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Every year, a group of amazing Asheville wedding vendors from StudioWed Asheville get together to volunteer at ABCCM.  ABCCM is a residential program that works to to help meet the needs of Asheville’s local homeless veterans.

At ABCCM’s Veterans Restoration Quarters (VRQ), our mission is to create a principle-based environment and comprehensive residential program that addresses every area of restoration in the life of a homeless veteran. We work to provide each man with stability, personal skill building, educational and training opportunities leading to employment and housing along with the restoration of personal dignity, faith and strength.

Our ministry accomplishes its mission through the diligent and compassionate efforts of trained staff, volunteers and community partners. Over 240 men reside nightly on the VRQ campus, a former 125 room motel. Our veterans are provided housing, meals, case management services, counseling, laundry facilities, a computer lab, gym, chapel and transportation to VA Medical Center appointments. Every effort is made to provide each man with the tools, direction and encouragement needed to arrive at genuine success and full restoration.

These veterans have given so much of their lives so that we can work freely in our industry, so that we can own the businesses that we want to, and even so that we can have the weddings that we dream of… it is the least that we can do to spend a day preparing and serving a meal for them.

Ian said it best when he said, ” These guys are so kind and so nice, and they constantly thank us for what we are doing. But really, we are the ones who need to be thanking them for their service to our country!”

Thank you so much to Blush, Classic Event Rental, Verge, Mozingo Photography, Colorful Palate, Asheville Marriages , Shutter Booth, Sugar Cloud, and Masterpiece Ice for being there to say “Thank you for your service” with us!

These warm winter days have us all dreaming of warmer weather…and these images from our the instagram accounts of our Asheville wedding photographers definitely remind us of how much we love warm weather weddings and engagements!! From stormy skies to fantastic sunsets, all of it gives us the warm and fuzzies!

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A photo posted by Two Ring Studios (@tworingstudios) on Feb 10, 2017 at 11:24am PST

Asheville Wedding Photographer – Two Ring Studios

One more from Lauren and Don’s beautiful engagement session at @biltmoreestate #sundaygrant #ashevilleweddingphotographer #ashevilleweddings #cesaroneandonly #foundmycesarone

A photo posted by Sunday Grant (@sundaygrant) on Aug 31, 2015 at 4:57am PDT

Asheville Wedding Photographer – Sunday Grant

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A photo posted by Aaron Imaging (@aaronimaging) on Jan 13, 2017 at 8:59pm PST

Asheville Wedding Photographer – Aaron Imaging

We are so proud of our Asheville wedding vendors! The 2016 Year in Review that the lovely Nicole shared with us focused on some of the amazing moments from 2016 that were not necessarily wedding related, but rather community related. But do not let that fool you into thinking that Studiowed Asheville wedding vendors were not involved in creating, producing, and capturing some seriously fantastic weddings during 2016.

We know that our Asheville wedding vendors are amazing, but it is always wonderful to have someone on the outside confirm that for us. Borrowed & Blue just recently came out with their Best of B&B 2017 awards.  Here is the blurb from their website explaining exactly what these awards are:

THE BEST OF B&B 2017 AWARDS ARE LIKE THE MICHELIN GUIDE FOR WEDDINGS, AND WE’VE GOT YOUR STARS RIGHT HERE. PUT ON YOUR SHADES―THESE WINNERS ARE PLENTY BRILLIANT.

A Best of B&B award is the equivalent of a Michelin star in the wedding world: it identifies only the most talented, well-respected vendors in all of Asheville. How do we know? The winners have been chosen by Asheville vendors themselves. It’s a royal feast of planning insight: know-how taken from those in the know.

So basically, these Asheville wedding vendors are kind of a big deal!

Here are the Studiowed Asheville wedding vendors who made B&B best of 2017 awards (there were three chosen for each category, just to explain any overlap you might see):

I believe a round of applause is warranted here…go ahead, you know you want to :)

It’s January! For wedding professionals, not only is this a time of planning and preparing for the amazing things to come in the upcoming year, it is also a time where we can finally take a moment to catch up from the previous seasons of wedding madness! I thought it would be fun to take a moment to reflect on some of the amazing things that happened at StudioWed Asheville in 2016.

I asked the lovely Nicole if she could think of a few top StudioWed Asheville moments from 2016, and I am super excited to share her Top 5 of 2016 with you! StudioWed Asheville is more than a group of people who work together; StudioWed Asheville is a family, and I think the biggest reason why we have such a wonderful family dynamic is because we work so hard at staying true to our culture.

The best part about the moments that Nicole chose to reflect on for 2016, is that each one of them represents our culture in a real and tangible way. It’s so inspiring to see the culture code in action. 2016 highlights cover a wide spectrum of activities. There were awesome parties, days dedicated to giving back to the community, and so many educational opportunities. It was a good year!

So without further ado, here are Nicole’s Top 5 of 2016!

#1

It’s no big secret that we love a good party.  Every year, we partner with Weddings Unveiled Magazine to host a party for our Asheville wedding friends.  This year the theme was Masquerade Ball, and with a theme like that, The Grand Bohemian Hotel was the perfect venue choice.  The party came together perfectly, and it was so nice to let loose and dance the night away!

                                                                        {image by Mozingo Photography, Asheville Wedding Photographer}

#2

 

#3

I love the way that the StudioWed Asheville family always makes giving back to our community a priority. Work (and life!) will never cease to be demanding, but it’s more than worth is to take a break from the grind, and focus on bettering someone else life for a bit. The resulting warm and fuzzies will motivate you for weeks! We spent a day preparing and serving food to men and women who have sacrificed so much for our country. It was wonderful to spend some time with our veterans and to try, in some small way, to thank them for their service.

 

I love how Nicole encapsulated it:

“Heart = Full.”