A thank you note to make my day

On Saturday I did the flowers for the sister of my friend and fabulous wedding planner, Catriona of www.catrinamaria.com.

The wedding was at the beautiful River Highlands Ranch and there was a wonderful team of top notch wedding vendors! I can't wait to show you more photos.

But the point of this blog post is that the sweet bride and groom sent me an email in the wee hours of the morning. So thoughtful and just what I needed to start my week.

"We are about to leave on our honeymoon but before we take off I just had to let you know what a crazy beautiful amazing job you did. I honestly couldn't believe my eyes, everything was so gorgeous! Thank you so much for all your hard work, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!

Marianne and Darwin"

Jennifer with the Memory Journalists was the amazing photographer of the day!

www.memoryjournalists.com

Anne & Arron @ River Highlands Ranch & Vineyard IV

Today we get to the end of Anne and Aaron's wedding, I just had to stretch this post out because I really love the wedding!
So many details, from the signs starting down the road, to a basket of bug repellent, just in case.
The venue, riverhighlandsranch.com was elegant yet warm and welcoming.
The fabulous photography was by one of my all time favorites,tanjalippertphotography.blogspot.com

After the lovely outdoor ceremony, the guests made their way up the lawn toward the barn where they could mingle inside or out! Umbrellas were raised at the outdoor tables and candles lit inside.


















Bug spray was out, just in case the bugs decided to come to the wedding.

We hung orchids on the inside of the umbrellas, it's all in the details.

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I love the outdoor fire pit, we used these colorful bottles to add candles.

Once inside the barn, a comfy lounge awaited. I had custom pillows made to brighten up the room and placed colorful candles all around the room.

After an hour, the large inside barn doors were open to reveal the dinner portion of the evening. The barn has several large barn doors letting the outside in, the guests were able to enjoy the lovely evening and their beautiful surroundings.

We created a series of tall and medium centerpieces on rod iron stands with candles, then placed a moss runner the whole length of the table with votive candles and pillar candles.

The table extended outside with the bride and groom at the end acting as hosts.

Bride and groom garlands.

Dancing the night away.

I wish all the best to Anne and Aaron!

Anne & Arron @ River Highlands Ranch & Vineyard III

Today Anne and Aaron's ceremony details. For the outdoor ceremony I went with bright fall florals to add pops of color. Lots of details here, we started the aisle back on the lawn with poles filled with flowers and then added larger floral arrangments on the aisle proper.
Coming to the platform we brought in a large gate and fence to drape garland and Anne's favorite, a heart.

The aisle at High River Ranch is made up of flag stone and rock, it looks so beautiful and blends in with the natural setting of the wedding venue.

Close up of aisle flowers, zinnias, Mary golds, amaranths, berries made a lovely fall flower display.

River Highlands Ranch is such a gorgeous outdoor wedding location, the tall old oak trees, vast sky, pastoral views and a wonderful staff.

Fabulous photos by http://tanjalippertphotography.blogspot.com/

Anne & Arron @ River Highlands Ranch & Vineyard

I am so excited about todays post, so excited that I'm going to post it all week!
Anne and Aaron were married at the http://riverhighlandsranch.com in Smartville California.
The wonderful, amazing, fabulous http://tanjalippertphotography.blogspot.com was their photographer.
I met with Anne almost a year before the wedding. We came up with a design plan. Then, just 6 weeks before the wedding we did a walk through of the property and changed the whole thing! Weddings are such a process, I do love how it all turned out.
River Highlands Ranch sits in the middle of 500 acres. To help lead the way we created a series of moss hearts to help lead the way, the largeset of the hearts was set out on the main road.

We hung moss hearts with Anne and Aaron's initials on the main gate leading to the ranch.

We put these little picket fence signs down the road leading to the barn, we even wrote a corney poem!

Almost there.

The beautiful barn

Love, love, love the barn doors!

When you get married at River Highland Ranch, you can spend your wedding night in the darling cabin. It sits in front of a creek and pond and even has a rope swing if you want to dive in!

The creek and pond in front of the cabin.

Aaron getting ready in the cabin

Meanwhile Anne was getting ready upstairs in the barn.

Love what Tanja did with these old tanks and LOVE that Anne would climb up the tank in her dress, before the wedding!

Love the woodsy feel
Aaron and Anne in front of the barn.
Stay tuned, tomorrow I will feature the ceremony!
If you like Tanja's work, you HAVE to click this link to the shoot that made me fall in love with her. http://tanjalippertphotography.blogspot.com/2008/09/greatest-engagement-session-ever.html