I am not sure if you guys know this or not, but I absolutely love shoes! In fact, before I got married and lived on my own, I converted one of the closets in my townhome into a shoe closet--yes, I said it, a shoe closet! Sometimes I would walk into the closet and just take in all of the gorgeousness...I adored it! So when this Houston country club wedding came across my desk and I saw those gorgeous bone-colored Valentino bridal shoes, I almost passed out. Besides the shoes, the whole wedding made me smile. The impeccably landscaped grounds of the country club made a beautiful backdrop for the couple's pictures. The color palette of moss green and ivory coordinates beautifully with the rolling greens of the country club. And the Shipley Donut favors...absolutely genius! And the photographs--Lauren Aves with Aves Photographic Design is such a G! Check out even more amazing images on her blog.
From the Bride...Ricky proposed to me on December 19, 2009 and I think the planning process started that night. We were so excited and couldn't wait to not only begin preparing for our life together as husband and wife, but also for the wedding we wanted to have that was truly a celebration of us. The venue for the reception epitomized what I had always envisioned my wedding to look like: the grand ball room with chandeliers, a built in stage for a fabulous band (and a sufficiently-sized dance floor to go with it), and a gorgeous landscape outside the country club. The hanging moss over the lake and the beautiful weather made the pictures before the ceremony just perfect. A lot of the details from the wedding were found on Etsy, which was extremely budget-friendly and allowed for me to customize things to the way I wanted them without the high price. We used no wedding planning service except for the wedding weekend itself where we had two great women assist in making sure the details went off without a hitch and that everyone was where they were at the right time. We were so pleased with how everything turned out. The food was incredible (coconut lobster pops, an avocado bar with all of the fixing's, a slider bar with fried chicken, crab cakes, or beef, a French fry bar, Southwest station with a build-your-own salad, taquitos and empanadas---delicious)! The Groom's Cake was very important to Ricky (probably because it was the one thing he could really plan himself), and he went all out in making sure they knew how to accurately re-create the Texas Christian University football stadium. He snuck into the stadium and took photographs from every angle and found aerial pictures online and he created a "guide" in Word to submit to the cake vendor. It turned out PERFECT (and tasted great too). We ended the night with a sweet treat of donut holes from Shipley's Donuts, which was started in Houston. My stepfather even made custom stickers to put on the back of each bag that read, "Sweet Dreams Love, Lindsay and Ricky" so that guests could grab one as they exited to go light their sparklers for our grand exit. Now that we have been married for almost two months, I look back on our wedding and know that I wouldn't have changed a single thing. It was such a special ceremony and the reception afterwards couldn't have been more fun with all of the people we love and care about dancing at our sides.
Leave a Comment