I seriously cannot believe it is already our one year Anniversary! I swear I was finalizing plans and stuffing wedding invitations just yesterday. Over the past year we have continued to be blessed by the love and support of our family and friends. We purchased our first house, turned our house into a home, added Winston to our family, traveled to new places and learned so much about each other and marriage. 🖤
If you are planning your own wedding, be sure to read my blog post about our planning process and wedding day! xoxo
After our wedding I feel like I was in such a whirlwind that I forgot to share some of the details from our wedding weekend! The Friday before our wedding, I invited all my sweet bridesmaids to a bridal luncheon followed by manicures MiniLuxe and an evening of rehearsing.
From day one I knew I wanted to have my bridal luncheon at the Neiman Marcus Zodiac Room. I have so many childhood memories at the Zodiac Room, and naturally I wanted to add to those memories with my bridesmaids. I worked with Jeff Dains to coordinate my reservation and select my own menu. Of course our meal started with popovers and strawberry butter and ended with boxes of NM chocolate chip cookies for the table. I found the perfect invitations for my luncheon at Paper Source, and it was easy to customize them exactly how I wanted. For our wedding, I picked out simple pearl studs for all of my bridesmaids to wear. I found these earrings at Neiman Marcus and had them waiting on the table when we showed up. I gave my flower girl a pearl necklace to wear so she would match the other girls. All of our wedding planning details are outlined in a previous post with my top 5 wedding planning questions. Some of my favorite white dresses for the future bride are linked below! xoxo
Our wedding photos and video are finally here and I am so excited to share them with you! Everyone told me our wedding day would be a blur but I had no idea how quickly it would really come and go. I am so grateful that we have so many amazing photos and a video to help us remember all the details of our wedding day. We were so thankful for all the family and friends who helped up plan and celebrate over the past few months, it was everything we dreamed of!
For everyone who asked about our vendors, my bridal gown was from Patsy’s Bridal, the bridesmaid dresses were Alfred Sung, from Nordstrom, and the tuxedos were rented from Culwell & Son. The cakes were from Panini Bakery, our DJ was Monte Slaver, calligraphy was by Kimi Nguyen, invitations were from Embossed Graphics, and our florist was Junior at The Garden Gate. For hair and makeup we used Brittany Jones, except Sam Yee at Park Plaza Salon did my hair. Our ceremony was at Park Cities Baptist Church, Ellis Chapel and the reception was at The Park City Club. I would highly recommend all the vendors we used and would be happy to answer any specific questions. Hope everyone enjoys our video and a few of our wedding photos! xoxo
Dress: Martina Liana from Patsy’s Bridal // Veil: Patsy’s Bridal // Shoes: Shoes of Prey
Hard to believe that our wedding was just over two weeks ago. It seems like it was yesterday, and I should still be on the beach! I am still waiting on all the beautiful photos from the big day, but wanted to share the bridal portraits I took a few weeks before the wedding. Adria Lea Photography took our engagement photos, and it was such an easy choice to work with her for my bridal portraits and our wedding day. We took some of my bridal portraits at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, where we took our engagement photos, then we ventured to a roof top to capture all the beauty of downtown. Dallas has always been very special to me, so I couldn’t think of any better place to capture my bridal portraits than downtown Dallas. Adria did such an amazing job capturing my love for Dallas and all the details of my wedding dress. I will have a full post all about the wedding day coming soon! xoxo
I have been getting so many DMs on Instagram about planning a wedding, so I decided to answer the top 5 questions about planning a wedding in one post. Of course I am happy to answer any questions you do have over DM, but I thought this would be a good resource for those planning now or who might be in the future!
Are you using a wedding planner? We are not using a wedding planner. My mom and I are already very organized people and enjoy planning things, so most aspects of wedding planning come naturally to us. It helps that my mom works part time and is able to spend time during the day helping me. Without her help there is no way I would be able to plan everything with a full time job. If planning isn’t your strong suit, andyou do feel like you need a wedding planner, I highly recommend Ivory & Vine Event Co.
How long is your engagement and when did you start planning? Our engagement is 8 months long, and I feel like it is the perfect amount of time. Any shorter and I would not be able to have everything I want at our wedding, and any longer and I would over think every little detail. I started planning almost immediately after getting engaged. We first worked with the church to pick a date with some significance to us, and then we selected a venue for the reception. After we had the date and location down, I started interviewing photographer, so we could take engagements and get save the dates out. I also had my dress and bridesmaid dresses selected fairly early on because those take forever to come in and often need alterations.
How did you decide on a venue? I have known my whole life that I wanted to be married at Park Cities Baptist Church. No seriously, I think when I was like 5 I told my mom I would be married there, and well, not much has changed. It was a little more difficult for us to select a reception venue though. We narrowed it down to the Park City Club and the Museum of Biblical Arts, both are very close to the church. We eventually decided on the Park City Club because they took care of catering and eliminated the need for furniture rentals (perks of a country club), plus the view is amazing!
Where did you register and why? We registered at Crate & Barrel, Williams Sonoma and West Elm. We decided on each store for different needs, but chose them for their quality in respective areas. William Sonoma met all of our kitchen needs, Crate & Barrel was perfect for dishes and silverware, and West Elm had the bedding and home decor we loved. We chose these stores because they had locations near most of our guests, were easy to shop online, and did not often turn over products. Almost everything we registered for back in January is still in stock and available in stores (we just lost our salt and pepper shakers ha).
I have also linked a few of my favorite white dresses and accessories below for brides! xoxo
If you follow me on Instagram stories, you know I spent this past weekend in Austin with my bridesmaids for my bachelorette weekend! We stayed in this cute little Airbnb on the south side of town, and I enjoyed having all my favorite people together for three days. We kicked off the bachelorette weekend with dinner at the Airbnb thanks to Jessica of Feast & Dwell. She prepared the most delicious buddha bowl with chickpeas, kale, quinoa, sweet potato, chicken and topped off with a homemade hummus sauce (perfect for the wedding diet). After dinner I dawned my “Future Mrs. Phillips” sash, and we headed to the Garage Cocktail Bar downtown. The Garage Cocktail Bar is in the middle of a parking garage and can only hold 88 people at a time. Since it is a smaller setting, it is the perfect spot to sit and have a conversation with friends, while getting the Austin experience.
Saturday mainly consisted of a wine tour through hill country with Discover Texas Wine. They picked us up in party bus, and we filed in wearing our matching Mexican embroidered dresses that I gifted to each bridesmaid. Cathy, our bus driver, took us from our Airbnb to three vineyards for wine tastings and back at the end of the day, which was so convenient. We started with Bell Springs Winery, followed by Salt Lick Cellars, and ended at my favorite of the three, Duchman Winery. My favorite wines on the tour were the Salt Lick Cellars Tempranillo and the Duchman Family Aglianico. After our busy day, we had dinner at Guero’s on South Congress for some authentic Tex-Mex. Finally, at the end of the day, we were all excited to get back to the Airbnb and put on our PJs and play some bachelorette games.
Before my bachelorette weekend came to an end, we stopped by Josephine House for brunch on Sunday. If you have not been to Josephine House, their brunch menu is all so delicious, and it is the cutest little spot (you might remember it from my ACL weekend this past fall). I was so sad for the weekend to end and for everyone to head back home. Austin was the perfect spot for a bachelorette weekend, and I hope to have many more girls trips to ATX soon! Shop all my bachelorette looks below! xoxo
