couple, united in holy matrimony by a minister complete with communion for everyone, and you have a setting and ceremony to evoke a spiritual experience. As guests approached the altar one by one to receive communion from the Doctor-Reverend Lenoir Culbertson in a moving moment of interaction with the bride and groom , there was no doubt that they were in a sacred space.

Ivory and butter-cream flowers with pops of golden yellow in vintage blue mason jars decorated the altar and pews. The altar cloth was a rug Megan had found to anchor her wedding design, and which will resume it’s supporting role in Megan and Brett’s home. White doves hung from the altar flowers as tributes to Megan and Brett’s grandparents who have passed on. They seemed to ‘fly’ on the breeze during the ceremony! Megan and her mother made custom wedding programs with a sewn binding!

Megan wore a stunning strapless ball gown with cathedral train by Jasmine from The White Room and an Amsale reception gown from The Bride Room. The bride’s wedding jewelry included chandelier earings by Paris from The Bride Room, a Homa bracelet from Arzelle’s and turquoise reception earings from Anthropologie. Bridesmaids’ dresses by The Dessy Collection are from Arzelle’s. We will share some of Megan’s amazing bridal portraits by Leslee Mitchell in another post so you can appreciate the beautiful detailing of her dresses! The bride’s bouquet, designed by Cedarwood’s master designer, Karen Wright, was a soft and romantic blend of dahlias, chrysanthemums, roses, spray roses, craspedia, stock, trachelium and zinnias.

Video Preview courtesy of Jeremy Mitchell (JeremyMitchell.com)

You can enjoy more beautiful pictures taken by Leslee Mitchell Photography (LesleeMitchell.com) in Part 2 of Megan & Brett's wedding day on the Cedarwood Weddings blog. 

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Blogging is something I’ve enjoyed doing for years. My interests lie mostly in lifestyle related topics like fashion, style, design, food and weddings. When I heard Ashley was looking to bring on new members to the ABG team, I jumped at the opportunity - I can’t think of a better way to stay involved in weddings than to write about them and to stay in touch with the trends and new ideas. Lucky for me, Ashley likes my blog and trusts my experience to bring me on and so far, it’s been a blast.

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