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  • 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.

  • Gallery Wedding Inspiration – All Week!

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    This past May I worked with a group of very talented wedding vendors to create a styled wedding shoot in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). PAFA has two buildings next to each other that can be rented for a ceremony and reception. The beautiful thing about these two buildings is that they are so uniquely different. The first buildings, the Historic Landmark Building, where we held the mock ceremony, is incredibly detailed, ornate, historic and warm with many brass details. The second building, the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, where we held the reception, is more modern with large windows and clean white sweeping walls. The juxtaposition of the old and the new within the buildings is very fitting for the old and new buildings that tower outside the windows of the Philadelphia skyline.

    This week, I will be sharing with you photos from the shoot, beautifully taken by Asya Photography, coordinated by Truly You Events, with flowers by Beautiful Blooms and the wedding gown by Lovely Bride…along with many other vendors I will mention throughout the week. This first set of photos were taken in the Historic Landmark Building, pre-ceremony, where the first glimpse takes place.

    I really hope you enjoy all of the beautiful, unique gallery wedding inspiration!

    Note: If you like the look of this wedding, be sure to check out the Gallery Paint Brushed Invitation by Hand-Painted Weddings which was inspired and created for this shoot.

    Photos by Asya Photography.