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August 2012 Archive

Vendor Spotlight: Wedding Musicians Company

This week, we are happy to spotlight one of our veteran vendors, Wedding Musicians Company! WMC provides live music for weddings, receptions, dinner parties, and all special occasions. Offering an array of ensembles from string quartets to harp duos and vocalists, Wedding Musicians Company gives brides the freedom to customize their musical needs as they see fit.

Services are arranged through Russell Davis, the esteemed director of members of the internationally recognized Nashville String Machine and Nashville Symphony, and the finest musicians in the field.

Wedding Musicians Company has provided wedding ceremony music for many Nashville venues including Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Hermitage Hotel, Belmont Mansion, and the Scarritt-Bennett Center.  They offer artists for the following instruments: piano, organ, harp, keyboard, guitar, violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, recorder, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, and bagpipes, as well as groups ranging from orchestral quintets to a folk/celtic ensemble!

For every to-be-wedded couple, WMC offers CD demos of their artists’ work available online.  You may also schedule a complimentary personal consultation to plan and coordinate your musical needs.  Each artist and service is priced individually within an affordable range.

{Wedding Musicians Company provided the organist for Natasha & Jeff‘s beautiful wedding last summer!}

Email us at kelly@studiowed.net to set up an appointment with Wedding Musicians Company today, or contact them directly at 615.824.9880. As always, StudioWed’s services are complimentary:  you just pay for the vendor services you decide to book – it’s that easy!

~ Kelly

Photo of the Week

Can’t. Handle. Her. Dress. Love this StudioWed couple’s pictures — {wedding made possible by Brocade Designs, A Delightful Day, Cosmo Creations, and Lotus Blossom Photography.}

Kelly Planned a Wedding: One Month Later!

Today marks a very special day for my husband and me:  We are one month into marriage, and celebrating five years of dating! On this very day in 2007, a dear mutual friend introduced us on the lawn of our alma mater (one day before classes started our freshman year of college). We locked eyes, grinned the grin of mutual attraction, and a few hours later, Drew asked me to go for a walk (which started it all). I ran back to my dormitory late that evening (frantic, having missed my mandatory floor meeting) and wrote in my diary that “something magical is happening.” My foresight (or rather 18-year-old idealism) saw that Drew was not just a passing player in my life but a permanent fixture, and here we are five years later, one month into MARRIAGE. MARRIAGE!!!!

[Photos by Kristine Neeley – see her recap here!]

This past month has been full of so many adventures:  Saying “I do” and walking down the aisle, embarking upon the trip of a lifetime (an 11-day excursion to Mexico — more on that to come!), moving into our first home together and merging lives, two birthdays, and a new career.

It’s been nuts, it’s been fun… and both like and unlike what we expected. I can definitely tell you that the experience of working a wedding is COMPLETELY different than having your own wedding. When people told me it would fly by, I was like, “Yeah, right.” But at our wedding reception, at one point I grabbed my bridesmaid Laurajean and asked her to help me change into my getaway dress “Although it’s so early…” and then realized it was 30 minutes until our departure!!!! We seriously only got to see maybe a third of the people who came (cons of having 230-250 guests), and it was over so fast! I also didn’t get to try but the teensy rectangle of cake we cut… SAD DAY.

Transitioning to married life has been lovely and wonderful and perfect (just like the wedding) but also imperfect and challenging and just DIFFERENT. I love living closer to town (and work). I love living with Drew. I love decorating and keeping up our home. But it takes time and work and dedication and investments. Oh, the juggling!!!

Here’s another thing that’s a little odd:  No longer planning out my future wedding! I knew that would be weird, a change of thought patterns (since 80% of my brain-world revolved around wedding plans pre-July 21), and major life change. And it is. I’m not mourning the end of it by any means (nor our honeymoon even), but I do occasionally think about if I did it over what would maybe be different. Would we pick different colors, a different wedding month? Have any different priorities? I would definitely eat more cake if I could do it all over. I might have worn bug spray (or gotten some kind of natural, non-bug spray smelling bug spray), since I got eaten alive by mosquitos while we were taking pictures. I definitely would’ve ripped the stays out of my dad’s suit coat (whoops!). I also probably would’ve tried harder to get my escort cards done in advance, since I ended up finishing them the MORNING of our wedding. But besides that? I’m content. It was perfect and lovely and happy and filled with love, which I wanted more than anything. Plus, we’re married now! That’s the best part! I guess I’ll stick to anniversary party planning if I ever feel like I’m missing out having already gotten married. :)

So let’s raise a glass (of coffee — let’s be honest; real life still hasn’t slowed down enough to catch up completely on sleep!) to a month of married marvelousness, and five years of being with the one I love the most.

Happy Planning, y’all!

~ Kelly

The Wedding Experience

***UPDATE:  THE WEDDING EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR A DATE TBD, due to low registration rates. We apologize for any inconvenience.***

It’s that time again! This September we are rolling out StudioWed’s The Wedding Experience, an interactive wedding event consisting of educational seminars, personalized one-on-one time with excellent vendors, and lots of special surprises and inspiration. Register here! Want more information? Email us at kelly@studiowed.net!