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Little Molas Love
September 17, 2011 | Color | 0 comments

Photography by Allison Ragsdale Photography

From the bride, Ashley:
When I started planning our wedding, I was only sure of a few things… we had to be outside, our dog, Nolan, would be the ring bearer, and orange lilies.  We spent a lot of time driving down back roads in the national forest trying to find the perfect spot.  As soon as we pulled up to Little Molas Lake, we both knew  this was the place.It was a picture perfect day.  We had a harpist and a violinist play music.  Our dog walked down the aisle with our rings attached to his flower collar.  Our officiant was a family friend who I have known since I was eight!   Our recessional song was a version of Hakuna Matata from the Lion King, my favorite movie!
The groom’s cake was German chocolate with two paw prints in the middle.


THE RECEPTION
The reception was at the Sow’s Ear in the Silverpick Lodge.  It is an AMAZING spot and the food is DELICIOUS  The size of the Sow’s Ear was great for our size of wedding – about 70.  It was nice to be able to talk with everyone and it made for a more personal and intimate reception.  I really wanted everyone to feel comfortable and cut loose and they didn’t let me down!

FAVORITE DETAIL
My mom surprised me at our rehearsal with hair from my three horses that are still in Georgia and could not be in my wedding.  It was very, very special to have a piece of them with me…. I put it in the center of my bouquet.  I also wore my Chaco’s!  I practically live in those things and couldn’t have imagined wearing anything else!

THE LODGING
Since most of our guests were from out-of- town, we really wanted to be able to spend the whole weekend with them, so we decided to rent out the entire Silverpick Lodge and it was totally worth it! Everyone could party and no one had to worry about driving!  I think it made for a more relaxed and fun environment.

 FAVORS
My mom made gift bags for everyone staying at the lodge with a variety of honey from Honeyville and pecans from Georgia.  Jon and I always make our own trail mix, so I made up little bags of homemade trail mix to put with each person’s place card and then tied a few suckers together for each of the kid’s place cards.

 

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Photographer: Allison Ragsdale Photography //  Reception Site,Food,Guest Lodging: Silverpick Lodge/Sow’s Ear  //  DJ: Aiko Aiko Sound  //  Rentals: Durango Party Rental  //  Cake: Celebration Cakes

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Fall in Silverton
September 17, 2011 | Color | 0 comments

Photography by Kyla Jackson Photography

From the bride, Nicole:
We were surrounded by the most spectacular fall colors and the weather could not have been more perfect, a 70 degree bright blue sky day.  Our 50 guests stood in a circle around us.  Violinists played as we walked around the Chuppah to Sunrise, Sunset. Our Rabbi had us write a love letter to each other without seeing them first and then he read them during the ceremony, leaving everyone in tears. The reception was a lot of fun and quite personal. My mom created a slide show of us growing up and then us together. She also incorporated pictures of each of our guests.  We did the Hora, where everyone danced around us as we were lifted in chairs (which was quite scary).

Each Bridesmaid wore a dress in a different fall color.  The bouquets tied all the colors together.
The day before the wedding, our friends made us a Chuppah out of tree branches.
I painted our Ketubah (Jewish wedding contract) by hand and had a calligraphy artist write the contract in Hebrew.
For favors, we had custom wine glasses made from discountmugs.com with a quote from our favorite song.

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Photographer: Kyla Jackson Photograph. Kyla is fantastic to work with!  She stayed with us all day and took whatever pictures we wanted, wherever we wanted.
Caterer: Durangourmet  //  Cake: Celebration Cakes  //  Flowers: Wildwoods Fine Flowers

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Saying “I Do” at Andrews Lake
September 16, 2011 | Brown | 0 comments

Photography by Kyla Jackson Photography

From the bride, Melanie:
We held a small and intimate wedding ceremony at Andrews Lake on Molas Pass surrounded by the beauty of the mountains overlooking the lake. Our wedding party was our dog Brewster as the ring bearer and his sister Dallas as the flower girl. The intimacy and personalization of the ceremony itself was very important to us. There were so many moments when I had to close my eyes to focus on the moment and the tremendous feelings that were overwhelming me. Something else very special to us was all the wildlife we were greeted by during and after our wedding ceremony. In the middle of our vows, an osprey flew overhead squawking for attention. It was a precious moment. Also, as were walking down a path to take more photos, a chipmunk came out to greet us. Finally, on the way back to the car, we turned to find three ducks in tow. How perfect!

MEMORABLE MOMENT when Chris read me his vows that he had written, I cried and wanted to kiss him right then and there; everyone laughed when I almost did and had to back away.


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All of our vendors were so amazing that I could never give them a high enough rating or say enough positive things about them. They made everything perfect and we were so lucky to meet such wonderful people. The people and vendors of Durango made our dream wedding come true and there is no amount of planning you could ever do to make this happen. Thank you Durango!!

Photographer:  Kyla Jackson Photography. Kyla and Wesly are true gems and they felt like guests at our wedding.
Florist:  April’s Garden  //  Officiant: Chessa Gill  //  Hair & Makeup:  Michele Campbell //  Pianist: Lacey Black

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