Featured: Southern Bride & Groom

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas, everyone! The holiday has kept us quite busy, but not too busy to celebrate a fun feature with Southern Bride & Groom magazine. The lovely ladies of SB&G released their 2015 cover and magazine issue earlier this week and our Kentucky Derby inspired photoshoot is gracing the cover! YAY!

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Holiday Traditions

There’s nothing better over the holidays than the feeling of nostalgia you get as that smell - the one you’ve been smelling come late December since you were knee high to a grasshopper - floats out of the kitchen and fills the house up with its homemade, one of a kind, take-you-right-back, deliciousness.

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Real Wedding: Jackie & Jon

It is a heart-filling moment when you see a couple's wedding day reflect them perfectly.  We loved watching Jackie & Jon's unique ideas unfold and personalities come through during the planning process. You may have seen their beautiful day featured on the Southern Bride & Groom blog a few weeks back, but we couldn't resist sharing all the goodness here too. Riley MacLean Photography captured their wedding at Rock Quarry Farm and these images are nothing short of breath-taking. Enjoy! 

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Real Wedding: Amy & Will

It's always a treat to share real weddings on our blog! Today feature's Amy & Will's beautifully classic wedding and reception. A delicate, white palette with highlights of greenery and soft pinks, the feel of this wedding was timeless. Will and his gents sported white dinner jackets and Amy's maids looked polished in a gorgeous metallic. Not to mention Amy's stunning illusion-neckline gown.

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Is your training personal enough?

The world of exercise can be overwhelming. Bylines in magazines promising quick fixes, fad diets, 3,000 steps to the perfect crunch… Wait, aren’t crunches actually bad for you now?! All of those machines (am I the only one terrified of venturing into the forest of weights and wires?!) I recently began working on my fitness again after a fairly long hiatus. I may or may not just have celebrated my second anniversary of marriage… And of abandoning my gym membership. Happy pounds! Amiright?! Ahem. And I know so many of you brides-to-be are thinking about starting, or already have started your Get Fit For The Wedding plans. This week we've got some inspiration/advice for you from someone way more qualified than me!

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Ask Fay: Divorced Parents

Y’all sure did throw me in at the deep end this week! I’ve risen to your challenge by taking on this particularly tricky situation that one Gather Together bride-to-be reached out with:

What should I do if one of my divorced parents wants to bring their new boyfriend/girlfriend to the wedding, but the other is upset about it?

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Featured: Style Me Pretty Living

Remember our Merrimon-Wynne photoshoot with Katherine Miles Jones Photography? Yes, this piece of lovely right here. Well our day was made earlier this week when one of our favorite blogs, Style Me Pretty Living featured it, alongside a profile of Gather Together! Check out all of the behind-the-scenes pretty and Chelsey's interview here

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Lighting 101: What does lighting bring to the party?

Chances are when you start planning an event, lighting isn’t going to be the first thing you think of. You know you need it, but its importance tends to take a back seat in a lot of peoples planning process. The question we posed this week to Terri Watson of Get Lit was How do we make the most of the lighting options available to us? Lighting is a major player in creating the atmosphere and mood you want at your event, and Terri kindly took the time to explain a little of how she finds and draws out the lighting potential at the events she lights up…

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