What a Beautiful, Real Wedding!

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Found this through RSS on 100layercake.com titled: Real wedding: Holly + Billy:

Good morning, fair readers! We’re not sure where to start with this unbearably cute, designed by the bride, executed by family and friends, DIY extravaganza sent over by Max Wanger. Seriously, Holly sent us such a beautifully detailed description of their whole wedding and planning process we’re stumped on where to start. How about with a big Huzzah! for the super creative couple and for Max and his always lovely photography? There. Now we can properly begin.

Holly and Billy were married at the Overbrook House in Buzzards Bay, MA. They chose the site immediately after falling in love with the working organic farm, acres of hiking trails, fields and beaches that are all part of the property. They rented the 1920’s farmhouse for the entire week and had their entire wedding party stay with them. What a way to kick off your wedding!

Holly is a footwear designer for Converse, (um, cool!), but in her previous life she was a graphic designer and knew that she wanted to do all the planning, designing, and executing of their wedding herself. Um, yes. That turned out to be an excellent choice, Hols.

She created the invites and stationary herself, inspired by vintage champagne promos she found at the Paris flea market, mixed with a sweet 50’s vibe. She printed all the paper goods at home on her Gocco. Her save the dates were little notebooks where she imagined guests could write down important info (like directions) leading up to the wedding. Her invites were printed on vintage hankies… inspired by gifts that her mom has always brought to a wedding or given as a gift to friends when their daughters were married. She printed all of her fabric pieces (including guest totes) using a laser fabric printer (where can we get one of those??)

And as if that wasn’t all enough, Holly had so much fun designing her wedding goods, she and her friend John started a little design studio called Save Me Studios. The site isn’t up yet, but we’ll be sure to let you all know when it is!

Her bridesmaids all wore J Crew, but in different colors. Doesn’t that look so awesome? Holly didn’t want to choose one specific color palette so decided she’d go with florals, tempered by kraft paper, simple white linens, and gold and silver. Frickin’ spectacular if you ask us!

Holly’s dress was a handmade vintage 50’s cocktail dress she found on vintageous.com while she was in China for work. She was so excited and so scared it would sell, she woke her maid of honor, Pam, in the middle of the night to get her address in San Francisco (where she was stopping over on her way home), and had it shipped there so she could try it on asap.

She made the belt for extra fabric she had trimmed off the bottom of the dress, and added a rhinestone buckle she found on etsy. Her petticoat came from ebay, her shoes J Crew, and all of her jewelry and other accessories were vintage finds from etsy. Her veil and flowers in her hair were purchased from Handle and Spout.

SO MANY amazing details! Those ruffly colored fans are just delicious.

Holly’s maid of honor, Pamela, ended up getting ordained online and served as the officiant. They based their ceremony on the Quaker tradition of being married by your community, and asked four speakers to put together a reading on four subjects: Life, Family, Friendship, and Love. They each wrote and read a letter to each other during the ceremony with the theme “what you mean to me.”

Photography: Max Wanger

Venue: The Overbrook House at Bay End Farm

Dress: Vintageous.com

Veil: Handle and Spout

Flowers: Bay End Farm and online. Arranged by one talented groomsman!

Jewelry: Etsy

Shoes: J Crew

Groom, groomsmen and bridesmaids: J Crew

Catering: Season to Taste

Cakes: Ann Hammer

Reception music: Diane Blue Band

Read entire story with more pictures on http://100layercake.com/blog/archives/3117