Published by Hindsight Bride

We are so excited and honored that Emily and John's wedding from last October was featured by Christie O. of the Hindsight Bride today.  Of course Emily herself is a wonderful blogger at Vita Nostra and does a marvelous job of sharing the details.  Please take a few minutes to visit Hindsight Bride for this truly beautiful, truly unique wedding day story.  Photos by Visio Photography.

Sarah and Drew

We love being at the Grove Park Inn, particularly when the weather is gorgeous and the wedding is outside!  For Sarah and Drew's wedding, we spent hours watching the sky and counting every rain drop, in hopes that there wouldn't be one too many that would send us indoors.  Everything turned out perfectly as you can see in these beautiful photos by Yasmine of Berkson Photography.

Guests were greeted on the Sammons Porch with glasses of champagne, white wine or perrier.  A classic, welcoming  touch on a hot June day.

Julie, in-house florist at the Grove Park Inn designed these stunning orchid bouquets and centerpieces.

I love place cards...

The lit globe floating above the guest tables is from Asheville Event Services.  The guests loved having a personal "moon"!

Sarah and her mom, Karen, are planners extraordinaire themselves!  We loved working with them and were thrilled to help them make all of their plans come together so perfectly.

Other great professionals involved:

Lola Salon (hair)

Scott Thompson (makeup)

Lou Berkson and Donna Germano (ceremony music)

Orange Krush Band (reception music)

Cami Photo (videography)

Em and Will's Wedding

Emily and Will's wedding was a beautiful celebration of two wonderful, intelligent, thoughtful, kind, gentle(need I go on?) people being joined together.  Their attention to detail shows in every aspect of this destination wedding.  First, I have to give credit to Brian Tropiano, the photographer.  His photos are beautiful and his manner sets everyone at ease.  Please take a minute to look up his portfolio online or on facebook--you'll enjoy!

The ceremony took place at the stately First Presbyterian Church of Asheville.  Ambiance, ambiance, ambiance--look at these beautiful light fixtures!

The bridesmaids' rosy dresses were the perfect compliment to Stacey Brown's (the Bloom Room) warm, autumn-y floral arrangements (or maybe the flowers complimented the dresses...can't tell because they're both stunning).  The antique gold bow tied on Emily's bouquet is so simple yet so sophisticated!

Emily is gorgeous!  She is the poster child for "blushing bride" in this photo.

And another fabulous detail shot.

Asheville Historic Trolley tour is FUN transportation and makes for great photographs!

And the Grove Park Inn ...  Always beautiful, but I especially love these shots with the lights.