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While there were many grand elements to the wedding, including the window, mature trees overhead, and reception tents, the love in this wedding was found in the details. “My mom bought the cool metal planters at an antique store that was closing. Her friend has a green thumb and did all the planting for us. She grew them so they would be pretty for the wedding,” Rachel says. “As far as the bouquets go, my friend and I did the arranging. She worked at a flower shop in a past life. The yellow flowers came from Trapp [Trapp and Company] and the white peonies for my bouquet came frommy parent’s neighbor’s yard.” The detail that took the most time to create added the most homey, country feel to the event: the 300 dinner plates that required a massive amount of thrifting. But Rachel doesn’t mind, she loves thrifting. “My maid of honor’s mom helped me do the stag- ing for the center pieces. She had lots of stuff, I had lots of stuff and we just put it together,” Rachel says. The tables featured everything from stacks of books to a chandelier, to milk bottles and bowls made out of doilies, to candlesticks and jars adding romantic lighting inside the beautifully styled tent. For the name blocks at reserved tables, the cupcake bar and the band sign, she spray painted scraps of wood with chalk board paint and used a paint marker to write names. The round streamers hanging with lights around the tent were cut from felt and sewn together by Rachel, her mom and her mother-in-law. “I loved my wedding day,” Rachel says. “I loved everyone working together to make it beautiful and fun. It was a really cold day for an outdoor wedding, but everyone pitched in to build a gigan- tic fire, put up the walls on the tent and warm it up on the dance floor. “It was just what Bill and I wanted. We wanted the wedding to be relaxed and fun so we didn’t do many of the customs that are typical with weddings. No cutting the cake. No first dance. Basically as soon as dinner was over, I just wanted everyone to dance all night – and that’s what happened.”
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