{Real Wedding} Rustic meets Elegance in North Carolina Mountains

I went to college in the mountains and know the beauty and serenity that they bring.  So when this plus size bride and her boa meet and then eventually lived in the mountains of Asheville, NC they wanted the mountains to be a main part of their wedding wedding.  And the great photography of Luxe House Photographic has captured it completely!

Megan and Chris

From The Bride: Chris and I met in college and formed a tight connection very quickly. I knew he was the one for me and so when he asked my to marry him in July of 2008, it was a confident “yes”! We were in no real hurry to make it official and wanted to make sure the time was convenient for the bulk of our family and friends. October 2011 ended up being that time and it made for such a beautiful autumn Asheville wedding.

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I began planning our hitchin’ about 6 months before the big day and it was a lot of work to throw a party for our 450 invitees – but so much fun! I researched potential wedding sites and then local dressmakers, cake bakers, party suppliers and more. It was very important for us to source as many local folks as possible – we met here and our lives together have flourished in these mountains. We wanted folks to get a little taste of Asheville when they came for the wedding weekend – and they did! We decided upon a weekend-long celebration to take place at the Swannanoa4H Center and we were able to provide rustic lodging for the majority of our out-of-town guests.

Our friends and families put in lots of hard work at the camp and transformed the grounds and buildings into a welcoming, rustic-elegant setting for the ceremony and celebration. We saved money on rentals and linens because tables, chairs and benches came with the rental of the 4H Center and we borrowed tablecloths from my husband’s work. To decorate, we bought buckets of flowers from local farmer’s markets, cut huge bouquets of herbs and sunflowers from friend’s gardens and gathered wild grapevine and bittersweet. A good friend constructed the grapevine arch and made the batik the was behind us at the alter. To make the boutonnieres, I used herbs and flowers from our garden and tail feathers from the roosters we harvested in the spring. 

Congrats Megan and Chris!!

Thanks Luxe House Photographic and Two Bright Lights for this submission.

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Shafonne Myers is a certified wedding and event planner who longed for bridal inspiration that looked like her. She has created a website and magazine that brings bridal inspiration to plus size brides. She does speaking engagements educating the world about plus size brides and self confidence.
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