Music licensed through http://themusicbed.com & http://songfreedom.com

Shanna and Zach’s Wedding Ingredients ~

Venue – The Orchard – theorchardtx.com
Coordinator’s – Heidi Nettles – theorchardtx.com
Photographer – saraandrocky.com
DJ – djconnectiondallas.com
Floral Designer – www.edensecho.com
Caterer – www.citykitchen.com
Cake – www.deliciouscakes.com
Dress – www.bellasbridal.net
Live Music – Troy Murph and LaRae Berry

1st song licensed @ themusicbed.com/Love-on-My-Arm-185.php
2nd song used with the permission from The Josh Abbott (joshabbottband.com) **SPECIAL THANKS!!

Song licensed @ The Music Bed : http://www.themusicbed.com/Until-You-1290.php

Song Licensed @ The Music Bed: https://www.themusicbed.com/I-Found-You-699.php

Songs licensed @ http://www.themusicbed.com/White-Dress-408.php // http://www.themusicbed.com/Hand-To-Hold-693.php

One of the best features of the venue is in it’s owners.  The venue is owned by Mike and D’Andra Davidson, who opened the venue because of their experiences in planning their oldest daughters wedding. After searching for the perfect wedding and reception venue, they just hadn’t found what they were looking for.  They realized that the over 100 acres of land they had lived on and enjoyed for years was the perfect spot for weddings and receptions.  The owners will do almost anything to help couples design their dream wedding and proudly share this great location with couples and their guests as they celebrate new chapters in their lives.

The resort offers a variety of venues to fit your dream for the perfect wedding.  The 1,200 sq ft Sunday house offers couples an intimate location perfect for a wedding with close friends and family. The outdoor pavilion offers the hacienda-inspired architecture and gorgeous sweeping views of the Texas hill country. The resort offers grand ballrooms, with contemporary designs reflecting the vibrant colors of the Texas landscape and rich architectural pasts.

The staff at the resort take great pride in understanding exactly what your dream is for the perfect wedding and reception.  Their team will help in all the details of the rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and the reception, and .  You and your guests will enjoy a wide array of food and southwestern flavors from a custom menu, made just for you by the resorts culinary team.

You’ll receive your wedding film on custom designed DVD’s which are perfect for sharing with your friends and family to continue to remember and enjoy for years.  One of our favorite options is in what we call The Wedding Theater Vault, included with all of our packages.   In the digital age of video, no videography studio is able to keep archives of projects forever because of the amount of space video consumes on hard drives. To further serve our clients every client in 2012 will receive a hard drive with all the footage that we shot, as well as all the files we would need to make more edits down the road.   We are the only wedding videographers we know of, that are offering this, and makes it possible for us to make future changes to your wedding DVD, as well as make more DVD’s.

This morning, we received a pretty exciting email saying we were featured on the Little Black Book blog, written by Style Me Pretty, a blog focused on the best wedding vendors in the industry.  Style Me Pretty isn’t just any wedding website.  To be featured on their site, vendors are put through an extensive interview process, that may take up to six months! Only the best vendors make it onto the site, giving couples a great resource to finding the perfect photographers, videographers, catering services, and all the other necessary vendors

Read the article on Kimberly+Josh’s beautiful wedding over at Style Me Pretty’s Little Black Book blog.

Even though we all know in Austin, Texas it only snows once or twice a year and the date is hardly predictable enough to plan your winter wedding on a beautiful snowy day, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a gorgeous white winter wedding. Aside from the striking winter decorations available to suit the winter theme, there are many trends that I am absolutely enjoying as a guest of the wedding. Besides, the snow here is much more likely to be sloshy sleet, anyway.

Trend #1: Hot Chocolate Bar

This one is self explanatory and delectable. We are seeing a lot of winter weddings offer not only the regular bar with trendy drinks involving winter flavors like peppermint and cinnamon or eggnog, but a bar with hot chocolate and marshmallows in mugs! It keeps the hands and stomach warm and is a wonderful alternative for those guests who have to drive home safely!

Trend #2: Silver accents opposite lace

As one might expect, silver reminds people of snow, icicles and winter, so we’ve been seeing whites and silvers and greys in every decoration surrounding the day, from bridesmaids dresses and jewelry to table settings and invitations. True, the closer your event is to Christmas and New Years, the more white/black themes we see coming into play, which is always in and always classy, but unless you’re intentionally playing up the holiday instead of your special day, we like the silver, whites and ivories better.

Trend #3: Poinsettias and Holly

Your wedding is in winter, so why try to hide that with summer flowers? We love seeing these winter berries and flowers around if your theme is tone-on-tone, they work so well opposite the icicle white and silver colors. The poinsettias are rich, warm and smell wonderful and the Holly adds the benefit of 2 rich colors for a stunning contrast.

Trend #4: Baked Goodies

Gingerbread men, s’mores and white coated candy bars have been popping up like crazy in the most recent of winter wedding trends. Chocolate with peppermint and nutella with a hazelnut frozen to a spoon for stirring into warm drinks have also been a hit as either a table goodie for your guests or a party favor to take home.

Trend #5: Blanket Favors

This is my favorite. It have only seen it at a few receptions, but I believe the idea is growing on people. The couple provided white fleece blankets for the guests (granted, not for every single person but for every group of people who came together) with a tag that said “Bundle up cause ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside!’” with the idea that they would use it during the reception and take it home as their favor.

Circle H Lodge at Inks Lake (http://www.circlehlodgeatinks.com)

931 CR 301
Burnet, TX
(512) 867-0138

This 12,000 square foot venue overlooks the vibrant and picturesque Inks Lake, and includes such details as an outdoor fireplace and grill with outdoor couches, fountain and pool, lodging for up to 28 with hotel and cabin rentals also available, the choice of either in-house or outside vendors, boat and SeaDoo rentals, and weekend rentals of the space. Check out their website for some great photos of past weddings and an online video tour of the space.

Las Brisas Farm, (http://www.lasbrisasfarm.com/index.php)

1108 Ross Prairie Church Road
Fayetteville, TX

(979) 378-1108

Located just an hour away from Austin and Houston, this location is great for those who want nature and country charm at their wedding, whether for an intimate gathering or a larger affair (up to 150 guests). Some of the options that await you at Las Brisas are an outdoor hearth and fireplace, party barn for music and dancing, gardens, patios and courtyards, a covered picnic/BBQ facility, landscaped pond and foot bridge, gazebo and vineyard.

Vintage Villas (www.vintagevillas.com)

4209 Eck Lane

Austin, TX

(512) 266-9333

Vintage Villas maintains an exclusive destination wedding feel while still lying just 30 minutes outside of Austin. With a total of four indoor and outdoor wedding options, their services include (but are not limited to) wedding and rehearsal coordination, Villa style lodging and weekend packages. Lakeside views and dramatic architecture by renowned architect Sinclair Black make this location ideal for looking to spend their special night in a modern, sophisticated environment with natural elements that provide for the perfect balance of city and country.