Real Wedding

  • Real Wedding: Megan and Mike’s Unique Bucket List Themed Wedding

    Real Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. SmithHand-Painted-Weddings_StephanieSmith_wedding_2

    Real Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. SmithReal Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. Smith

    Real Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. SmithReal Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. SmithReal Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. Smith

    Real Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. Smith

    Real Wedding: Megan and Mike - Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photos by Stephanie A. Smith

    I am so excited to share a glimpse of Megan and Mike’s gorgeous wedding at the Phoenixville Foundry, right outside of Philadelphia. This wedding is chockfull of inspiration and pretty, little details that I’m sure you will find inspiring if you are planning your wedding.

    Megan and I went to college together and were sorority sisters, so I was lucky enough to be a guest at Megan and Mike’s beautiful wedding, as well as create their invitations and escort cards.

    Megan is a yogi (girl after my own heart), health coach, and the blogger behind Simple.Savvy.Self, so a natural, organic look flowed throughout their wedding. The couple also incorporated a unique bucket list theme to their wedding because of their engagement story. Mike proposed to Megan as they planned their bucket lists, and of course, romantically spending their lives together was top of their lists. The bucket with M&M for their initials adorned their invitations.

    As avid travelers (they went to Cape Town, South Africa for their honeymoon!!), travel locations were very much on their bucket list, and intermingled in the details of their wedding. I love love love how they found this vintage map mural to take a wedding photo in front of! To keep with the theme, they also had travel postcards and a suitcase at their guest book station, so that guests could write little tips on each postcard and place it in the suitcase.

    Megan is also one of my more fashionable friends, and I can’t get enough of how beautiful her dress and super fun green shoes were!

    Photos by Stephanie A. Smith. Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings.

  • Real Wedding: Jess and Kevin at PAFA

    Real Wedding. Easel watercolor escort cards by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.Real Wedding. Posted on Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.Real Wedding. Posted on Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.

    Real Wedding. Easel watercolor escort cards by Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events. Real Wedding. Posted on Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.Real Wedding. Posted on Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.

    Real Wedding. Posted on Hand-Painted Weddings. Photo by Shari Angelo. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.

    I love working with couples on their reception day paper needs because it gives me the opportunity to get involved with all of the fun, little details of their wedding day. I worked with Jess and Kevin on their escort cards and menu cards, who got married at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA).

    Both the menu cards and the escort cards featured this beautiful, soft purple watercolor wash I painted to match the uplighting at their reception. The escort cards were so much fun; they were inspired by the easel escort cards Truly You Events and I did at the styled shoot last year. I was so excited to see how the escort card easels came out for this gorgeous real wedding. They are the perfect compliment to an art gallery wedding!

    Photos by Shari DeAngelo. Paper by Hand-Painted Weddings. Wedding planning by Truly You Events.