by: Lauren

What do you do when you live in Hawaii and want a destination wedding? Have a rustic chic purple and yellow wedding in Tennessee of course! Kyleen and Matt’s lovely wedding is filled with rustic details, bright and bold colors, and amazing images captured by JoPhoto. Kyleen is here with us today to share more insight into her wedding planning experience…

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What (or who) helped you most in your planning process and/or on your wedding day?

As far as planning went, honestly JoPhoto (Kathleen) really helped me the most. Finding them was the tricky part seeing as I was planning a Tennessee wedding from Hawaii. I relied heavily on reading online reviews for everything (Theknot.com and weddingwire.com were my two go-to websites). But after talking with Kathleen and booking JoPhoto, they recommended vendors to me that were absolutely fabulous.

As far as the day of, our venue (The RT lodge) had excellent staff and they really helped make the day run as smooth as could be. Our coordinator Ellis was excellent. Everyone always says, don’t worry about the small stuff and something is inevitably going to go wrong but just enjoy the day. Well, literally NOTHING went wrong at our wedding…. I guess you could say we had a slight delay due to some rain? But even that wasn’t much. A quick thunderstorm passed through about an hour before the ceremony was scheduled to begin and I think maybe delayed us 5 mins? We had a great team of people working for us that day.

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What was the most important thing to you when deciding who to work with for your wedding?

The most important thing we wanted was to work with people who we were comfortable with, especially the photographers. I would consider my husband and I to be pretty easy going people and the most important thing to us was for everyone to have a good time. The photos from that day are what you are going to have forever, and good photographers are able to capture the essence and mood of the day in every picture they take. Also when taking so many photos in a row for such a long time, people can start to lose interest. But good photographers (like JoPhoto!) and when you have personalities that mesh well, they are able to make the 5000 photo look just as relaxed and happy as the 10.

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What was your inspiration for your wedding details and/or design?

We wanted an outdoor/woodsy wedding weekend. This was an unusual “destination” wedding, as we were coming from Hawaii to Tennessee, and we wanted a weekend getaway with all our family and friends. I fell in love with the outdoor tent for the reception with the twinkle lights during the planning phase, and that was my only requirement for the wedding. The rest of the details we could sort out as we went, but I wanted the outdoor tent. My husband grew up in Maryville, TN and when we looked into the RT Lodge, it just felt perfect.

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What was your favorite thing about your wedding?

It is almost impossible to pick just one thing…everything?! It was truly everything we wanted. Having the lodge as the location for the wedding as well as where the guests were staying was ideal. Everyone was in one place, all together. The band we chose (The Nick Carter Band) made the reception quite the party, everyone was dancing until the very end of the night. My husband even went crowd surfing at one point!

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What is your best piece of advice for other brides?

My best advice pre-wedding: Don’t let the planning become stressful. It’s YOUR wedding. Everything should be fun and exciting. If picking colors or vendors is becoming overwhelming- take some time off and come back to it! Also surround yourself with supportive people, get your family involved and your friends, definitely don’t forget about the groom! It is your big day together.

Wedding day: This was advice given to me and I’m so grateful for it. At one point, during the ceremony and/or during the reception, stop and take 10 seconds to yourself and look around at your new husband and all your guests and remember they are all here for you. Take it all in. These are the people you love most in your life and they are here to celebrate with you.

I for one absolutely love this bright, spring color palette! You don’t see too many purple and yellow weddings, and this is just gorgeous!

So tell me- what’s your favorite spring color palette? Are any of you going to be incorporating purple or yellow into your own weddings?

 

Vendors who made it all happen…

Photographer:  JoPhoto//Event Planner: Alexandra Hansen//Cake Designer: Art of Cakes//Officiant: Chaplain Patterson//Floral Designer: Lisa Foster Floral Design Studio//Caterer: RT Lodge//Reception Venue: RT Lodge//Hair Stylist:Tony Williams II

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Lauren

Founder & Editor at Every Last Detail
Lauren Grove is the editor and owner of Every Last Detail. A clueless bride-turned-wedding planner, Lauren uses her experiences and knowledge to educate and inspire brides all over the world.

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  1. Emily (a Bride)

    Absolutely gorgeous wedding!

  2. Ariette (a Bride)

    Why do I love seeing nature theme wedding? I often think that I was a bird or a rabbit way back in my past life. Haha. Anyway, I love the table set up in here. Very organized. And those chairs? Where did you get that? I hope that my hired wedding decoration company could help me find a set like this one. Rustic weddings are really cool. Adding some colors (shades of pink )to the flower presentation would make it look lovelier than ever.

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