Nikole and Justin March 20th

Last weekend Nikole and Justin were married at Alyeska. These pictures are from the engagement shoot they did with Molly DeKruif from Blink Photographic. Can't wait to see her wedding pictures!
The following pictures were taken by my sister, thanks for taking some detail shots for me!!












This wedding had so many great elements to it. Nikole loved the natural look of moss and wood and Our Lady of the Snows chapel in Girdwood was the perfect location to showcase that look. We kept it pretty simple with moss wreaths on the aisle and up at the altar we set up birch tubes filled with some fun flowers and greens. We "tied" the unity candle in to the decor by using twine to wrap some bark around it. On the front doors we carved out their initials from styrofoam and covered them with moss. That was it for decorations at the ceremony and it was perfect!












Nikole's colors were yellow and green. For her bouquet we used yellow orchids, ranunculas, freesia, and tulips. The bridesmaids were just the same but a bit smaller. All of the stems had bark tied with twine. The bout.'s were pretty simple using a yellow calla lilly and tied with bark also. I loved this bark and yellow combo. So spring-y!!
At the reception we made these awesome Manzanita branch centerpieces. I have been wanting to do this for so long! We hotglued some orchids on the branches and hung some votives as well. I covered the base in moss, to keep with the theme from the ceremony and also attached some beautiful ranunculas to the base.














The cupcake stand was one of my favorites!! Check it out! I know I am going to have some brides that want to use this for their wedding too. Nikole had cupcakes instead of the traditional wedding cake and we wanted to make something that was a bit unique. At first we were going to make a cupcake stand out of some old lp's (the couple collects records). But when I came across a picture on the web of a tree-like cupcake stand I knew we had to have that for this wedding. Read the following post for more details on that.