Galen and Alexandra 's Wedding in Waynesville, North Carolina

We ended up getting engaged at the same tournament two years later and decided to have the wedding in the same area the following year. Some of our neat features were highlighting different local breweries with brewery glasses for each wedding guest, a soccer tournament bracket “seeding” chart for seats, and Brew and Bubbly Cake Pushpops made with local beer and champagne by Sugar Cloud Bakery. We had cut outs of our faces as children and as adults as props for the photobooth which people had a blast with. Because we live in Louisvilly, KY, our signature cocktail was a “Lilly” drink which is the drink of the Kentucky Oaks race the day before Derby. Galen is a big Seattle Sounders soccer fan so I got his garter specially made with blue and green Sounders colors and a little charm on it.

We are both sports fans and we included custom-made cornhole boards for the guests to play on. One was an LSU Tigers board and the other was a University of Washington Huskies board. (his alma mater) People had a blast with these. We did an awesome job of keeping our wedding super affordable by making centerpieces, painting wooden signs, corn hole boards and getting donated brewery glasses for wedding favors!

The dance party was insane. Our guy friends all acted like they were going to catch the garter but they let it fall to floor and danced all around it because they were afraid to pick it up. I was dying laughing! We closed the night with “Its All Coming Back to Me Now” by Celine Dion and the entire place was singing to it. It was amazing.

All in all--The rustic/mountaint wedding was a blsat that had "Galen and Alex" written all over it. It brought his family from the West Coast to a city that they ended up falling in love with too!