Saturday, August 7th Wedding

Today started off with a few clouds keeping things very cool and Bob Crum photographer www.robertcrumphoto.com started taking pictures excited for the nice lighting was reacquainting himself with the vineyard. The clouds gave us nice coverage all day with a few tears of joy during the ceremony.



This group is from the east coast too, many of those this year. Small and intimate group only about 60 or so, love it. They also have a great coordinator Becky Simpson from No Ordinary Affair www.noordinaryaffair.com, keeping things on schedule and making the staff at BeckenRidge job so easy. BeckenRidge started off the day with setup of the Italian chairs on the lawn and 10x10 tent for the string quartet playing during the ceremony. The room and patios were also ready with guest tables placed with an ivory linens same with the bistros scattered on the covered patio for the social hour.


Food was again nicely done by Wild Pear www.wildpearcatering.com from Salem. The cake was beautiful, but I didn't catch who brought it or made it.




Denice from Distinctive Designs www.distinctive-designsonline.com breezed in with simple centerpieces, swag for the arch (then moved to the mantel above the bride & groom) and the bouquets and corsages. They choose to have assigned seating for their guests with instead of numbers on the tables they had famous musicians.


Did I mention music is huge for this family. They had a string quartet for the ceremony with one of the violinist from Bella Arco www.bellaarco.blogspot.com 512-787-4346 playing beautifully under the 10x10 tent on the lawn next to the handcrafted metal arch.




After the ceremony they came up for a social time on the covered patio and used the baby grand for some background music till time for dinner. They had hired a couple who DJ as well as showed the group a couple of dance moves. It was nice to see everyone participate.



The highlight of this wedding was the bride's dad who instead of giving a traditional speech for the toast played a song on his violin. Very touching.