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Congratulations to Featured Real Wedding couple Alyson & Doug Young who were married on June 26, 2010.

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Another real wedding loaded to our Real Weddings Magazine Web site!

Congratulations to Featured Real Wedding couple Diane & Matthew Rodda who were married on June 12, 2010 at the Fairytale Town.

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The Couple:  Elizabeth Kempton (a.k.a Tibby) and Thomas Wroten

Wedding Date: March 28, 2010

Photography by Sarah Maren Photography

Tell us a little about you and your beloved:  We’re both from Sacramento and went to a small private school locally. Sacramento Country Day School was small enough that we were acquainted in high school even though we were two years apart. After attending college in Southern California, we both ended up back in Sacramento, working at the school we attended. Tom is the Director of Technology and I’m the Library Assistant. We met up again five years ago and started dating a little over two years ago. Since we started dating, we’ve become inseparable.

What was the most amazing part of your day?  The day was the culmination of six months of hard work, planning and organizing. Seeing it go off without a single hitch was probably the most amazing thing. The food was pretty spectacular too.

What else would you like to share about your big day?  Our whole wedding was book/library themed. Our save the date was a book mark. Our invitation was a mini book; Birds and Words which is a Charley Harper book. The RSVP card was a due date slip in a library pocket, like you see in old-school library books. Our favors were Media Mail packages. Our table numbers were Dewey Decimal call numbers. And our thank you cards were overdue notices.

I walked down the aisle to the Indiana Jones theme song. I’m a librarian now, but I started out as an archaeologist, so I harbor a love for Indiana Jones. When the song starts out, it’s pretty unrecognizable, but as soon as the melody started everyone in the audience started laughing. It was a much needed moment of levity since everyone, including Tom, was sniffling.

We had our ceremony early in the morning, 10:00 AM, and on a Sunday. We really wanted to have a brunch with an omelet bar. It also gave us the afternoon to be with our out-of-town friends. Having it on a Sunday gave some of the guests some extra time to get to Sacramento, and they were able to leave early enough on Sunday evening to make it home for work the next day.

We decided that since we had all these friends in from out of town, we would spend the afternoon doing something fun with them. We rented out a bunch of lanes at Crestview Lanes. We had a blast bowling in our wedding clothes. Tom and I got our own bowling balls and had them engraved with “His” and “Hers.”

Ceremony Site:  Private Residence

Reception Venue:  Private Residence

Photographer:  Sarah Maren Photography

Caterer:  Magpie Catering. The food was AMAZING. People are still telling us how good the meal was.

Cake:  We didn’t have a cake or even cupcakes After some deliberation we decided cake at noon would be a little decadent, especially on top of a heavy brunch.

Flowers:  Our mothers arranged the flowers. We were able to buy them wholesale through a friend. The flowers were actually what set the color scheme for the whole wedding. We really wanted to do lots and lots of daffodils since it was early spring. That meant lots of bright green and yellow.

Favors:  Tom designed a little logo for our wedding with two little birds on top of a ring. We had it made into a stamp. This went onto the favor box with a “media mail” stamp. The actual favor was two or three daffodil bulbs. We didn’t really want to give people something that they would want to toss at the end of the day. The bulbs could be planted and will come up next year right around our anniversary.

Wedding Dress: Priscilla of Boston, Vineyard Collection, “Trish” from Bella Donna Bridal.

Bridesmaid Dresses: We didn’t have a wedding party.

Hair: Victoria Wotzka

Makeup: Victoria Wotzka

Invitations: Crazy people that we are, we made our own invitations. Tom designed them himself and we printed and assembled them. My dad owns an old Chandler and Price printing press, so we got it up and running and letter pressed the cover of the invitation. The invitations were truly handmade.

DJ/Entertainment/Band:  We used a faculty band from the school we work for. It was the French teacher, the two band teachers, one of the high school students, and a drummer from another band they play in.

Photo Booth:  Tom put one together with an app he bought for his Mac laptop. We hooked up a digital camera and a photo printer. It didn’t look as swank as one of those old fashioned photo booths, but people had a blast and the result was the same. Plus we have all the pictures saved on the computer.

Honeymoon location:  We went to Napa for five days and stayed at Bardessono in Yountville. What a relaxing week!

Any other of your wedding vendor(s) you’d like to call out?  I want to reiterate, Sarah Maren, our photographer, was INCREDIBLE. And so was our caterer, Magpie. The two things we decided to spend the most money on were our pictures and our food. We were not disappointed with either.

Tom and his dad had custom suits made by Steve Benson. Steve was a wonder to work with and the suits were sublime.

Crestview Lanes, which has sadly closed. We rented out several lanes and had an open tab at the bar. They were very friendly and helpful.

First Dance Song:  We actually didn’t have any officially planned dancing.

Any advice you’d give to our readers who are planning their weddings right now?  Try not to stress too much. In the scheme of things, it’s one day and no one notices the blips. Plus they make for great stories later on. Tom forgot his shirt and his dad had to drive back to our house to pick it up. We still started on time and not a single person knew it had happened. Not even me!

Anything that you would have done differently if you were given the chance?  I don’t really think there is anything I would have changed. It was as close to a perfect day as it could have been.

Photos courtesy of Sarah Maren Photography.

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The Couple: Tom Lata & Bethany Perez

Wedding Date: October 10, 2009

Photography by Lisa Richmond Photography

Tell us a little about you and your beloved:  Tom is currently studying to become a nurse anesthetist at Samuel Merritt University and has been involved in health care in different functions for 18 years. While Bethany has remained a physical therapist at a major hospital in Sacramento for just over five years. We initially met at work and quickly became friends as we both shared many commonalities. We had our first date in May of 2007, progressing quickly as met each other’s respective extended families by July. On February 2nd, 2008, Bethany had a night of surprises waiting for her which started with a lovely dinner and a stay within a suite at the W hotel in San Francisco, planned by Tom. After dinner, they arrived at their room to hear Bethany’s favorite song permeating through the suite door. As Tom opened the door for Bethany votive candles illuminated the suite with a path of rose pedals leading in, awaiting Bethany’s arrival. He then handed her a ring and asked for her hand in marriage. To Bethany’s delight, Tom had advised her Dad of his plans and obtained his blessing previously. The very next morning, Tom’s parents aware of the plans, surprised them with a Champagne brunch to celebrate the special occasion!

What was the most amazing part of your day?  Tom said: Seeing my beautiful Bethany walk down the aisle with her Dad gazing at her. Bethany says: Those brief moments together between the ceremony and the photographs immediately after we were married. We were both glowing and grinning ear to ear with the excitement of our union. It was a very intimate moment…

What else would you like to share about your big day? We selected our wedding date because it was Bethany’s grandparents anniversary and the Birthday of her niece Tristan, our flower girl  . We feel fortunate that our families united together with our union.

Ceremony Site & Reception Venue:  Monte Verde Inn

Photographer:  Lisa Richmond Photography

Videographer:  Artistic Imagery

Cake:  Monte Verde Inn

Flowers:  O’Shays Flowers

Favors:  White chocolate dipped licorice made at home!

Wedding Dress:  Casablanca 1900 in Champagne purchased at Bella Donna Bridal

Bridesmaid Dresses:  David’s Bridal

Hair & Makeup:  Denise Viertel at Article

Invitations:  Handmade

DJ/Entertainment:  SJ’s Disc Jockey

Honeymoon location:  Tokyo, Japan

Any other of your wedding vendor(s) you’d like to call out?  Weddingaccents.com for my ivory mantilla veil.

First Dance Song:  “Come away with me” by Nora Jones

Any advice you’d give to our readers who are planning their weddings right now?  Relax and enjoy this time together. The planning can be just as much fun as the wedding itself! Try not to get to focused on the details, after all this should be one of the happiest times in your life. Your wedding will come and go before you know it!

Anything that you would have done differently if you were given the chance?  Honestly, no. We truly enjoyed both preparing for our special day and experiencing the big day with all our friends and family. We couldn’t have wished for more!

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Ready for some more inspiring ink?

Check out these sophisticated creations from Stephanie J. Designs, a bespoke papery & graphic design studio in Lincoln. What we enjoy most about this particular project are the detailed graphics and the rich, elegant color scheme.

We think Stephanie hit this one out of the park for her client, Devon.  Here’s what the artist had to say about the assignment:

“Devon’s papery inspiration came first and foremost from her love of vintage style and second from the rich wine colors of V. Satuii Winery:  platinum, plum & pomegranate.

Devon wanted nothing kitschy about her winery wedding – no grapes, vines, etc. Classic, elegant and above all sparkly. One thing she knew was that she wanted something different to display her escort cards.

We threw around a ton of ideas and landed on a custom tufted escort board with crystal pins to attach the cards. I searched out vintage inspired crystal buttons to tuft the board and found the perfect fabric to match her plum and pomegranate table linens to create a breathtaking piece of decor.

And the best part of all, Devon is using the custom pin board in her home office now. She loved it so much that she did a whole re-decor of the office around the board.”

Thanks Stephanie! We look forward to featuring more of your beautiful papery work.

For more inspirational designs visit Stephanie’s Web site, view her blog or give her a call at 916-257-1641.

Blog Post by Always a Bridesmaid Columnist Darren Elms.

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